skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your use of Baldwin here begs the question[1]. We can all agree that "the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion" is bad. It's bad by definition, as indicated by "excessive" and "spurious" (and "ostentatious," to a lesser degree).

What we can't all agree on are absolute standards for excessiveness, spuriousness, or ostentatiousness. So what Baldwin wrote is irrelevant unless you first show how the article is an example of excessive and spurious emotion.

Otherwise, you're simply saying "It's bad because it's bad. Q.E.D."

1. The quote itself is not intrinsically question-begging.
The emotional can be intelectually aproached.
1Gbps wireless network made with red and green laser pointers
All amazing questions -- you've managed to identify many gray areas of the graph. This graph is the seed to a large research project and will likely change as the research proceeds.
I assume you mean it's the easiest way to make a website from your phone. Which is like being the easiest way to cook in the shower.
Why movies are moving from 24 to 48 fps
Lovely collection of online visualisations
I spoke with David a few months ago. He said that the percentage was based on the number of active websites, which according to http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/ is 139,902,673.

I don't know for sure if Weebly uses this number to calculate the percentage. But probably not, since it only indicates ~2.8 million Weebly websites, and they claim 11 million (7.8% of that active domain number).
Yelp’s Post-IPO Earnings: $27.6M In Revenue, Up 59%, But Net Loss Triples
The majority of my free time goes into the Ruby/Rails ecosystem, but I decided to finally jump into javascript for real and force myself to grok things like closures and context (still strugglin'!) the past month.

Node isn't a new language. It's javascript. Node just gives javascript the rest of the web stack, conventions, and a package manager that feels like Ruby gems. Javascript already is the best solution for all the problems we're currently forced to use javascript for. It's the language the browser understands.

I'm not here to be Node's white knight, but Node isn't just Yet Another Thing or Yet Another Language. It's javascript and, to me, it's making javascript into a language with an ecosystem similar to what I'm used to with Ruby. Javascript is already out there in the wild solving problems that Ruby/Python/Clojure can't.
Google Is Making a Huge and Annoying Mistake [Google]
Agreed. I thought the parent was ill served by editing the post and moderating the language, which for me more accurately described how I felt about the article and situation.
Ask HN: Basecamp for Art and Code
I have a 3Dgame project starting up. I had used basecamp awhile ago and was very excited to hear they had a new rev.
Sadly, I was very disappointed to see that there is still no proper integration for artwork.
I think there is a great opportunity for a startup to create a basecamp like product for artists and designers, with image roll-over, audio/video support, and vector art. And also have it link out to Github.
Maybe there is a product but I sure haven't seen it in my research. If anyone has suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.
I'm really just waiting for the next site - it's not that interesting to see mainstream sites being spammed over and over, and "power users" silently spewing out submissions from the same 6 sites day in, day out.

Worse than the stagnant content though is the pandering ... jesus. What will 42floors and a bunch of HN users write for us this week? How many times will people upvote TorrentFreak and TechDirt tomorrow when they publish their 17th "MegaUpload: It's Not Fair" piece? Someone quote PG, STAT!

That search engine where they got rid of the top million sites ... I'd like to see a HN where the get rid of the top hundred or so sites and the people submitting them. It's just too boring with them here.
I'm not so concerned about the odd piece of fiction as the near total lack of articles with code and / or equations and / or cash-flow projections in them.
It's a slippery slope, though. Small I post a picture of a cute kitten? We could intellectually examine our emotional responses to it.

And HN would implode.
We still face a problem, which is inevitable when you can teach the masses. Some people, especially the poor, don't understand the importance of education. In poor countries, teenagers don't have time to study, because they have to make a living.

But I'm happy we are advancing, I believe education is the foundation of everything, so we sure are making some big steps.
I see potential for a highly lucrative Facebook application involving the social graph.
So if we have one meta-"HN-is-dying-OMFG" post for every dumb post on the front page, do we not then have twice as much noise?
By lucky coincidence, I just updated the LinkedIn Mobile example on backbonejs.org this morning, with the new iPad app:

http://backbonejs.org/#examples-linkedin
That example gist went a long way towards convincing me of isaacs' comma prefix style.

To me, consistency is important. All of my codebase is traditional comma postfix, so I'll keep using that; however, maybe with some new projects I'll try on the comma prefix pants and see if it helps.

Thanks for the link!
I agree, but I don't think this was a case of that. It was a very short story that appealed to the emotions. Just IMHO, of course.
You might argue that Erlang has influenced Haskell. (E.g. Erlang -> Haskell exists).

In two respects:

* the view patterns syntax was built to enable bit level parsing, inspired by the Erlang support (I wrote the binary library to emulate Erlang support for IP header parsing).

