skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I misunderstanding, or does this still have a single point of failure at the gateway machine?
I had a similar thing happening to a submission I made the other day. It quickly climbed up the ranks, then it dropped to 27 then it vanished.

However, about 20 minutes later it got re-instated and spent most of the afternoon on the homepage. No idea what went on.
There are sites that are automagically banned by software and those are made Dead as soon as they are submitted. And the HN community itself does a very good job of selecting what's worthwhile by UP voting -- not by flagging.

Edited this post after I learned Mindsight has actually been here twice as long as I have! Oops.
Windows 8 supports HTML/JS for creating apps using WinRT, but it's hardly usable in any web browser like Enyo apps are. Not to mention the ability for creating apps using .NET or C++ are still very much a possibility--perhaps even preferred.
Still a lot more bloat in web api than nancy
Even the home button doesn't have very good discoverability, between the long press and the double tap and the triple tap. Those are the kind of thing you do accidentally, and then can't figure out how you did them to do it again.
Strange that there is still so much daily-deal stuff being worked on. Is this really fertile ground for a business? (Honest question.) Is everyone still reacting to the Groupon IPO, even though that business has all sorts of smells?
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A lot of this is an experiment. You're right, I can potentially bill a client $100+ an hour as an iOS developer but there's other costs that a lot of people ignore including time spent finding a client and time spent courting them.

The income isn't optimized (yet) but it's a start.
Groupon Revisions Highlight New Model’s Risks
DistriBITed --- BITbucket. Was it a typo?
Pastebin to hire staff to tackle hackers' 'sensitive' posts
How were you able to sell software in eastern europe (especially at that early age)? Even today if I try selling software over here, nobody takes me seriously and more often it's all perceived like an insult. "How dare you ask money for that sketchy program/website that even my 12 year old son could write???" or "I don't pay for software ! I take it from internet. It's free !!!".
"the bezeled edge seems a bit overkill for a company so obsessed with understatement"

This is silly. How else are you going to casually pick it up, with your thumb and forefingers of a single hand, without accidentally clicking on areas of the screen? The bevel is quite "functional".

This whole article feels slightly ridiculous, almost like the author is trolling.
Why do you assume misuse of the flag button? There was more than one thread dedicated to Geeklist. There really wasn't any need for more.
just shot you an email. Let me know what you think.
I like the language. But since I have been working with lots of Coffeescript lately it feels really weird using braces!
> Proper accounting is to recognize the revenue and costs of a sale in the same period.
> So you don't get to claim any profit until you complete the work you were paid to do.

Correct. For anyone who's rusty on their financial accounting and interested:

Assets - Liabilities ≡ Stockholder Equity

This is the fundamental identity in financial accounting, and most financial statements are really just different ways of breaking this identity down. Usually it's written as A ≡ L + SE, but I find A - L ≡ SE to be easier to explain.

If you receive a cash pre-payment, you record an increase in the assets, but you also record an increase in 'unearned revenues' - a liability account. Your profit is, essentially, the difference in stockholder equity from one period to the next, so you've had no profit or loss so far (as far as the books are concerned, you're right back where you started).

You also record all costs associated with the revenue in the same period as the revenue payment. This is separate from the 'unearned revenue' liability account. That prevents people from boosting their bottom line in a given period by getting a lot of pre-payments, without recording all of the costs that will eventually be incurred by following through on the service itself. (And the prepayment creates an obligation to follow through, which is a liability).

Once you perform the task, you've earned the revenue, so the unearned revenue gets transferred to an equity account. Then you've earned a profit, which is the difference between your cash received (equal to now-earned revenue) and the costs associated with performing the job.

So if you've already incurred the costs but have not yet followed through on the service itself, you're actually making a loss on paper so far, because you've earned $0 in revenue, even if you have the cash on hand.

(This is highly oversimplified, just in case there are any accountants on HN, but I figure any people who missed the chance to take Financial Accounting 101 may appreciate understanding how some of this works. Even if you hire someone else to do the finances of your startup for you, it really helps to have an idea of why two actions that have the same 'real' outcome can have very different effects on your financial health on paper!)
If I may play the devil's advocate here:

Can you be against this decision if you're not against the 'nude scanner' thing the TSA uses to inspect you closely, while virtually undressed?

And turned around, if the TSA can do it and no public outcry stops them, is this decision surprising? It seems this is just the slope letting gravity do most of the work here..?
I don't believe that's a closed loop. The purpose of commercial products is to sustainably deliver value to purchasers. Until that is achieved, the feedback loop is open.

