skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So as for the "bubbles" in valuations related to respective distribution platforms, you're spot on (I think a huge part of social gaming's explosive growth and valuation growth was a function of the Facebook platform, not of its own intrinsic value).

I also agree that the "social bubble" is deflating because the gold rush of everyone-being-connected-as-a-free-marketing-channel is largely winding down. Chris Dixon's post can reflect that new reality, but I would still be equally skeptical of a 10m user service with no revenue. (Of course, I'm not a VC.)

Where I disagree is in your last paragraph. Yes, I think a focus on revenues can be a bad idea for some businesses. But I think exploring or attempting revenue is a good idea for every business. If the numbers look bad, don't use them, but you need to try. Even if you are only earning $10,000 per month, that's starting from $0, so there will be a growth rate attached. This is a really good number to show VCs right now. Also, you can make projections of revenue growth with the assumption of your continued user base growth, and basically double-dip into your user growth numbers that way. I still think this will be a better way to fundraise in the next 3 years than ignoring revenue completely.
Note "likely". Remember what I said about minimum wage for tipped employees?

Naturally this only applies to the waiting staff, but then again, the chefs aren't going to be the ones handling your phone.
Stop shadow banning all females that would be a start. Oh ya,no one will see this, can't have "girls" invading your club house.
It's called FGC here (credit guarantee fund), he was just using familiar terms.
Whoops, an announcement that went with the project (probably should have linked to that instead):

http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/08/crowdsourced-data-ana...
I doubt Google would dick over the employees like this. Even the extraneous Motorola employees they didn't want to acquire got to stay on through the whole acquisition plus a year's severance.
This was exactly my reaction. I thought I was signing up for a Netflix style service, but instead I was getting a membership to a game store that I had to pay for.
I'm an author of the paper. The title of this article is misleading; first, we encoded 650kB and made 70 billion copies... second, those 70 billion copies weigh 1 milligram... third, it's really only meant for archival purposes as it's immutable and not random access... fourth, it's expensive right now (at least this might be a solvable problem).
From the original kickstarter[1] app:

What about key bindings?

I'm a VIM guy myself, but since we'll be using the awesome CodeMirror[2] editor, this is something that is easily adapted. If you're looking for a way to contribute, help improve CodeMirror and its emacs/vim plugins!

I haven't actually played around with the current release to see if it's been integrated yet, but it's almost certainly part of the plan.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/306316578/light-table

[2] http://codemirror.net/
My understanding is that this is not correct. The US does have strong AntiCorruption Laws that deal with US entities operating overseas.

Transparency International have good references.
http://www.transparency-usa.org/links/index.html

A quick search found this signed by Brazil and US in 1996.

B-58: INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION

'(3) TRANSNATIONAL BRIBERY.--Current United States law provides criminal sanctions for transnational bribery. Therefore,it is the understanding of the United States of America that no additional legislation is needed for the United States to comply with the obligation imposed in article VIII of the Convention.'

http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/Sigs/b-58.html
I had assumed that it was something I did or some area I'm inadequate in that makes me not get a callback. I just want to know what I can do to improve.
What are we working on here?
Yes: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
> Another is the interviewer will often decide in the first 60 seconds if you're getting hired

OK. But why 60 seconds? What did I do wrong in that span of time?
As a spinning ball of gas, astronomers had always expected our nearest star to bulge slightly at its equator, making it very slightly flying-saucer shaped

I stopped reading at this point.
This doesn't violate Facebook's rules?
Visit http://dribbble.com

That is the sort of skill it takes to be a great designer IMHO.
The phrase for this is "proof of concept". Potentially important research isn't always dramatic, or abrupt.
The problem here is that someone who consistently provides high-quality (or at least frequently-upvoted) comments / submissions will likely have less of a contribution than someone with significantly lower karma. For instance: you would have (slightly) more influence than someone with 3000 karma and an average of 5.
None of what I wrote contradicts that description of UX. I did not imply that I thought it was laying out a page or painting the picture.

Also I did not mean to imply that I thought that going straight to code was the best approach. But you can honestly do a fair amount of that sketching/wireframing etc. in your head and with verbal descriptions, and then after a one or two iterations of that or actual mockups I think you would gain the most from a real system.

Anyway, based on that description, I will definitely start putting UX design on my resume, because I have already incorporated most of the substantial points made there.

Also, in regards to http://uxdesign.com/ux-defined, I have never in my life had so much smoke blown up my ass in the process of an ostensibly (partially) technical discussion.

I am definitely going to have to start practicing this UX design stuff, in case there is actually something more to learn, and because it looks like people are using a lot of bullshit to justify getting paid a lot more to not have to do the real work/problem solving (coding).
Cool project, looks like it's more geared towards remote sync and could be used for more than a DVR.

