skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks pclark.

We pull data from a bunch of different publicly available APIs.

We are getting serious push back on the "please wait a moment" thing :)

Good call on the lightbulb icon wording - that's from the old site, and no longer makes any sense. We've made "add" buttons very prominent now, so no wording should be necessary.

Did you try our "Add Anything" feature? It's via the "write a review" link in the header.

Currently, you can only add photos to pages and lists that you create. We're working on a more open approach to this.

The quizzes are our attempt to make consumer reviews fun - rate ten mexican beers and we'll tell you how "mexican beer" compatible you are with others on the site.

The gear icon on the logged home page allows you to configure a feed.

Thanks again for the feedback.
He offered the service of buying financial assets from people who wanted to increase their gains by amplifying risk. Whenever you offer a service you expect a reward.
I stopped using ICQ when it started to get way too slow for my computer at the time. I remember the first versions were snappy and quick, then they started adding more and more stuff, and it got too bloated for me. ICQ Lite was too stripped down for me, so I looked for alternatives.

Also, all my friends were jumping on the MSN bandwagon (mostly due to MSN being bundled with Windows), so if I wanted to chat with them, I had to jump along with them. Peer pressure can be a bitch sometimes.
Just figured I'd mention that ICQ never died for me and mine. It was the first IM service I joined (I still use my original 6-digit UIN), and I just never understood why I should change to MSN or any of the others. I long ago started using all-in-one clients so I could talk to people on MSN, AIM, Google, etc but my core group of friends never saw a reason to leave ICQ's network. ICQ actually had a ton of features no one else did for quite a while. The big one for me: it always saved your chat history (and I love to go back and look at my conversations from ten years ago), while MSN and AIM didn't do this at first.

As I type this, I have MirandaIM open and 5 of my close friends going back 8 years are online via ICQ. I will consider it a great shame if it ever really dies.
I suppose it depends upon your audience. Personally, I become somewhat irritated when people try to guess what I am feeling rather than believing what I am saying. I've also had good luck trusting people to tell me what they want, rather than trying to construct a model of what they are feeling. But then, most of my friends, and all of my customers are technically oriented people.
So, a generalized successful capitalist formula:

1 - Use greed to motivate Other People
2 - So you can use Other People's Money
3 - Get in at the beginning, get out early with the money
4 - Leave behind suckers with worthless junk

Use your profits to begin the cycle again.

I prefer Warren Buffet's approach:

1 - Look for good people producing genuine value
2 - Make a bet on them
"At the cost of the happiness of others"

You cannot consider happiness as part of the equation. People were happy enough to sell financial instruments to Paulson at a profit. Now they are sad because they lost money in that transaction... Why all the complain? Everyone should just learn a lesson in investment from this situation.
Now I remember... all the sounds were ON by default. The "oh-oh" everytime someone sent you a message... so agressing...
Yes, the article is by Creative Commons, but it is not relevant for HN. I don't want to squash these kinds of articles, but if we keep getting them, it'll politicize the HN environment, which cuts down on dialogue.

I recommend posting such things on mattmaroon's www.nonhackernews.com.
> You seriously believe that 98% of the NYT expenses are consumed by movie reviews, the crossword guy, and David Brooks?

You're forgetting the actual paper and the cost of distributing it.

We know the revenues (roughly) and that the expenses are about the same. How many actual investigative reporters do you think that the NYT has? Multiply that number by your guess of their average burdended cost and compare that to the total expenses.

My guess is that the NYT has at most 30 investigative reporters and they cost, on average, $200k/year. That's $6M. If there are actually 100, that's $20M.
The author is asserting that Haskell, the language and the tools, is ready for `Prime Time'. There is also a sustainable community of smart and enthusiastic Haskell hackers.

The developer mainstream may not be quite ready for Haskell, but Haskell is ready for them.

