skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not Twitter.
I'm pretty sure you didn't finish reading Orian's article.

Essentially, two ideas are happening simultaneously, which is why most people (including talented engineers) still think this is a Twitter clone. It's not at all.

The client Dalton built to "display,the API engine" is indeed a Twitter-esque client. Well-built, and has features better than Twitter, such as no advertising, and a fascinating gaggle of talent posting, like early Quora.

However, it's the APP.net "engine" that's actually the jewel. It's an open platform API that G+, FB, Twitter do NOT have. Think a DIY Anduino environment, but in software not hardware. Many 3rd party devs are stoked to build to this far richer, far deeper into the engine open API.

as well, I'm struck by just how many earliest Twitter users (Twitter ID less than #9999) are in there.

Finally, I sincere do believe this Silicon Valley street brawl is indeed (even though you pooh-pooh it) an idea which will define the modern era of computing.
In the same way, Linux servers destroyed Windows servers in the early '90's, via a more open platform.
Open platforms win.
You might want to use "text/*" as the mimetype argument to filepicker.getFile to filter out sources like webcam and Instagram.
Does ref-counting count as garbage collection?
Then after the official meeting, when attendees go out to the food table in another room and the tele-attending people can't digitally follow them, I'm sure the attendees will all just not discuss anything important, right?

Or "hey, Bob, I'm glad you could use the teleoffice installation to join us today. Gosh, I wish I could have you with me tomorrow when I go across town to check out a small factory. You know so much more about that stuff than me, but unfortunately the tele-office is huge and all."
say what you want about Nokia these days, but they know how to build phones.

validity of this story aside, with all the times I’ve dropped my old N95 (and down multiple stories at times) I’m pretty sure that thing could take a direct shot from an assault rifle anyday.
That's of course a good point. However, one of the things the tagging proponents claim is that tagging reduces the effort of taxonomy. Having to manage aliases and tag links would then negate any such benefit, and might even be much more time consuming.

Now, were we to talk about some standard of tagging that has link relationships baked in, we might be talking. But then we sacrifice customization.
The service should be pay to publish, free to consume.

You should let people follow anything they want for free, but if they want to turn on the ability to publish content into the service, then they pay
I think the UI matters. HN is great but I feel the commenting system could be greatly improved. Collapsable threads anyone? In general I wish HN would use a StackOverflow-like system (rep and votes on comments).
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Sir, I read about your CTO position you posted on Craigslist. Since we both read on Quora that the future of computing is Cobol then we are like brothers already. I know a guy who installed PHP and he has a friend on Facebook(my other friend even saw it). I'll give you his username on ExpertSexChange but I need a corner office and vesting in 6 months.

P.S. Everyone will have forgotten the lawsuit against Charbucks by now. We can sell some of the extra coffee beans from the leftovers burned on the "launchpad." Ebay?...I have 91% satisfaction account. I await your Linked-In Connection so we can start the next part to hire me. I am ready to live in a valley.

P.P.S You still on my _ ? Sir, Your photo looks different now than the one on your Instagram.
I think the things you're mentioning are generally all good things. Why? Because without different approaches there is not really any way to use the scientific method to improve upon things.

Suppose we're baking a pie. With your preferred approach, the Federal government bakes one pie. Ingredients are added according to the corrupt interest of all the legislators, and eventually the pie is finished and served to everyone.

Since the pie was such a massive Federal undertaking, supporters of the Government's approach are expected to blindly support the chosen recipe, claiming it's delicious and perfect as-is. Detractors, having also spent much political capital, are inclined to criticize every aspect of the pie, even the good parts.

If on the other hand each state were baking a pie, we'd have 50 different recipes to explore. Maybe one state gets the crust just right, another the filling, and three others manage to increase the average portion size, etc.

Now we have 50 different experiments that nobody has spent a lifetime of political capital building, which can all be improved. If one state serves its citizens lousy pie, they'll talk to their friends in other states and start demanding more from their elected officials.

