skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By the time it's written and posted, the site has moved on to the next new thing.

I noticed this within the context of submissions and /new when I posted two blog posts of mine. Both posts were x000 words so minimum reading was over 3-5 minutes (average time on site was 1.5 minutes so not everyone read to the end).

Both times neither posts got any upvotes until half way down the first page. They were surrounded by topical submissions, news or etc. Stuff that either had a simple message in the title or was only a few paragraphs long.

Except a strange phenomenon occured when the posts fell to the second page, readership doubled. Whereas on the first page Google analytics real time reported 10-14 active readers this jumped to the low 20s. By this time the posts had received 5 upvotes. On page 1 they were maybe the 4-5th most upvoted submission but once they reached the 2nd page they stole 1st or 2nd place among their non-frontpaged peers.

The lesson I took away from this is that short or topical submissions have a strong advantage. It is easier and quicker for someone to decide to upvote. In same cases they may upvote without reading at all if the title is descriptive enough. Meanwhile people do like longer posts but reading a full essay is barrier to upvoting.
The headline is incorrect; this is Motorola suing Apple, not Google, which has happened before (as the article states).
On the one hand, lawsuits are bad and innovation is good. On the other hand, I'm happy to see Google defend its ecosystem against Apple's square-with-rounded-corner lawsuits.
That's totally fair.

Here, have an upvote. :)

EDIT: I changed the evaluation to not make the avg karma relative to total karma but instead to the median value of average karma of all users. The downside to this is that Median(AvgKarma) would need to be calculated quite often throughout the day because I doubt pg wants to pay for the resources to run that everytime someone votes.
New Linux Distro for Mobile Security, Malware Analysis, and Forensics
You are reading into what I said. Nowhere in it do I say design is easy. It's on a site where I say programming is hard, so why would I claim design is easy? Hell, I can barely barely do a passable design so why on earth would I claim it's easy. Design is hard as hell.

I'm saying, if you want to do web startups, and you can't get into coding, then TRY PUTTING YOUR EFFORTS INTO LEARNING TO DO DESIGN. See? No implication at all that it's easier or harder, just different.

Sheesh.
They are both on the scale of nanometers, but DNA uses a couple molecules per bit. Transistors are not that small yet.

3D vs 2D is also a good point, made by another in this page.
Not necessarily. I could pay for something and decide afterwards that it was in fact not worth it and ask for a refund or simply not fall for it again. If this happens it doesn't mean the first exchange of $50 delivered $50 of worth back to me.
I think they are strategically working towards that end. If they simply turned them off they'd be alienating Twitter users who use those apps and it would lead to lots of bad press.

Instead they're stunting their growth and signaling the beginning of the end.
Why Doesn't Twitter Rev-Share Ads?
Right.

I feel stupid that I did not realise this. I am a big fan of crunched binaries, actually. That guy at U of Maryland who introduced it to BSD in the early 90's is a software hero in my book. For Linux fans, I guess your hero would be Bruce Perens or whoever was behind Busybox.

Anyway I've learned something more about git from admitting my error. Thank you HN!
Literary Scripturism
You would still be able to comment and submit. Your voice would still be there. This would just test the hypothesis that people who have put themselves out there are more sympathetic to other people who have put themselves out there.
Or maybe it's a cunning plan to save western society by locking up all the courts and government?
Apple is waging a war by proxy on Google via attacks on Android handset manufacturers. They've mostly avoided direct engagement so far (which is smart, since Google isn't the one making money directly from Android), but it's obvious to anyone watching the overall swing of these lawsuits that Apple isn't waging war on HTC or Samsung as much as they are on Google and Android.
Yes. It's Motorola suing Apple and Not Google. Google, the current owner of Motorola has nothing to do with this. Just like Romney had nothing to do with what the other executives at Bain Capital did.
If there was any doubt about it in the past, it should be put to rest now.
How Future Autonomous Cars Will Change Travel – Driverless Cars (Part 2/6)
Could be either. Or even both. Is very hard to tell with cunning plans.
The comment that spurred my comment concerned the stability of DNA.

You have to remember that offspring are only going to have the best DNA passed down to them, since many mutations would result in non-functioning gametes or non-viable offspring.

The best example I can think of spermatozoa production. DNA is copied in that process and a large % of spermatozoa are non-functional.
You can parse languages that are not context-free. "Parse" just means that you figure out the structure of the file, the word has nothing to do with the techniques used.
There is a distinction.

With dilution the founders, who are more likely than you to have a say in what happens, are also likely to suffer that dilution. However in the incident that happened the founder didn't lose a dime.
> An analyst, customer, boss, or someone who is not a programmer, describes in words what they want the software to do.

