skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The base install is very minimal, but you can install a functional environment:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zpwebsites...

I wouldn't like to run Eclipse on it, but I guess Emacs would run with ease.
The more popular a community gets the more diluted its culture becomes. The communities become overrun with users who never have a chance to acclimate to the culture of the site because they see more new users like themselves than they do seasoned users. You see this effect taking hold on HN when you go to a thread and see a bunch of short joke comments and none of them are light gray. Eventually the core users leave for greener pastures or for a place that resembles why they joined the previous site to begin with. Every community is doomed to this fate if it continues to gain unchecked popularity. All things will eventually converge on pictures of cats.

When aging HN users get tired of the changing atmosphere they will splinter off.

What I'd like to see come next: A community for hacker+entrepreneur types with an HN-like policy on commenting and etiquette that doesn't pander to Silicon Valley and doesn't need to stay on the good side of tech rags. Bootstrapping, programming, running a company -- that's it. Nothing so vague as "gratifying one's intellectual curiosity."
What has been your issue bookmarking on Parse?
Apple realized that they needed EPEAT because some (vocal) customers cared about it.

EPEAT realized that they needed Apple on board to make their certification meaningful.

And thus an understanding was formed...
Nobody killed Digg. Digg committed suicide by telling it's original, loyal user base to go fuck themselves in it's quest for more money and a broader audience. Digg became too greedy.

But it was pretty obvious much earlier on that Digg had zero respect for its users. In many ways, Digg had a very old school broadcast attitude: the users were merely part of the product, only the advertisers mattered.
CEO = Chief Triage Officer
IMHO, Digg killed Digg.

In any such ecosystem where the inmates are running the asylum, pissing them off is not a good course of action.

The tribe knew that it was the reason why Digg was what Digg was. But arrogance on the part of the upper management at Digg was its downfall; they couldn't come to terms with the basic fact that the people were responsible for Digg's success. So they decided to tweak it, "enhance" it, modify it to "Digg 2.0", and the people revolted.

Lesson: if you are a user-driven site, listen to them. Don't piss them off.
Drop out of school or study English. That's how you win at Javascript.
Apple admits they've made mistakes in a number of ways, I'm pretty sure they've verbally said "we've made a mistake, we're doing this instead". The more interesting facet is they admit a mistake whilst sticking to their original notion.
I have a similar image from Facebook posted up above my desk: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CSGOgp31KQE/TXzi88yH1XI/AAAAAAAAO7...
Anti-Powerpoint Party
The 'glue' in retina displays (based on my experience with the iphone 4's lcd) fuses the front glass to the LCD screen. Usually you can separate the protective glass and the LCD screen, but not on a retina display. That is why if you crack the glass in front of an iPhone 4's LCD, you have to replace the entire LCD (~$70) and not just the glass (~$10).
Typed like a rich white guy. There's a real barrier in our profession -- how many women are in your office? How many black people? -- and why do you think that is? How comfortable do you think your workplace is to a minority or woman? So how are we to study the effect of minorities on open-source when minorities don't want to work in open-source. It's not the money that's holding them back.

Real-world measure of goodness? Come on man. Do you hang out with women are colored folk or folks who came up differently than you did? It's nice, right? It's interesting to hear other folks's points of views, right? Maybe you even rethink some things you took for granted.

Have you never been around brogrammers? Have you never seen a group of dudes spiral into 4chan?

This is common sense, yes. Being a person and interacting with people is my real world measure of goodness.
This isn't a story. Google's current self driving cars are normal cars with an especially intelligent cruise control. They are at all times legally driven by a person, (s)he just might not have their hand on the wheel. Without any additional information, this is just a normal driver being pulled over.
I wonder why. There seems to be a huge gap in the market for a professionally run enterprise here. Or at least, anything more focused beyond students half-assing it part-time.
Yup. My first-gen white MacBook back in 2006 was one of the ones afflicted by the random shutdown issue (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1599). It took over a year iirc of local Apple stores blindly trying heat sink and logic board replacements before central management publicly acknowledged that an issue existed and promptly released a firmware upgrade to turn the fans on. Problem resolved.
Isn't that like saying the datacenter or upstream provider is in between? Kind of alarmist, no?
The AppStore. It's the worst offender.
As a Libertarian, I don't want to be in charge of your life.

There are lots of us who feel that way.
First thing I thought of when I read it too.
Even if half of Facebook profiles are fake, that's still 500 million users -- hard for an advertiser to ignore.
Better headline: "Police officer stands near parked car".
> People using Digg killed it. The same people are now killing Reddit, making it little more than a place to regurgitate memes

1) With sub-reddits, this hasn't become as big of a problem unless a lot of users still keep the sub-reddits that annoy them. There is a reddit for everyone, especially since anyone can create their own sub-reddit. While Digg only had one idea tribe, Reddit has many. Moreover users that create their own sub-reddits can police them with other like-minded users.