Notice how George W. Bush sold the war in Iraq. The US had to act fast, and had to make a big commitment to the cause, without worrying about evidence to the contrary. Notice how nearly everyone was "with us or against us", leaving no room for debate or reasoning. The same kind of grand approach must be used to do anything at the Federal level. By necessity it becomes 80% propaganda, smoke, and mirrors.

Things like local school boards must cater to the people they serve. You can look at the thousands of different school boards and see something that appears messy in comparison to George W. Bush's oversimplified sales pitch for the Iraq war or Obama's oversimplified pitch for Federal health care, but you might consider looking at it more optimistically. School board members are directly accountable to the people who elect them.
Apple licensed design patents to Microsoft in "anti-cloning agreement"
Database Refactoring - Please Clean Up After Yourself
Now how about Vim?
I think at that level you don't really learn stuff through tutorials anymore. Tutorials/conferences stuff are mostly to get you started and looking in the right direction.

You learn the advanced stuff by doing it. Want to learn linux kernel internals? Write a kernel module. It doesn't have to be useful. Want to learn webkit internals? Invent a new tag (super-blink!) and implement it. It's extremely unlikely that W3 will appreciate your contribution to html but you'll learn a lot in the process.

Another way to learn this stuff (and a pretty standard way to introduce new people to a codebase in the industry) is to jump into the bug tracker. Just start fixing low-priority bugs. It might take you three days to find something that a core dev could fix in fifteen minutes, but you'll learn an immense amount in the process.
Which I can do by buying the included pentalobe driver by itself. In other words, it's a big gimmick.
I stopped reading at the word "art".

And then I started reading again. Larry took it in a different direction that I presumed and it's certainly an interesting claim to make.

I'm just not really sure if I buy it... It sounds to me like dropping someone in a Home Depot surrounded by various tools and materials and saying "Go ahead build a dog house anyway you like."
"Art!"

I greatly enjoy the creativity involved in programming and I can appreciate the aspects that set Perl apart from other languages at its inception. But I get a lot more satisfaction out of simplicity and elegance in my language than the ability to put a condition on either side or whether scalars, arrays, and hashes have unique identifiers in the variable name.

Maybe I got into it at the wrong time, but Perl has never felt like art to me...
Yes, XHR was available back then. But it wasn't Ajax. Ajax was invented in '04.
No thanks. The jQuery single object design pattern is one that I do not like
Not working in my browser. When looking at the source I see it probably only works in FF. But I also noticed you've included "ymacs-mode-markdown.js" twice.

Edit... ok refreshed the page a few times and it seems to be working now. Cool.
Your Ducati example is memorable because Ducati already had a well known brand. But how many small automotive (or insert industry here) business that you have never heard of are acquired and subsequently killed? I expect it happens more often than you think.
I'm not disagreeing that variables are meant to be variable.

However, it's important to teach context behind variables before asking an 11 year old to solve them or else it becomes a point of confusion. They are asked to use rote memorization to complete the calculations but they don't seed their memory before asking.
Drchrono adds Two-Factor Authentication to its iPad and iPhone-based EMR System
A view of Mars: the incredible 360-degree panorama from Curiosity
This is great, bordering on brilliant satire. I don't even want to think of how much effort was required to create this comment - but, there is at least one person, who really appreciated it.
This is very interesting, especially the peer-to-peer browser stuff. With all the attacks on pirate sites lately, it would be interesting to have a new playground for new P2P apps. Joe Soap would be able to get onto P2P by just opening a web page.
Well, stop saying. This is like arguing about the features of a lake when everyone else is playing in the ocean. Flash is proprietary and it doesn't run on mobile. These are both near show-stoppers in, and of, themselves. Combine the two and well, it doesn't matter what else it does.

