skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that 'hardcore' is the right requirement for Reddit usability. It takes all of 5 minutes for a new user to register an account, then customize their subreddit subscriptions.

That said, it's the default front page that provides new users with their first Reddit experience, and sets the tone for their overall impression of the site, and when they've got r/pics, r/WTF, r/politics, and r/atheism on the default frontpage, I don't really understand what kind of userbase they're trying to build; everything on the default frontpage is either vapid image-memes or vitriolic flamewars.
The reddit founders did the damn thing. I remember looking at the site after pg announced them in the 1st yc class, and thinking "this site looks like shit compared to digg. Bad fonts, low budget icon, they'll never compete". But they focused on what mattered and buried digg. Pun unintended but apropos nonetheless.
"PHP" bulletin boards are the largest there is, VB is the most well known forum software there is... It has nothing to do with PHP, you can exploit any language.
I sat watching a directory copy to our office NAS today saying "About 5 seconds remaining" for around 45 minutes. Something is definitely broken there.

Before that it said "10 seconds" for ~20 minutes and "1 minute" for ~30 minutes.

It was copying... the speed/time calculation just clearly didn't take into account copying lots of small files (<=1KB) is a very different scenario to 1 big file. Let alone it just shouldn't be that slow...

Don't even start me on xcode.... the day it stops resurrecting 2 year old provisioning profiles and refusing to compile "Release" code (until I close project/close xcode/reboot/reopen xcode/delete file from keychain/close xcode/reopen xcode/delete file from keychain/reopen project) because it's summoned them from the dead/ether, is the day I'm a happy man again...
thought it was a pretty sensible question, actually.
I'm glad he put the security notes in. It is so hard to get true facts about how things are actually done.
Is anyone else hoping to read the same article in 5 years but about Facebook?
If it helps, when I click 0.25 cents, there is a modal popup that says "sorry something went wrong :(" I guess that is your unhandled traceback message?

If so there are a bunch of error logging services you can sign up for... or some you can download and run yourself.

After I click get that message, it appears that I'm signed out, and I have to sign back in.

I wish you luck with Gittip! It is a model I hope will become viable soon.
Yip they did it all.

Personaly cost me a job, almost blown up once and had a long walk on day. But we have moved on.

Funny thing is the there was a time I was supposed to go intot he office on saturday to do a upgrade, woke up saturday and had a bit of a hangover so as it made no difference I thought I'll go in Sunday. Was lucky as the office got blown up Saturday so in all respects a hangover saved my life - literaly.

The mortar attack caused me to have a very long walk, on a very snowy day, was alot of fun and fond memories of seeing a london taxi unable to go over a bridge as the road was so snowed/iced up.

I Had a in the bag job all lined up, IRA blew that office up and as such job went up in smoke.

But hey, it's history and can laugh about it now.
In America that is a violation of 4th amendment rights. Now clearly this applies to UK, but we didn't fight the UK in a war for nothing.
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FF users may wanna check out Pentadactyl [1]. Press f/F, type in number or link text, done.

[1] http://5digits.org/pentadactyl
And if you spent years and millions of dollars coming up with it and some other company somewhere else was doing the same and in the end you had very similar if not identical algorithms why is it that one of you is entitled to use your own creation and the other is not?

That's the thing I can't get past with most of your arguments on here. If an algorithm is truly unique and worth the patent then in reality it shouldn't need the patent at all.

I also don't understand the "I invented an extremely complicated algorithm for solving X" mentality. We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us in solving more and more complicated problems. Without the software, algorithms, and general knowledge of computing that have been made available to us we'd not be able to take that and build ever more complicated systems on top of that.
which means his opinion counts at least 100 times more than yours does.
Could you elaborate how this poisonousness was manifesting itself? It would be interesting to know what exactly you think needed fixing. I know some people on the internals can be a bit abrasive from time to time, but nothing different from what happens on other technical lists (actually, far less rudeness that I've encountered in many other places). However, your experience seems to be significantly different, could you elaborate on that?
That is an awesome tip! One question: is there any reason why you do 'dv/,$' rather than just 'd/,$'?
all security is a balancing act which is the point he is making. there is always a tradeoff
How about for those of us that have ethical and moral priorities? What do we do?
Exactly. This is one reason why I never tell people they are wrong regarding a choice of text editors. Keep in mind I usually have multiple VIM instances open and an instance of gedit (because I do some things that VIM is a little clumsy at regarding my todo list).

