skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with all the dissent posted here.

And also, doesn't Twitter's extreme attention on embedded tweets lately underscore how little they care about screenshots? Not to mention the fact that while they have, as the post suggests, resorted to timestamps on individual pages, they are still using relative timestamps in the main stream.

As a user, I prefer relative time. And since relative time views are almost always displayed in sequence, most of the arguments laid out in the post fail to matter.
Yeah, thanks for the heads up. Just set up CloudFlare, so hopefully the stress level will be going down.
The tone of the original article isn't as relevant as that's not as directly a part of the community as the comments here.

If the article doesn't belong, then it should be flagged, right?
I know nothing about this, but this is interesting:
http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/141439/the-unofficial-comp...
I just meant long enough for the benefit of hindsight. How will the corpus of Web 2.0 investments look. That's what I'm getting at.
Google has put so much effort into speed over the last 10 years that they can't perceptively improve much in this department going forward. So DDG's target is relatively stationary and closing the gap may be expensive but is at least straightforward.
More to the point, anything that can be trivially and legally copied should not be their only product, be it hardware or software. Open source is great -- I love it, write it, and have contributed -- but on it's own, it's not a viable business model in the long term.
According to the CCC FAQ Laptops have been stolen in the past
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>"In addition to my daytime job, programming had also crept into my nights and weekends as I took up the hobby of iOS development. The interesting thing about this hobby is that not only did it help use up my spare time, it also helped use up my spare dreams. I didn’t have to aspire to a bigger job in a bigger city, because at any moment one of my apps was going to hit it big and then everyone would be working for me."

This passage really resonates with me. The concept of dreams as a resource is a useful one and I'd never thought of it. When I joined HN, I was in a similar kind of situation. Running an EFL supplementary school in Taiwan, I had a sense of accomplishment, some prestige and likely a solidly growing income for as long as I chose to stick with it. But not only did it consume 60-70 hours a week of my time, it also consumed my dreams. It would have been really easy to stay there and not think much about doing anything more.

What changed my direction was PG essays, some of which I read on reddit and some of which I read here. Since I was so heavily invested in my business in Taiwan and nearly all of my best friends were there, it took me time to finally take the plunge, end that chapter of my life and move into the tech world. It hasn't been very easy, as some of you may have seen me post on here before, but it is invigorating. The three tasks of hunting for work, working and upgrading my work skills are using up my time, but not my dreams.
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I've been using DDG mainly on principle. As a search engine, I've found it to be less robust than Google. My searches tend to be highly specific, too, so my inability to learn all the keywords hasn't helped.

Nevertheless, I've only been using Google as a last resort, at a rate of perhaps twice a day. I think DuckDuckGo's cause is important.
http://daemoniclabs.com/
It would be interesting then to do a Hacker News meetup, at least in Toronto, and we can reminisce on the recent HN front page articles. How great would that be? Thanks for the inspiration patio11. +1. Any one here from Toronto?
Not every website is in English.
It's all legal. What you're really asking is whether Parker Brothers (or whoever publishes Monopoly nowadays) could sue you and win. To which my non-lawyer answers would be: yes, yes, and most likely.The longer it would take to demonstrate the similar, the better your chances; in other words, the more you tweak and change the rules, the more it becomes your own thing.
I've found I add !gi to my search string subconsciously nowadays, when I know I want to perform an image search, whereas before I would enter my search terms, wait until google had loaded its results and then hunt for the images link to get the full image search results.

In some way it's 'trained' me to perform more targeted searches from the outset.

The slight lag before getting results is noticeable though.