Until flash runs on mobile and/or is an open standard, it won't be relevant to the future of the web most developers (myself included) want to build.
The Visual Revolution - Media Changes Everything
Equally f'd up is the fact that you cannot delete your Quora account. Seriously. Try searching for any such option in your settings page. They only have a "deactivate" option, and once you deactivate, you can reactivate anytime by just logging in again :)

Found this quora post:

http://www.quora.com/Quora-product/How-do-I-delete-my-Quora-...

According to a Quora engineer, it seems you can delete your account by emailing privacy@quora.com

Wow! This certainly sounds like something EFF (https://www.eff.org/) should try and do something about.
The World Deserves a Giant Rideable Hexapod
JS library for nice & clean dashboard gauges
Just listen to the news tonight and count how many times dramatic reports are immediately followed by "...independent sources say".
Just curious, any reason you don't install the dropbox client? You can selectively sync specific directories.

I keep all my code on a folder in Dropbox, and it's the only folder that I sync. (I don't want large images, PSD's, etc getting synced on my MB Air)
I agree with you, but in the context of American education, the parent is right. Whenever anyone talks about improving American education, unless they specifically say otherwise, they are talking about students who are struggling to learn. When they talk about relieving the students of the burden of calculation, they are not talking about the problem of kids who have mastered calculation problems being forced to do them over and over again ad nauseam. Nobody cares about those kids, because those kids get good grades and good test scores. What are the measurements that people talk about in education reform? The percentage of students with low scores. The percentage of students who drop out. The percentage of students who are not prepared for college. This is typical for discussion of American social issues; everything is problem-oriented and not success-oriented. Certain outcomes are labeled as failures, and reform is aimed at preventing them. Education reform is aimed at kids and schools who are "at risk" of producing undesirable outcomes. Kids who can do calculations accurately aren't even part of the conversation.

So, when anyone talks about relieving kids of the burden of calculation, they aren't talking about people such as yourself who have learned beyond the point of diminishing returns. They're talking about the kids who still struggle to do the calculations correctly. They want to give up and move on with the kids' education before the kids have learned. This is linked to a perennial fantasy in elementary math education: that intuition is valuable and easy, while computation is hard and unimportant. I think this fantasy is wrong on both counts. Intuition is acquired only through hard work and practice, and intuition is only valuable if you are competent to subject your intuition to scrutiny. Intuition and calculation have to be yoked together like a pair of oxen, each pulling the other along when it falters. But as long as teachers believe that intuition is easy, there will be people willing to exploit the fantasy by promising to deliver easy, intuitive learning experiences without the useless drudgery of calculation.
Cool, but why is this news? Hasn't it been up for a while now?
Joe Kubert, comic book artist on ‘Sgt. Rock,’ 'Tor,' 'Hawkman,' dead at 85
Node helps cut server cost, and client side load balancing
That's why dropbox app has an automatically synced folder. Just edit the files there, and they'll automatically be uploaded.

That's the entire point of the dropbox model. It's a folder. That syncs automatically. No crappy upload pages needed.
Cool. Will help with polyfill-ing :)
But it is broken.

No thread collapsing.
Screen readers don't work well here.
Renders poorly on mobile devices.
Economic Moats: Castles Aren’t The Only Things That Need Them
The comment-stalking is creepy, but posting content publicly that you explicitly post publicly isn't.
Not to mention that the assertions in this proposal are ridiculous:
"In reality, the number of items you can store in a folder is limited while computer folders have unlimited capacity"

So what? Who on earth is troubled by this? Weak attempt to create a problem where none exists.

"Another glitch is the possibility to store folders in folders which is not possible in real live."

Also wrong. It's quite possible to store folders in folders in real life. And you can put folders in boxes, which are nothing but a different-shaped folder. Again, this is a lame attempt to shore up a weak argument with sham "problems."
"And sending private messages in public is quite non-cool."

Exactly.
Fee-based Twitter vs. Ad-Supported Twitter is a false dichotomy. This smells like a PR stunt.

