skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
never used reddit, but here's a "solution" system i thought up on the fly for a social posting site.

"karma" like HN for participating/socializing on the site.

with enough karma you can log into new.sitenamehere.com and vote on new submissions which are in queue for an hour. if you upvote something that gets more downvotes than upvotes, you lose karma. if you upvote something that passes the votes you gain karma, but the whole process is a blind vote, you don't see the results till the end.

what this does is puts moderation of site content into the hands of the people actively participating in the site, they're karmicly "voted" into moderator position, and then further vetted when they review content for the site.

downside: hour long submission "queue" before they show up on the site proper (or get rejected)
free invites
One suggestion; could you show a list of apps/games supported?
free invites? I'm all over that. How many?
For some reason, this post gets me pumped more than most of the articles on the top page. Love the snarky "/back to work"...my brain reads it and says "ok".
This was the best example by far IMO:

A: "All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn't a rodent, so it can't be a mammal."
B: "Well, you're a rodent and a weasel, so there goes your argument."

B's argument here might appear on superficial inspection to be sound, but it is in fact ad hominem.
He is using the terms "rodent" and "weasel" in different senses to those used by A. Although he
tries to make it appear that he is countering A's argument by invalidating one of the premises,
he is in fact trying to counter A's argument by heaping abuse on A. (This might also be an example of
an *ad homonym* argument.)
Yes, as much as closing down for the whole year.
I'd like to know more about the virtualization piece-- what kind of apps can run?

Some of our apps could be a bit lower-level (services, kernel-mode drivers, etc). Does BaseShield allow those? I know most system virtualization platforms cannot handle those without a full virtualized OS.
This was actually something we were also going to pitch to YC recently. Glad (I guess?) we didn't-- but without the virtualization layer (but lots of automatic automated testing) so we could handle real world/common apps.
"When in doubt get horizontal"
What's wonderful about our world is that there are a myriad of ways that people can perceive a situation, which allows all sorts of different viewpoints to emerge. I interpreted the situation differently from you based on my experience of conversation flow, and there's no need for me to agree to your point even though I understood it the first time.

Some people, based on past experience, are unaware that their words may carry unintended malice or hurtfulness (see Rosie O'Donnell's 'Ching Chong' comments) or may harbor subconscious prejudices (see Project Implicit, https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/). It's better for all of us that these are pointed out rather than ignored.
The job of the program is to return true or false; until it does that, it can't be said to be "basically doing its job" if it never terminates. The client might also not be able to tell you that a solution of "while (true) ;" is "wrong" because it never returns the wrong answer, but that isn't a solution either.
Idea time.

Every time I reformat my windows machine I have to manually download and install all the programs I use. So what about the ability to create common configurations? Or tag apps?

You could simply click "Install all apps tagged with 'X'", go make dinner, and and come back to a machine that's ready to go. For those who reformat often or are always setting up new vbox/vmware instances (like me), this would be very handy. Of course, it also depends on which apps are available.

Note: I have not yet used BaseShield, so if something like this is already in place, ignore me.
Results 1 - 10 of about 919,000,000 for digg. (0.07 seconds)

Results 1 - 10 of about 363,000,000 for reddit. (0.08 seconds)

Results 1 - 10 of about 292,000 for "hacker news". (0.39 seconds)

The first rule about Hacker News is: you do not talk about Hacker News.
He only points out that many arguments that point out ad hominem arguments are themselves ad hominem. He doesn't restrict ad hominem to that one case, though.

And if you didn't suck at reading comprehension, I wouldn't need to point that out...
I didn't make an assertion one way or another about it being a good reason or a bad reason. I was simply pointing out that it's old.

As for resources, perhaps you can find a peer reviewed study in one of these sites.

This site has pro-phthalate information -> http://www.phthalates.org/

This site has anti-phthalate information under the Chapter 3 section-> http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org/articles/exposeds...
If the book is porn, and the book is full of children, wouldn't that make it... child porn?

I don't entirely agree with the argument. The Battle School is supposedly full of overachievers, people who probably "excel at games" compared to their peers back home. They are all used to being top dog, so when you put a bunch of top dogs inside a competitive environment (or really just any long-term living/working situation), things get nasty.
How about, "Apparently, there was a failure in reading comprehension that preceded your reasoning."

Is that quip about "Reading Comprehension" directed at me?
The most convenient solution is just using a semicolon. If the line continuation rules were the Python ones, this would "just work"....
Agreed - I have a small couch in my office that I use for naps; Sometimes in the early afternoon, I lose motivation and hit the proverbial 'wall' - when this happens, I just set my cell phone alarm and nap for an hour.

