skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the money issue is the most pressing. The way I see it there’s a couple problems.

1. Even though feeds are fairly small and easy to serve there’s got to come a point where you have so many users that even their small feeds begin to cost significant money. Feedburner not only has to check the host feed often but serve all the subscribers who poll as often as every 5 minutes. That’s a lot of bandwidth and a lot of server power.

2. With free analytics services all over the place it’s very unlikely you’ll be able to make money on a subscriber model which leaves ads as the only viable revenue stream. But for that to work you need a decent ad network behind you and you can’t very well use adsense

With that said, I'd think it a fairly easy service to duplicate. All Feedburner really does is read your feed and then repackage it while logging the pertinent data from the subscriber http transactions and sticking it in a database. Since every modern language I can think of has free libraries for reading RSS/Atom feeds and logging transaction data the whole thing could probably be duplicated in a couple days.
Not all of the tech impact will be negative. There was a serious impending office space glut in Seattle and Bellevue coming; Microsoft has been the tenant every developer wanted. With the all-but-done deals collapsing, and anticipations of space contraction:

* South Lake Union: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395046_msftofficespac...

* Eastside: http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/01/19/da...

...the glut will be even more pronounced. Good for growing companies that might want to increase their Class A space; much stronger negotiation leverage.
Feedburner can do a 301 redirect for 30 days.
Maybe some sort of color scheme or lightening (e.g. downvoted comments) of the time stamp on the comments?

i.e. the longer the period since the comment was made, the lighter it appears? (Maybe a non-linear function related to the time the initial story was posted?)
(and help participants trying to avoid contentiousness learn how to avoid it)

That supposes that anyone wants to avoid contentious positions on the internet -- it is to laugh!

Just showing (+/-) vote totals is bad enough when it comes to the "king of the shitpile" problem (showdead is worse); showing both independently is pure troll fuel.
While I recommend everyone carry on living with their lives, I see no reason to believe this threat is not real. Which other weapons in history have failed to see use? (?)
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i've found that its a much better way of keeping track of ideas that i want to learn about / articles I want to read than tabitis, ie i can keep my tab count down in the 20's rather than hitting 80-150 tabs when i enounter a nice blob of reading I want to eventually work through in my queue of interesting problems
If you can find it, do let me know. I was just working on this a couple days ago and looked into it extensively.

The only option they offer which doesn't involve an iframe comes with a warning, "It will NOT submit to our servers. Because of limited resources, we cannot provide any support for helping you connect these files to your backend." (I'd post the URL but it's in a logged-in area of the site).
If you are programmer you will appreciate the process if you see it as geometry. Design is a bit a religious thing. he he.

1. Shape determines fabrication & material: Flat objects (including faceted, folded) can be best prototyped using paper/boards/sheets. Simply curved objects (cones, cylinders) aka single curvature surfacing & developables can be also done using paper. Complex forms aka double curvature requires either complex fab such as rapid prototyping, molding, pressing etc or rationalization (eg take a sphere cut it in layers, cut out flat sheets, glue, sand ie downgrade to previous option).

2. Drawing: You can use either a mesh 3d editor: sketchup, blender, or NURBS / subdivision surfacing: rhino, solidworks, maya (download demo where available). This is only for the intuitive part of making the form. Even though simpler I would suggest avoiding 2d apps as they tend to be tough ie misleading for physical objects (fine for plans and pcbs)

3. Fun: code it! You need OpenGL + you favorite language. Generate a polyhedral model, flatten it send to printer, assemble. Or just write out an STL file (super simple text format) and send it to a 3d printer (by far the easiest method for noobs). If you want cheep use z-corp powder puff machines (ceramic-ish), if you want an actually functional prototype use SLS (plastic)

4. Find a product designer or architect (the building kind) and work together =)

hope that helps
Creative Commons Attribution is not the Public Domain, and it's not a good idea to use the CC licenses for source code.

If what you want is for the code to always have your name on it, you should use a 4-clause BSD license (the original one with the advertising clause).
http://www.icombinator.net

An unoffical iPhone mirror.
Some sort of geography bias setting. I know a lot of people here come from around the world, for example, I am in Hong Kong so anything remotely related to this region or startups in China I would like it to be more prominent for me.

This is probably only useful for posts that can be tied to a location and not general hacking posts.
Ok, very funny. I just wish that I could actually share xkcd with someone. Even most of my programmer colleagues aren't able to understand the jokes... And this one was particularly bad - I mean, geez, all you need to know is what a Python program looks like, how genetic algorithms work, and what SkyNet is.