Just curious, why doesn't inotify work? (Because the directory is SSHFS-mounted, right?) Been experimenting with inotify lately which is why I ask.
Yes high submissions with no or low involvement in the community. Either they really, really, really, really love submission karma or they're here to exploit the site.
A lot of what he said regarding reliability figures and testing plans reasoning resonated with my experience in (software engineering) projects and made me think how his remarks are applicable to software development.

Note to people who didn't read the appendix - he touches specifically software development in the latter part of his note.
#startups on freenode (unofficial)
I agree with tptacek - I think a forum can benefit from posting its guidelines somewhere prominent, especially during signup for new people.

That way, the community knows what the values are, etc. To be honest, looking at HN I'm not sure where on the site to find these values right now, myself. I just try to be my own reasonable self :)
Don't worry, it wasn't controversial or offensive, just a trope that signals satire - which is not what you intended.
Unionization is a big step. You get protection, but it's also expensive, makes HR sclerotic, and you run the risk of having union management wander off into lala land.

If you're a competent programmer, unionization is probably a net loss for you.
It's unlikely that a purely algorithmic ranking solution will be adequate. HN should better leverage the judgment of the site's veteran members across the board, rather than only for article ranking. Awhile back I posted a self-organizing way to filter comments that works in this way: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3473753.
Former OnLive Employee Describes 'Bizarre All-Hands Meeting'
I agree with you that Twitter does have the right to impose a quality Twitter experience across clients. I'm also confident that the very best 3rd-party clients will be able to successfully work together with Twitter to ensure that they continue to exist.

However, the uproar over these changes isn't entirely about this. The most pressing issue is the principle over access to public data. By imposing these restrictions, 3rd-party developers aren't able to access this data, for whatever they'd like to use it for, as easily as they use to be able to. This is something that originally attracted people to Twitter, and is essentially how Twitter made its name (aside from the product itself).

The other issue is that people overwhelmingly feel like these changes are a direct result of Twitter deciding that they need to monetize and profit from their product. While Twitter hasn't directly come out and said this, it's pretty apparent. A lot of the complains I'm hearing are that they would be willing to pay Twitter to ensure that certain features that Twitter doesn't currently implement themselves persist. People in general don't trust Twitter to make the experience as good as some of the 3rd-party developers have because Twitter might not think it's in their best interest from a financial standpoint.

So yes, Twitter is trying to protect its reputation, as it very well should. But in trying to protect its reputation from a user experience standpoint, its also destroying its reputation as a company that works well with 3rd-party developers and allows for access to publicly available data.
How about a link to it.
i love the moving graphics on the site. great work! what is up this though:

© 2012 Collections Labs, Inc. Design and development by 3magine

does that mean you contracted out some of the UI/UX?
We really just need more mature LTE networks. I've seen LTE pings around 40. If they can get that down under 25 consistently that's pretty much all you need to move the gaming world to thin clients.
Game Developers Remember Priority #1
You're probably right...

https://alpha.app.net/senitiki

https://alpha.app.net/_danilo

https://alpha.app.net/arfsoftware

https://alpha.app.net/drh

https://alpha.app.net/yahelc
You would feel differently if you were an avid vim/emacs user. There's no reason you can't combine the interactivity of Light Table with the key bindings from other text editors. The combination may prove more powerful, at least for those with the muscle memory for it.
"And this is not a passive experiment"

This seems to be the most important thing here. In any community, you have the chance to play an active role. If you stay and do good, you help it in your own way. If you jump ship, you leave the community with one less person that cares.
I'd rather "the authorities" would stop spying on me whatever I'm doing, and I believe everyone should actively send up as many red flags as possible to confuse the bastards.

I don't accept the authority of any random gang of thugs over me, from whatever part of the world, period.
I think chmod775 was talking about actual readability, not the language. To be fair (Firefox 17, W7), it isn't perfect: http://imgur.com/WKoE8

(and it's not just because of the language--I modified the text to some English: http://imgur.com/8uss8)
"Interface design" should encompass more than just visual aesthetics. These are largely concepts focused on making something that looks good, not concepts that break away from an IM client convention to actually improve usability.

It's useful to see these as launchboards for a visual aesthetic, but it'd be really cool if showcase posts like these (or designers on dribbble) talked about the pros and cons of different design decisions they made, why they chose to style an interface element differently, why a particular design is an improvement over what exists…

This is, sadly, pretty rare.
I would assume that its in the works, but they already slapped developers in the face yesterday with new restrictions, if they added pricing plans on top of that, that would be inhumane and too much for developers to handle in on gulp.

Additionally with the pricing, its hard to get right. They won't be able to modify prices as they see fit after they announce them. So it seems like a logical progression: 1 restrict amount of data. 2 next, determine pricing
Yes, because I'm super baked.

