skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how's it going to be automatized? Over the network. Therefore, whoever owns the network owns the weapons platform. Sounds like a book title.
I don't think the header image was large enough.
Doctors make virtual-housecalls in Hawaii, over webcam
To clarify, the idea is not to create a new Emacs or even a text editor. Rather, the idea comes from noticing that one of the redeeming qualities of Emacs is how it provides a framework for keyboard-focused applications. If there's a demand for such applications, then perhaps a framework specifically focused on them would be useful.
"new line of Ipods being Scottish tartan"

That's just the customized Carnegie Mellon version.
I'm sure we can get that search box in there. It's something we've been planning (we've actually half done that feature :>)

Thanks guys for the support.
Aliens are trying to beam up street lights, again. Someone needs to talk to their power company.
Ok! I like your first sentence there. It wasn't at all clear to me that that was your point. I'm not sure if I was being obtuse or you were being obscure or both - normally I'd go back and check, but I don't have time right now.
You know twitter has gone mainstream...when plane crash after plane crash there is either a twitterer on board, or close by
High caffeine consumption could be linked to a greater tendency to hallucinate
I'd be very happy if my employer never verbally acknowledged my contribution, but one day I woke up to an extra $100k in my bank account.
It's like the lottery for software developers.
Another Manchester professor falls ill
Best of luck to you!

I'm curious to hear in your own words, however: what does embedding games do to help a site? As opposed to, say, doing what Kongregate does, and creating a centralized location for games? With video it's different, because videos tend to be shorter and last less time, so posting a video - especially one under 10 minutes in length - makes sense. (Even then, longer videos work better in centralized zones like Hulu or even Vimeo.) Aren't most games long enough that they thrive more from a feeling of centralization and unity of location?
Yep! I flag a lot of stuff in the new section. I'm just always surprised to see how effective that is at pruning the site.
Oddly, just now my access failed to HN using either of two different browsers, several times, even though other sites that occasionally have traffic hiccups responded just fine.
HN is beating some of the specialty discussion sites I like best in timeliness for certain specialized topics, so it appears that people who find cool links are defaulting to posting to HN first (which is also becoming my default behavior).
Congrats on the press hit Jude and Immad.
Twitter is by definition viral. It passes from person to person and expands outwards as networks intersect and overlap.

I always applaud Twitter getting more mainstream press but the fact is that Twitter expands in a very different way than most other service sites, it's of no use to people who don't know anyone else on it. My brother and sister both got on it but I was the only person they knew on it and so they faded back off of it.

So coverage only helps name recognition and I suspect has very little in terms of direct conversion from this sort of thing.
Me either. But now I'm going to see it everywhere.
That looks like exactly what I'm talking about. All the canonical analytic philosophers listed there tend to be best known for their contributions to logic, i.e. formal validity of arguments.

On the other hand, the listed continental philosophers are all known for the worldviews they put forth, i.e. the meaning given to the terms we use, or even new terms.
Watches and chocolate does not make an industrialized nation.

;)
aka pressflip?
I'm rather busy but if I can, I'll try to help ;) Good luck with this.
I forgot to mention the top level will all be written in XML, so it can be used on the semantic web to provide a service oriented architecture.
When using gestures, rules of grammar remain S-O-V
Only the presentation layer is written in PHP. The rest is written in something else.
What's the analog here? XCode is free. What other complements to iPhone development can make money?

In the past I suggested that $200/hour contract iPhone programming might be more lucrative than entrepreneurial app development, but that doesn't quite fit the shovel analogy.
I grabbed the flight data from Flight Aware:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE1549/history/20090115/...

And plotted on Google maps:
http://wherephone.com/usairFlight.htm
Australia.
(If you don't count Pearl Harbour, then we wont count Darwin).
Google & Facebook battle for your friends
I'm sure this has been said a few million times, but I absolutely hate the new MS Office. I consider myself to be pretty intelligent, but it took me about 20 minutes to find the new XY-Scatter and about 10 minutes to find the spell checker. I hadn't been that confused since I learned how to ride a bike.
how is that any different from any other social network?
Once, when I had Harry Lewis as a professor, I was telling a friend something about him, referring to him as "Professor Lewis." My friend asked me if I meant a different Lewis, as there was more than one professor with that last name, so, to clarify, since he was a professor of computer science, I said, "I mean the CS Lewis." I have called him "C.S. Lewis" to myself ever since.
That's my point. You can be all like "yeah, we're fixing the mistakes of the previous generation". Everyone has 20:20 hindsight. But there simply isn't the supporting evidence that Gen-Y has technical skills that Gen-X doesn't or can't get. Gen-Y massively underestimates how much work had to be done for them to take all this infrastructure for granted.
Red Bull is the new LSD
Man I wouldn't want to be a New Yorker, looking at a big ass plane flying low over the city
Because on others there is more to do than simply communicate. On Facebook you can find events, locations, fans, and such. On Myspace you can listen to bands and music. So there is stuff to do before you've built up a network, on Twitter it's vacuous when you don't have that many friends or people you're following.
Is conflict betwen God and science hardwired?
I didn't mention anything about liking it or not. Explain to me how this topic's pertinence to HN outweighs its politicizing. Haven't plenty of other organizations released their content on creative commons? Why is Al-Jazeera important in this regard except for political reasons?
Interesting - thanks. I have a friend who used to work at Coremetrics. I didn't realize it was so expensive. Maybe it wouldn't seem like so much if we weren't all seduced by the free Google stuff.
If "crappy design" is the only negative comment your site gets, you know you are on your way to big bucks"