2) Reddit is able to fit more content per page given their design. I don't have to keep clicking the next page link to get more.
the logo is really bad. better to just write in a normal font than to do this.
Thank you!

The PayPal transaction fees are paid by the owner of the video. It usually about 2.9% + $0.30.
About the text - is this an improvement?

"Build your own website for your rental property business in 10 minutes" Does that sound descriptive enough?
Show HN: We Just Re-Launched BurningManRides.com for 2012
Ridejoy is Giving Away Two Tickets to Burning Man 2012
Tablets are not rated by EPEAT.
Well apparently, in your opinion, selective memory only affects people other than you.

In case you didn't know, Digg was my day job from 2004-2007.
As a side note, you can do something similar (albeit a thousand times safer, as you (= your computer) issues the certificates, not some unknown hacker) to fool Game Center.

I get maybe 20 Game Center invites from 8 year old kids on a daily basis... The reason is I faked my score on the popular game Jetpack Joyride (I'm #1 out of 16 million players), and also beat Minesweeper's hard map in a few milliseconds (second guy is I think over a minute)...

I did it just for fun and experiment, but apparently there are kids who really take Game Center seriously and I stopped doing it, not wanting to hurt their feelings. The instructions are here: http://corte.si/posts/code/mitmproxy/tute-gamecenter/index.h... , but please don't go crazy, and don't submit ridiculous scores like I did. You may get your account banned (which is not a great thing, if you're a developer).
That’s what I tried to explain. There is one less protective layer in the Retina MacBook compared to other MacBooks – but the same amount of protective layers compared to matte MacBook Pros. I don’t think it makes a difference.

In the Retina MacBook Pro the glass is an integral part of the display, not some separate piece glued on just cause – as far as I understand it. If it weren’t there, there would be a piece of plastic glued to the display. (And since LCDs already contain glass elsewhere I don’t think the extra glass changes the equation much.)
Flagged. Seriously, how did this get upvoted? It is a picture of a police officer standing somewhat close to a google car. A tl;dr would be longer than the story because there is literally no text.
Wall St brokerages pretend they are not in the gambling business by presenting their offerings as something every resposible adult should be pruchasing to secure their financial future, and then only making passing obligatory mention of the risks in way down the fine print. In fact the general public has bought into the whole notion that not giving your entire retirement savings over to Wall St to manage for you is irrepsonsible on your part, and letting money sit in the bank and do nothing is irresponsible.
Add some stickers in the mix as well, the cat signal would look excellent next to my GitHub one.
After Digg, What's Next In News Aggregation
None of these things killed Digg. Digg was simply a transitional meme.

Prior to the Internet you had mass media controlling distribution. The Internet comes along and you have things like Usenet and the proto-Web.

Then comes the first crowdsourcing sites to allow people to find content without employing people to curate that information. Slashdot was certainly early in this trend.

What Digg allowed is a certain band of people to control the information flow. People would get paid to promote submissions as it became clear that a front-page submission generated a lot of pageviews.

But what became apparent with all these community sites (and this includes forums) is they start with an early group who provide value to each other. This group ends up becoming insular. De facto standards form. But even in the Usenet days you had the "September" problem (where new college freshmen would get Internet access and not understand the "rules" and conventions that were in place and would ask questions that had already been answered, etc).

Basically all these social sites get worse over time as the masses flood in.

Digg died because the idea that there is a central source for news was a holdover idea from the old media days. Reddit understood this. Global reddit is basically useless. The subreddits are the only remotely interesting thing about reddit.

People complain about how HN is getting worse. That's probably true and it is true (and will continue to be true) of any such social site in the future.

I've heard the same complaints about Twitter.

Facebook for most people is not a source of news. It doesn't have the same link-sharing mindshare (IMHO) for most people that other mediums have. Ultimately I think the biggest use case for Facebook is still sharing photos. People go to Facebook to find out what their friends are doing. Very few go to find out what's going on in the world (much as Facebook would like that to be the case).

I'm surprised at how some wax lyrical on how amazing reddit is. It's just a minor tweak on a long trend of existing prior art (the subreddits). Personally I think it's a cesspool full of trolls. Proggit (programming.reddit.com) is (IMHO) just awful.
During OracleWorld keynote, after Oracle bought Siebel, Larry said something like: "there are only 2 useful features in a CRM system - forecasting and analytics - and everything else exists simply to collect data for these features." See if you can find the original quote.
I think you're underestimating just how many times I rethought my schema and refactored my models :)
> "Lack of diversity" means that people are excluded from a community, either actively or passively. That's a "bad thing" pretty much by definition.

Why?
"Is their product useful and will they succeed?"