What I usually say is something like:

There are text editors and then there are text editors. If you are only spending a few hours a month in front of a text editor, you are probably better off with something simple. If, on the other hand, you are going to be using it all the time, it is well worth your time to learn an industrial strength one like VIM or EMACS. These have learning curves, but they have big payoffs as well regarding productivity.
Are there any other alternatives (open source, or otherwise) or competitors?
A major improvement would be that once you type something (for example GIT), and then pause for a few seconds, you can begin typing something else (such as XKCD).
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I agree, and I definitely meant the fifth. But the GP talked about being demonized in the public eye - which doesn't rely on the law being one way or the other.
You can search by country here:

http://www.twilio.com/pricing/international-calling-rates

Or view all Countries, with exchange numbers, here:

http://www.twilio.com/resources/rates/international-rates.cs...
Agreed. I doubt he was seriously confused about people's expectations. It seems like he's just trying to act innocent after the fact. "Oh I asked permission to do something tangentially related to my project and parts of the project might have even been legal!"

Or maybe I'm wrong and after years of relinquishing your own privacy, you simply have no respect for the privacy of others.
that guy using diaspora (I've heard of him, he must exist somewhere)
TrueReddit's gone downhill too (though it's better than a majority of Reddit.) It's hard to sustain and moderate a healthy 128K-member community.
I'd be curious to see that email exchange. Would you redact names/private info and post it somewhere?
Don't use this as a reason to diss PHP. Almost any target, no matter what language, is vulnerable.
Someone wanting to frame someone else is likely prepared to put in a lot of effort anyway.
Apologies, as seen by GlaxoSmithKline's recent $3 billion fine for illegally bribing doctors, you are also paying their legal fees for unethical practices. (1)

Also, the industry spends more on lobbying than any other industry (2)

According to a study by York University, they spend twice as much on marketing as R&D (3).

(1) http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/03/glaxosmithkli...

(2)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-10-senators-...

(3)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.ht...
Playing Tetris for an hour is pretty casual compared to something like an RPG that requires 30 hours to complete.
Really, no one thought this was cool at all?
Nice try, overpriced US universities and for-profit degree mills.
Yes, the minimap is what you guessed it was. Other ST features that Vim/Emacs don’t have (by default, at least):

• You can use proportional fonts (I use Verdana)

• The interface chrome is graphical, not text in a grid. This allows nice details such as a drop-shadow from the minimap when it covers the text and proportional fonts in the file tree’s filenames.

• On a Mac with smooth scrolling, you can scroll smoothly pixel-by-pixel, instead of choppily line-by-line.

• You can easily rename a variable, by using Command-D repeatedly to select the instances of the names inside multiple carets. But I usually forget to do this until after I’ve already renamed just one instance of the variable, and then I can’t select the other instances without undoing that edit first, so it’s not that useful.

• It uses Python as its scripting language, so you can use Python libraries easily, and don’t have to learn an editor-specific language. Similarly, it uses JSON for settings.

But Sublime Text doesn’t have nearly as many editing shortcuts by default as Vim. For instance, there isn’t any hot-key to select inside a quoted string – Expand Selection to Scope is the closest, but it’s hard to predict what it will do and so it isn’t very reliable. You can enable Vintage mode, which emulates many Vim key-bindings and thus gives you access to that power. That mode has a few small problems – the biggest one for me is that the Esc shortcut to exit the current mode sometimes conflicts with the Esc shortcut to remove extra carets so you have just one.

It’s too bad Sublime Text isn’t open source. Its plugin API doesn’t allow setting tabstops manually, which I would like so I could write a plugin implementing true elastic tabstops. Since I can’t implement it myself, I have no option but to beg the developer to implement that and wait.
I'm of the opinion that once enough people get fed up with a surveillance state, or even a surveillance society since private entities are involved, that the best way to "fix" the problem is by collectively generating noise that makes it too expensive and time consuming to find a needle in a haystack. Right now they probably generate very few false positives, however if many people went out of their way to actively generate false positives on a regular basis, you've effectively disabled such a system and manufactured reasonable doubt.

Generating deliberate false-positive inducing noise in communications deemed to be private between two or more individuals who know one another should be protected as free speech. To argue otherwise would be the equivalent of prosecuting an individual for yelling "Fire" in their own home among friends and stating that such an act is a clear and present danger to the US.

IMHO automated cooperative manufactured reasonable doubt will probably be one of the last bastions of civil liberties in a surveillance society.
Wasn't it the redesign that started the avalanche of people leaving?

Or am I mistaken? Maybe if they had just left it alone and did gradual tweaks instead...
I don't want to sell it. I want to make the site back into a cash cow and I'm willing to share the profits.
Can I ask your username?