More recently,

* Cloud Haskell

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ErlangInHaskell
I provide real examples behind my opinions. I don't have to prove or disprove vague statements made by others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

"the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unfalsifiable claims rather than shifting the burden of proof to others, specifically in the case of religion"
5% is a lot less than 30% on iTunes.
True, if the company only created one campaign and it was pretty specific, then yes, they could tie my signup to the campaign information. I'm not terribly concerned about this yet.

Browser fingerprinting is far more alarming: http://panopticlick.eff.org/

Let's say there's a SASS service you can tie into that has a massive database of browser fingerprint activity. Potentially you could get quite a significant amount of browsing history once enough websites are using the service. You can tie this to an email address etc. when a site requests a signup.
You should put the name "patio11" on the landing page. I saw the page, thought "maybe, not sure". After I saw the comments and realized this was you (patio11) I thought "heck yeah!" and signed up as fast as I could.
CloudFare outage (System Status, back online now)
Show HN: Remove the blur from blurry photos - Blurity
Just wanted to show off my side project, Blurity. It removes blur from blurry photos.

If this sounds familiar, it might be one of two things: either that cool Adobe demo last fall that did something similar, or my post a year ago about an earlier version of Blurity (before I pivoted from a web app to a PC app).

Anyhow, check out some of what it can do at:

https://www.blurity.com/features

Not entirely certain about the right market yet. Ideas appreciated! Thanks!
Timelapse of glacier that (perhaps) created the Titanic iceberg [video]
The author responded to "contentless garbage, a work of fiction" comments the first time it went around the web:

"What was interesting to me was the comments that people made in response to the story. There seemed to be two fundamental threads: “This is a beautiful story; I’m glad there are people like this in the world,” and “What a bunch of sappy, probably fictional, crap.” Well, though strange and improbable, it is not fictional."

http://kentnerburn.com/archives/304
Does anyone know if LI used any specific Node modules? I'm evaluating Node.js for a project and am trying to get a handle on the thousands of modules available in npm.
Clickable:

https://www.blurity.com/features
You don't seem to be differentiating between search ads and display ads, and it is search ads that comprise the majority of their revenue (where FB is more of a threat to their display ads).
Technical Skills to Pay the Bills … And More
Well the idea is more that the back and forth would produce a result, like a change to the HN guidelines. If we just have two different sides shouting then yes, it'll be twice as bad.
Sorry, but this sounds a bit like "hey, they actually have a tablet worth something, let's punish them for that".
This is absolutely a good thing to do, but it doesn't make you safe - the disks running the database's redo logs are the ones that get hammered in a logging scenario (since the writes to the table and indexes are largely appending, and don't have to be written to disk to commit a transaction). These logs are usually global to the DB instance, so you can't easily (to my knowledge) separate them out. This being the case, they can significantly affect the performance of the rest of your system if too much logging starts happening.
I don't see the lack of a parallel that you are trying to make.

If I take data that was in RAM, explicitly move it into a file and then make sure that I access it sequentially, I've modified my memory access patterns in a way that controls page faults. I'm using the same amount of actual space in memory and on disk, I've just labeled some of it "file" rather than "RAM".

In fact if anything I'd argue it the other way. If you're using a high level scripting language, what I just said about page faults still works. However the language gives you so little control over what happens in memory that you can't control the cache misses.
I'm in a kind of similar position - sole founder, lots of ideas and not a good enough way (at the moment) of keeping track of them.

From looking around, OmniFocus and Basecamp (but Basecamp Light if it existed) would do the job, though bootstrapping I can justify the money for what may or may not work for me.

Interested to see what others recommend, if there's anything else to look at, or do I just write a lean requirements/project management app (which I could eat dog-food with and track the app I'm building in the app I'm building :-)
To play at devil's advocate, please don't. Otherwise you should have written your comment like this:

To me
, consistency is important
. All of my codebase is traditional comma postfix
, so I'll keep using that
; however
, maybe with some new projects I'll try on the comma prefix [...]

... using typography in a typographically sensible way is far more important to readability than an arbitrary "consistency" of punctation. We're humans, not computers, after all.
Discussion here - still number 3 on the Front Page:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3919078

More, that's a link to the actual blog, not just a thin veneer that adds nothing. From the guidelines[1]:

In Submissions

...

Please submit the original source. If a blog post
reports on something they found on another site,
submit the latter.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't believe what he's saying about responsive design at the bottom of the article, and certainly the motivation about context and device seems trite. It's entirely unobvious to me that my intent is correlated with my device. Often as not, I slouch around on the couch or on a long trip with my iphone because I'm either too lazy or unable to use my laptop.

The article might make him a disservice though; I'd like to hear him elaborate in his own words about it.
Introduction to MapKit Framework for iPhone Development
I think using comma-first syntax as a counter example is disingenuous. Whether you're a novice programmer or an expert programmer, using comma-first or comma-last isn't going to bite you in a way that isn't immediately solvable.