I usually wake up alert and refreshed and try to make up for the lost time. As an aside, I once forgot to set my alarm and ended up sleeping for about 3 hours. My colleague thought I had left for the day :)
Hmm... I think that if you had said "Don't eat at the McDonalds at 451 Lexington Ave, because they make bad hamburgers" then it would be equivalent to "Don't run into this particular black guy, because he mugged me".

>=)
Okay, imagine a program that takes 100 years to complete, before returning true. My program has to wait 100 years to return its result, but it will return the result correctly. Now, assuming that my program runs correctly, how can the client prove that my program does not work, and hence deny me the payment?
While that's an oversimplification to be sure, what you just described is also known as "returning the money to the stockholders".
Witten actually gave me quite a bit of advice on open sourcing my application, and he mentioned quite a few of these points. I think there might have been some additional benefits as far as marketing/legitimacy are concerned that he might have mentioned, but he makes a good case for selling open-sourced software.

Depending on your market, only a small minority are driven to invest the energy (time is money) required to get no-cost software - paying someone to have a ready-to-go package is simply more efficient.
Support that argument with evidence.
I think this is a fantastic idea, but aren't you worried that someone will take your source code, launch a clone, market it well and make a billion trillion dollars?
Many of the things said about Ender's Game could also be said about Harry Potter:

"...the plot is contrived to make sure that other characters always hate Ender. There is no obvious reason for him to be so despised, at every turn, by his peers: he's a confident guy who excels at games, the kind of guy who would typically be well-liked at school."

"Geek wish-fulfillment is not the only fetish on display in Ender's Game: the other is self-pity, the lonely self-pity of the truly gifted and persecuted."

For the record, I like Ender's Game and the Harry Potter books. (But wouldn't claim they were anything more than an enjoyable read.)
What I've read for years, and experienced myself, is that a 20- to 30-minute nap is refreshing, while a longer nap (1-2 hours) will make you feel fairly sludgy for a while after you wake up.
I think the argument is that the level of addiction reflected by 4 hours of WoW a day isn't equivalent to being a heroin junkie, or playing 16 hours a day to the detriment of everything around you. 4 hours a day is only really going to kill your social life, and maybe make your grades suffer, but it's not like you are quitting your job / dropping out of school to play.
Atlantic Records Says Digital Sales Surpass CDs
On an unrelated note, someone should create some type of 'record' thing on the net, where we can actually record all the things that people say 'for the record'.
I can't find anywhere in the Reuters article where it explicitly says employees will not be paid. However, both articles say that this is a cost saving measure. I don't really see what is the big deal with the gigaom article.
I suppose it's possible, but pretty unlikely.

But let's say it does happen. I'm still the foremost expert in the world on this particular piece of software. Chances are I can develop it faster and better than anyone else. (This isn't to say that I'm a really good coder -- I'm not. It's just that I wrote this software and understand it very well.)

Now, you brought up marketing, so I suppose in this hypothetical example, someone could clone the product, rename it, and just concentrate on marketing rather than development.

Well guess what.. Anyone can do that anyway even without the source code! Most web-based software is fairly easy to clone. Having the source code just makes that a little easier.
I think that's a little bit of an oversimplification. Their two basic options are a shutdown or layoffs. I'm guessing they are doing the shutdown and hopes that sales rebound and they can avoid a round of layoffs. There is a cost to laying off people as well.
I don't get the self-pity thing off Potter, and I don't get the sense that the plot in the Potter books has been contorted to align most of the other characters in the book after him; there's a coherent set of adversaries for Potter, with understandable motives. It's harder to make that argument about all of Ender's adversaries.
My response to Ender's Game upon a re-reading a few months ago, while not as strong as this reviewer's, were certainly not favorable.

I am a much more sociable, confident person than I was at age 11 or 12, when I first read Card's writing. Even without knowing as much as I do now about his particularly distateful (to me, at least) political and social views, it was pretty apparent that Card and I disagree on many critical ethical issues: eugenics, whether the "ends justify the means," and when (if ever) armed conflict is a noble activity.

However, the Ender's Game series (like Dune, Wizard of Earthsea, and other young adult Sci-Fi and fantasy I read as a child) still served a valuable role for me in that earlier, more difficult time in my social development. By providing role models that were not, in fact, the typical action hero, athlete, or rich businessman, they showed me a glimpse of a world (however unrealistic and disfunctional) in which a geek could get ahead.

For that (and for teaching the ever-valuable lesson of questioning the motives of even respected authority figures) I still owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Card and his menagerie of characters.
Technical Debt - How Not To Ignore It
- that pink flicking slideshow makes me feel rather sick
Woohoo! Sample size of 48!
I can't stand Card's political views. He hates gays and has expressed violent attitudes toward gays.

Who knows, maybe his writing is a form of repressed homosexual relief for him.