Also, I'm back online and logging. Any chance you'd be willing to trigger the error again?
I think you're missing how efficient Reddit is at turning casual users into hardcore users. I can't put my finger on how its done but Reddit is excellent at sucking people in and getting them to come back and come back until they've become hardcore users.
If he thought what he was doing was 'right' (and that it was unreasonable for apple to send the secret service after him) why did he buy a new laptop from apple? That part to me seems the most insane.
#ifdef DEBUG...
Friendster comes to mind.
Ironically I believe that we need technically competent people on the business side more than ever. When an industry gets "Hot", it attracts pretenders, and that can only hurt us.
Dinosaurs dominated the ecosystem for 135 millions of years out of last 200, and it took a major extinction event - most probably of extra-terrestial origin - which wiped about half of the existing species off the face of the planet to do them away.

I think you meant the comparison as insulting, but it actually isn't. You're saying PHP is a T-Rex of web development. It's a nice compliment :)
chill, it was more of a friendly pat on the back than a slap in the face. you made a good decision to generalize it so soon, kudos.
It's been a few years (2008-2009ish), so my memory has faded a little bit. I recall a lot of discussions where no-one would listen to other people (if I recall, the scalar type checking thread from PHP 5.3 was a good example). A lot of hostility to people trying to change or improve things. Quite a lot of hostility towards users or people who complained about PHP (check out the bug tracker - very aggressive). Oh, and a complete disregard for other members of the community by the people in charge-ish.
Moodle mobile moving from iOS to html 5
Watch these guys: http://talariatech.com/
Spectrum crisis or capex crisis?
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Engineering and the Art of the Fail
we're doing something similar at Dialoggs [1], where people can have private discussions for collaboration (with file uploads, embeds, etc.) as well as public Dialoggs about whatever topics you want. for example, i created http://dialog.gs/amir/cloudplay where all the beta testers of my app can post feedback, etc.

it's really hard to differentiate in such a crowded space. i'd focus on a superniche and nail it right, even if you only have a small number of loyal users. don't call yourself a social network because you won't be delivering on that promise (we don't call Dialoggs that either since it's a ghost town compared to the giants) in the beginning.

also, i'd work on improving the logged-out experience. much like twitter used to have a public timeline on their frontpage iirc, you could show the latest content on there.

[1] http://dialog.gs
I think the big challenge for them in taking on Square is that businesses already know what groupon is. They expect it to be a coupon platform, and one that already has a mixed reputation.

On the plus side, they already have a large salesforce and can go out selling their new product.

Personally, I think they are too far behind and won't be able to get away from their history.
Since "billpatrianakos" asked me a question that is related (and it seems his comment is [dead]), let me clarify and state that "JW" is actually my middle initials.
I haven't paid too much attention to this but shouldn't it be a square of four pixels? That would be true double resolution, right?

Or is there some pixel trickery like those olpc displays? [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Display]
Tim Cook is the Steve Ballmer of Apple. And I mean that in every negative way possible. This kind of shit is a great example, but everything he's done since he took over has been a tremendous disappointment.

Nobody was clamoring for the iOS experience on the desktop. It's horrible. Get rid of it.
As I see it the basic problem was one of name. Who wants to be a digger? It sounds fancy pants to be a redditor.
Hit the power button. It pops up a modal with restart, sleep, shut down and cancel.
#ifdef SURPRISING_AND_DELIGHTFUL_AND_HARMLESS_AND_ADDS_NO_COGNITIVE_LOAD_TO_THE_USERS_EXPERIENCE_WHATSOEVER
>I and others have already ordered this that have no intention of ever using it for gaming

So you are pretty much betting on it to fail?

How is that at all what I said? I own an Xbox and use it for Netflix (ok, and Halo). I own a Raspberry Pi and use it for DLNA, not for education purposes. I own a Macbook Pro and run Ubuntu on it.
I don't understand this. Would you say that Word isn't a product of Microsoft because it's really just run by Business division?

Aren't most programs/projects owned by 1 division? What is representative of Microsoft when everything falls under one division or another? Statements by the board?
How did that work out for Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg?

Anyway, it's a drag at any level of education to not have a job, but there are plenty of unemployed people even with postgraduate degrees. More worrisome, perhaps, is that degrees are not good proxies for good performance on the job,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4165474

so instead any smart employer newly hiring a job applicant will be giving that job applicant a work-sample test. It's possible for young people with a computer science degree to fail to get past a coding test for a programming job, so even some of the most desired college degrees are not a guarantee of employment.
I suspect one reason for the wiggle is that it's unlikely to collide with the site's native styling.