There could be some design firms that actually go that far, but I've never heard of a project like that. I do agree it's better when design shops attempt to test their design hypotheses through prototypes and user testing, as that does leaven the dreams with a dose of reality. We do a bunch of that for exactly that reason. But we never mistake a successful user test for actual success.
Of all the excuses I listed, I think fear of failure is the root cause.
My graduate STEM education and paid job was partially funded by the guy. He's not entirely out to stifle innovation.
IANAL, I'm a libertarian and against all forms of ad-hoc searches, but I think the government has a point here. As I understand this the goal is to control contraband and weapons entering the prison system. I don't see any way you could get around having to to search all those entering.

But that's a different situation than being searched for a crime. If I understood this correctly, this is simply an administrative search, not a search in search of evidence. Or put another way, if you get arrested for a joint and during the search the cops find cocaine, I'm not sure that would mean much of anything. (except you lose your cocaine)

But I'm probably completely off-base.
I think the author nailed it with his "excuse he didn't admit to" paragraph, i.e. it he was afraid it would fail. As long as you haven't actually failed, you can still fantasize about retiring a billionaire in two years time.

It takes a lot of courage to burst your own bubble at the earliest possible opportunity.
I personally bought a Wii, because it's not just a PC with a joypad. Most of the games for ps3 and xbox360 come out on PC, too and if need be, I can connect any controller I like to my box. The Wii however, was something new and different. They pushed things in a new direction and I really liked it. Prior to that, the last console I bought was a Sega MegaDrive.
Do you have evidence for that? The Lustig view on the biochemistry of fat creation and insulin resistance is pretty persuasive.
Does anyone know what would happen if inside my main repo I had a submodule that was just a checkout of my ghpages branch?

./project <- Main repo
./project/project-ghpages <- same repo but gh-pages branch
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=michaelkscott

Notice his karma is lower than his highest ranked post right now. In a now deleted post he claims he lost 900+ karma overnight.

Be warned guys. If you post here the chances of you getting hellbanned are non-zero.

EDIT: And if anything like that happens on a mass-scale and PG doesn't have a transaction rollback in the wings...
I had the same thing happen twice earlier today. I hit a huge milestone on a product I launched on HackerNews about two months ago, spent a few hours writing a blog post about it and lessons learned, and posted it on HackerNews around 11am EST.

Within 50 minutes it had 17 points and had climbed up to about #13 on the front page when all of the sudden it disappeared [1]. I signed out of my HN account and checked the comments link and sure enough the page was blank, indicating that it had been killed.

I was talking to a friend on GChat at the same time this was going on. He reposted it, thinking that it was killed because of an algorithmic fluke (which was probably true) [2]. The new post gained 9 points in 10 minutes and then was killed as well.

The only thing I can think of is that because that friend upvoted the original post (and he's upvoted some of my previous posts), combined with how quickly it shot up the front page, somehow caused it to be flagged and automatically killed.

I'd still love to repost it both to share my product's milestone and to get feedback from the community, but I'm afraid it will be killed again. Any recommendations?

I'm all for stopping spam and voting rings, but it shouldn't be at the expense of legitimate posts.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3788402

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3788806

Edited to add: I noticed a lot of the new posts around the same time had several points within a few minutes of being posted. Almost none had 1 point, which I thought was odd. I think someone might have written a script to upvote articles from multiple fake accounts, thereby causing HackerNews's voting-ring algorithm to mistakenly identify the posts as spam.
Is it just me or using more than two fingers at the same time on that screen feels wrong? The way to go is webOS-like gestures. I don't think I used my TouchPad's home button ten times in one year.
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I remember the Commodore 16, especially their TV ad that used Ringo Starr's "You're 16" theme. It seemed like a weird move since they already had the C64...

I also went the Commodore route. I still remember when I got my A501, giving me a whopping 1MB of ram!

I used Lattice C, and GCC to a lesser extent. Later, after finding out how hard it was to get ahold of the 3000/UX version of UNIX, I installed NetBSD on my regular A3000. Fun times...

I liked the M68k series so much I eventually wrote an emulator for it, which is used in MAME to this day.
Sure, let's see what happens when you get strip searched for mundane things like being too noisy.
Passive income is definitely a goal of mine. Getting there requires a lot more work than just 'making an app' and throwing it at the app store and hoping someone gives me their dollar.

As I mentioned in the post, I want to learn more about making money: what motivates people, what can I sell my labor/ideas for, how to make conversions, etc. It's definitely something I think I can pivot on later once I've gotten enough attention and traffic. Alternatively, maybe I'll figure out how to optimize the workflow.

You're right, it definitely has a scaling problem. :)

Lot's of people spend upwards to $99 for a startup weekend/hackathon to create apps over the weekend for nothing more than a chance at prizes and fun. Why not sell roughly 4 hours of my time for $99?
Good sir, are you human?