EDIT: Meant to be in reply to thomasmallen: "Advanced language like Haskell..."
Who gives a shit about some bitchy n00b who doesnt know what to say? FUCK YOOOOOOOUUUU.
http://collegepublisher.com will host your newspaper for you and even share revenue (through ads). I am not affiliated with them. Just thought it was a neat idea -- and business model. Plus it could help you go live pretty quickly.
Blogspot.com! Its really great 4 ur news. Frequent updates too! Good luck dude.
not disagreeing or saying he didn't 'earn' the money, i think he did. but he did it as an agent of efficiency vs. innovation/creation.
Learn english you foreegn jackass! America has enough problems before you ass comes here and takes all our jobs.
Upvoted because your karma is exactly 2600 at the moment.
there is another option:

4. put yourself in a position where you deal with other people who value logic and reason.

I mean, you need some of 3, as well... Personally, I have succeeded at 4. to the point where I am one of the more emotional and irrational people in my life.

I think my life got a lot better when I stopped listening to people who said I was too analytical. Sure, we are none of us completely rational, but I think there is a difference between striving for rationality and consciously avoiding it.
The paper is very short. He basically applies principles outlined in the first two papers cited to the market over the last year.

"Some distance properties of latent root and vector methods used in multivariate analysis"
http://biomet.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/53/3-4...

"Hierarchical StructureinFinancial Markets"
http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/9802256

The first is behind a journal wall, but if you're at a university you should probably have access. The second is free for everyone! Yay.
I agree. Paper over crystal. Cut down trees and let the shit run wild! foabnvoeirhbnolnerbvajbnrueil;buvie
Programming and the Recession
Yeah, that's awesome!
For two reasons, I agree with the article's premise that YouTube is screwing things up for its users.

First, my video actually lost all audio when I tried to use the AudioSwap tool yesterday to reinstate my video after YouTube blocked it from public view; the video (and sound) still previously viewable in the edit pane of my YouTube account. I've just tried again with another AudioSwap song from their library--maybe now it will work and add a song.

Second, my video was simply a parody of the music video set to a real song, which there are likely millions of on youtube.
Twitter limits searches on its site ... why?
I'd like that!
just like giving out an old compuserve e-mail address.
Ten steps to save newspapers (using the Seattle PI as an example)
One of my first experiences with letting a domain expire was with a domain called catbattle. I figured no one would pick up that name because it's stupid. It's been parked by the next person for 5 or 6 years now as a jump page for lots of cat ads. This sort of thing irritates me. I would rather have some kid get it and put a picture of his cat on it with some blinking text like "This is my cat! You are defeated!"

I suppose what I really want is for a group of people that are interested in creating useful web content to have a chance at before it expires. My ideal target audience would be the readership here or a similar group. Just having a list of unused domain names registered by people on this site would be a valuable resource to me. I could get all sorts or ideas from it, make a comment on one of the names that inspired the owner to do something with it, or end up with a chance to collaborate with the owner on a joint idea.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
France's most feted intellectual - not what you think
Games and Men: The indie game developer's start-up cost
Sometimes these kinds of questions only become really interesting after you've studied them a bit. To a naive newcomer, they may seem silly or nonsensical, but hearing some of the arguments, details and positions can bring to light a lot of interesting stuff that may not be immediately obvious.
Being able to search for functions/libraries by type signatures is very, very useful.
A.O.L.

(what killed mapquest? netscape? ...)
This is an interesting thread. Since people are talking a lot about Myers-Briggs, I'll throw in something I figured out a while ago.

When I take MB tests I come out evenly split on T vs F. (I'm also evenly split on I vs E, but am extreme N and extreme P... but we're talking about T and F, so never mind that.) What I figured out is that being evenly split, I tend to morph in response to the people I'm around. If I'm in an environment with lots of T people (like at work), I tend to behave like an F. If I'm around F people (like at home), I tend to behave like a T. So I get told both "don't be so emotional" and "you're a heartless automaton" on a regular basis :)
yeah, it was all those 0's and 1's. They were in the wrong order!
Yeah. Considering it's mostly Joel's writing that has pulled people towards the forums (and thus the job board), one could make an argument that the $1 million should mostly be Joel's anyway.
"his heart in his mouth." [...] just how many times did Follett use that ONE metaphor in a single book? [...] And the answer is: 13. Actually 17, if you count the four instances of "her heart in her mouth."