I still enjoyed Ender's Game very much, however. My problem with the review is that it can apply to any fiction that withholds gratification or attempts suspense and has a "super hero" type character. I think of Ender as a kind of super hero, in fact. Just one with geek qualities.

Do we then, call comic books a form of pornography?
In most cases, the big question is...

Why should you buy open source software (assuming the source is freely available)
Report: Google to 'significantly' cut contractor use
I just read his political views, and I guess this is why I never read about authors before reading their books. It's hard not to let personal differences in social views colour your perception of their work - which could be excellent when read without bias.

A book should be irrelevant of its author.
What Sun Should Do (by a Sun employee)
I have been looking for good jobs in the Houston area. I'd appreciate suggestions.
Spending 10x more on hardware will give you roughly 10x more value; I don't think spending 10x more on programmers will give you roughly 10x more value. And that's not even counting the fact hardware is cheap while programmers aren't.
A neglected route to realism about quantum mechanics
Because for end-users, it's more convenient than building the software from source.
Beautiful, thorough, and precise.
He dedicates a large portion of the article to answering that.

Okay, so then the obvious question is: Why would anyone actually pay for open source software rather than just downloading it for free? ...
It's certainly a powerful element. We toyed with toning it down a little, but reasoned that most would only be on the homepage for a moment. (It doesn't recur throughout the site.)
Reinvent The Wheel - A Nonstandard Look at Standards
Good overview of when it makes sense to challenge the status quo and when it is a death knell...
If I may suggest, please change your demo video soundtrack. Looping music was very distracting, as if something went wrong. Thanks to this it was painful to watch otherwise awesome demo.
This argument would be interesting if the author wasn't an idiot and had a grasp of what sarcasm is.

A: "All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn't a rodent, so it can't be a mammal."

B: "This does not logically follow. You evidently know nothing about logic."

B's argument is still not ad hominem. Note that B directly engages A's argument: he is not attacking the person A instead of his argument. There is no indication that B thinks his subsequent attack on A strengthens his argument, or is a substitute for engaging with A's argument. Unless we have a good reason for thinking otherwise, we should assume it is just a sarcastic flourish.

What a genius!
Cisco has _always_ virtually shut down between Christmas and New Years IIRC. People always take time off during the holidays: it isn't worthwhile to keep the whole business running. It's always been their unofficial policy, if not official to do so.

IMHO this is a silly attempt to cause panic.
Nicely done.

Should've mentioned that Kishore is an MIT alum. Or maybe I have too much school pride.
Can't back plover.net on this one. I don't think he understood what Orson Scott Card was trying to do. He was trying to make the reader cry. Not feel good about themselves, cry. This is a really difficult thing to do, and you can read Card's nonfiction books on fiction writing to find out some of the techniques involved. There are very few authors who can take a consistent shot at making the reader cry actual tears, and (the early) Orson Scott Card is one of them.

This reads like someone who made an incorrect guess at what the novel was about, and was offended by that guess.
As someone who just recently migrated from reddit (almost entirely), I've noticed that one of the most defining differences on HN is the non-sensationalist headlines. Not only does this ward off the "hive-mind" mentality, but simultaneously imbues the site with a simplicity and maturity which certainly adds balance to the site's collective outlook.

Just recently, I showed this site to my younger brother and he called it "boring and pretentious." I feel like that's exactly the way it should remain, if we intend to keep the site paradigm from changing too dramatically.
Around 15% got it right, which is quite consistent with Sturgeon's Law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon_law
Don't Follow Trends: Set Them
I havent read ender's game. But there is some art critic wishy washiness that I just can't put a finger on when I read this and few of his other pages.
The amount of FUD you've expelled about Git the last few days is suggesting to me that you got burned by it at some point. That sucks, but some of the stuff you've been saying is just flat-out wrong.

If you're getting as many merge conflicts with Git and as you were in Subversion then something is seriously broken with your team's development strategy. Git is built with a much better merge algorithm, such that conflicts should happen less often. Git was built to merge hundreds of lines of kernel code every day, and if it didn't do that quickly and accurately, there would have been no point to the project.

The extra complexity you speak of is negated by the fact that you don't have to use the "confusing" features if you don't want to! This is the number one thing that upsets me when people give Git a hard time.

99% of the time I come across someone that says Git sucks is because they ran a command like 'git-filter-branch' when they were trying to do something clever and it wiped out their data.

I don't Git should have to apologize for giving more power to developers as long as they're comfortable using it.
http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&ite...

I'm slightly wrong. It's "half", as "most" requires that the proportion be strictly greater than 50.0%. I'm off by epsilon.

Also, I meant to say "in bankruptcy"-- or, more appropriately, "in unmanageable debt"-- rather than "in debt".
The biggest problem with open-sourcing commercial software is the risk of a blatant ripoff.

