skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) this is the first release, after only 6 weeks
2) they are working on comments

more on their blog http://blog.digg.com/post/28441399381/welcome-to-digg-v1
Yes, so I still get what I ordered (a hackable device which can drive a set of good 2.0 speakers from my desk), I don't get charged for a half-baked product, and I have the opportunity to hack on it.

So you're right. Google didn't do the least they could do; they still will give me what I paid for but they're also giving the money back. This approaches the most they could have done.

I'm still happy with the outcome. I get to hack on the device for a product idea I have _before most developers can even touch one_. And what consumer is going to be upset about Google pulling the launch of a product that was getting panned in the press anyways?

Yes, it'd be better to just hit a home run as you launch the product. Obviously that didn't happen, and no one is claiming it did. This is just the best way to fail they could think of.
Yeah, useful or not, this is the aspect that i suspect makes this thing quite hot, at all times. Like, even if you have it off, but plugged in, it's hot to the touch. Worrisomely hot. Underside of an old macbook, hot.
I completely agree. It's ridiculous...but that's Microsoft. And I'm not just bashing them here. It seems to be something about how they implement passwords. When I was doing research for Cryptasia, I found that Hotmail/Live was by far the most restrictive of any service out there--and I was examining at hundreds. Only banks (lol) come close.
why does it even need to keep on running? Geez, just keep open the submission process, crank up the ads, and turn off everything! Digg has no clue what passive income means. They should take a page from spammers.
It looks nothing like the probe droid from Empire Strikes Back.
I am not happy about needing to sign into Facebook and then having any story I digg showing up on my Facebook timeline.

That's an overstep that will keep me off the site.
It's one of those things that is really easy to say but really hard to actually understand and put into practice, pretty much literally the only way you learn is through failure, not success.

There's a whole barrage of educational literature and research that backs this up, it's how we all learned to crawl, walk, talk and yadeyadayada... but all to often we beat ourselves up for being wrong, getting things messed up and not achieving perfection.

When in fact we should be celebrating it, I'd love to see a whole conference based around exactly this kinda thing, love it.
1. Normally, when a market has a shortage, the prices go up until equilibrium is re-established. In this case, however, the market just seeks satisfaction elsewhere.
2. Income pressure leads to young people who are deciding on a career path choosing something that is less influenced by overseas wages, reducing our future engineer supply.
3. There is very likely a big surplus of older engineers who are automatically overlooked in favor of cheaper, more controllable immigrant workers.
I've had similar experiences, one of them even involved low blood sugar like you.

I didn't have to test though, had a parent with periods of low blood sugar so I just ate some food and observed myself suddenly feeling drastically better.

I don't think we're that far past doctors just being quacks throwing spaghetti at the proverbial wall. They don't seem to be able to, in any given single case, observe/detect/test for much unless there's an associated infection or physical injury.
Twitter's 'Olympic Moment' will go down as their jump the shark moment possibly.

Maybe a new meme is when a useful/cool service sells out/gets taken over by the suits/turns on developers it is the 'Olympic Moment' in that services lifespan, representing that it is all downhill from here.
To be fair, most of the stories on the front page of digg before this most recent redesign had 0 comments anyways, so they probably realized they could push out that feature a bit.
> I'm totally on board with apple not owning rounded rectangles..

This isn't a question about Apple owning rounded rectangles - unless they happen to be phones and tablets. This rounded rectangle thing has gotten a little out of hand. It's easy to see why Samsung has framed it in this manner; because, of course, Apple couldn't 'own a rectangle with rounded corners', how absurd! Does that mean Apple owns tv remote controls, or keyboards or all the other rectangles with rounded corners on them?!

But that's a false argument and analogy. Apple is not going after keyboards, tv remotes, etc. They are going after Samsung's copied phones and tablets. It's that simple and to dream up analogies is to try to derail the real issue.