I guess it's all just all part of a hacker's curse - we find this stuff funny, and the rest of the world just thinks it's gibberish.
For what it's worth, I have a Yahoo Pipe that does this for me. The source is easily customizeble to suit your own site-blocking needs.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/brianseward/hackernews
It occurs to me that it would be a fascinating test case if a charity like this one were to be tried for bribery and plead self-defense.
I am probably just rephrasing your question. It looks like a lot of the suggested customizations (except things like ranking algorithms) can be coded on a site-wide basis and enabled/disabled on a per-user-basis by just selecting drop-down values or entering text in a box, without users putting a single line of code in their profiles. Just like noprocrast, topcolor etc. Additionally, a user code fragment that provides useful customization may also be useful to others (like a greasemonkey script). So, what exactly do you see a code fragment doing that would be unique to a user?
Only for less than 10 fields. In his case, it's $10/month because he has more than that.

(Though, seeing his massive form makes me want to close my browser window, let alone fill it out. He might see another jump in requests if he cut the fields down to 2... and then it would indeed be free.)
Well, no because there is one factor that dwarfs all others: what are my friends or the people in my field using? If everyone you know (personally or professionally) is using language X then there will be collective experience you can tap, documentation, mailing lists and howtos, lots of code already written, etc. It doesn't matter if you have a "better" language if there's no-one you can talk to or whose code you can reuse.

Remember, a programming language is not a technology. It's a community. Choose the community you want to join, then use what they use.
Here's an alternative set of instructions for comparison:

1. Write down all the garbage-collected languages you've heard of (from Java to Erlang to whatever) on index cards, one language a card

2. Pin all of them up on a nearby wall

3. Throw a few darts at the cards blindfolded and look at what languages the darts landed on or near

4. Pick one of those and write assloads of maintainable, bug-free code in it.
Beautiful Web UI libraries
That's not supposed to be surprising, is it? We're comparing an OS from circa 2001 with an OS from 2009, the latter with substantial new graphics and inevitable bloat associated with maintaining backward compatibility. It'd be near impossible to make any new Microsoft OS faster than XP.
heh could have been worded in a nicer way, but I do agree

not automatic downmodding, but it would be nice to be able to have an indicator if a person has a website, and a way to go to it without going though the profile.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=640, height=800" />

This is a good start... The iPhone defaults to a pretty large viewport which makes text small, and lots of zooming, scrolling. The meta above just tells it to not create such a large virtual screen.
That's true. It's easy to forget how difficult this would be without experience.

Still, $120/year to enable a single web contact form seems excessive (his isn't free b/c it has more than 10 fields). You could embed a form from Google Docs for free.
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I would like to be able to put avatars on the comments, probably through gravatar, which would also have the advantage of being able to recognise users through github

I mentioned it in another comment but to be able to access a users site without having to go through the profile would be nicer, in fact the ability to view the whole profile without opening a new tab / following a link
They are not performing an invasive search of a location where you have a reasonable expectation privacy, they are performing a stakeout of a particular group of people in a busy train station; you may ask one of these people for directions and become a brief subject of interest but the observers are looking for patterns more than specific interactions.

If you don't want people to know who you are communicating with then stop putting publicly-visible txp headers on your packets :)
Paper is just more trash, more clutter. It might be worth reading the first time, just to find good local blogs, but why would anyone want a collection of blog posts they have likely already read?

If anything this is free advertising for the blogs included.
I guess I should pay closer attention. But, 10 fields ought to be enough for anybody. Or something.
Curious: Arc? Javascript? CSS?

What are the design and security implications?

Us hackers need to know these things :-)
Kevin is an occasional contributor around these parts. I'll ping him to mention that there's a discussion going on about them. He might have something to say on the subject.
Ask HN: What is the impact of Twitter's API Limit?
Yesterday Twitter announced a cap on use of their API to 20,000 calls per hr per whitelisted app. This is a low number, and ultimately most of Twitters traffic comes from 3rd party apps.

If you run a twitter API based app, what impact does this have on you? Is the restriction specific to IPs of users of the app, or of the app as a whole?
It is quite ironic that people here are all up to date with every social media trend du jour and talk of "social graphs" and link analysis of friending and tweets as if this whole field is somehow new and unexplored but never think for a moment that they are wandering through some very well-travelled territory. Traffic analysis is nothing new, they are very good at it, so even if the contents of the messages remain completely opaque it is still possible to get useful intel just by knowing who is talking to whom.
"Remember, a programming language is not a technology. It's a community. Choose the community you want to join, then use what they use."