Searching at that book's Amazon Reader page, I counted 16 instances of hearts in mouths. http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0451166892

Maybe there were 2 instances on a single page.
Foreign Affairs (by the Council on Foreign Relations) is great too, if you like The Economist. It goes even more in depth.

And I like the NYTimes, just for their investigative journalism and op-eds (except Krugman ;-)). Exposing the warrantless wiretapping fiasco a few years back bought them a lifetime of goodwill from me.
I would question his financial acumen if he doesn't have a mortgage. Houses (specially the expensive ones) are a bad place to have money parked. Although, it doesn't make any difference in his fortune, anyway.
> The sheer hatred for this device staggers me. It's become a joke! People who've never used one call it ugly. They call it a waste. It's become a joke of the industry, and I have no clue why.

I agree that the hatin' is a bit over the top. (Though I agree the device is aesthetically challenged, it's the screen that the user is looking at. If the Sony Reader I've played with is any indication, the screen is really all that matters, the button arrangement on the Kindle is considered almost perfect, from what I understand.)

That said, I think what some of the critics are seeing is a repeat of the Newton. That was Apple's first stab at a portable "smart" device that overreached; it was expensive and its user experience was mostly alien. Because of its failure, the first successful device in that market space was the much inferior Palm Pilot, and as such, the Newton may be perceived as setting back or delaying the mainstream acceptance of a fully powered smart device via premature birth. (The sector really didn't regain the same capability level in the mainstream until the Blackberry and iPhone came on the scene.) The Kindle might be doing the same thing with the "PADD" (I'm thinking Star Trek here) concept by focusing on books and focusing the UI on that exclusively. Such a device could potential save periodicals and newspapers, but those markets aren't ready for pure digital distribution yet...
"Addressing the emotion behind the complaint" doesn't mean guessing what the other person is feeling, so much as showing respect and inviting them to express it. But I agree that the example in the OP was kind of contrived and more along the lines that you're critiquing.
It seems like the jquery integrated live function does not work on the iPhone safari browser. The livequery plugin works just fine. Can someone confirm this?
Rather than writing blog articles touting how great your favorite language is for general purpose programming you should write some code.

When you have more non-trivial applications written in Haskell than a Haskell compiler and a DVCS it will be a lot more credible to talk about it being ready for 'Prime Time'.
I just typed mine up without thinking about it after not knowing what it was for a while. Nice to know again :)
I still log into both my AIM acct and my 6 digit ICQ acct. I have no friends on ICQ any more, but I refuse to let it go.
Solar panels pose an environmental hazard, claims report
208v AC is easier to find than DC, it works with (most) existing power supplies (look on your power supply... most say that input voltage can be 100 to 240 voltage, and most are auto-switch, though a few still have to be manually switched) and it still gives you a nice efficiency boost. some of my servers run 208v. As a bonus, many places will give you a 30A 208V circuit for less than the cost of 2 20a 110v circuits. (watts is volts times amps, so that is quite a deal.)
It's not attacking the field, it is a fact. A CS degree is not an engineering degree. That is what a CE degree is. Don't confuse the two. He rants about communications majors stopping math after high school. What does CS require? Calc, discrete, and prob/stat? An engineer degree is going to require 2-3 more classes than that in math. So the sword cuts both ways.
...would you want to start building a long-term relationship with a short-term drug?

I tried it. A friend of mine was passing out tabs of X at her birthday party in Cincinnati. After it started to take effect, I wandered into the living room with the thought, "I'm going to give every woman in this room a massage." I never got past the first woman. It was like we had this perfect understanding of each other. It was like being the male lead in a chick flick. A disastrous 2 week pseudo romance followed.

It gets worse. I was devastated by the breakup, and I was wandering around the neighborhood thinking, "Please, God, I don't want to be alone. Send me someone, anyone!" Well, I walked into this cool little import shop, and there she was. The next two years were even more of a mess.

There's a reason why there used to be California bumper stickers reading "Don't get married for at least 6 weeks after X."
Why are Apple, Facebook and Google hacking code to force real-time into reality?
Interview with Pandora About Developing for Palm WebOS
Is Craigslist rotting on the vine?
Life isn't about getting vocational training for money. At the least, an education (university or not) could teach you that there are ways to state your point beyond using "fuck" in the title of a blog post: if you're talking about "selling" yourself, you may start off by not being insulting.

Second, if you're just talking about vocational training and job preparation, a college degree in some field and from some schools can show that you have the capacity for approaching a topic with mathematical rigour and know the fundamentals of Computer Science (as opposed to fashionable frameworks and APIs). There are many other ways to do that - but a college education also buys you a great deal of free time (something that hackers in college probably won't realize until they're done), exposure to smart people and new ideas; finally it's a chance to fulfill other intellectual curiosities (take courses in other sciences, history, philosophy, so forth).

Third, starting your business does not conflict with going to college. More often than often than not, I've seen people who have never attended a university (as opposed to attended and dropped out when they had something more compelling) simply take full time jobs right away, usually in systems administration or web front-end development.

Both of these are essential and great skills to have (especially in a start-up), but you can't build a product on that expertise alone: you can build a web design or systems administration consulting shop, but consulting won't (usually) bring you an exit.
Sorry, I didn't mean to be dismissive. It was a good question, and please keep asking them. I've just been having a bad day -- just got through an epic almost-breakup-but-not-quite-broken-up girlfriend problem. So to be clear, I apologize.
Thank you. I couldn't agree more.

I have no idea why it's so common for people to consider it a virtue to coddle insane and irrational behavior.

Look, if someone tells you they feel very strongly that running across a busy highway is a safe thing to do, you'd think that person was nuts, right? because we recognize that emotion is not a tool of cognition, and that using it in that manner is a really really bad idea. So what about a person who doesn't know how to communicate properly and tries to deal with various problem solving tasks that come up in life via emotion? does the fact that it's a few levels of abstraction removed from concrete facts somehow make it fundamentally different?
YOUR FEELINGS DO NOT COMPUTE!

Sometimes a joke can help. If that doesn't work, and you've already tried being nice, you can always just set her up for a logical trap and let her fall in. While her motivations may be emotional, she's using logical argument to get there, and she's not playing fair. So, play dirty too, and a good trap or two and the hits will take out all of her steam.

Sometimes people are just unreasonable, and very few people are really good at arguing.
Like a window manager?
http://xmonad.org/
Disclaimer: the above opinion is not representative of most Americans.

... at least I hope it's not. Not me, anyway.
I'm not sure if the creators of this show will read any HN comments, but this is HN so constructive criticism is expected...

I liked the pilot, I thought the length was perfect for an online show. I think the cast is pretty good too, which shows overall potential.

Things I would consider: The show's name (and the title typography) make you expect something like The Sopranos. Perhaps it should be changed to further differentiate itself from that show?

Plot-wise, the show should distance itself from LOST by excluding characters like 'them' or 'the others'. I could see how a studio type could dismiss this show as a LOST ripoff which could affect opportunities to raise funding.

Either way, I really like the idea of a show based on economic apocalypse (Peter Schiff callers asking about stocking guns and ammo is funny and ignites your imagination).

The dialogue about the demand for Wii's was pretty cool to me, though I could see how the use of Wii's and Helvetica t-shirts could attract super trendy tech-types while turning off others.

Also, words prone to pronunciation mess ups or confusions like 'edible' or 'eatable' throw the audience off (or maybe just me).
Object orientation eventually "won" in the market. Unfortunately, it was adopted by the general programming public in the form of Java, not Smalltalk.