This is incredibly awesome! At age 12, I probably didn't even know what programming entailed.

I really wish I did though.
Anyone have more info about these communal software houses? They sound pretty interesting.
unless the 'work' in this case was to trick somebody into sending him money. in which case, its definitely profit now :)

(that said, good post. not enough people think about A=L+SE when they do business)
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I know for a fact that duplicate comments, hellbanned accounts, and banned domain names are automatically killed on submission. I'm pretty sure I've seen comments after a popular story being killed where a moderator is saying why they killed it. Whether the algorithmic methods apply to popular stories I've no idea, but front-page killings aren't frequent enough that an automated method would be desirable. I also figure there are a bunch of early-YC users with adminlike powers. Once you have a financial partnership with someone, trusting them with elevated privileges on a tangential news board is small change (for example, YC startups can post clearly unreviewed job ads).
I thought things were calming down. As of 2:08PM EDST, I'm seeing almost every submission on New immediately get points again.
Meh, it's weak at best. Because HN follows zipf's law, you can fix 85% of problem just by making it more difficult to flag submissions by the top 250 or so users.

Plus it's just annoying. The yc partners are supposed to be reading applications this week, and now they have to deal with this crap.
Idealistically this is something that I would support, because anyone who has been arrested and will be put into the general population of a jail carries several risks with them inside (the article mentions some of these: weapons, drugs, other contraband). But, that entire thought is predicated on a thought that I would argue is counter to reality: that people are only arrested when there is good cause to detain that individual.

Basically, if the entirety of the law enforcement and judicial system worked, then I wouldn't have a problem with this, but if I have to fear being arrested for taking a photograph of a police officer, then I feel that the strip-searching would apply to those who shouldn't necessarily be in jail in the first place...
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Most are documents with inserted pictures, pieces of spreadsheets, Visio and Project charts. Insertion and deletion of the non-text elements appeared to significantly increase the chances of creating unreadable documents. Workarounds includes saving under different formats and removing history. I am counting my own problems as well as my closest coworkers.

As with Outlook's PSTs, there were no apparent cause for the corruption - it just happened.
Hacker news needs to see more of this.

"I believe this current crop of entrepreneurs might actually be hurting America - and perverting the very idea of innovation in the same way Beyonce’s Run The World is like kicking Aretha Franklin in the ribs…repeatedly."

Realize that this IS the issue of the fortune 500 companies. Too busy worrying about small returns to dig in an innovate.
One reason why I bet this won't ever happen is because it would create an inconsistency with how we use the iPhone. You can't do a five finger pinch easily on the iPhone, so you would then have two different ways of 'going home'. This is one too many for apple. Remeber how they changed the rotate lock to a mute switch even though it didn't make that much sense to do so? THey did it /just/ to create consistency with the iPhone. There will be better iPad-centric ways of navigating iDevices, but a pure gesture based one is unlikely.
In this simple example, you would have a single point of failure for the enterprise machines. But not any more than your enterprise's routers or Internet connection represent single points of failure.

However, you can have multiple gateways (and thus alternative routes). Furthermore, the IP address failover will instantly be noticeable to any other machine you have in the virtual network.
What you haven't established clearly for me is an objective criterion for what makes a discussion "abhorrent and taboo."

Why does this matter? Well, we know what makes a discussion "abhorrent and taboo" in the People's Republic of China. It simply boils down to anti-government speech. My suspicion is that when you examine your own epistemology closely enough, you'll find you're applying exactly the same test. It is certainly an objective test!

The "discussion of how Jews run media, banking, etc." is a poor example, I feel, because it's a very easy discussion to have - especially in the light of Cochran & Harpending 2005.

There are two statements here, a factual one which is true and an implicit one which is false. The true statement is that these industries are full of Jews; the false one, that they act collectively as Jews (eg, under the direction of the "Elders of Zion"). We know the false statement to be false because we know that your media or banking Jew is almost always an assimilated, nontribal, anti-nationalist, and in other words communist Jew - utterly indistinguishable from his WASP communist friends. So there's no social network for exclusively Jewish collective action.

What was abhorrent and taboo about that? Except possibly the communist part. Somehow in a world that contains living equivalents of General Blokhin, it's socially taboo to speak ill of communism. Don't you find that a little peculiar?

I'd also warn you against the word "determinant." There are a large number of differences, many surely relevant, between Japan and Haiti. Japan is a much larger island and has a much larger population - not to mention colder weather. We cannot say that genetic diversity is the only reason that international development assistance seems unable to develop Haiti into a new Caribbean Japan - or at least a Singapore. Hence declensions of determine are inappropriate, I feel.

What's good, though, is that we agree there's an elephant in the room. All we disagree on is who's allowed to notice it. What a strange world we live in!
>>>Be warned guys. If you post here the chances of you getting hellbanned are non-zero.