Some entrepreneurial spirit will come along, replace the application icon, repackage the whole thing and start selling it as his own. Perhaps just in his own country, perhaps you won't even notice, but it will eventually surface and you will need to deal with the situation. Now the question is if you want to spend your time and nerves on resolving the issue or would you rather continue working on the product. Especially if you are a "lone programmer" and especially if opening the source doesn't give you much to begin with.
I strongly disagree with his opinions, too; I went to see him speak, and it was a great presentation until the end where he somehow spiralled off into a tirade about gay marriage killing society.

But I don't care. He writes (mostly) great books and he'll keep getting my money so long as he keeps it up.
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E-Books Have a Future in iTunes
And especially not on reddit.
This is a crock. The device of having a despised outsider turn out to be a hero is extremely common not just in sci-fi but in heroic tales generally. And the argument about each chapter being merely a build up to a catharsis could be made about pretty much any thriller.
It's a shame naps aren't commonly seen as a productivity enhancer (here in the US, anyway) - there have been quite a few days where just a 20 minute nap would probably have helped me focus for the rest of the afternoon.
The motto of for-profit medicine: "Save the body, ruin the life".
Let me be clear -- Id rather we bail out no one. But if we must, I still dont see any reason why it is better to go through financing companies than directly to consumers.

Why is one better than the other?
I was still in a "centralized frame of mind" when I started using git. I do development on one machine, but deployments go to the server, and for the occasional oversight, bug fixes that happen on the server need to be pushed back to the development machine. git didn't work quite the same as cvs in that reguard, and thus, I had to change my workflow just a bit.
HN: Anyone else offered a GRE Retest?
Today I received a letter from ETS stating that I can retest the verbal part of the GRE. They say that the testing algorithms were not optimized. Considering that I only scored a 590 on the verbal, I have thought about taking it again. Has anyone else experienced a similar situation? Did your score increase? I honestly thought I was just good at math and was terrible at English.
Technorati Lays Off Six, Cuts Pay For Rest
Sure. I agree with you. But the problem is that it takes two to tango. As an earlier poster pointed out, both parties are at fault -- the consumers for being frivolous and the banks for allowing it.

With that in mind, why are all the bailouts going to banks? Id rather we bail out no one, but if we are going to do it, there seem to be more efficient and effective means out there. Again, I'm not really making a statement as much as I am looking for a logical reason why banks are preferable to consumers.

Are you sailing the consumer bailout was the prequel to the whole situation?
I think the "momentum" effect really improves the experience. It feels as if you're physically manipulating it.
all right, my argument against git is 1) no HTTP auth (ssh only) 2) no decent windows implementation
Their new homepage is marginally better...they actually put the map on the front page.

http://www.mapquest.com/beta

It still looks very cluttered. But doesn't everything vs Google?
Let's say this happened, and someone in a random foreign country made a clone of my software and started selling it there. Would that really cut into my sales? Or would that perhaps increase the legitimacy and recognition for the type of software I'm selling, if not for the specific brand I'm hawking?
One interesting point to note it is certainly not an issue to sell the source to your program in a bundle with the binaries, allowing enterprising hackers to modify and update the software. You could even allow distribution of these changes.

Allowing this doesn't mean that you are forced to give up copyright on the source, or release it under an open source license. A license that says "You may have, modify, and distribute modifications to the source, but not duplicate or redistribute it" is certainly something that I would find interesting, and would love to see more software released under.
11 Steps To Starting your ISV and how to measure your progress
Wow, some of the nuggets you find on SO are quite good.
I think ernie is ignorant of the meaning of the word ignorant!
I really liked how the icons on the right side of the home page look surprisingly gnome-like :D
I like Ender's Game as well (haven't read Harry Potter), but in retrospect, the characters are a little cartoony and unbelievable compared to what I've seen in "real" literature. We like to read about unreal characters, true, but it makes it hard for the reader to relate to these characters or to the plot they are going through.

I'll say how I've always felt about sci-fi: the universe and the concepts in play are more important than any of the traditional literary mechanisms such as plot, character development, etc.. I feel that this guy is just comparing the character of Ender on the level of the "real" literature I mention above. By those standards, characters like King Arthur or Siegfried are ridiculous charicatures, devoid of any true humanity.
Isn't every other submission to reddit or digg a top 5/10/20 list already?

From what I can see people visit the list and discuss on reddit/digg.
A part of me wants to believe you're joking, because what you're saying about branching doesn't even make sense.

Developers work in branches to keep developmental code out of their "stable" or "deployment-ready" code.

In fact, development is almost guaranteed to move slower if you only use one branch, because half of your time would be consumed with making sure you haven't broken the original code instead of being able to focus on the new feature.

I still think this post is a joke, though. Developers branch because they're being cautious and project managers don't care how you develop as long as you're delivering on time, basically the exact opposite of what you've stated.