That depends heavily on their words being in sync with both their actual vision in their head and your understanding of what those words mean.
If the company was sold for less than the investments (or not a lot more) and the employees really were fired, it likely represented no loss for the employees and perhaps a way to sweeten the deal for the acquirers. The employees don't see a loss, because their stock wouldn't pay out until after the investors got theirs (which may be at a minimum multiple). The acquirer has less risk because they can weed out anybody they don't want to bring along and the firing risk went to a defunct company.
HN starts with the elites. Elites make HN popular. Others join HN to be elite by proximity (or invested in). Elites leave.

This is the exact nature of an internet community that is successful. Thank god we (kind of) still have IRC.
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Are there any built in controls for spam/bot responses? This is something I have been contemplating adding to Turkee ( https://github.com/aantix/turkee ).
and why would they? It's not that they vowed to do no evil or something.
There are a handful of domains that host pretty shoddy content - poor research, poor writing, link-baity titles, bias, etc. Banning those might be too extreme. But it'd be nice if there was an A list and a B list and then a A and B list.

the A list would be carefully curated set of URLs proven to be of interest to the community (but a domain can easily be removed if they start getting too many bad stories); the B list would be everything else' the A and B list would be both.
The engineers and Facebook might have selected MySQL on merits. Or they might be stuck with trying to do the best with legacy choices. I don't know what the best solution is for them today, and it might not be either Postgres or MySQL.

If however you need to make a choice today for what database to use on a new project, then you should evaluate the choices instead of basing your decision on what might have been best for Facebook 8 years ago.

I'm not going to get into the technical differences here, because even if MySQL and Postgres were technically equivalent (and they aren't but I'll let you do your own research), I simply don't trust Oracle with the future of MySQL.
Right. Google and Motorola are too separate corporate entities.
Even though I'm generally in favor of moderately strong patent laws, this is starting to get ridiculous. The statute of limitations on these sorts of things should be 1-2 years max.
I don't think charging for API access will make them as much money as they want/need compared to being a media/ad company, that's probably the main reason. But, you're question did prompt me to ask my own:

Why doesn't Twitter rev-share their ads with 3rd party devs? http://gist.io/3383601
Apple has sued Google-owned Motorola and Android handset manufacturers, so yes. Now Google-owned Motorola is suing back.
Employment contacts can have a buyback option for any stock you own as soon as you leave the company at the original price or private 'fair market value' valuation price to avoid the '500 shareholders' problem as you churn through employees. If the '500 shareholders' problem doesn't exist in this case actually (I don't know myself), then they'll definitely use it as an excuse as to why they have it.

You effectively don't own your stock, and it doesn't let you move on after a year or two to something else and still keep the stock if you think the company will go somewhere.

I think skype did this to screw their employees out of their stock.

Before you start with a company, ask if they have this kind of clause!
I am no expert with du and all it's options and behaviours, but it's funny you mention the h, c and s ones because I did bother to learn and commit those three to memory long ago and routinely that combination.

I also use routinely use dd to get "exact" file sizes (yes, it's crude, but dd is on almost every UNIX-like system and it works), unless I have access to a good stat utility.
I see exactly one comment on your friends post and its rational.
I too ignored the video but did click the "learn more" button, and ended up reading to the bottom of the page. That's some good content, you shouldn't hide it behind a button.
Deutsche Bank Executive Claims Abuse by Los Angeles Police
> The way the Customs Service sees it: you claim that the package does not contain goods that are subject to customs or import duties.

That's independent of requiring my SSN though: they are going to examine it anyway. If it's subject to import duty, convert it to a "cash-on-delivery" package with the missing duty, or something like that. That's how it works in other countries.

This is a ridiculous big brother info grab; it has nothing to do with proper custom or import duty collection.
Free-falling Zynga needs fast turnaround
Google (through Motorola) is using Apple's tactics against them. Google/Motorola tried to do the same thing with Microsoft only to have Microsoft cry foul over FRAND (which isn't applicable in the case with Apple).

It is a dirty tactic but this is the system Microsoft and Apple and many other large tech companies lobbied for.
Facebook Shares Hit New Low as a Lockup Period Ends
I would like to see agree/disagree buttons -- no other voting site has this but I think it would solve the disagree=downvote / agree=upvote problem that Hacker News and Reddit have. By separating out the two options, you might get people more to upvote good comments and downvote poor comments.
Yeah, we'll do what we can to comply. If you're signed up and have your Twitter account connected you do get the reply/retweet functionality on hover. We like the calm of having no avatars, but we could add them (and see if we get busted if we let users toggle them).

The part that is tough for us is third party actions. It's specifically those actions we're excited to enable. So while we don't anticipate having to totally remove Twitter data, we do expect it to become less useful and integrated.