I think the following line should answer your question:

"Since Slice’s launch in May 2011, the service has processed and tracked over 25 million purchases,"
The best part about Reddit, is that you can move with people of a like mind to a different subreddit. /r/games and /r/programming come to mind. If you look, it's not that hard to find places where earnest discussion continues. You're just probably not going to find it on defaults like /r/pics, /r/funny and /r/adviceanimals. They're the mass-market reddit, with a more broad userbase. You have to dig a little deeper to find the places where people submit links to news and have reasoned discussion, but it's still there.
There was no compliance issue. Apple already had 39 certified devices, they just chose to pull the EPEAT sticker off. Then they put it back on. Why they did that is up for debate.

Source:
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/07/06/apple-removes-green-elec...
I would add Garner's Modern American Usage.
I've backed out of going to graduate school after accepting to go, which is similar to a job offering since they were offering a fellowship. The only thing I felt bad about was I didn't realize soon enough that I shouldn't go, but it just wasn't the right move for me. Some people may disagree, but I think you should back out of it. There are very few companies who would have qualms about firing you if they could find a better employee to replace you or would make more money by firing you. You shouldn't feel guilty about holding them to the same standard (i.e. you found a better employer or one who offers a better deal).
What position was he recruiting for, and roughly when (let's say, which quarter and year)? How likely was he a new recruiter?

I'm not sure I can express my skepticism about this enough - our security, safety, and site integrity teams are some of the most privacy-conscious people I know, and even a hint of something like this happening here would lead to very pointed questions asked at the weekly Q&A every week until it was resolved.
Oh, and following up on this because of Apple's change of heart in paying EPEAT for approval. Are you going to change your purchasing policy now?
This is the beta launch of my latest project, an online marketplace for videos.

It is currently free to use while in Beta. After beta, we are planning on charging a 5%-10% transaction fee per sale.

The current feature set is all the basics to get started: people can upload videos, set a price and then get paid directly to their PayPal account.

In the future, we are working on supporting Stripe and Merchant accounts.

Additionally, coming soon we will have video "channels" which visitors can purchase access to on a recurring basis, allowing people to produce and sell online television shows.
So if they are charging only $1 for a video, then they will only get about .68 cents.
When not visiting the "new" section, you should always be using http://hckrnews.com - can't imagine HN without this site... And don't miss safari and chrome extension which is a god sent...
reddit partially gets around this by allowing users to create their own subreddits. i've been much happier with reddit since i unsubscribed from all the default subreddits.
fwiw, I'm not saying you aren't familiar with the space - just that it was the perception I came away with from reading the post in a vacuum without any other context about who you guys are or what you are doing

I'd happily give you feedback, I do sales and use Salesforce daily so anything that can make it better sounds great to me
Tokens of Love
Because in general when someone says something similar you background check their profile to see if they're for real or a crazy.
I've got a bridge to sell you.
I’m not sure, I think laptops have become longer lasting, more appliance like. I think that’s a very positive thing for the majority of people.

The only big issue I see is the battery which will definitely break. Those things have a limited lifetime (shorter than, say, five years you at least would want your laptop to make it) and there is nothing you can change about that.
Correcting someone on Twitter draws a lot more attention to the conversation than necessary and, in my experience, people react more defensively because of it. I also don't think it makes for very good UX to have to go to an entirely different site to ask questions or get refined answers to posts, especially when those conversations are relevant to everyone else who reads it.
It Almost Happened Here, Attempted Military Coup Against FDR
htt://www.lesswrong.com (it was better a few years ago)
I make a distinction between Apple Fans & "Fanboys".

I have no problem with Apple Fans.

I dislike Fanboys whether they are for Google, Apple or Microsoft.
I've been a mac user since the mac plus came out. I'm typing this on a MBP, i have an MBAir for traveling, iphone, too many ipods, original ipad, and appletv. I like apple products. I just hate the recent crop of apple users aka brand hipsters. They've polluted the forums, user groups and mailing lists. You can't even have an intelligent debate about the product and apple's direction.
True. So that's the low end of the scale. Although it's still more than people get through iTunes.
It's actually more like dumping fuel for an emergency landing instead of dumping passengers, if we really insist on using completely irrelevant analogies.
The problem digg faced is that their loyal customers were not sufficient to warrant the amount of money they had raised. If they had done nothing, it would have been suicide as well.
"But it's unsettling to see that breaches like this don't evidently leave the impression with the Bitcoin community that a believer in the free market might hope they would, that providers in this market might not be driven to produce quality and reliability because somehow there isn't the demand for it."

It is not as if the regulated world is all sweetness and light with no problems. The LIBOR scandal involved lots of violations of law, ethics, and regulation, for instance, and as the rot is found to go deeper that only further proves regulation can't cure all ills. Compare only the benefits of any thing with only the negatives of another and you get a predetermined result.