Omitting semi-colons, however, can cause novice JavaScript programmers serious grief. Nevermind novice JavaScript programmers – they cause me grief, and I put semi-colons everywhere! That's because I'm often called in to debug our customers websites, and on several such occasions I've had to fix bugs that never would have occurred if that customer used semi-colons properly.

Sure, if our customers understood JavaScript's ASI and how to use semi-colons "properly", I wouldn't have this problem either. Except, as Tom points out, the reality is that almost none of these people will invest in doing so.
Ingenious UI Idea For Dragging Files From Your Computer To Phone
There is, as you pointed out, a (shady) implied back-door to getting the video without giving him your real email address. You can think of that as a kind of escape valve for the sentiment you're trying to express here.

One caveat I think might apply to using that escape valve: if you're so upset by the idea of trading customer contacts for promised software value that you'd lie about your contact information, you probably won't get much value out of the 45 minutes of your life this video will consume.

Patrick has thus done you a favor by demanding your email address; he's pre-screening you from the video to save you time.
This is even dumber than arguing about semicolons.
We keep talking about getting rich and getting acquired for a billion dollars but a part of building something great is also about making the world a better place. Think about apps to help deaf or blind people, if you were building such a product and you had a "moment" like in the cab story where you felt you really changed someone's life, wouldn't that be worth more a lot more than cash?

It's easy to stop seeing any emotion in a startup world where we keep talking about technologies and cash and VCs and angels. But there are some people out there who work just as hard on technologies and softwares only because they want to make an impact in people's life, not just make a bazillion dollars.

In the end, it really got me thinking "Will I ever build something that has a real impact in someone's life?" and this is perfectly valid from a hacker / intellectual point of view in my opinion.
Weebly is awesome. I recommend it to every non-techie friend who asks me for help setting up a website. So happy to see them doing well building a solid fundamental technology.
Get stuff done in the cloud. Go Google.
If any one has tried out the actually connect with Stripe flow we'd love your feedback on the process!! Think connect with facebook, for merchant accounts. This is Katherine from Shoplocket, btw :)
Dear HN friends. Bestow upon me the requisite karma and articles of low quality shall feel the sting of my downvote.
Hacked Websites Serve Suspicious Android Apps (NotCompatible)
Yeah, I have no problem with the story. I've read it before, it was properly attributed. Did it belong on HN? Not at all. It was an emotional story.
This raises several questions:

Have they always done this, or is this new?

For those of us who haven't changed our Facebook password in years, does this mean that we don't get this option, or do we? And if we do, is Facebook storing our passwords in plaintext?
"a site devoted to deep technical content of lasting importance, have all failed at their jobs. "

Yes, because Valley drama and Apple PR and nerd rage are truly deep technical content. There's a lot of noise, sure, but it's a great chance to broaden your horizons.

Get over yourself.

EDIT: And flagged. Meta kills, my friend.
This entire blog post is self-indulgent elitist drivel. The fact that it (currently) has 67 upvotes means there are 67 people in need of an immediate ban. All the blog post needed to fit right in at reddit, which he obviously despises, was some rage faces.

Last I checked, even us 'angry nerds' have emotions. It was refreshing, to me at least, to see that something could break through that wall, even if it was for only 6 hours and was immediately followed by... this.

FWIW, I didn't upvote the story. I just read it. It made me think about my grandfather's last few days in hospice, which made me a bit sad, because I had just started a brand new job (first out of college) that week and wasn't able to be there when he died. Oh, and then I got to read a bunch of 'sappy bullshit!' comments.
"force"?! "subterfuge"?! What?! He offers you something ("sign up and get a video") and that's subterfuge?!
Cloudflare Entirely Offline
All cloudflare sites I know of are offline, and their website is completely down.

https://www.cloudflare.com/system-status

http://i.imgur.com/zbf5O.png
I feel for you re the advice. Simple ideas are subject to the "bike shed" phenomenon. Since people are able to understand your product, they assume they know what you should do next.
Andreessen, Horowitz: Venture Capital's New Bad Boys
Amen.

There's a forum for this kind of thing, and it's called Reddit. As a matter of fact, that's exactly where this article was cross-posted from.

I just personally find it galling that this kind of post is tolerated here. It has nothing to do with hacking or entrepreneurship and it only really serves to broaden the exposure of Hacker News to people who really have no business here in the first place. It wasn't so long ago that when there was an influx of outside exposure PG would proclaim "Erlang day" and encourage everyone to fill the front page with arcane technical articles about Erlang. It really did feel good to be a part of a site like that, and it also served as a sort of "reset" button that reminded everyone what this site was really supposed to be about.