However, if some still feel that Samsung is an inventive company that would never outright steal any ideas, all you have to do is look at some of these examples:

App store icons:

http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Samsung-Mo...

Black iphone cables:

http://cdn.mactrast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Samsung-A...

Black iphone square charger:

http://site.accessorygeeks.com/yswimages/samsung-micro-usb-d...

These are just a few things but it's pretty clear that Samsung has no problem just copying outright. I don't think they're going to win this trial and I don't think Apple is going to own all black rectangles.
maybe related to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia ?
Oh true! The whole "took preorders" part somehow escaped me :(
I guess Digg is aimed more towards general crowd now that it only allows for login with Facebook. In thier FAQ they mention it is to cut down on spam but something tells me we will never see User registration. What about people like me who do not have Facebook. I certainly do not want to make a Facebook account to use this service. Furthermore, there are a _lot_ of people who do not use it, why did they not consider this?
frankly I never cared about digg at all, but I'm always interested on the technological aspect. this bit got me curious.
Technically. Out of the box, all it's capable of doing is streaming music and video from Play and YouTube.
Show HN: A convenient Python API to manage route53
No, but certainly all failed launches should end this way.
I think there's a bigger picture that RMS seems to be missing. Simply look in the HN feed and you'll see that Square Enix is partnering with OUYA. OnLive is partnering with OUYA. Steam is coming to Linux. This is about cutting out the middle-man and bringing content to people without the enormous barriers to entry.

This is a coup in waiting and RMS is worried about whether content is free (or "nonfree" in his own words, both in terms of DRM and cost). This is greater freedom for producers of content and consumers alike, but not for tinkerers. It’s not the outcome that he wants but it could be one of the most important developments for open source platforms. He needs to step back and assess what’s more important - his rigid ideals or measurable progress for open source platforms.
So they lost the ability to comment and moved further away from the reddit/HN tight text view (which they used to look like and have been steadily moving away from) and now look like a messy news page.

Is anyone else finding this new redesign even more irrelevant than ever? What does digg provide at all now? No discussion and a very messy hard way to even find anything.
USSR official propaganda commonly used “we” to mean the country, and I've seen elderly people doing so as well.

Born in 1992, however, I never heard anyone in their twenties using it this way.

Folks of my age, obviously besides the football fans and clueless army guys, cringe when they see “we” being used to mean USSR or Russia, perhaps as a kind of allergic reaction to the brainwashing that their parents' generation experienced.
Digg, v1
Do you know what the amp in the Q was like? I'm not trying to be accusatory- i just haven't heard sound quality ever mentioned when discussing the Q.
> We don't scan your email content or attachments and sell this information to advertisers or any other company

They're saying they don't scan your email to sell information to advertisers, that doesn't mean they don't scan it for violations of their T&C's.

Mind you, even this statement is pretty FUD-like since Gmail also doesn't "scan your email [...] and sell this information to advertisers".
From what I remember in their recent PR campaign, they won't ever throttle you.
> I was there in the early days when it was pretty simple.

I think you have an interesting idea of 'simple': A lot of software becomes orders of magnitude simpler to design and reason about once you have enough RAM to organize it in the obvious way.

For example, for many parsing tasks, a recursive-descent parser is the obvious way, but you can only design your software that way once you have a language that can directly express recursion and a computer that can grow a big enough call stack (on the stack or in the heap) to allow the parser to juggle nontrivial sentences. Otherwise, you're left the laborious, non-obvious, labor-intensive, but ultimately pointless task of turning your design into a program your tools can implement.

> So, it leaves me with an ability to be presented something new, or different and very quickly I can understand it.

Honestly, I think that says a lot more about your intelligence than your history. That's actually a pretty fair definition of intelligence, in fact.

How about this: Teaching networking now is teaching TCP/IP and everything that TCP/IP rests upon, such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi. Theory naturally flows from practice, and that is the practice.