I'm going to stick with the upstart for the moment nevertheless.
That would explain how they did it in a weekend :) "Ho-va, Ho-va..."
Wow. Cool story. I assume you've seen the PBS special "Alone in the Wilderness"
The Tokyo meetups -- which take me about 3 hours to get to -- generally are some of the most fun I have all month. I strongly recommend starting something like that for your area if there isn't anything -- meeting people in the flesh is very worthwhile, too.
In Firefox 14.0.1 on Mac, I can’t type the colon ‘:’ in http://typing.io/lesson/clojure/clojure/zip/1 or the underscore ‘_’ in http://typing.io/lesson/ruby/rails/relation/1. I also can’t use caps lock to type USAGE in http://typing.io/lesson/shell/git/git-mergetool/1. But I think moonboots already knows about these problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4419357.
The AEI is a laughingstock in economic circles, and the paper you cite is a good example of the reason why. The authors do not say that more people are buying cars and houses, but argue that there is greater "housing consumption", a catchall term they use to cover rentals along with the accumulated value of detritus like hand-me-down appliances. The authors also redefine the idea of conventional housing to start including things like mobile homes and trailer parks in the mid-1980s.

Their "income" figures are equally shoddy since they include government transfers through programs like food stamps as part of the "market income" of poorer people by calculating the value of these products and services as if they were bought using salary. Leaving aside the morass of problems with the way this approach leads to grossly inflated aggregate income and is clearly intended to deflect from more accurate claims that most market wages are stagnant, their approach is totally off-topic in any discussion about the state of the labor market: what kind of jobs are available to young people; what those jobs pay in salaries and benefits; and what people can afford to purchase given those incomes.

You should also ask yourself why the authors go through such contortions to count things like rentals as purchases and IMPLY that housing is clearly affordable when there is a perfectly straightforward and universally-applicable measure of real estate affordability in the rent/buy ratio? The only reason the AEI does not use this statistic is that it is inconvenient, showing that housing costs have risen significantly across the United States in response to the housing bubble which started in the 1990s, Prices have still not collapsed even close the levels enjoyed by previous generations. So housing is NOT more affordable for people today than in the past. It is in fact significantly more expensive pretty much everywhere except Las Vegas:

http://money.cnn.com/real_estate/storysupplement/price_to_re...

Finally, since you explicitly make the claim that health care coverage has improved in your MRI/backpain comment and suggest that this is what people are spending their money on instead of cars and houses, it is interesting that the AEI paper explicitly excludes health care costs in its panegyric on how well-off American workers are, noting that "we exclude from consumption out-of-pocket health expenses because they are not closely tied to well-being." In other words, they realized that including basic health care expenses as income makes people relatively worse off now as compared to the past.

On a final point -- it is worth commenting that your other link to the labor participation rate shows the exact opposite of what you claim: the average labor participation rate is visibly much higher throughout most the 1980s than at present, except for a brief crash during the 1982 recession. If 2008 was anything like 1982, the participation rate now would be well into the 60s again and growing.
Read the classics (preferably with a group): Pragmatic Programmer, Clean Code... (there's others, lil help?)
Yeah, I'm saving tags and all the other metadata like location in the DB. It's exposed via the API right now. It'll get added in to the UI sometime next week, hopefully.
Hmmm, I don't think so. I did a pretty good job of avoiding... everyone during that period of my life. It's only in recent years that I've realized that there are better ways to operate than being a complete hermit-weirdo.
Interesting. Is it just me or does their new logo seem to suggest that Microsoft has given up on trying to be anything other than Windows?
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I'm not a lawyer but I found some links that might interest you so I hope this helps.

An interesting link about this : http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2011/12/22/patenting-board-games-1...

Also the paragraph about Monopoly on its Wikipedia page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_board_game_Monop...

This seem to indicate that a board game can be patented not only on its design or its name but also on its rules. So this seem to show that you cannot decide to take your favourite board game, "digitalize" it and just change the name and be of the hook.