It's unclear how draconian Twitter wants to be. We'll do our best to work with them while refining and adding other services as a hedge against getting cut out.
Trulia Files to Go Public
Good idea. Although the highest European courts are already pretty busy sorting out other burning issues. Like VAT exemptions for golf-club non-members (http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/august/ecj-to-rule-o...)
You are right, but my reality is bogus. It's not normal to be spied upon, so it's no surprise downloads are bogus.

Everything in reality is rigged. You cannot pull this or that lever -- the levers are screwed-up. I don't even fuck with the levers any more. I made videos and shit and got 100 downloads in a day. No emails except nasty FBI ones. Download number must have been bogus and those were conservative download numbers filtering-out partial downloads.

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Trulia CEO Pete Flint on Zillow: ‘Question of time before we overtake them’
This is a good piece on why aggressive moderation is necessary to keep online communities from devolving into cesspools, even though it may attract cries of censorship:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/
Yeah RiderOfGiraffes is cool. He is still around but was sort of hostilely driven into retirement. He goes by ColinWright these days. You're most likely to find him in math related topics.

Don't have anything else constructive to say.
"Don't be evil" doesn't mean sit back and get sued to oblivion by your competitors like a selfless martyr.
Curiosity: Getting 2.5 Megalines of code to behave
nice stuff I will try it, but how is it going to work in The future? there is no information about this anywhere... maybe it's free for first adopters :) ?
Just because a solution is implemented with technology doesn't mean it can't be a people solution for a people problem. There are a number of technological changes that will target the psychology of the people, guiding them toward different behaviour. I agree that the proposals in this post don't seem to address the actual issues very well but I think it would be a mistake to completely disregard technology changes as an avenue for affecting people changes.
Yahoo Conducting a Search for a COO as No. 2 to Mayer
Doesn't Backlift have that?

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Give the database dude a break. Backlift offers a full back-end-as-a-service including:

Data persistence and validation that works with backbone's sync mechanism
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Looks pretty awesome, I'm thinking of playing around with it this weekend as well.
Sorry crranky and Dan Shipper, you’re both wrong
Looks like Motorola is trying with what seem to be non-FRAND related patents. (non 3G/4G related)

"Motorola Mobility unit said it filed a new patent-infringement case against Apple Inc. (AAPL) claiming that features on some Apple devices, including the Siri voice-recognition program, infringe its patents.
The complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission claims infringement of seven Motorola Mobility patents on features including location reminders, e-mail notification and phone/video players"

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-17/google-s-motorola-f...
Cole from backlift here. It's a temporary limitation. We just haven't integrated other template libraries yet. If you shoot us an email at support at backlift.com with the template library you use, we'll prioritize it.
This adds to a long list of projects like Turkit (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/turkit/) that try to patch over the ease of use / spam / quality holes in Mechanical Turk.

Better platforms than Turk exist today that handle this functionality out of the box. Building more solutions like this isn't a great use of engineering time!
WTF with people still quoting FOSS Patents Florian Mueller... that guy can be bought easily. He has no integrity
I suspect the fact that this is happening signals Google's approval.
Yes, I know. I was referring to the earlier case against Microsoft concerning h264 patents. I didn't mean to imply the same thing would happen here. I edited the post in an attempt to make it clear.
I'm not sure whether this is a good or bad thing, but most sites (including HN) with partially-automated moderation systems make the same assumption:

*You only need one "karma" variable, for both posting and moderation*.

That is, users who post popular content (i.e. comments that get a lot of upvotes) and those who moderate well (i.e. votes strongly-correlated with those of the admins) are rewarded in exactly the same way, that is by increasing the value that unified "karma" variable.

IMHO this is not the best approach. For every prolific poster (who probably has decent karma already) you probably have 10 "lurkers" who have read most stories posted in the last month, know what they do (and don't) want to read, and are just as well-qualified to vote on stories and comments as those who regularly post comments (and earn karma from them.)

So what would happen if you made "posting karma" and "moderation karma" independent of each other?

(sort of a trick question, since it has been done.)
Can't have a settlement without at least the threat of a suit, and "Let's just talk it over." probably did not get Apple's attention.
Same here, on Kubuntu 12. It didn't work on the default rekonq browser, but it looks great in Firefox.
Ask HN: What do you like about the Hacker News community?
Apropos of the usual angst about whether or not Hacker News is degrading as a community, I thought I would emphasize the positive by asking what you like about the community that brought you here in the first place and has kept you here till now.