The OSI Model? Gone. Out. Forget it. Nobody actually implements all seven layers; at most, we have four.

NCP? What? If you know what NCP stands for, congratulations, you know something entirely useless. "Jeopardy!" would love you.

So why teach the stuff we know is useless? It actively discourages students. It makes them think they're just wasting their time, primarily because they are.

The history of computer networking is a valid topic. It should be taught in its own course, it deserves its own course. It does not deserve to be shoved into a course on how networking actually works.
From her Facebook:

I'm in Israel on Birthright and I just found out that I'm now a Google employee. Not gonna lie... This feels pretty awkward, but I also feel very proud to be a part of the Wildfire team on this exciting day for Alain and Victoria.

She has 10,500 subscribers. I'm sort of fascinated by that- I wonder how much she is worth to Wildfire just by virtue of who she is?
Innovation in moving rounded corners from tv remotes to phones == 0.

None.

At all.

So why is it protected by a patent?
i think microsoft is making a slight comeback, this is not groundbreaking, but it seems to tie together several of their products and make them more cohesive. i see somewhat of a strategy emerging here which is more like the microsoft of old.
Limiting profits limits incentives to innovate. We probably don't need innovation for healthcare middlemen. We do need innovation and profits for healthcare providers as well as telecommunications companies.
Yea, re-typing that captcha about 9 times was the most annoying part. (I only tried 3 different addresses, but it didn't like what I typed in the captcha the other 6 times.)
The Xerox GUI (as implemented in the Star) had no concept of drag and drop or pull down menus. It didn't expose much of a file system (as Lisa and Mac do).

Apple added all that and Windows 1, after the Lisa was launched, opted to also have them. So, yes. Both Apple and Microsoft borrowed a lot from Xerox, but Microsoft really copied a lot from what Apple did.
Why not automate the antedotes? I'm sure there is something on CPAN for that.
While I haven't looked into this particular scenario. You used to be able to revoke individual permissions per app / site on FB. It's under Privacy > App & Sites, obviously it defaults to on as it's convenient for the site in question. An entirely different debate.
Maybe they'll just stick to the hundreds of millions of Facebook users, at least for now. The intersection of the sets of people that don't want a Facebook account and people that want a Digg account is probably small.
Is this just a simplified Hotmail? It seems like mostly CSS tweaks. No?
On my laptop I do use multiple terminal tabs because there is so much less screen area. When there are zero or one instance of a particular app/window then the expose like functionality in Gnome Shell is great.

As I mentioned it would be great to be able to use the panel for the many instance apps and shell for the single instance ones but that isn't an option with Gnome 3.4. With Gnome 3.2 that is how I was doing things, but the panel wasn't part of gnome and instead there were several done as extensions each with its own quirks and breakages.

I also don't use Gnome Shell on my laptop for battery savings instead opting for the panel without 3d effects and not using compositing in the window manager. I want as few CPU/GPU cycles as possible spent on the laptop.
Buzzfeed strategy memo
NASA Broadcasts Mars Mission Landing In Times Square
It's pretty good/fast along highways, but not in cities. It's also got much broader 2G and 3G, in middle of nowhere places, than T-mobile, which is my cell provider. Since I can't work without some kind of connectivity, I'm willing to pay for both. T-Mobile is really fast in bigger cities, but it's easy to find places with not data at all. Clear in Austin is horrible, in particular, but T-Mobile is crazy fast.
This looks very promising. Seems like it'd be a great place to catch up on top stories, sort of like Flipboard. Curious to see what they end up doing with commenting.

The team behind this is clearly very skilled. Will be keeping an eye on this as it evolves.
Digg launches Redesign
Boot to Gecko (Firefox OS) comes to mind.