The same seem to apply to Games on TV where channels pay rights to make their own version of the game in another country for example/
I'm taking the Stanford Coursera class on Machine Learning with Andrew Ng, and I wholly recommend it. It just started this week, so it's not too late to join if this blog post has whet your appetite and you're looking for more.

https://class.coursera.org/ml-2012-002/class/index
I lived in the KC area (Overland Park) for a short while and loved it. The people are friendly, there is loads to do, and it's cheap to live there. The downsides for me were the lack of startup software jobs and the weather, tornados specifically.

Now I'm here in SF and paying double the rent for a place half the size of my place in KC, seeing something like this is very intriguing. Especially since I'm trying to bootstrap my own startup and feeling a bit lost in a sea of Silicon Valley startups!
Can someone explain me why do they have that strange blue windows logo at the bottom of the page?

http://i.microsoft.com/global/ImageStore/PublishingImages/lo...
http://res1.windows.microsoft.com/resbox/en/Windows%207/main...

I mean, it's not the current Windows 8 logo, nor the Windows 7 logo. It's a merge of both worlds: Old logo with Win8 colors.

Are they planning to change it in the very last second? (I don't think so) Or do they want to make a slow transition between the old and the new Windows logo?

Or... probably, according to Occam's razor, someone just failed to put the right logo there.
I wish! I meant people IN the Twin Cities.
Can't we just display both? 2012-08-23 1PM (2 hours ago)
Yep, Gmail shows both and it works well!
This would be a valid argument for not persisting dates as relative values.

It isn't an valid argument against presenting dates this way.

The OP's POV seems, to my eye, driven by the fact that primitive screen-scrapers can't just run a simple "toDate" function to provide it, API style, to some back-end. But it doesn't mean that it's not possible to convert them - it's not even that hard.

Fortunately, UI designers care more about their actual users than satisfying 3rd party leeches.
You aren't the first to mention that, and it's a good point. But I am not just day dreaming when I'm not looking at my phone or whatever. I spend a lot more time with people these days, and I'm loathe to pick the damned thing up when I'm with them.
Meanwhile FB Android app is still unusably slow and bug-ridden. It's just not acceptable for someone who wants be perceived as a strong technology company.
I disagree. I think the date should be there so I know exactly when it happened. This is especially critical in realtime systems. I have seen some horrid relative date instances. On Pinterest, for example, I have seen "about a year ago". Really?
Of course it is both legal and right. Don't make things open source then expect them to not be cloned. The benefits of open source are that it is not only makerbot that is contributing to the design it is the community. The downside? The community owns it.
Not to hijack further but 'troll' is technically fine there.

troll ... 4.(intransitive, fishing, by extension) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling; to lure fish with bait. [from circa 1600]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troll#Verb
The point of the comment was that relative differences are decreasing, and the comment used anecdotal evidence to support the contention. I pointed out that the anecdotal observation was flawed. The definition of middle class itself is relative, and the current trend is downward toward poverty rather than upward toward business class.
I really hope I can go to this! Yay for Basho, very exciting company.
What about things like,

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=frequency+of+letters+in+The+quick+brown+fox+jumps+over+the+lazy+dog
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=days+between+6%2F22%2F1979+and+10%2F5%2F1979
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hn+duckduckgo+interview
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+xml_parser_create+example
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=currently+in+theaters
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=msft
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=currency+in+panama

The only one I think Google does better is "currency in panama" however it also gets the information wrong in the "zero click" answer. The only reason I like that result more is the Wikipedia answer on the right is just more appealing to my eye.
If you figure out how to do that without it being an account setting option, you let me know.
Mechanics are not protected by U.S. copyright. A specific description of those mechanics (aka "text of the rules") is.

Monopoly is a TradeMark and Bonopoly is (I bet a jury will agree) confusingly similar.

The line is, if you get the attention of someone big (or big headed) they will sue and or threaten to sue. Even if you are legally in the right it will probably not be in your financial interests to defend yourself.