I can't disagree with this enough. Why do you need to talk to people? Why do you need to reuse other peoples code?
Perhaps for some people, the community matters, but I don't think that's common.

Obviously you need to have decent language documentation, but that's not a community, it's just the specs.
I am not trolling.

I stand by my proposal which I believe is

1. a win-win proposition and

2. makes America more competitive
A reddit-style mail notification icon in the top left when somebody has replied to me.

Oh, and requiring hex numbers for color selection is a bit naff, but I suspect most people know where a decent color->hex tool lives.
Call 100 business websites owner in your area, and ask them how they heard the first time about the agency that made their website, and if you are smart enough, publish them in your blog to build more reputation as an internet expert.
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Why do you need to reuse other peoples code?

So I guess you like implementing all your libraries yourself?
I feel more productive in the morning and I use headphones to isolate myself from external world. I also turn off skype and other IM.
A lot of people at university (at least at engineering/science schools) read it, although some read it because it's fashionable, not because they actually get it.
More's the company I guess.
"Consider a sufficiently diverse collection of molecular species, such as peptides, RNA ... are autocatalytic. It reproduces itself. ...autocatalytic set theory is a mathematical theory, not reducible to the laws of physics,

Well, obviously it the natural phenomenon can be, because it physically exists. That different models don't agree isn't a problem with physics, it's a problem with the models. But just because models don't exactly agree doesn't make them not useful e.g. Newtonian models of gravity are still useful.

Also, I'm leery about fluffy paradigms unless they are self-evident from an extensive and successful description of reality (e.g. physics or chemistry => "reductionism"). Give me the science, and I can tell you if I independently conclude that "the evolution of the biosphere, the economy, our human culture and perhaps aspects of the abiotic world, stand partially free of physical law and are not entailed by fundamental physics." But somehow, I doubt it. I don't know what "stand partially free of physical law" is supposed to mean, but if something physically exists, then how can it be "partially" free from "physical law?"
I want the option to choose between Serif and Sans-serif
Well now, we are in a Bad economy for the first time in History in the whole world.
I must be jaded, but I don't want to create an account to try it. I went looking around the site for full-res screenshots, but they don't seem to exist. The YouTube video quality is just too poor for showing GUIs.
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This is the first time I've seen this position articulated so clearly. I thought I was alone in seeing that paradox.

If Brown orders the assault, an interesting prospect, though thoroughly evil, is that he could take advantage of the circumstances and eliminate all of Britain's enemies - not just the ones that fired on them.

On the other hand, if the weapons have to be fired, perhaps they should be fired at all the other weapons that cannot easily retaliate.

It's scary that this capability still exists. Who's up for funding the space program?
pj, how old are you?
This summarizes the dilemma of the current market.

The problem is that directly inflating our way out has other ramifications.

One idea would be for the Federal Government is to directly subsidize risk in certain well-defined areas by paying some of the interest on certain loans through the Small Business Administration.
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the site looks great! i think the hardest part will be to convince bloggers that jobbountyhunter widgets will make more money than the ads they may already be showing and that any money they do make will be rewarded enough to justify cluttering their site more than necessary...
* The ability to "hide" a story so that I don't see it on my page anymore.

* The option to auto-hide stories that I've upvoted
The teleportation requires a classical, light speed signal to instruct the information recipients which type of measurement to perform.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation

michael_nielsen is really the guy to ask. He "wrote the book":

http://books.google.com/books?id=66TgFp2YqrAC&dq=Nielsen...
Unless you submit you will not 'unlearn'. Unlearning is very difficult process altogether.
http://www.jobbountyhunter.com/howItWorks.html
This should be HTML text... and lose the chintzy stock photos.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply your measuring process was fluff.

When I did 452 we had to do something on-screen, to demonstrate responsiveness. I did the "water demo effect" (similar to http://www.derschmale.com/demo/pixelbender-water/PixelBender...). It had to animate without hitching under load, which I guess correlates with your response timing tests (the arbitrary threshold being 60 or 30 Hz in this case).