When considering the entrenched PC players' scramble to gain relevance in the mobile arena, the move begins to make sense.
Kixeye's over-the-top game developer recruitment video
So they really did nuke the whole thing. There's no legacy content migration, none of the user DB is intact. It seriously was just a premium domain buy. Fascinating
I don't believe that anyone is "hopeless" as a writer. There are people who may never be great writers, but if someone's capable of writing code competently, there's no reason they can't be a good writer.
I'm all in favor of rapid releases and MVP, but this seems like a step in the wrong direction. As many have pointed out, the site is missing many of the core features required to build a community. This seems like a great way to alienate the few remaining Digg loyalists
Great article! I can testify to how great it is to go from knowing few people interested in hacking/startups to being surrounded by them. I'm not a hackNY fellow but I did just move from Philadelphia to SF to work at an awesome startup. I've learned a ton on the job (in just a few months) but the best part by far is meeting intelligent people with similar interests.
The commenting will be added later.
I recently did one of my Wikipedia curiosity dives along a similar route. Starting with cathode ray tubes in the 1800s through the discovery of electrons, photons and then into the discovery of quantum effects. Trying to understand what were the questions that were raised by each experiment and how they led to the next set of experiments and theories. It was very enlightening, though Wikipedia's dry style and inconsistent depth on each subject makes it hard to follow the narrative sometimes.
Not bad. I have built a superset for my own iOS apps:

0. Collect app environment (os/hw version, jailbreak, etc).
1. Collect runtime trace from the app.
Inside the app I can trace beginning and end of
a function, optionally with a timestamp,
as well as any atomic value (string, int, etc)
The data is censored to remove any personal or private
information, (as defined by the app itself).
2. Collect crashes (PLCrashReporter).
3. Record assertion failures (the app keeps running)
4. Submit the above to my AWS server.
5. Receive configuration from the server.
It's a set of variables, boolean ones can be used
for A/B testing or block new (buggy) functionality,
strings are used to change API endpoints etc,
ints are use to change timeouts or limits inside the app.
6. The server indexes log files and promotes important
pieces to the database, and brings them up to my attention:
- crashes
- asserts
- identity (UDID, IP address, cookies, accounts ids, etc)
useful for tech support
- uptime, start count

At one point I also had a facility to record some usage stats describing user data and behavior (e.g. number of records, time spent reading "about" pages, etc), but I had to rip it out during a redesign and I am yet to add it back again.
Now, the really interesting part is that, these non-occipital signals are enough to help people perform tasks at above-chance levels, but not enough for them actually be aware. Nobody knows for sure why.

Without the non-occipital signals, are the visual cortex signals alone enough to perform tasks?
New Digg.com launches
Is the fix just to submit the original? I've never used digg but isn't it just adding comments to the original story? In many ways, I think this policy should apply to reddit links as well, but at least reddit has original content like AmA's

EDIT: Spelling
Ducks and dolphins routinely sleep one hemisphere at a time. It doesn't seem improbable that humans might also from time to time.
It's a good question, and somewhat hard to disentangle. My view is that there's a strong opinion from techies that "the tubes" should be a commodity/utility service, and therefore there's resistance to various kinds of provider control/segmentation of uses. Basically, this view holds that pipes should be treated as utility or common-carrier type provisioning.

Having that kind of view does correlate with being a heavier user, but I think also has an independent basis in technical/political ideals of what the internet should be, i.e. the correlation is due to a common underlying cause. I think it's probably not strong enough to dissuade that activity through market forces, though, because the percentage of users who have that technical knowledge and those technical ideals is quite small.

I'm one example, I think: I'm wary of both tethering charges and of some content providers' attempts to market-segment iPad content, and I own neither a smartphone nor an iPad, so it's not really based on saving me money.

(Offtopic edit: Huh, are you the same 'gojomo' from Bitzi? If so, I'm the 'delirium' that contributed some code to the Bitzi Bitcollider something like 10 years ago, to extract video metadata. Thought that handle sounded familiar.)
I always wondered if it'd be worth it to start a class lawsuit over "unlimited" data plans.
I have one here and haven't actually wired it up yet to speakers, because it uses banana clip connectors (another slightly odd decision).

My guess is that the sound quality is good, but not excellent. Better than computer speakers, better than the cheapest bundled units, nowhere near good enough for audiophiles. But that is only a guess based on what should be achievable.

With the limited functionality, it's just too much effort to order banana cables / connectors. I was hoping Google would announce it was now "unlocked" and they were supporting running more apps (the hardware & software are fully capable of running general Android apps with the Android SDK tools, but there's no easy way to interact with the apps). It looks like that's not going to happen now.
No word on that - not very many people want to drop two large on a laptop and then peel back every layer. But I'd say if we see it even once more that's a sign that it's probably a constant. Glad you liked the article.
Furthermore, there are a _lot_ of people who do not use it, why did they not consider this?

"A lot" is a very relative term. Non-Facebook users are probably in a minority in the kind of audience they're targeting. I think it's an interesting choice. I'm not going to say it's sensible just yet, but when they introduce comments it will be interesting to see if forcing real names brings the level of discussion up.
So? Play PacMan in excel:
http://www.cypherhackz.net/archives/2006/10/05/play-pacman-i...
Let's say I were to redesign Ebay as a big picture listing site (ability to bid and buy, coming later)

Would anyone consider this a ready to launch replacement? If they don't value commenting as one the of the most core features what hope do they really have?

To me HN is more valuable for the comments then the aggregation. I often skip the article and just look at the comments. Digg cannot now compete with this and if this is their priorities: big gaudy pictures, voting, and distant third or less, commenting... well.

good luck I guess but we have different priorities on what we were hoping for and expecting and need.
I recall when Kevin Rose was interviewed prior to v4 launching, they were running the entire thing on Cassandra.

When it launched, they spent the majority of the time attempting to scale it in a quick fashion - a process which probably involved buying lots of resources and attempting to scale as fast as possible. It was badly designed from the start, and was never really fixed.
Digg v1 Live
Given that almost everyone has their screens too low usually, I'm not so sure. Middle of the screen should be eye level if you sit looking to the horizon with a straight back, would be nice if it was vertically adjustable admittedly. The chair is a little low in that picture though for the height of the keyboard maybe.
I expect so, because, IIRC, they had to send out an OTA update to enable the restriction.

> Depending on your device, as we've seen, that could take years.

The FCC should decide on a reasonable timeframe, and fine them for every day over that that they still charge for it. Verizon can argue that the updates come from the handset manufacturers, but the restriction was put there at Verizon's behest, so they can really only blame themselves.
I don't get why they don't just make a Nexus TV settop box that combines the full Google TV Android experience with the music sharing stuff the Q was supposed to do.

Makes more sense than the Q by itself and it would tie nicely into their Google Fiber tv service for those lucky enough to have it.
Um, they didn't? What are you talking about?
It's all still in their backend - they're making a tool to pull old data out. http://digg.com/archive
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Yes that's a good point. You could stipulate that some percentage of revenue must be spent on R&D and tie that to the profit margin over a multi-year period.

My concern is that the fees being imposed on consumers are instituted just because they can be and because competition is artificially limited, not to generate revenue so they can provide better service to consumers/attract new customers.

Like I said, it's already a non-free market in the telecom sector; just a matter of how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go in terms of regulation and dictation.

I don't pretend to know what the best course of action is... just spitballing.
Yeah, but more importantly, I would imagine that jeans and dress shirts are not under any sort of patent protection, at least not anymore.
That's a great point. I do enjoy the community here and how it self regulates for the most part and know that it's the community that makes this site work (and also great).

I like the Digg idea, I'll have to take a closer look over there. Thanks!
Their FAQ specifically addresses this.

"Using Facebook for account registration is a short-term solution that will seriously cut down on spam, while we take our time to develop more robust spam-filter technology. We know this isn’t ideal, so rest assured: we are working towards a more lasting solution."