I get that quite a bit. Yay! then, I guess?
A Thing A Programmer Shouldn't Learn the Hard Way: Be humble.
How can you not link to apod: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090112.html

And the forum that is discussing them: http://bb.nightskylive.net/asterisk/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=...
This seems a lot more webmaster / publisher-oriented, while Kongregate seems more (new) developer- and community-oriented. Just compare the Kongregate "About Us" page with HeyZap's front page. Kongregate even has its "Shootorials" which honestly might be more about marketing the site as newcomer-friendly and less about seriously teaching people stuff.

To be honest, I much prefer Kongregate's slant, but that's because I'm much more interested in the developer end of things. However, HeyZap is just starting, so I'm not going to fault it for not having all the bells and whistles Kongregate does. There also might be serious value in the widget model (i.e. HeyZap is not a destination, like Kongregate is) that I'm completely blind to because I personally think that's dumb.
I think it's an interesting idea. I track about 200 feeds, but probably look at only a small percentage of the stories. I definitely would appreciate help in blocking out the least interesting stories.

That said, limiting the free account to only 3 feeds makes it difficult to judge the site's usefulness. I guess that I would probably want to try the site out with at least 50 feeds to see if I wanted to pay for the ability to track even more feeds.

Consider that it may be more valuable to give out fewer invitations but raise with numbers of free feeds per user.
That's my dad's route. Flew it all day yesterday, and I think he was flying today.
But, next week, I'll be starting a project to design a middleware system based on a LISP repl. The foundation will be written in C and assembly. The dynamic portion will follow Steele's CL standard, although it'll be able to compile select portions to machine code during runtime, if necessary.

Since LISP is equivalent to the parse tree, it'll provide the RPC IDL so programs written in Haskell can communicate with programs written in Erlang, all seamlessly across a cluster or grid with a parallelization mechanism based on the STM model.
if you use google reader you can attain this with the postrank plugin in firefox.
One of these things is not like the others.

(hint: Google Reader is extremely popular)
Here are a few other links on us. Thanks for the coverage everyone!

http://mashable.com/2009/01/15/heyzap/

http://tinycomb.com/2009/01/15/heyzap-the-longtail-competito...

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/first-impressions-heyzapc...

http://news.gotgame.com/heyzap-the-youtube-side-of-games/236...
I thought that was what newgrounds.com was.
"Technical people are motivated by interesting work. They will put up with abominable working conditions if they get to work on something that interests them. I've managed people who had to be sent home at night. But technical people without interesting work are very difficult to manage. Their active minds tend to get them into trouble. A happy team is a group that is busy and too intrigued with their project to get mired down with internal politics"

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewA...
Close but not the full story.

Ed Catmull was put in charge ("president") of all Disney and Pixar Animation and Lasseter was made CCO as you said, so both have control of both animation studios.
yes - but without the cult-like persona following that often arises in situations like these.

Which both he and us probably thinks is good.
They need it so Feedburner can make money.
Ted is assuming - without evidence - that machines will be able to make decisions. Today that is not true, and for the foreseeable future it's not true as well.

Someone needs to program all those machines to crunch the data needed to help humans make good decisions.

...and machines become more and more intelligent...

They have never done so in the past, so why do you think they'll start now? Machines became faster, but not more intelligent.

Take chess as an excellent example: humans do not evaluate every possible more - somehow they just think of what the best move is. Machines can not do that, and probably will never be able to. So far they can only do what was pre-programmed for them.
Looks like he wasn't flying today. WHEW.
How does one manage to take people born within a range of 14 years and make sweeping generalizations about them?

Grouping people into Gen This or Generation That is astrology for sociologists.
Remix by Lawrence Lessig reviewed
Good thoughts, thanks soundsop.

Out of curiosity how many feeds do others subscribe to?

This post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248623) suggest you, soundsop, might be on the high end for HN readers--that's a _good thing_, you're our target market. Are there a handful of feeds that have the lowest signal-to-noise ratio? Maybe Feedscrub could help you with those in particular?
How will Google Reader ever make money? Bloggers will not allow RSS readers to run ads near their content. While I don't think Google will kill Reader, I have to wonder where the revenue is here.
It is a lot like the lottery.