That said, as others have pointed out here, "intellectual curiosity" is part of the guidelines -- and as long as it continues to be, we'll continue to see articles like this and people will continue to defend them. I gave up on railing against it myself a while ago and I just ignore those submissions for the most part. Fortunately HN continues to be a great source of information and discussion, even if it's perhaps not as spectacular as it could be.
Twitter search is nice for staying up to date on this: https://twitter.com/#!/search/cloudflare
Thanks. Fixed & double-checked the other numbers.
Coding guidelines for HTML and CSS
David has written a bit about how they got their initial traction in his blog. Can you ask him to comment on how Weebly got their users later on - word of mouth (they have a very high net promoter score), SEO, etc?

I am a huge fan of David. He helped us in a moment of crisis purely in a pay it forward way.
There is nothing new about the idea, I've seen this in numerous sci-fi movies, most notable one being Avatar.
Their status page is currently 500ing, but they have a Twitter account for it too:

https://twitter.com/#!/cloudflaresys

"Investigating upstream network issues in EU." -- even though the outage appears to be global...
I am quite wary of people making this argument. While I think HN is a place for mostly on-topic intellectual goodies, I would dislike it if people linked to more emotionally stimulating content. (For what it's worth, I didn't think the "Cab Ride" story was very interesting).

It's the same thing with humor - sometimes HN is way too uptight. I see a lot of genuinely funny comments that get massively downvoted because people fear the "reddit" effect.
Have you seen OpenBSD code? It's no less cleaner, and maybe even better in this regard.
http://grokbase.com/t/gg/clojure/122nctdz9c/notes-on-mathema...

Cf. D. Nolen's fantastic work in this field
Same here, glad I don't have anything critical hosted there. They have just come back online again though.
Engage:BDR Launches A Real-Time Bidding Platform With Direct Buying
They dont need to store your pasword in plaintext for this, but it does raise a security concern. 3 times the chances to have your password guessed by brute force!
Pretty sure Google did see the threat. Didn't they put in an offer very early on, and try to invest / partner later on?
I can only guess this is because of 2 reasons (which come down to cost):

- Song licensing deals expire with unfavorable renewal costs
- Server and other costs outweigh incoming revenue

Either way live by the content, die by the content.
My Pingdom monitor started making notes a few minutes ago. Having the same downtime problems on one of my sites.
CloudFlare System Status
"Expanding investigation for upstream network issues affecting all locations."

"Network issue should be clearing up. Continuing to monitor."

Seems to be back up now.
Seems to be back now.

https://twitter.com/#!/CloudFlareSys/status/1977854413600235... blames an upstream network issue. But I dunno, cloudflare.com was giving me a 502 error from ngnix, which indicates a cloudflare-backend problem.
To a first approximation, all focused questions that rely on knowing DRAM timing details are entirely contrived. That's because almost no programmers need to focus on performance on hardware that specific, outside of people targeting mass produced identical hardware, like consoles.

Trying to predict performance from first principles is a mug's game in any case; there will be things you didn't expect. It's far better to measure.
The problem is that the industry, as a whole, is still extremely young, and simply hasn't had the time to develop a standard set of good, let alone best, practices. Tools and processes are changing at a rapid rate, and it will simply take time for best practices to sort themselves out.

>"Best practices" for development of an iphone game may not be the same as for flight software for an orbital rocket or for an international banking backbone.

I disagree. There are a few things that should be common across all of these, like not storing passwords in plain text.
When Google can answer "where the fuck are my car keys" is when I unplug.
How to Fork a Syllabus on GitHub
From adding content to patrolling, Wikipedians do it all
well you see the true hacker following the way has no need for your 'emotions' beep boop

they are a vanguard and protector of their vcs portfolio unsullied by things such as empathy
I launched a new site yesterday that tries to solve this very problem. Briarpatch is a content discovery site which attempts to show higher-quality links (that aren't just 42 floors type links) by mining everyone's bookmark collections. Top-rated bookmarks rise to the top.

I'd be delighted to hear what you think. http://briarpat.ch/hot

Since people usually only bookmark things which they see as being suitable for a permanent spot in their local storage, we are hoping the quality on briarpatch will outshine some of these other content discovery sites.
What sort of research project? I'm also curious where you draw the line regarding "traditionally functional" languages with respect to multiparadigmatic languages.
Doesn't this violate Apple's policy? If not, has this happened in the past?
Improving Wikipedia with friendly competition
D'oh. You're right. I assumed when designing the front page that folks would probably see it in a context that made it obvious that I was the guy in the Twilio jacket. I did a little rejiggering to make that more obvious without making it the me-me-me show.
What makes one appear smarter and more sociable?
it's a little silly, but not much more so than 'google' or 'yahoo'.
Enticing Wikipedians back... with bacn