How about an open-source Twitter-like service that can run on your own server and federate with others? http://www.Status.net has offered this for several years now and they have done an outstanding job of creating a free and open alternative for status-feed based communication.
Hi. This mentality you have? I disagree.

Syntax benefits are not all about subjectivity. Anyone claiming this has effectively lost the plot and decided to go turtle in the discussion.
I would be very much interested in this. Infact, I wouldn't even mind paying a fee as long as your tutorials are more interesting then what I would read in a high level book
How I Reduce Information Consumption
Google Plans to Eliminate 4,000 Jobs at Motorola Division
Show HN: Mapping tool communities from The Setup (usesthis.com)
Using Markov chains for HTTP benchmarking
Thanks for the suggestions! I really appreciate you commenting on my work.

Those colored boxes are meant to serve as a legend for the graphs. Maybe I'll be better off with some tooltips on the horizontal bar instead.

I shrunk the boxes and put them all on one line for now. Thanks again for pointing that out. What I have now isn't perfect, but it's much better.

As far as categories and thumbnails go, I'm not sure that's the direction I'm headed. I don't want to replicate anything Kickstarter already does and I'd prefer to categorize things based on the data.

I'm working on applying a bit of the machine learning I learned from the Coursera class to predict success. If I can do that, I'll be the first to categorize the projects by probability of success.
Statistical analysis of the NYT blog about font credibility
Greg Kouri, PayPal co-founder, dies at 51
but slow.
Video Animation Intros for Startups
Hey guys, I have never done something like this but I guess now is a good time to start. I wanted to let you fine folk know about this service I provide, mainly to startups but I'm not limited in that sense. I make animated introductions to companies that go on YouTube, ready to be viral. Here is a sample of the work I've done recently:

* Pinterest(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuY_mjvbe40)

* Condo Control Central(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG0ADzpQ3No)

* Pie EDU(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMZGW4pWVTc)

* Love@School(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O22cxozpN4)

A bit more lengthy portfolio is listed here at [about.me/curt_jaimungal](about.me/curt_jaimungal). I pride myself on my communication, and speediness of my email replies. I'm also pretty adaptable to the art style chosen by the client, so let me know if there are any videos out there you want to mimick, or even draw me some idea of what you like. I can do my best to match it, or even exceed it!

If anyone has any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them! You can also email me for a personalized response, at the email listed on my portfolio page. Thanks!
David Foster Wallace's Kenyon College commencement address (2005)
nice! I want to learn how to build a simple iphone/android emulator running on the web, which I can drag drop elements into.
OS X Local Root Vulnerabilities via OpenVPN Clients Tunnelblick and Viscosity
Why Speculate When You Can Value Invest?
which should make it about 2016 when we can use it in IE
Take a look at our side project Switchboard: easy A/B testing for mobile

https://github.com/KeepSafe/Switchboard
It's open source

My co-founder Philipp is talking about this project at next week's Silicon Valley iOS Dev Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/sviphone/events/38752252/
It's not emacs (I guess it's "an emacs"). It's an editor that does syntax coloring, handles the core emacs keystrokes, and implements the subset of GNU emacs functionality that the author uses in a routine manner.

Right off the bat, I hit the following speedbumps:

+ No replace-regexp
+ No set-fill-prefix (or it's unbound)
+ Default fill prefix detection doesn't work like GNU emacs (e.g. no
way to fill a long paragraph with a prefix of "> " for quoting
email)
+ No ispell-word (or any spell checker) on C-$
+ C-x b tab doesn't give me the list of buffers I expect
+ No keyboard navigability in file selection dialog! I hit C-x C-f
and end up in this weird web 2.0 world where I'm (no joke) prompted to
"Drag files here".

So.. it's cute. But other than the author (or someone else willing to reimplement the bits of emacs they need) I don't see to whom it's going to appeal. Serious emacs users aren't the target demographic.
Very nice! I was seriosuly missing something like this, especially for my org-files. A few times a week I want to add or change something to my todo.org but I can't because I'm at some corporate computer. At the moment I try to remember and make my changes when I can, far from ideal.