However, it's a lottery that you can play (for 99 dollars and your time) and learn something in the process. Learning objective c and developing an interface for mobile multi-touch devices is well worth the price of admission.

You never know how that experience will pay off in the future regardless of whether your app was a success.
This would be a disaster of biblical proportions. GR isn't just a aggregator of feeds, it is a feed-based social network! I can see, in real time, what my friends are reading, what they find interesting, and their thoughts on the issues. I can break up my content by subject, tag items as I see fit, then publish feeds of specific tags and shared items. No other tool has allowed me to so easily share what I am READING, not just thinking. Since I am not a very interesting person, my thoughts are not often that significant, but as a voracious reader I can function as a filter on other people's content, and my contacts do the same for me. Losing Reader would devastating to my info-vore ways.
One point you (and a lot of people) are missing: Joel was the one who took the business risk of posting those ads. It may seem risk free in retrospect, but they didn't know that in advance. It could have pissed off all his software customers, cheapened and diminished his brand. It could have had technical problems and become a nightmare with people wrongly charged or spammed. Just about anything could have happened. Noah took no risk, he just suggested an idea. Joel paid him to implement the idea, he didn't go "above and beyond" in that sense.

So in all this righteous speak of what is a "fair" reward for Noah, keep in mind that his contribution, vital though it was, is dwarfed by that which Joel had to make to enable it to be realized.
You're also forgetting Brad Bird (The Incredibles & Finding Nemo) and also to a lesser extent Pete Docter (Monster's inc & I think he has another in the pipeline due out called UP, that will be Pixar's release for this year...but don't quote me on that)
I think that around here it's more about what you have to say than about being able to do so in perfect english. Besides it's a great way to learn...

So if you have something to add the conversation do so. Even if it isn't perfect english :-)
Ok, so Haskell isn't ready for things you'd write at your desk job. Got it.
Okay, I know I ask a lot of questions (I already asked another one in this thread), but I'm curious: why name it HeyZap? What's the "zap" in reference to?

Congrats a ton on launching, and best of luck to you guys! :-)
You should read "The Black Swan" - the book has flaws, but he does make a convincing case for people being simply unable to predict certain things. They make up stories afterwards, but those stories aren't able to predict the next big, unexpected thing.
Ones and zeroes in the clean environment of a computer chip can be controlled absolutely. When you write a reasonably self-contained program, everything that goes right and everything that goes wrong is entirely your fault. It is not a metaphor; programming simply is small-scale godhood.
just some unrelated feedback about how i have been dealing with this feed information overload issue for now: i use feedly which utilizes among other things google reader friends.. so pretty much i rely on hundreds of other people to decide for me what is interesting and i check the stories they upvote/recommend/share
I'm interested in all of those questions because I have two ideas for apps that are in the same market but one targets consumers and the other targets professionals...
When did it become so bad to just work on what you want?
Bridging MRI, JRuby & Rubinius with FFI
You can't embed things with Newgrounds. As a side note, I onder why Newgrounds faded out of popularity. Very fun web design, very neat systems for stuff, and yet it was completely ignored as a company.
Erm, yeah right. That's why they only just updated the look of it a month ago. So they could shut it down.

Google Reader is here to stay. I'm not worried.
I updated the post to read, "under the same conditions." Thanks!
I think this is one of the problems with so called "un-biased" reporting in the media. They tend to give equal time to competing theories as if they were equals. Vaccinations causing autism in the media has been really hyped up in the media because its an extremely interesting, link-bait type story.

The vaccination story gets so much media attention I'm sure there are many people who believe that its true simply because its in the news so frequently.
Who has the most to fear from Palm’s “New-ness”?
The same could be said about many products that Google isn't likely to kill. How will they make money from Chrome, for example? (which is probably a fair bit more expensive than GReader).

Google has deep pockets. The reason they killed those products was not because they weren't making money, but because they weren't popular.
How do you translate your site?
How do you get your website translated on the cheap? In other words, after you create your string table in English, how do you get the actual translations in other languages? My hope is there's something more cost-effective than using an expensive translation firm yet less work than using Mechanical Turk or crowdsourcing to your users. Is there a happy medium I'm not seeing?
This is interesting, but I'm not sure I'd call it citizen journalism. Citizen 'reporting' more like. I think of journalism as a profession that requires research and analysis, not just being there with a camera.
Ask HN: Feedback on WindyCitizen.com - Social News for Chicago
The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility
It is a great concept, but the negative is that it is fantastically expensive, probably at the top end of per s.f. costs anywhere.
Photo of plane crashing in NY. 
Sorry. I fixed it.
The Engine - Why Google Reader ain't going anywhere
It's omnipotence without omniscience, though. Any reasonably complex program will grow beyond the programmer's ability to keep it all in his head at once.
Next generation cloaking device demonstrated
The Gifted and Talented magnet school in St. Paul now has the name Capitol Hill. I don't know if that is a successor school to the one you remember.