BitCoin is only about a billionith as old as the regulated money system. Growing pains should be somewhat expected. (And I say this as someone who does not generally believe in it.)
Copying files is an excellent issue: at some point I suggested either on the PowerShell blog or their feedback site that PowerShell should have the ability to copy files via remoting (essentially what you mention, you can remote into a box via powershell and need to copy a file from your local machine onto the remote box).

The response I got from someone at MS was quite telling, it went something like "please tell me more why you would ever want to do this, when we have existing folder sharing technology in windows". I gave up, if they seriously don't understand why that is NOT the answer to situation, gee...
I wonder if this was due to criticism, or cities and companies that have epeat requirements for purchasing.

San Francisco officials told the Journal this week that "they are moving to
block purchases of Apple desktops and laptops, by all municipal agencies"
due to a 2007 policy that requires all desktops, laptops, and monitors
procured with city funds be EPEAT-certified. [1]

and

In 2007, President George W. Bush issued an executive order mandating that
all federal agencies procure EPEAT-registered electronic products "for at
least 95 percent of electronic product acquisitions, unless there is no
EPEAT standard for the product," as outlined by the EPA. [1]

A lack of epeat bugs me, but I don't spend millions or tens of millions of dollars a year on computers.

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406948,00.asp
For starter, it has great CoreData integration https://simperium.com/docs/ios/
"Apple makes the most environmentally responsible products in our industry."

How is this possibly true? Nothing Apple makes can be easily opened, upgraded, or have their batteries replaced. They are made to be obsolete in 2-3 years.

When my iPad screen cracked, they made me buy a new one (at discount) instead of fixing it. I doubt they even fixed the old one I gave to them - just discarded it. How is that environmentally friendly?

I own almost everything Apple makes. But they need to better explain how built-in obsolescence and impossible-to-fix devices equates to environmentally friendly.
They announced his retirement a few weeks ago too.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/28/svp-of-hardware-engineer...
If you email me (me at matt.is) I can get back to you - I played with so many I can't remember which one at the moment.
Completely agree. I feel the strength of HN is in it's walled garden: Share whatever you want, vote on whatever you want, but stay on topic.

HN will be a great place to go to, so long as it is heavily (and transparently) moderated. Otherwise the hordes will come in, and destroy it with meme's and sensationalist articles.
Here's Jobs himself regarding MobileMe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPMjqXa5QLc#t=41s

I don't know if you'd consider that an apology per se, but it's definitely him admitting mistakes.
I'm a bit thrown by the overall tone of this announcement. I'll totally on board that Apple is doing its best to make "green" products and, apparently they're leading the way - great!

But if it's all true, why did they pull the products from EPEAT at all?
Not being user-servicable does not mean it's disposable. You can take it to Apple Stores and they'll fix it for you (and they certainly don't tuck the entire thing in the trash, they probably have some complex machines (that not everyone has) that are able to de-glue screen/battery and case).

It's a compromise most regular customers will probably accept.

And I don't get ""disposable products made of low quality components"" at all. Low quality?!
So you are saying that putting a laptop in a shredder after removing the toxic battery easily is an outdated recycling practice?
Ask HN: Is their a site that exists purely of ideas for websites, apps, etc?
Is there a site out there that just lists ideas for websites, apps, etc? Sometimes I have creative blocks for weekend projects and it would be cool to find ideas out there then use those found ideas to make something.
> that are not user serviceable or upgradable.

The Retina MacBook Pro is rated gold EPEAT, despite criticism regarding the glue used.

I seem to remember some components were glued in early versions of some iPhones/iPads, but were later silently updated to have no glue.
Since my name has appeared in connection with this calamity, I'm linking here to my response:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=58008;sa=...

Bitcoinica is far the most toxic investment of my career. I still applaude founder Zhou Tong's bravery for creating it and wish dearly that the change in management had never taken place.

Bitcoin technology holds great potential but I fear there are still many hard lessons ahead.
What you describe is the unintended consequence of thinking that we can legislate ethics by continuing to pile on detailed proscriptions or requirements within our laws.

As the number and detail of laws has increased, the fragility of the system has decreased. It's like software, the more special-case tightly-coupled components you have; the less robust the system.

Our laws could use a good refactoring.
IPhone Vintage Flags Cases - Exclusively at the Apple Store.
"Of course, humans don't work that way."

Whenever I find myself in doubt regarding liberal viewpoint, it usually can be traced back to this, a fundamental disconnect with the way the majority of humans actually behave.

In fairness, strong conservatives draw from an even crazier palette of false assumptions.
Anywhere you choose to put your money where the outcome is uncertain is gambling. Wall St's investment offerings have so many degrees of uncertainty the no one can assess their actual risk. Stocks like Enron and MCI Worldcom were sold as safe low risk investments for conservative go-long investors, and the astute analysts had no reason to suspect otherwise. At least in Las Vegas you walk up to a blackjack table knowing exactly the odds are the same no matter where you sit.