skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know if this will help but perhaps you can get the story in the newspaper?

If not perhaps you could buy some advertising stating that the company's "death" has been highly exaggerated, why your product is better, and because people love it so much, even dirty tricks can't kill it.

Avoid negativity and bitterness, keep the message focused (less is more), and it might help rally the public to your side.
Here's the blog post where Chris first talked about Light Table (before it was called Light Table) http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/02/26/connecting-to-your-c...
F**k "platforms." Build services, not apps.
I'm in the opposite boat: i stuck with Janus and actually dug in the source and played with it to understand exactly what was there. Janus is incredibly awesome and easy to extend, I'd highly recommend you gave it another chance and really read the docs and try to understand why it is what it is.
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Chris started work on Light Table _because_ of that video. So be excited :)
For the majority of developers, it's whatever database server that control panels like cPanel and Plesk choose, and they aren't the sort to switch on a whim.
I'm really impressed with how this is coming along. The UI has a great feel to it. Playing with LT Playground makes me want to go back and give Clojure another shot. Very cool!
I think that at a certain point, there will be an expectation for businesses to stop asking people to film on their premises.

I can't take my wearable computing rig into your store? Guess I'm going to your competitor who doesn't care.
That's ridiculous.

The only thing stopping me from doing any of those things is my own lack of interest in doing them. Likewise, the only thing stopping other people from programming is their own lack of interest.

Could I be the "best" architect ever? Probably not. I can't be the best programmer ever, either, but that's never stopped me from programming. A person doesn't have to be in the top 0.0001% to do something successfully.

If you're going to have a shit attitude, then you're probably right, and you're a loser and you'll never do anything.
> ... because it allows for an 80% charge in a very short amount of time...

I know what a fast-charger does, but you still don't need one at home. You need to sleep, remember?

Do you need a gas station in your garage?

> you're extending the infrastructure of places you can charge Teslas

At $25k/station you're going to need more than "the cause".

> if you monetize it ($15-20 for full, fast charge) then you're making money.

I assumed so. You'll still never make back what you put in.

Current prices are around $7 for a 30 minute charge. Of that, $2 is electricity. You'll also need to pay the electric company extra to have a bigger connection to the grid (>100A at 480V), which usually costs hundreds of $ per month.
Interesting idea. Do you have any link of methods to identify people by writing style? Google didn't give me anything. To be honest I am a bit skeptical that it's possible but I'd appreciate to be proven wrong.
The idea I'm currently investigating, in case anyone is curious, is that votes rather than comments may be the easiest place to attack this problem. Although snarky comments themselves are the most obvious symptom, I suspect that voting is on average dumber than commenting, because it requires so much less work. So I'm going to try to see if it's possible to identify people who consistently upvote nasty comments and if so count their votes less.

It seems plausible that lazy voting is identifiable as a user-specific signal, and that lazy voting (contrary to the welcome message

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

"don't be rude or dumb in comment threads") is a big part of the reason why comments that don't fit the community culture stay so visible. May I suggest that it may also be possible to identify good comment voting (upvotes on comments that link to reliable sources to answer questions, or that say "I'm sorry" or "thank you" as part of a comment) as a user signal? It will be interesting to see what happens to comment scores over time if more overt thoughtfulness (in all senses of the word "thoughtfulness") is upvoted often and comment rudeness or stupidity are (net) downvoted as the software tweaks are implemented.

P.S. I have been puzzled by a downvote and upvote pattern I seem to be observing in this thread itself, with of course only my own score on my own comment being DIRECTLY observable to me as I revisit this thread from time to time.
that 50% line is important -- many investors who bought at the IPO price on margin will have 0 equity left in that position (borrowing half using RegT margin)
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He complains that people don't offer constructive criticism. He gives the example that people no longer say 'like this and that, try this instead' and now say 'hate hate hate'

and yet

the title of his criticism is he 'hates' hacker news.

My feedback: I like the sentiment, but try not to do the same thing your criticising in your op-ed post.
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I don't like to separate visual from UX. UX is top level, while user research, visuals, information architecture, for example, are branches. You cannot design UX, only design for it.