I don't see anyone here criticizing HN or its community practices. We're just all trying to figure out what's been happening.
In this case, Lustig is a professor at a major medical school and is the director of a university clinic that focuses on obesity. He has also done substantial published research in the area. In comparison Aragon's only formal credential is a master's from an unspecified university. So if we're going purely on credentials, I think Lustig wins.
Awesome. Does this simplify the whole retrieval and setting of relationship as they are loaded via the standard fetch mechanism?

A real pain point for us at with Backbone is transversing these relationships in JS. We end up doing redundant renders as related models finally come into memory.
No, I mean the spammer/cracker megadownvoting you into oblivion.

(And if you come to any other conclusion as to what's behind this after seeing that, I'd love to hear it.)

EDIT: Well, like another poster stated, they could have been linking a whole bunch of spam links with attractive titles to exploit the HN link glitch to garner the dude the 900+ downvotes. But I'm not sure you can get 900 clicks that way...
Okay, I agree.

Although I think this has a lot more weight when you talk exclusively about laptops, with which I indeed have had so many problems in the past that I would recommend a MacBook to any fellow musician asking me for advice, especially if he is going to go on tour with it.

The two DAWs I've assembled myself in the last 12 years were both super stable and performed really well. I don't think I would have gained anything by using a Mac.

In fact I'm on a machine that I recently built which dual boots into Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. Maybe I will benchmark Reaper in both of them and come to a surprising conclusion. If I do, I'll post it on Hacker News.
Ha ha. Absolutely not. I actually do run a registered Texas LLC http://www.treehousemobile.net/

You do bring up a good point about trust and validation, especially online. Freelancers have to deal with this all of the time when we ask for money up front for a job. Trust is everything in business.
The best way I’ve come up with is to think of a startup as an experiment, not as a business.

This is the key take away.

If you're doing an experiment, you're doing it to learn something and prove some hypothesis. The only thing that should delay you from launching is, "If we launch now, we won't be able to collect that data we need to test our hypothesis".

Learn and learn fast. That's it. You can't learn if you're not making contact with your customer. A 25 SLOC splash page that learns something is better than 2500 SLOC that just sit in your GitHub account.
If every large IT project would be regarded as failed because it was delivered late, the chances of a successfull project would approach zero.
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Not sure what to put down, since my general server runs Ubuntu, my games machine runs Windows 7, and my work machine runs Lion (for iOS dev). I use all three almost daily.
I had always assumed that the home button was designed so that if an app locked up or something, there would be an immediately obvious way for users to get out without powering down the device. Does anyone know if this is the case?
My approach to avoid this is to not have a development or staging server. Just a live site. That's what I work on at the beginning. It's always out there, so there are no excuses. And it keeps your focus on the user experience.
I wonder if in NYC all the people arrested from now on at Occupy Wall Street will be strip searched. I do not like this decision.
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Lggr - a better python logging library
Welcome to The Library of Alexandria: It has been 2060 years since our last catastrophic loss of data.
OK, so it's MVC javascript (like backbone.js), with node.js in the backend, and some kind of move towards local storage + synchronization.

They say that it's not yet totally done. I'm guessing sync is the hard bit.
The daily deal business can make a lot of money and consumers (particularly women) love it.

However as Groupon has proven they are typically very dependent on expensive marketing channels in order to achieve growth. Over the last year or so the market has become really saturated with daily deals sites and so the competition for customers is fierce. I think as Groupon's woes become increasingly apparent, the daily deals bubble will start to implode (if it hasn't begun to already)...
You're right.

But as a society, it's up to us to make the world a better place, not excuse it for what it is. I have no idea what happens "mostly" with rape, nor would I use it as a reason why this app isn't bad. There are many problems with online privacy, and I partially blame every app that takes part.

The app isn't "rapetastic." It's not inciting violence, it doesn't have a google maps "getaway" feature. It just makes the world more dangerous at worst and more mediocre at best. In cases such as this, I err on the side of more criticism, not less. But that's just me...
> It's good for them that they haven't caught the "SharePoint" (and soon, InfoPath) wave yet cause if they do, the migration cost will rise quite significantly.

You must not forget to factor in the huge pain of living with SharePoint. A good friend of mine, heavy Microsoft user (and advocate) regularly complains about downtime and data loss because of their SharePoint install. They were forced into it because Microsoft is one of their most important clients and demanded that they use it (or they'd move their business to a competitor)
It is absolutely true that the majority only wants to consume. I think the author is taking offense at a stronger assumption, which is "Only an elite few want to produce" the number of people which want to produce is much higher than the number of people that have historically been given a wide audience for their productions.