Anyhoo, I meant "process" in terms of OS-level process, and "fluff", because mine was just lame graphical fluff. :)

btw, planning any more co-op terms before you graduate? Drop me a line.
[This refers to Gaius's comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446136. I note this because I've seen "threads" broken because some comments in the middle rise to the top].

Why was this comment downmodded to zero? (I've upmodded it to one). It is well written, thoughtful and makes a good point. I understand people disagreeing with it, but downmodding it to zero is just insane. I've seen this phenomenon increasing on HN recently and have "rescued" a couple of comments (i didn't agree with them but thought they didn't deserve the severe downmodding).

If PG were to allow scripting HN, like he said he would, I'd probably write a script to tag a commenter as "someone I'd like to follow" and let me know when they got downmodded into oblivion!
Bill Gates, 2004 "Two years from now, spam will be solved."

This came true. The problem was that email inboxes were inundated with spam, but now free spam filters are good enough to filter almost all spam with extremely few false negatives. (e.g. gmail) Who cares what volume of email traffic is spam?
I would like an option to hide the scores of comments, since I find them distracting.
What gets "teleported" is indexical information, information about which Everett branch "you" happen to be in.

One might say that you are in the envelope - different versions of you in different envelopes.

It may sound odd, but it makes a whole lot of completely unphysical behavior in the "collapse" "theory" evaporate in a puff of smoke.
Oh, sure, I'd agree with exposing them to as much stuff as possible, showing them what's out there, and obviously that includes what you know best.
The iPhone has access to some modern VMs which have GC.
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Actually, general malloc performance is horrible and that refcounting implimentation will be the absolute worst. In an accurate GC, the objects can be moved around in memory for more efficient allocation. Add support for generations and it becomes significantly faster than manual allocation. However, refcounting misses all of that and screws up on circular referrences to boot.
I usually make a point of commenting in threads that I'm interested in following, and so I just look at my own comments and then I know what I wanted to follow. Or maybe I actually am only really interested in the sound of my own voice, and the mere fact of my having commented in a thread makes it interesting. Whatever. Works for me.
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Libraries are separate from community IMO,
Sure, if there's a well made library out there that does exactly what I need I'll use it, but it's not the main factor.
There are some really good comment here already, but my $.02:

My main gig these days was a client at an agency I used to work for. I was the obvious choice for them because I built their software in the first place.

Otherwise, I've gotten contracts through friends, craigslist, and various mailing lists.

Don't underestimate the value of tech-related mailing lists. In the past, when I've been looking really hard, I've been able to get several leads/interviews for contract jobs per week, just from mailing lists.

Also, help other hackers find jobs/contracts. It will come back to you.
I'm all for defeating these creeps through mix networks, but to use that avenue as justification for mass surveillance is pretty terrible.

When somebody picks up a phone, they most certainly do have a "reasonable expectation of privacy". The right of free speech certainly includes anonymous speech, and forcing the communications carriers to install bulk snooping gear is a wholesale infringement of this right.

Perhaps a better analogy would be forcing all laundromats to install sensors that detect chemical compounds on dirty clothes.
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just saw this...but because most of the article is about the superstarness of the team and not about the actual game, cuil was the first thing to pop into my head..
Pick Arc if: You want a 100 year language and you’re willing to wait that long.

I know it was a cheap shot but I couldn't help but laugh when I got to that point in the article. The relative lack of activity on http://arclanguage.org/forum makes me think the best reason to choose Arc at this point is to run news.arc.
> Too bad PC gaming is a bit of a dying industry :(

This is a good thing for a number of reasons. One is that there's no need to have Windows around anymore, meaning that home users can switch to something more usable, stable, and secure. The other is that game companies will only have to test two configurations (Sony and Microsoft), instead of the thousands that they do on PC games. Less QA grunt work == more features, or faster releases.

I'll concede that FPSes suck on consoles, but considering they all have USB, there's no reason why you can't connect a keyboard and mouse to them.
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This is the top 5 homepage stories from the RSS, not the newest ones

I can happily build another bot for newest stories though, if anyone would be interested...
Gosh.. I know I posted a comment pertaining to this very question years back... If only I could find it now without doing a linear search backwards.
In related news, "hair of the dog" is not a sustainable hangover cure.
this is great but all the document preview pictures seem very small (much smaller than the frame -- possible to make bigger?)
There is, and I occupy it.
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Why argue against a feature that you wouldn't have to use? I would appreciate the option to ignore certain users. In fact, you may eventually find it useful to ignore me and my future disagreements with your future anti-optional-feature advocacy.