I actually think a better effect would be oscillating between growing and shrinking. Might not look right with links embedded in a paragraph, though.
Soo close.
Philosopher Flusser about 2 kinds of complexity
Delight.io is supercharged with full frame rate capture on OpenGL ES
A topic usually left out in scaling discussions is: how much can one predict? Or is it mostly trial and error? Is it mostly about good "reactive" engineering, would it have benefited from good mathematical modeling?
Wow. That guy's VimFu is crazy. I wish I was half as fast as he is.
I definitely didn't. I just tried Shift+Click'ing on Chrome, Terminal and Sublime Text 2. They all exhibited the Maximize/Restore functionality that I've been using in Windows for years.
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I heard that Rust was meant to capture the spirit of the language. It was meant not to have a lot of knew ideas (although, as it turns out, language design always leads to new ideas). We have a sort of informal rule to not include research that's less than 10 years old, so we can build off of ideas that have had a chance to prove themselves. We're bending that rule a bit now, of course. The idea was that Rust would codify and provide language support for patterns that have worked well in making large software like Firefox fast and safe.
In the context of the parent comment, it clearly shows the difference in approaches between them and Reddit.
Structural complexity (the internals) against functional complexity (the use) reminds me that worse is better because overengineering selects orthogonality into unimportant problem-dimensions, that is tends to enhance the structure while hindering the use.
See https://path.com/p/2k7PZu
I don't see how a judge could distinguish "my startup is failing to gain traction" from "my company's product is a sham designed to bypass anti-patent-troll regulation".
I almost completely replaced Digg with Twitter

it is a competition for user attention
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most
honest of men, I will find something in them which will
hang him. -- Cardinal Richelieu
Wait. Slower than Lion? Lion is already considerably slower than Snow Leopard. It can't possibly be any slower. I really, really hope you're confused. I'm already using some sub-par-experience tool to override Spaces/MissionControl to speed up the four finger swipes.
> Reddit's core

What core? /r/reddit died a long time ago; not 'died' as in "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded" but died as in no longer exists.

It's all subreddits now. You can have your own list of subreddits, none of them 'dying' or 'uncool', all of them interesting to you.
I don't blame you for being skeptical. I probably would be too. But this is a legitimate opportunity.

Several people have already emailed me. I'll be meeting with folks face to face, it would be stupid of me to lie about anything here.

As proof, I will show prospective partners a front-page Wall Street Journal article that included a link to my site along with a quote from me.
Yahoo hack steals 400,000 passwords. Is yours on the list?
HAproxy is great at exactly one thing: load balancing. It's better than nginx for that one use, because it's more flexible, has better controls for flapping, is smarter about queuing, gives you cool stats pages, etc.

Nginx is great for...pretty much everything else.
I know that there are a lot of discussions - sometimes very long and tiresome - but what you mean by "no one would listen to other people"? I.e. what would happened if things went differently and somebody would listen, say in the thread about 5.3 scalar type checking?

I regularly check the bug tracker and I haven't noticed any special aggressiveness - of course, some of the volunteers may sometime be impatient, especially with newbies, or trolls, some of which lately for some reason decided it is appropriate to publish their "php sucks" diatribes on the bugtracker - but I didn't notice any systematic aggressiveness. Some data would be helpful here - demonstrating the problem may be necessary for fixing it.

Same for regard for other members of the community. Various members of the community regularly participate in the discussions, and once PHP moved to git they also submit pulls, rfc, etc. Yet still you describe the situation as "complete disregard" - so what you would say should be happening instead?
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I'm confused. How does it make sense to pay per gigabyte for my iOS app users to upload files from their iPhone to their own Dropbox via their own network connection? This makes no sense to me...
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I'm not interested in selling it. I feel there's a lot of low-hanging fruit in growing the site and it would be stupid to sell it at current valuation.
There is a lot more to this deal, it wasn't a simple $500k outright purchase. It sounds like the shareholding was restructured with old investors and shareholders carrying over and betaworks taking up a large part of the company. employee options were probably wiped out, a lot of the old investment terms were probably restructured as well, with more recent money gaining favor

i'd think that the $500k is a token cash amount to settle who is leftover of old stock and debt holders/accounts after you move all the other shareholders over. Digg is definitely worth more than $500k (didn't 37signals want $400k just for their job board thing?), Betworks didn't buy the entire co for $500k and we don't know what the 'value' of the new company is, so the headlines are misleading
I see this all the fucking time in the Apple sphere, on forums and elsewhere.

The other one that makes me want to punch things is "why would you ever need to do that?"

Some people really need to stop making excuses for the limitations of their favorite platform. Stop having a favorite platform, for fuck's sake.
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Instead of humming along with 10 or so employees raking in cash hand-over fist, they tried to grow as fast and as large as possible to try to revolutionize news

Digg required the network effect to sustain their user base -- it was where it was at. It is presumptive hindsight to assume that a slow and steady approach would have yielded long term success. As likely it would have lost its newness (as many other sites came and went. Remember when a Slashdotting was pinnacle of torrential request targeting?) Digg took a big risk to try to cement their position, and it failed to do so. People blaming the v4 miss that Digg had seriously already lost its lustre at that point, the redesign serving primarily as a convenient scapegoat.