My plan is to use parenscript to convert the org elisp code to Javascript and provide some extra functionality such as document export through a webserver running headless emacs. Any opinions on this idea? Could this be possible with YMacs?
Even if I doubted the veracity of the news, I would still be unhappy about even the concept of an "unremovable" screw on my Apple hardware and my comments would reflect my dissatisfaction with this idea itself, irrespective of veracity. By assuming that people talking on Google+, facebook, twitter, etc. are buying the idea hook, line and sinker, it ignores the likely possibility that some people may just be reacting to the idea itself and hope that their comments, along with the rest of the masses, would dissuade both Apple (in this hypothetical situation) or any company that would attempt a similar design in the future.
It's a great way to prevent money from being wasted on projects that have a low return on investment(IRR-internal rate of return). In other words only the projects that generate a sufficiently large return are feasible investments.
Buffet does not like to waste resources,time and money :)
Enforcing Different Passwords for Different Sites
The goals of Go, as stated in the 2011 I/O slides (http://golang.org/doc/talks/io2011/Writing_Web_Apps_in_Go.pd...):

- fun to work in.

- efficient - performance approaching C for CPU-intensive tasks,

- designed for modern hardware (multicore, networks),

- aimed at software such as web servers,

- ... but turned out to be a great general-purpose language.
you mean this? http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/
Ah. Sorry. I was talking about when I'm working in computer labs. Unfortunately, I can't download the client. Comment edited.
I can't help bit feel vindicated by moves like this because they're a sign that Quora isn't the Next Big Thing that many inside the bubble that is Silicon Valley seemed to think it is (eg [1]).

Actually Quora is better than that (for me) in that it's a double hit on the hype on both Q&A and social.

These kinds of moves:

- requiring login to view content;

- partially obscuring content on Google results to maximize sign-ins; and

- showing what you view to other people.

come across to me as a company coming off hype and approaching a crunch point. I believe now, more than ever, than Quora will end up an acquisition for Google or Facebook or will simply slide into irrelevance.

[1]: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/08/23/the-power-of-q...
Ha, that's a strange disadvantage of patents I'd never thought of. Do you think this happens much with patents outside of this example?
This is apparently a new feature, just launched a 2 weeks ago: http://www.quora.com/blog/Introducing-Views-on-Quora
>A system where pieces of data don't have unique identifier is going to be serious drag at some point

Reminds me of trying to organize/tag my mp3 library. Those fringe cases of imperfect tagging get so cumbersome to manage. Also, with folders, it's so easy to just dump x number of files into a folder and have it organized. Batch tag editing just isn't as intuitive. Now I have an Android and use that as my mp3 player, and Poweramp has a "Folders" view that I almost exclusively use.
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Groupon's Stock Crashes After A Revenue Miss
Anyone remember Belkin's fiasco of selling a router which would randomly replace webpage requests with ads for their products? Some do, and still won't buy Belkin anything due to trust destroyed. Same here: Quora may survive this, but many users will never go there for permanent lack of trust.
I had a hard time getting the swig bindings to work for me. Would you be willing to make a nuget package of that?
"Native Americans"... you keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Article author & submitter here: I wrote this post as self-assigned "homework" to push my (very amateur) statistics knowledge. It responds to an article that made HN last week, saying that font choice affects the believability of a claim. I've love to learn more about how to do this kind of analysis, so feel free to tear my post apart. :-)
Obvious Corp. backed Branch comes out of private beta
Saw something on HN a couple weeks ago.
http://mit.edu/~georgiou/www/vi/
Our infographic represents the universe of publicly available information, I sincerely do not believe a more factual account of what either candidate has said is possible. The only alternative would be take guesses as to how the candidates intend to augment or complete their plans. Noting that neither approach is perfect, when considering how to approach this problem we considered guessing to be inferior.
Posted 1 month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4209091

And 2 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862442

And 3 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=962562

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