No, but seriously-- is it off that I can be made a felon because I clicked the wrong link? Yes. Does that make the laws forbidding the possession of child pornography dumb? No. If there were a reliable way to find out who they all were -- which is a fairy-tale scenario, so we're clear -- would I have a problem with anyone who looked for child pornography on the Internet being brought in for questioning? Nope. Because it is that bad.
It will be difficult however for "traditional" clients to get deals for more than 100k tokens.
> spam, pandering, submission strategies, power users and all the other bullshit that comes with that territory.

that's actually what bothers me more about current HN state than the 'harsh comments' everybody complains about.

and one another thing: I remember when the frontpage was full of business and tech advice from experienced people who shared valuable knowledge hard to obtain on my own. now I wonder how many more git and fabric tutorials do we need, or why should I care what every blogger on the planet thinks of twitter.
Could you incentivize people that upvote new items that ultimately cross some threshhold (front page/votes) such that their upvotes translate into some kind of karma or reward points of some sort? The earlier you are as an upvoter the bigger the reward? Of course that may just incentivize people upvoting everything in sight :) Perhaps historical upvoting patterns on the New Page could be incorporated to penalize that kind of behavior. Just throwing it out there. I do agree, I occasionally browse the new page but there is just so much cruft there that looking for the gems is time consuming so I generally just (lazily) wait for them to hit the front page.

Edit: Once again bitten by reading HN comments before the article as he proposes something along these lines in the post, doh! :)
The 'more' link regularly fails to render on my IPhone 4 leading to a further long term aversion to going there. Not sure if anyone else has had the same experience? Just saying if it's affecting many devices this Is just compressing the issue further.
Because they ran the numbers. It wouldn't justify the valuation their investors demand, and it would be a distraction. Ads are their only hope. Draw your own conclusions.
I don't. OnLive is the ultimate DRM; abusive stuff like Securom can be bypassed, but with this tech any game can be killed without recourse. While I feel sympathy for the fired people, I'm also somewhat relieved that this was further delayed.
Helmet camera strapped to falcon captures "birds-eye-view" footage
Yes. The fund I work for has a very successful track record and we take all PCA (on factors) with a huge grain of salt.

Also any strategy that has more than a 20% thesis alignment on PCA (on factors!) is most likely laughed at.
Slackware: a perfect distro?
The lesson I take from this is that the Shuttle should have been killed on the drawing board, never flown. It's a hideously complex design with no real advantages over expendable or re-usable rockets. It might have made sense as part of a tens of trillions of dollar integrated infrastructure plan (as originally proposed in the 1970s), but once those elements were killed, zombie/frankenstein shuttle wasn't the right answer.

NASA could have focused more on great science programs (like the Mars rovers, unmanned deep space probes, planetary science -- think of what they could accomplish with even 50% of the current overall NASA budget), military and government launch could have continued with ICBM-derived rockets, and private space could have gotten an earlier start.
The problem with average karma is stat it strongly discourages people from posting replies to less popular or older messages. I've made a conscious choice to ignore my average karma. I dont think it is conducive to good conversation, as it tends to be heavily biased towards the first few posts.

I wonder if we should go the other way -- I always liked slashdot's system of a 5 point cap on any post. Is a 500 point post really enter than a 100 point post, or is it more likely it is seen more often?
oh, then that's not as interesting a question.
It's important to get over the idea that you have done anything wrong. Think of it as a percentages game... if you have been invited to interview then your potential employer is definitely interested. So if the interviews keep coming, be assured it is just a matter of time until someone makes you an offer.
He left out the most obvious one: press the power button on the front of your computer.
Why can't they do both? I have a hard time believing giving the API away for free somehow costs less to manage than charging for it.
If something that you have equity in has no value or little value.. then it's all really a mute point. Remember kids start ups are high risk ventures; your equity can be diluted, and taken away... all legally.
Shadowbanned
Your shadow banned me
Apple logo and the golden ratio
Stop shadow banning all femail participants. Everyone please boycott hacker news until they stop their policy of shadow banning females.
Add to the list: Keep HACKER NEWS FOR AND BY HACKERS..stop posting other useless content. I want this place to learn and read about new coding practices, api's, only technically relavent stuff.
How about a mathematical reward system for new threads? Something like:

Vote Value = (Log[base:Median(AvgUserKarma)](AvgUserKarma)) * (Log[base:(25)](ThreadTop50Rank + 1))

That way if you contribute something great in a new thread and someone upvotes you, you'll get more karma from it.

A warning though, this reward system would encourage equal distribution of comments, versus the typical 80/20 rule. Not sure if that is what is best for the community.
Ask HN: Move fast, hack well?
Is there a positive correlation between programmer ability and speed in using the computer?
How Microsoft was forced to open Office
Assange case: Americas Foreign ministers to meet over UK threats
ok, that's a good point. thank you.
Double-check how soon your options will start vesting before you sign-on, so that you don't get screwed over by something like this.

(Also, btw, it's "moot", not "mute")
I wonder what might happen if you tried to wear them when going to the cinema to watch a film?
Not quite the same point - but similar thoughts: http://bit.ly/N9HnAD. What's really missing is a proper service contract. Not giving guarantees - or at best implicit ones will kill ecosystems.
Most people don't drive their cars 24/7. Even on road trips it's more like 12 or 18 hours.

Once battery capacities reach the point where you only have to charge it at night for a full day's drive, you've solved the problem and you don't need to swap.

And, while the price tag is high, the 300 mile claimed range of the highest trim Model S gets a substantial part of the way to that standard.
Can't design, LEARN UX
Please boycott ycmmbinator and hackernews for their misogynistic policy of shadow banning all female participants.
Tor is good, but totalitarianism is galloping to control the internet. They HATE the freedom we have come to take for granted, and they are surely encouraged by how easily the sheep are persuaded to acquiesce whenever they point at the familiar boogey men: paedophiles, terrorists, drug dealers, etc.

I am quite optimistic though about the development of mesh networks such as http://project-byzantium.org

Of course it will only take one state to declare it illegal, and there will be plenty of cowardly fools urging each other NEVER to use it, because it's just too DANGEROUS, and anyway, TERRORISTS find it useful for pursuing their nefarious and immoral activities.

I will keep on ignoring them.
All true. With D-Wave, it's always been hard to separate the hype from the substance.

They certainly have some exceptional people (e.g., the "director of business development" mentioned in the post was a research assistant for Hawking (yes, that Hawking), and wrote one of the very first books on quantum computation). And, they're doing good work. It's just hard to tell how long the road is.
It's because they want to build an advertising business and they don't want to compete with their developers. Twitter as a service is not the business they're in. They want direct access to their audience to increase their chances at monetization.

It makes perfect business sense, it just sucks.
> A new company will be formed and the management of the company will be in contact with you about the current initiatives in place, including the titles that will remain on the service

I hate that companies are allowed to do that. Sunrocket did that to me and basically stole around $150 worth of unused service. The new company apparently had no legal obligation to me.

It should be illegal to sell assets without also selling the debts/obligations together with them.
http://branch.com/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378004 , http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378123 , http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4399450
> HN has become mainstream and it's subject to all the spam, pandering, submission strategies, power users and all the other bullshit that comes with that territory.

I think this article falls exactly under the heading of a pandering submission strategy. It's link bait. It's a semi-controversial topic trending on HN, better jump in and vomit up a blog entry to get some traffic! Nevermind that it says nothing at all.

Here's a thought for improving your image of HN: Read less of it.

Read a few submissions with interesting titles, post a comment or two and go back to doing something worthwhile. I know I waste too much time on HN as it is but many HN'ers spend way more time on here than me. With some topics pushing 200+ comments who has the free time to read everything? Don't. You'll have less noise to signal. You also won't get so emotionally caught up in the drama that inevitably accompanies human interaction.

Stop crying. HN is fine.

EDIT: 'Stop crying.' isn't directed at Benologist. Just realized it may come off that way.
I think "reward for browsing New" could be a good idea yet very difficult to implement it well. What I'd like to see is a front page with various lists of submissions according to different criteria, some ideas: 1st| most votes this month - this week, 2nd| "Hot today" (this'd be similar to the current front page I believe), 3rd | "Promising" (Posts from New section that begin their momentum), 4rd | Most commented month / week. Basically a bit of filtering.
FYI, Gabor-like filters pop out from doing ICA (i.e. Independent Components Analysis), not PCA. While PCA looks for orthogonal vectors onto which the data's projection is normally-distributed (among other properties), ICA, roughly speaking, looks for a set of orthogonal vectors onto which the data's projection has maximal kurtosis (among other properties).

It is the kurtosis-maximization of ICA that tends to produce filters mimicking those found in (early layers of) visual cortex. Hence, the production of such filters by techniques like "sparse coding" and "sparse autoencoders", which explicitly pursue highly-kurtotic representations of the training data. PCA, on the other hand, tends to produce checkerboard (i.e. 2d sinusoidal) filters of various frequencies when trained on "natural image patches".

See: "The 'independent components' of natural scenes are edge filters" by Bell and Sejnowski, 1997.
How much difference does it really make? If all of OnLive's folks were vested, couldn't they still could have been fired and their shares diluted w/ another round or creepy acquisition terms?
code and design aren't two separate ideas.
Impressive project and it certainly gives a good reason to learn Clojure in the future. :)

Tried current version and it seemed interesting, even while I'm still quite of a beginner with code.
Why APIs and Platforms need Contracts to Function
So now all this information about them is freely available. Why doesn’t the police do text and psychology analyses to find those people?

Once you write, you give something of you away.