In general, I'm not sure how schools have been teaching reading in specific places in the relevant generations, but I would agree with the critics who say that reading could have been better taught than it usually was in school over the last few generations.

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Johnny-Cant-Read-about/dp/00609134...

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Read-Thinking-Learning-about...

http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Dyslexia-Complete-Science-B...

http://www.amazon.com/Early-Reading-Instruction-Science-Brad...

Best wishes in your continued efforts to add to your technical vocabulary. I learn new words fairly regularly here on HN.
Its a fun, cool, memorable, short, unique name. Zap is a small monkey we keep in the office :P
Facebook Whooper App comes to an end: 230,000 users removed, 82,000 installs.
I think 2009 will be year of the news aggregators. I think RSS will go beyond simple feeds. Stuff like Feedscrub, Meehive & Broadersheet will (hopefully) improve the news system by leaps and bounds.

I'm confident. And excited.
IMHO one of the main reasons Facebook got popular early was that it had photo sharing early.
where is the video of the plane landing in the river?
No way. You're pulling my leg. That would be too adorable.
Ah, but if you run it slowly enough (step through it, for instance), you get the same thing in effect; anything you want to know you can find out before anything changes.
Javascript rendering would be much more useful than having to use an OSX app.
So far [machines] can only do what was pre-programmed for them.

Then how do they learn, and recognize, faces? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision#Related_fields

A significant part of artificial intelligence deals with autonomous planning or deliberation for systems which can perform mechanical actions such as moving a robot through some environment. This type of processing typically needs input data provided by a computer vision system, acting as a vision sensor and providing high-level information about the environment and the robot. Other parts which sometimes are described as belonging to artificial intelligence and which are used in relation to computer vision is pattern recognition and learning techniques. As a consequence, computer vision is sometimes seen as a part of the artificial intelligence field or the computer science field in general.
How will bloggers stop it?
Assuming a REPL, and methods of introspection that do not otherwise change state of the system!
I have some experience in this area. At work we often have to translate (or have translated) bid documents, contracts, documentation, training materials and software menus. Further, my wife does contract work proof-reading translations.

Summary: Translating well is very, very hard. Most translations are poor. Good translations are usually very expensive.

You will get what you pay for, with some margin of error. If someone is cheap, I most strongly recommend you do some additional work getting the results checked. Make sure you have a method of evaluating the translations.

We assess the quality required, then use professional translators in the appropriate prices range. Poor translations will noticeably affect your users' perceptions of your product.

And no, I don't think there is a happy meduim you've missed. I would also advise you to be careful using the Mechanical Turk without an independent method of assessing the result.

Sorry to be so negative, but we've had some bad experiences through over-optimism. Learn caution from our mistakes.
Why have you called this "Video of plane crashing" when there appears to be no video of a plane crashing?
Is there anything fancier than a naive Bayes classifier going on?

Do you do any calculus on the relative values of false positives and false negatives? It seems that a person with a large number of feeds would put a greater importance on limiting the number of false positives (non-interesting messages classified as interesting by your program), whereas a person with a small number of feeds would be more worried about false negatives (interesting stories classified as uninteresting).

Also, see this comment in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=435837 . For something like this, I doubt a machine learning algorithm will work as well as social algorithms. Web search is a very similar problem (find the most interesting link given input from the user) and social algorithms won out. Of course, the kind and quality of input that you are getting from the user is different. However, your problem is much less well-defined (finding interesting things in general instead of interesting things related to a particular topic).
Apple's likely strategy until June: What Would Steve Do?
ah but the thing is you have no guarantee that the money you throw in after the bad/wasted money will actually become good... that is the risk you carry and to avoid that economists recommend not to chase after sunk costs (which are viewed emotionally rather than pragmatically)..
Ask HN: What should I do if I suffer from 'pre-optimization syndrome'?
More or less, I'm looking for answers in the form of steps, exercises, tips, tools, or rules-of-thumb.

Any help is appreciated since while I know pre-optimization is the root of all evil, I still at times feel so helpless that even a simple key-stroke becomes unbearable.

Is the root of the problem my train of thought? I perhaps try to do much problem-solving in my head and, more often than not, get caught in a what-if loop. This needs to stop before it finally results in a stroke or change of a career.
Maybe something that allows you to cross-deploy your app to a variety of mobile os's (adroid, iphone, etc) from the same code base?
Why Technology Won't Prevent Identity Theft
I can't even find words to describe how wrong this comment is.
Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins