skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true for shared hosting, but not for VPS.

The entire point of having a VPS is that you're guaranteed a slice of the server to do what you want. If your provider is somehow monitoring your processes, sniffing your traffic, and setting restrictions on your applications, then I would find another one.
Good for him. He'll still do fine financially, and the education will make the experience of his life better.

(I'm exaggerating for effect here:)
Would you rather be a rich moron, or a smart upper-middleclasser?
your destiny unlocks with karma. it ensures that in your next re-incarnation, you do not come back as a Digg user
You're hired. Any relation to this fellow?
http://xkcd.com/125/

Just remember to use different accounts & language between the negative & positive reviews. Either way, be really careful to anonymize your tipoff, in case it backfires.
I actually use MySQL ;) Its pretty web two point oh-y.

Honestly, when I say something like "single table inheritance" I wish people would use say a search engine and type it in and see what comes out. Its a pretty unique phrase that gets you what you want... don't enable people who expect everything to be explained to them! (Not uninformed-ist mind you.)
Game hackathons are great. My absolute favorite thing about game design is that it brings together such an incredible variety of people: graphics designers, composers, writers, programmers, interface builders. The best game designers are ones that have some understanding of every aspect of their game, even as they specialize. I'd imagine the same is invaluable to startups.
I was referring to the passage in the article which reads (emphasis mine): 'Distributes, shares, or facilitates the distribution of unauthorized data, malware, viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, worms, or other malicious or harmful code (collectively, “Harmful Components”).'

I took that to include copyrighted data, including Battlestar Galactica episodes.
Think, though: NaNoWriMo gives you a month to develop the story. With game design, that means you'll need at least twice that to produce something of equal length, and that's working with a team.

This was more RPG mechanic rather than RPG. I still find that interesting, though, as the system I used to make RPGs in high school - RM2K, which is still out there - had the mechanics prebuilt and let you focus on detail. This game seemed to be quite the opposite.
Neat data structure: "Ullman" set
Don't. Try around in a few forms and see what sticks. Don't think too hard about any of them: Overintellectualizing is a real problem. There's a good chance you'll find what you like fairly early on after a few attempts.

There's enough random chance and other variables involved (e.g. your marketing & business skills) that this variable just isn't worth blowing too much time on. You'll probably have to make a lot of attempts & drastic course corrections to make it stick.
or "Report Program Generator"?
I find it interesting that the story was up-voted. It can be safely considered a rant to gain attention.
ZumoDrive announces pricing (and it's cheaper than it seemed)
There's all sorts of roadblocks to making stuff, but I'll just pick one.

A lot of times, you think that the first thing you make will be the right one, the brilliant, the innovative, or the perfect one, so you want to spend time getting it right.

To those that build things I admire, I find that they spent lots of time building things that have already been built, mostly because they wanted to have their own. Through the process, they learned lots of stuff they needed for their opus later on.

Built behind every masterpiece are thousands of throwaway sketches you never see.

And oh. From the mouth of Robert Morris, keep your system simple enough, so it fits in your head.
By the time this came out, Davis wasn't writing his own Garfield strips anymore. I remember him saying in an interview that he thought this week was a "fun joke" to play on readers. He obviously didn't read much into it.

Am I alone in really wishing this sort of thing wasn't on Hacker News? Not just because it deals with comics, but because it makes a mockery of real analysis. Garfield is not art. It's brilliant marketing, but no actual content - not by the time this strip had been created, anyway. Analysis like this distracts from the analysis that really matters: analysis that might introduce casual readers to an entirely new medium. I'm not exactly a comics maven, but I remember reading a strip-by-strip analysis of Krazy Kat, a comic that absolutely does benefit from such analysis. It got me into that entire era of comicry. There are more recent comics that benefit from such analysis. Peanuts. Bloom County. Calvin & Hobbes. Each has strips that benefit from really thinking, panel by panel.

This? A mockery! Nothing interesting is happening. The person that made these strips was just stringing along clichéd views. The only interesting thing is that it happened in a strip that's usually punchline after punchline - the comic itself is bland, derivative, and in fact quite bad. This isn't the "I'm upside down" of Peanuts, or the pterodactyl flying away in Calvin & Hobbes. This is bullshit. And the analysis is bullshit compounding bullshit. It's a disgrace. Stuff like this is why people mock the sorts of analysis that really ought to be praised.
Keep writing the TDSD.
Yep. Class of 86.
Just for the record, you can install most open-source software to your home directory using `./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/' and updating your PATH appropriately.
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Well - I guess the main part was it was something I'd never really thought about before - it's amazing how much work was produced in the Victorian era for example.

I think there is a real art to producing something that is decorative, still interesting in it's own right, but isn't overwhelming / remains complimentary ("ties a room together") - a nice set of design paradoxes that can lead to some interesting results.
Yes, but what does that have to do with prohibiting BitTorrent and IRC?
From reading gilles' take on hacker news and the fact that he thinks that one of the problem is that people who waste more time vote more (because they are wasting their time reading everything on here), I wonder if limiting the number of votes to 3-5 a day would be a good move?
People who come here a bit only would have proportionally more power than before...

But a system that recommended links from past usage would be interesting (and a fun challenge to do well)
I only participated in 1,5 48h game programming competitions, but it was really great. Especially with the irc chat going along with it, following real time what the others were doing and getting quick answers to common game programming problems.
Students are a main demographic of video games. Just b/c your customer base doesn't have tons of cash doesn't mean you cannot make tons of money off of them.

Plus the most people I see w/ iPhones are college students and 20 somethings.
I worked at a movie theater last year. They began firing projectionists. Even then, things go wrong. Films get off-focus, the sound messes up, the display corrupts. Even if they don't people will complain, and then you have to go up and fiddle with it so they stop coming. It's rarely relaxing.
I kind of get rubbed the wrong way when a site is little more than a wordpress install with a custom theme, but one which includes no 'built with Wordpress' (or Chyrp, or whatever…) tag. Not that it's not legit to build a site with Wordpress—most of mine are—but it just seems slightly unclassy, as though one was trying to gloss over the amount of work other people put into one's site. Am I the only one who feels like that?
Talent acquisitions.
I'm glad to see that they're cognizant of how much of their traffic is habit. CNN was one of the first sites I used to go to, and when I want breaking news I still go there out of familiarity more than anything else. Kind of like how I still go to yahoo.com to check a net connection, even though I haven't used it for search for 10 years.
Malware posing as Change.gov
History is a good indicator :)
One of the constants of News.YC is people worrying it's turning into d/r/s. As far as I can tell the site is about the same as it always was. (If anyone wants to check, item ids are sequential.) But I did wonder when I saw his title whether it was a contemptuous test to see if standards here had fallen so low that he could get to number 1 simply by baiting News.YC by name.
Was your competition on-site? As in, did people all meet somewhere? Or was it all hosted online?
I'm very impressed that YouTube has gotten to this point, but this is a great example of how the net evolves in unexpected ways.

Amazingly, YouTube is the number two search site after Google - http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39777/113/

7.6 billion for Google and 2.6 billion for YouTube as of last August.
Not really.

The risk & reward don't usually work out right (regardless of size). But business development people love them.

You shouldn't always avoid them, you just need to understand the majority fail without the reward to make up for it.
I think we're debating at cross-purposes.

The original statement was along the lines of - M&A usually fail, so there is no point in doing this for startups.

Now, maybe being a startup modifies the M&A rules in some or many ways - but I don't think it precludes M&A as a worthwhile option.

A merger in a high risk field might be a tipping factor - might improve your chances or getting a critical mass of users, funding, or some other key factor - so whilst the merger is risky, it modifies the chance of success in some critical way.

In the highly competitive field such as online storage, this kind of advantage may well be something worth pursuing -- I'm not 100% convinced in this case, but it does have some interesting implications.

So - totally agree - might be risky. Might be risky most of the time... But certainly not worth dismissing.
It's simpler than you think. As moderately dangerous new features got added, I gave them karma thresholds to avoid abuse. Since there's no man page there's nowhere to list them all. Most got explained individually in News News though.
So which company's PR team planted this, Blinkx or AdaptiveBlue.com?

My money's on AdaptiveBlue
Pumpkin seeds are mentioned, but pumpkins themselves are fantastic as well -- they make for some really great soups.

Also, I'm certainly not one to knock coffee, but tea is much better in terms of bang for the buck. I buy loose-leaf jasmine tea from an Asian grocery store, and get a month worth of tasty drinks for less than two bucks. It's healthier than coffee to boot.
Hmm, how weird -- I've read a very similar analysis before, which I assumed this was. Then I noticed the current date. I wonder where this person ripped it off from?
It has to be. I have 206 and can flag.
JQuery is a monad
More like: they usually fail so proceed with caution
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I'm glad to see oats at number 1, but lentils should have been number 2.
All online. The 48h competiton was really informal, no prices to be won either. Except for fun an fame.
The target audience is readers of Giles' blog, not readers of HN.
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There was also Air Transat flight 236 that landed in the Azores: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236

Do you remember what air line was involved in the South American incident?
If you want an example of an online dutch auction, countspin.com comes pretty close.
Why was this not detected as a dupe? It's the exact same URL as:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=361181
I completely agree. I wish eclipse didn't have so many issues. Europa was unstable, but had auto-complete, highlighting and indenting down, Ganymede is stable but has issues with highlighting, code sections, and auto-complete. Every so often I'll take a look around and find myself back at the mercy of eclipse. VIM is a nice break, but then I find myself missing some of the eclipse plug-ins and collaboration tools. Hopefully this endless cycle will be broken and eclipse will finally get it's act together, otherwise I'll give netbeans another go, then break to vim, and then crawl back to elipse. Sigh.
It's entirely unproven that reading small text or reading in a dimly lit room hurts your eyesight.
Exactly, I wish people would quit talking about what the "best" decision is and just applaud the guy for doing what he loves and wants to rather than what people tell him he should do. Isn't that what we are all doing here?
At 600+ karma, you get infinite bonus mushrooms and infinite ammo. You have to beat the game twice on impossible mode in the military suit and max out all your guns, though, even the stupid one that takes forever to fire and then the zombie eats your head because you were sitting there trying to warm it up instead of shooting zombies, which would have been the logical thing to do.

At 1000+ karma, you take off your helmet and guess what you're a chick. If you win three times in a row on impossible mode with perfect karma without getting shot once, using nothing but the annoying gun that takes forever, you take off your armor and guess what you're a hot chick. Then you can play the game again wearing a bikini.

At 2000+ karma, Paul Graham comes to your house, tells you the meaning of life, and makes you a sandwich. It is the best sandwich known to man. Only rich people can make this sandwich.
I think the 20 limit is wrong, since I'm past that and still can't downvote comments.
What is the picture on the badge?
I don't think another website is needed, businesses just won't use it. I've seen it tried before and it just doesn't work.

In your case you can find an enormous amount of new clients by getting involved with your local startup community.

What happens is startup founders talk to everyone and often times they get asked to build an app or website or whatever. If you network with these founders, you'll end up having extremely high quality clients because these founders start referring you. It takes a little time but it works great for anyone looking for clients.

The web solves a lot of problems but not yours, that just comes down to networking and talking with people who need your services.
I try to find a seat close to the restroom and generally just leave my laptop there (with the screen saver lock on). The way I see it, it usually takes me under 35 seconds to take a leak: 10 seconds to get up and walk into the bathroom and 15-20 seconds to take a leak. Sitting in a long coffee shop, far from the entrance, that really doesn't give someone much time to swipe my laptop without me seeing them.

Plus, if others around me have seen me there long enough, I feel like they'll point out who/where the thief went when I come back out. You also just need to use your judgment. I'd never leave it there in an unfamiliar coffee shop or if I planned to be gone for more than 40 seconds.
http://books.google.com/books?id=7qPIva6qrVgC&pg=PA562&#...
I work in Cambridge and usually frequent 1369 Coffee House (Central Sq.). I'll definitely have to check out Sebastian's and the BPL. Thanks!
I didn't bother reading this, based on the title which assumes I think PHP won something, I guess. I used PHP for a few years, then found something better. I never thought PHP won anything, other than a momentary lapse of my reason.

Next time, be less of a generalizing dick.
I see your point. I don't know the answer but I am wary of group-thinking ourselves into cranky single mindedness.
Octocat!

(see: http://github.com)
"Everything it's worth" being the sum total of office supply costs for Fox last fiscal year.
Or perhaps Insufficiently Veiled Sarcasm News.
Agreed re: tea - I get mine shipped from the other side of Australia (because I cant get what I want locally), but even factoring in postage costs its still significantly cheaper than other drinks (except tap water)
I certainly do use GPL licensed software. The GPL makes sense in various situations, but that's a complicated and long topic.

By the way, I do contribute to free software, and enjoy doing so a great deal:

http://www.welton.it/freesoftware/

(Unfortunately the patches/ and files/ bits aren't working due to issues with mod_rails)

My issue is with the idea that I should under no circumstances work on proprietary software.
I think this is a lovely idea!

Ok, bit of a tangent, but I was discussing this the other day with a friend...

Sometime around the late 70's/early 80's something happened in America. People started working longer hours, watching more TV, and generally socializing less. Membership in the Elks, Scouts, Rotary Club, Shriners, Knights of Columbus, etc., etc. all declined. The statistic that I think sums it up the best is this: The average number of picnics attended by Americans has dropped 60% since 1975!

What does this have to do with anything? Well, it used to be that social groups formed primarily based on proximity, and secondarily based on similar interests. What I see happening now, with social networks and such, is that being flipped on it's head a bit. Still, I think we're beginning to see an upswing in the picnic rate, as it were. (The Obama campaign was, I think, a potent indicator of this...)

This is one of the reasons that I love GitHub so much. Forget the git vs. hg vs. bzr vs. etc arguments. GitHub is a coder's social network! It seems only natural that someone should start formally organizing around this idea...

(also, see Zed's http://freehackersunion.org/ for more of the same idea)
These numbers are way too low. I'd have to have gone to 94 people's houses and made them sandwiches. (I already explained the meaning of life in a footnote in "Great Hackers.")
Sorry, I am not convinced.

Java's exception handling may be slower, but exceptions should be rare: In the few cases exceptions are not rare, return an object instead.

The issue of loosing some variables is misleading. First, the heap is not rolled back, so many of the side effects are still available for inspection. Second, how often do you want one method to handle another method's variables, and if you do, is either method maintainable? Finally, if frame variables are important, then you can put them in the exception.

If you want to complain about loosing context, try PL-SQL: "Raising" an exception rolls back all evidence of there being a problem.
Meh, I thought that was the point. I enjoy this forum because others cull through a mass of information to find interesting things. I don't always know what I will find interesting so I choose a group to guide.
Ya, those are fair questions. I don't have the information to answer them objectively since I'm just a dirt farmer from Alabama but noonespecial explains it pretty well.
Could the time to downvote have already passed? (i.e. you downvoted on a stale page)
unfortunately it wasn't a test, there was no if. I knew it would work. see the link at the bottom of my post, to the summon monsters post, explaining the inevitable signal/noise decline. the tactic will become more effective as time goes on, and PHP dominating the top stories told me the decline had progressed. (I had returned to the site after a prolonged hiatus.)

it's not contemptuous, although it may seem contemptible. I just did the math, knew the tactic would become infallible over time, and used it when signs indicated it would succeed.

of course this implicitly challenges your statement that the site's the same as it ever was. I actually don't have any proof to back that up. I think it would actually be reallllllllllllllllly hard to quantify. I could say there's a frog in boiling water effect there, but then there's the possibility that HN aka News.YC simply had a bad day yesterday, and if I had chosen another day for my random return, I could have come away with the impression it was improving.
MSVC and GCC Support C/C++ Pre-Processor Macro Push and Pop
I did not know this. At first, reading the post I thought it was talking about MSVC's #pragma warning(push) and pop. Also, I like the subtly wrong example in one of the comments.
I saw David in Florence, and I was amazed to see that they also had on display the prototypes for David. There were 3 or 4 or so. From memory, they were all massive blocks of marble, though some just had an arm or leg sticking out. I guess these are called "studies" or drafts. A bit more heavy-weight than a study for a painting.

If he could permit himself to start over several times, I can too.
hey Matt so I'm actually writing this while telling you in Campfire that you're right. so there's not much point except that I figured a little "yep" would be useful for the discussion. and as you know I have a very specific solution in mind but we won't go there. ^_^

regarding the whole discussion vs. linkroll thing, I have to say the quality of the discussion is one place where Hacker News still really shines. I have no theory to explain that atm.
The Impossible Project: reinventing instant film
Does anyone know - Do you sign up for an account of size "X", or do you just get an account and they bill based upon how much you use?
You've overlooked an important detail: how will I manage to look nerdy while wearing a sash?
I've casually skimmed a couple explanations of monads over the last little while, but this one finally made it "click" for me. Great post.
Cool, it looks like these are actual live topcolors from HN database (distinct colors set in preferences by all users).

I made a color map sorted on hues and lightness:
http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/colors.png
you shouldn't do a test! You are a bad person.
it's OK to do a test, just delete it right away
polls polls polls!!
Actually, since you mention Stumbleupon... They have a feature where you can do friends-only stumbling, where a "friend" is someone you have subscribed too. Maybe a bunch of us could make accounts specifically for hacker related stuff, and then subscribe to one another.

Edit: I just created http://jessealdridge.stumbleupon.com/ if anyone is interested in doing this.
I just created a poll with karma of 196
I have 47 and cannot downvote.I can flag since around my twenties thought.
I love Github as much as the next rails nerd, but they need to improve public project discovery. There is no pagination on the projects when you sort by followers, this is a huge error they need to fix.
Yeah, Giles seems kind of confused about how the PHP ecosystem works.
Those "commodity" PHP programmers who flood the market with insanely low bids? As a PHP programmer, they are not your problem. They are your client's problem, one that you can charge money to solve. Because it's really hard for a client to find good developer talent among that huge crowd. Lord knows it can't be done by screening resumes for keywords. So once you (the aspiring PHP programmer) have done a bit of work and a bit of networking, and a handful of established PHP folks have met you and filed your name in their contact lists under good PHP talent (a club that is really not that hard to join) you're likely to start getting leads. Leads who are willing to pay your price just to avoid having to screen another 5,000 resumes.

Meanwhile, that army of "commodity" programmers will be out there, energetically growing the market for your services by bringing lots and lots of new PHP-powered sites online. Every blogger who installs Wordpress, and every school and church and magazine and music label that goes online with a basic Drupal site, is a potential future customer.

Of course, just because PHP work pays decently and is easy to find doesn't mean you'll enjoy it. There's a lot of pain involved in working with PHP, particularly other people's PHP. (I ameliorate the pain somewhat by sticking strictly to Drupal, which has higher coding standards and a better defined, more modular structure than the average PHP newbie's code.) But the work is certainly out there.