It seems like functional programming is similarly "winning" as an idea. Anyone who thinks about programming much agrees that a language where you can't pass a function as a value, or construct functions at runtime, is pretty broken.

The question then, is whether Haskell is the new Smalltalk of functional programming, and what language will play the role of the functional programming Java.
PENIS is a troll. Ignore him.
It was the opposite where I grew up. AOL was the cool kids and ICQ were the dopes. Hence ICQ falling away.
Frankly, you are also forgetting about the actual paper and cost of distributing it! I can believe your kind of calculations only in the context of a plausible accounting for all NYT expenses. With out factoring management, lawyers, plane tickets, real estate, etc., you will be way off.

BTW 30 is absurdly low. The NYT has more than 30 offices!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_empl...
Yeah, I was mainly clarifying for loglaunch and all of our other non-American HN brothers that America is not such a stupid, evil place as some people make it out to be. It seems like many people think it is, and I really can't blame them. There are plenty of stupid and evil places in America of course, but there are also a lot of excellent and insightful ones.

That said, be sure to avoid PENIS's trailer park.
967599 ;)
Get small fast, hire hackers, leverage your position as a middle-man between a local audience and local businesses online, and capitalize on the decades of valuable content sitting in your archives. Forget breaking news in print, focus on investigative stories that no one else is going to do but some will pay for. Reduce your publishing cycle to one or two times a week. Adopt a "can't beat 'em, join 'em" mentality when it comes to Craigslist and other local competitors. Launch your own local self-serve ad network. Map your area to an insane depth and resell that content to local businesses and utilities. Watch what Google is doing with Google Local and Street View, mimic and surpass.

All of this is possible, but the change is so dramatic that most newspapers will not do it or will go into shock and instead of focusing on long-term recovery will destroy the one asset they have (a local audience) by adopting fast-money tactics (obnoxious banners and spammy marketing).
Eh? None of the teachers or professors I had ever called college vocational training or ever insinuated that it was. None of my employers ever expected me to know everything I needed to know just because I went to college. My parents, and other adults from their generation that I know would never call it vocational training either.

College helps us learn new ways of thinking and teaches us a lot of the theory and some of the practice behind the profession we think we want to go into. A college education is no guarantee for success, but it does tend to say something about the person.
I would love to hear a reply to this. One of the most successful businesses in my neighborhood is a cooperatively owned bagel shop. They've got a bunch of locations now, and they always hustle to make your bagel.

I'm not very familiar with the business model though, especially with regards to businesses that don't sell bagels but make software, or sell services.
Ask HN: Change.gov has launched Citizen's Briefing Book. What do you think?
Apparently, none of these browsers has Javascript. I'm not sure they really are competition.
Arrington has no sense of humor. I respect a politician better who shows their humanity.

It also shows that she has some understanding of the people who use the Internet or at least someone close to her does. That is not a bad thing.
It's cool, I think everyone comes off differently than they would like. It is the internet after all. Hope you debug your girl problems :(
How Obama can improve White House policy on wine.
It was a wealth transfer, no net creation.

Not so much.

He allocated resources correctly. That's what putting money in the stock market is fundamentally about. If you allocate resources correctly, you win. Allocate them incorrectly and you lose.

He made $15 billion by pushing down prices of assets that were overvalued (that's what short selling does.) i.e. He made the crisis slightly less terrible by driving down prices of junk securities (only slightly because 15 billion is a drop in the bucket compared to the size of the market as a whole.)
Mission accomplished. Thanks, everyone. I really appreciate your help.
Startups shouldn't worry about uptime. Rapidly growing businesses should be building in failover and redundancy. Your choice of host doesn't change either of those facts.
Happily bug-free at the moment :) thank you for the thought. I did write a pretty hilarious awkward breakup letter that I should probably post to my blog for memory's sake.