I was brought here by reading Paul Graham's essays on his personal website. Way back in 2003, a local friend recommended that all of the parents in my homeschooling support group read pg's essay "Why Nerds Are Unpopular." She seemed to know of pg's name from his contributions to the Internet research community (of which she was part), but I had never heard of him. I read and thought about the essay, and in 2005 a friend recommended that I read "What You'll Wish You'd Known," which I have since recommended to each of my children as they approach high school age, and have often recommended to friends. As I heard about more Paul Graham essays, I learned to browse around his personal site and at some point followed a link to "News," which links here. At first I only lurked on what was then called Startup News, but by November 2008 I had an account here, which has become quite active. I was drawn here by Paul's interest in education policy, a passionate interest of mine since 1972, but I have found other interesting topics to discuss here.

What brought you here? What do you like about Hacker News?
Not linking to original sources. Is this poor journalism, or market strategy?

(see @jorleif's post here for the links)
Forget about Apple and Google's vendor lock-in strategy. The American Bar Association has something better up its sleeves to get paid regularly.
Check out what some 11-13 girls built at camp
Yes, I look at the ask link from time to time to see what is posted here. Just now, I followed the ask link to see where my latest submission is. In that submission I ask Hacker News participants what they like about the Hacker News community. I'd be glad to hear your thoughts about that in that thread.

AFTER EDIT: I still don't understand, at all, the posting order here on the ask page. I can see new "ask" postings on the new page that appear nowhere here. I'm not sure what the ordering rule actually is for posts on the ask page.
Pg: here is an idea I have been keeping inside me for over a decade:

User-account reputation karma.

Based on the voting system that slash of had, but on the character of the account rather than the comment the account made. Here is how it works:

You have your comment up down arrows, then username, then a drop down to mark the character of the account at the time they made the post.

So you could see a comment by samstave and upvote/downvote it, and then also tag my character as [insightful|helpful|abrrasive|troll] etc (whatever the tags are you want to make)

These tags affect the overall account. So if I were tagged by a ton of people as a troll account the more troll votes I get, the worse my account experience is... And eventually too many could lead to hellban.

On the other end, having a very high positive account character would make for a better experience - see stories esrlier, be able to affect other accounts in some way etc. or just a leader board of who is the most technical, helpful, insightful, innovative etc...
If you view-source on this release you can see a vim.js file is included with vim bindings. I was able to activate them by setting a breakpoint in chrome on line 2098 of codemirror.js and typing this in the console:

CodeMirror.defaults["keyMap"]="vim"

Presumably there will be a better way to turn them on in the future.
Why does this surprise anyone? Did anyone really think a company built on virtual farming, and cloning any new games that popped up without regard to employee morale was a great long-term bet?
So, presumably a lobbyist working at the EU now has a new golf membership.
Just because it's a funny quote doesn't make it any less of a non sequitur...
I wonder why such a phenomenon occurs, when five of the commandments have nothing to do with morality.

Also, in the Army we had the Warrior's Ethos, the Army Values, the Soldier's Creed, and the Creed of the Non-Commissioned Officer crammed down our throats daily. While are some awesome people in the Military, I've run into just as many dishonorable people as I have in the general population.
In a perfect world Apple, Google, Samsung, HTC, Motorola and Blackberry achieve what they wanted - none of them can produce or sell mobile devices anymore in any country. Meanwhile Nokia restarts production of quality hardware and puts WebOS on them with compatibility layer allowing to use legacy iOS and Android applications, taking over the leader position...

(In a Bizarro World, it's Siemens bringing back Symbian)
Or, don't post a link that goes directly to a page requesting Facebook access.
>To store the same kind of data on hard drives — the densest storage medium in use today — you’d need 233 3TB drives, weighing a total of 151 kilos.

But hard drives aren't the densest storage medium in use today. A microSD card can hold up to 64 gigabytes and is 0.5 grams. 700 terabytes would be only 5.6 kilograms.
I hope it allows for a "light" theme as well. Not all coding is done on dark backgrounds
Hey whit,

So my understanding is the payment service is more settled now. What will be the focus for the upcoming weeks? What is the next major feature?

Thanks for this great platform!
huh, I've been wondering the same thing lately. I'm curious how these recent moves will affect companies that do similar things by offering "tweet ads" like 140Proof. Will twitter disallow 3rd party apps/clients from displaying other ad networks' ads as part of their display TOS, effectively killing those companies main business model?
I went to a good school for CS, and some of the professors did work for private industry and interesting research, and why hardware like this can seem so dated came up a few times. One professor worked doing formal verifications of hardware and such things. (for example, Toyota might want something close to formal, mathematical proof that the chips and software in their car can never cause uncontrolled acceleration.)

Basically, if you dump a lot of money into making sure something works, and works exactly as intended, as long as it does and can do the job, you don't change anything. You don't stick in one extra memory chip without redoing your formal verifications and tolerance testing, etc. Very expensive people will have to run very expensive processes to prove that even the most minor change doesn't compromise certain key properties when you can't afford for those properties to be compromised for any reason whatsoever.
What are the platforms that you're referring to?