If I'm working on user research I need to understand the people (user groups) who use the product and how they use it. If I'm working on interaction design, I need to understand how each interaction takes place, what problem it's solving, what that means for the user, and how it effects anything else. If I'm working on visuals/graphics, I need to design the product/features/interactions in an aesthetically pleasing way that still targets the user groups.
The Hacker News software capitalize the title of the posts, thus transforming the correct "iOS" (as seen in the title of the blog post itself) in "IOS". I believe pg added some exceptions since I've seen "iPhone" and "iPad" properly capitalized in the past, but it seems "iOS" is not in that list yet.
> There are more households sharing CP in your community than there are bus stops.

Sorry if I'm wrong, but I find that hard to believe. Any amount of CP is a problem IMO, but I don't think it's that bad. In my metropolitan area there's around 1,671,683 people, and I'd be surprised to learn there's 1000 honest-to-god pedos.
...the context of the question was the inside of a restaurant.
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Yes. But so what?

What we're actually subsidizing is R&D on electric vehicles. The problems that Tesla is struggling with (battery longevity, battery cost, charging cycle times) are fundamental problems of all electric vehicles. If a government subsidy for their luxury vehicles helps them improve the state of the art even incrementally then it will be a huge win for the public.
How about an "outside community norms / not nice" vote on any comment? If a user accumulates too many of them (relative to positive votes?) their comments get pushed down.

I think it's different from the existing "flag", or at least how I understand it: Currently, I'd only hit flag if something is deeply offensive / illegal / spam. And I think flag only exists on posts?
Two issues here:

1) Stories become popular despite negative sentiment in comments, or stated another way, some of the most popular stories on the front page of HN have little support in the comments. This indicates that the people who up-vote the stories in question are either not actually in support of the story's premise, or choose to remain silent in the discussion.

2) People are using up-votes as a way to bookmark stories, since that's the only flagging mechanism available to them.

The root of the first problem as I see it is that it is too easy too up-vote stories. This creates a low threshold for groups of organized users, i.e. friends of the poster, to get stories on the front page. Perhaps limiting the ability to up-vote stories in particular would have a positive impact here.

The second problem has an extremely simple solution: add a way for users to flag stories without up-voting them. Maybe a star icon that adds a story to their 'saved' directory.
Too few votes for the number of comments. Lack of feedback is disenfranchising (unless you fake vote counts for comment-makers to see, which could have a worse effect of giving the wrong signals.)

Also, you can't count on there being proportional amounts of activity among the earlier users currently. Any cross section of the earlier user group could have stopped being active on the site.
> Unfortunately, good things are often ignored

...which is why we're still using Unix.
I have noticed a bit that the top ranking comment will then contain a bunch of fragmented, semi-unrelated sub-conversations and the top comment almost becomes an OP of its own.
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That's exactly what we're doing at http://www.plugshare.com. Check it out. The blue icons are residential charging stations and the green icons are public charging stations. Over 2,000 people have signed up to share their home electricity with EV drivers in need of a charge.
You would think that it would be illegal to pull my credit information without my permission. Then again, it's probably buried in a TOS somewhere.
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There are a lot of different ways to have high-pressure gas push solid objects around. Piston engines, turbines, and rockets are the three most common, but there are also Wankel engines, rotary vane motors, and more exotic designs like the Quasiturbine and the dozen or so other kinds of positive-displacement pumps.
Oh my. After re-reading that blog post I remember seeing it on HN before. My apologies.
Interesting idea..Love it just signed up.
This question veers off into a political conversation that's off-topic for HN, so I'll stick to a factual answer and leave it at that: Israel is currently defined as "a Jewish and Democratic State".
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I plan to. I've been doing a lot of work with text classification over the past couple years and would like to base a startup on it. I just need to come up with a product that's commercially viable and non-evil.
I use the Google Reader chrome extension and just get the updates.
The Internet is not a hugbox.

HN is not "the internet". I don't think HN should strive to be as terrible as most of the internet can be. If I want "the Internet" I can go to /r/all. That is a much better snapshot of what "the Internet" actually is. I don't see why it's a bad thing to want HN to be better than most parts of the Internet.

I also think your type of attitude really brings communities down. People who treat others with disrespect and insults like to defend their actions as "This is the internet. Deal with it." I've never thought it to be a particular worthwhile argument.
Heard on NPR that batteries on EV's can only be charged around 500 times. This came from that Berkley professor that was a global warming skeptic until the recent conclusion of a research study -that he participated in- indicating that most of global warming was caused by fuel burning. Of-coarse the study was funded by the Koch brothers and proposed that the world move to natural gas. It wouldn't surprise me if the Koch brothers have large investments in natural gas. Does anyone know if the battery charge comment has any validity?
Constructive criticism: pretend that someone hasn't head of Light Table before. Have a one-sentence description near the top that links to a longer description. (Clicking on "Light Table Playground" takes me a something that includes the features you are working on for Light Box.)
I think "great design can't be tested" is wrong. All design has consequence. If I make an add to cart button on an ecommerce site purple, I can test that to see if it performs better than the red add to cart button. Yes, these decisions (of choosing red or purple) can come from a designer understanding his/her audience, but should never be just taken at the designer's word... it should always be tested to make sure the designed solution is the right one.
I don't know why you're downvoted. I think you're right.

There are lots of windows you have to drag around all the time and click in many places to get to some code.
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I'd be surprised if pg hasn't experimented with it at least a bit given his history with text classification algorithms.
I called Diaspora's original aim trivial compared to the aims of SpaceX.
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Inferno is kind of like Plan 9 running on a VM, with its own peculiarites like a really nice shell language. Having a VM, versus integrating with the host os like plan9port or cygwin, lets you use new features of the os like directory binding and the /env directory of shell variables. There's an os command to run programs on the underlying host, be it windows, windows with cygwin, or linux.
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> 10,000 measurements using an 81 qubit version of the experiment gave the correct answer just 13 times

> It’s also worth pointing that conventional computers could already solve these particular protein folding problems

So if one cannot already solve the problem is one capable of checking that the answer is correct with such a low probability of correctness?
I agree with the commenter's initial point that learning any amount of programming will help a non-technical person to understand and better contribute to a technical startup or organization significantly. What I'm worried about is that non-technical people will skim this article and think that design is easier than coding. There's a rabbit hole in every discipline and my experience has been that the attributes that makes someone a decent programmer are usually the same attributes that makes someone a decent designer. In fact, I'd go as far to say that the attributes that make anyone decent at anything are usually the same for anything else.

So if you "want to learn to code" and for some reason cannot, then I'm going to bet you have other issues that prevents you from doing so, which is the sentiment Dan Shipper (the original comment this poster was responding to) basically attributed to "false constraints."

I guess the argument comes down to believing that coding (like most people believe about design) requires some innate talent to be able to do it. And while I believe that might be the case to be great at it, I truly do believe almost everyone should be able to learn to code (or design) if they truly want it enough.

Like with anything, I prefer people not to go into a field if they're not passionate about it. Don't code if you're not into it. And don't come into design because it's Plan B. Code because you love it. Design because you can't get enough of it. If you're non-technical and your passionate about wanting to build technical things, then you really only have one avenue for that outlet if you can't somehow convince others to help build those things for you and that's learn it the hard way.
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I suggest a monthly post similar to "Who's Hiring?".

What do you think?
Isn't it going to be open sourced at some point? Why not just let people get at your dev branches or at least provide builds for them

Also, keep up the awesome work!
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It's a phase. Like the bitcoin stuff. It'll taper off.

Until app.net becomes a bitcoin exchange...
CPM is by viewed ad and not unique visitor. Probably each user has 4 or 5 page views, then each page view counts for 3 or 4 ad views.
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And, of course, this brings us to the question: Do we already have messages in our DNA? Here's a post (from 2007) on this: http://blog.sciencefictionbiology.com/2007/07/messages-in-ou.... Actually, if it's from the aliens who seeded life on Earth, it would probably be in a prokaryotic DNA perhaps?
I haven't yet used one of the recent MySQL forks, but I have a feeling the next time I'm using an OSS solution that requires a MySQL variant, I wont be using MySQL.
What if they already read the story from a different source?
It's good that you bring that point up.
I disagree with you, and if I could be so bold, I'll paraphrase tptacek's post above: communities are built on principles that goad people to excellence, not forbid them from mediocrity.
Communities are built by principles, not by laws. I firmly believe this, and it's why I agree that more good will come on HN from stating what people OUGHT to do instead of listing the kinds of behaviours they oughtn't engage in.
Bases can only pair with one other base. Adenine can only pair with thymine. Guanine can only pair with cytosine. Knowing one base implies the other, so there are only two possible pairs.
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State of the art flash drive feature density is 19nm, however an actual flash memory cell is larger than that. In contrast, a DNA base pair is about 2nm in diameter by about 3nm tall.
A while ago Anonymous hacked one of those forums and published the usernames and hashes. Apparently a lot of them where using the same usernames and passwords in another porn-related forums in the "lit" web.

Don't know if it resulted in someone being caught by the police or not, but definitely subtler methods such as statistical analysis of writing style are not the only way to get a lead from those forums.
All lithium batteries are not created equal. LiCoO2 batteries indeed have charge-cycle lives in the hundreds, but LiFePO4 batteries (as seen in the Volt, Leaf, etc) can reach 10,000 cycles or more.

All this depends on charge/discharge rate, temperature, etc. The Roadster's complicated battery system is required because they used LiCoO2 batteries. :\
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I distrust the blank slate theory as much as the next guy, but have some doubts specifically about programming. For example, in the programming profession you can find many folks who are similarly clueless about cooking. Would you believe if one of them said to you "You know, I just wasn't built for cooking"? Maybe the mindset necessary for programming (and logical thinking in general) is just very difficult to communicate, and some people just stumble on it by accident? That's why I'm asking for citations.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing -- search "Navy"

And don't you try to tell me that the Navy doesn't try to protect its king.
Or customers will go the store where a dozen busybodies aren't filming them.

I don't think any of us know how this will all shake out in the end.
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Unfortunately I agree, it is no big secret that tech as a segment has a fairly sizable portion of it's population with smartest guy in the room syndrome. The problem with smartest guy in the room syndrome is they already know the answer. Therefore they are not information seekers and they disregard anything that is objective to their world view. It is what killed Slashdot and sadly it is becoming unbearable here. Self policing does not help with this personality type, because they have no vested interest in anything other than everyone seeing them as the smartest guy in the room. Their concern about the community only extends to their recognition. It is a self centered world view and therefore I don't think that self enforced measures will work on this personality type. I almost think a third measure is needed, like a flag as abusive. Knowing that they can be flagged as abusive (even if the system dumps the flag and does not use it in any calculations). Will cause them to reflect on the policy, as it directly threatens their ability to use HN as a platform for self glorification.
Just doesn't seem right. When did I authorize that? If I'm only receiving UPS packages (where the sender has already paid UPS) why does my own creditworthiness matter?
done. Thanks for the suggestion!

(Side note, the real thing is called "Light Table" too, no light boxes here :)
I'm not sure exactly why they decided on that encoding, I suspect there is some technical reason such as error tolerance.
I don't understand how people are still designing for the web in an image manipulation application. There are so many other tools out there today to get you to a design much quicker than Photoshop.
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Another simple idea (that you've no doubt thought of): using Twitter (or App.net) authentication. That way people are a bit less anonymous and more accountable. I can imagine people would hate this, but they might be the same people who are the haters to begin with.

I don't think this phenomenon is just on Hacker News. I believe the recent negativity shift is an actual change in the startup community's perceptions of the world.

When things are "hot" in our industry, and seemingly trivial companies are exiting for billions, the people who are still struggling start to develop a somewhat bad attitude. I see it all the time particularly from people who are working on "serious stuff" and then lash out when they see Instagram's success (which they've been saying for years: "sure, but what's their revenue model??").

I don't condone it and honestly think it's genuinely strange. Now is as amazing a time as any to be founding a startup. Success of others (no matter how trivial) only makes things better.
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A good many of the linked articles are full of snark and vitriol, setting a poor example for the commentariat to follow.
I needed to do something like this and I ended up settling on a custom workflow connected through zeromq dumping data into into sharded sqlite databases. Single process handled writing to each database and lots of reads were mapped out and then reduced (also via zmq). This handled around 14 billion rows when I left that job. If you want to talk some more about it, my gmail is the same as my username.
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I think that DNA, if ever used in practice, will be primarily used for long-term, archival storage of data that's rarely accessed, if ever. However there are a couple of things that alleviate the problems with reading the DNA.

1) DNA sequencing technology is currently advancing much faster than silicon technology, so give it time and it's likely that it will catch up with current hard disk reading speed at comparable sizes and volumes.
2) DNA's self-hybridizing nature makes it easy to pull out blocks with specific addresses (if you wait for the hybridization). So if you include address labels in the DNA as you write it out, you can probably pull it out in chunks of kilobase to megabase at a time.
3) As the other commenter pointed out, this is extremely easy to parallelize. So if you want to go twice as fast, divide the sample in half put half in each machine. Dilute and pipette as necessary.