So,
- Don't be a dick.
- Do not use any names, art, design from the original.
- Don't do this for profit. It will never be profitable.
- Make your electronic version, but be prepared to dump it when you get cease and desist order.
I think that Facebook has enough resources that they should go native. But I also don't think that HTML5 is as bad as Facebook has made it look (having made an HTML5-native hybrid app myself), and I think it's still a valid choice for smaller outfits.

That said, my greater concern isn't performance on HTML5, it's interface. iOS, Android and (particularly) Windows Phone have very defined UI metaphors and design styles that vary a lot- if you have to replicate all of them then it removes a great deal of the benefit of a cross-platform app.

The answer may be, weirdly, in C#, using MonoTouch and MonoDroid. You'll always have to tailor UI to each OS, but having an entirely consistent backend to that UI is an attractive option. I just haven't managed to convince myself to drop the cash on a license yet, though.
10.8.2 is out in pre-release: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/23/apple-mountain-lion-10-8-...
A device designed to bring 'computer-phobes' into the digital age!
Why would you ever use `abbr` with `title` instead of `time` with `datetime`?
Hacker News has provided me a much-needed view into the business tech world that it is nearly impossible to get elsewhere.
You underestimate how much of your social interaction comes from your coworkers. I've been remote for 3 years now, and my social network has atrophied to nothing, with the exception of some superficial interactions on facebook with people I used to see every day. To be fair, I have been traveling pretty consistently since I started this arrangement, and nobody wants to be friends with a transient. I mostly cope by working out several hours per day, but I'm at the end of my rope and all I really want is to settle down (as soon as I find a mid-sized city with year-round perfect weather, cheap cost of living, and a thriving community of creative technical professionals ;)

edit: That being said, I'm not sure I would be able to return to regular office work and all the social posturing that comes along with it.
I dislike when an author titles and formats their post in this way. The title is an overstatement about why something that is common practice is wrong ("hey! i use relative dates, what am i doing wrong?"), leading to an article with a couple interesting points, ending with a concession that common practice is actually OK but could be better.

I agree with others that the argument is pretty weak considering twitter screenshots are one of three reasons why we should avoid relative dates. But i would have felt it genuine if the thesis was his last sentence: "Avoid displaying relative dates, but if you feel like you absolutely need to, follow these best practices: ..."
Yeah, absolutely there is a great tech scene in the TC area. I tried to paint MN and my former employer in as good of a light as I could while concurrently throwing them under the bus and using them as the bad guy in the story.
All treatments are fully funded. Wow, that's an awesome job folks (both Watsi and Hacker News)
This would work well for applying to jobs that aren't advertised or that they don't know they need yet. Some specific comments:
1. Do you remember CS?-- this sets up a possible "No." reaction in the reader's mind (is it a given that ALL readers of this cover letter will have taken CS courses?.
2. "I can honestly say" is a hackneyed phrase - it's not that bad, in fact it only sticks out a little because of the rest of the letter which has so much personality shining through it. Cliches and stock phrases are personality-smotherers.
3. If you're applying to a specific job you'd have to work it in, or else it would feel a little disconnected, as if you're mass-mailing this.
4. Did you leave that typo in as an ironic comment on your bug-slaying superpowers? "give up unitl"
I can appreciate that. The question wasn't intended to be, "What game can I rip onto Android?" as much as it was, "If I make a game, how certain do I have to be that the mechanics don't exist already?"

Obviously, if I use a different name, artwork, and rule set there isn't really a problem.
Most of your complaints are flatly wrong. And some of them were never even accurate.
it's highly dependent on niche, type of product, price, etc. Really, since conversion optimization is a never ending process, you should just be comparing conversion rates over time as you make changes and tweaks.

Also, conversion rate is just one side of the coin. Churn and lifetime value are just as, if not more important to be concerned with.
Not for me (Firefox/14.0.1 on Windows 7)
Cyrus Farivar from Ars Technica here. Would you be willing to talk more about your thoughts on this? Email me: cyrus.farivar@arstechnica.com. Thanks!
Right. I certainly wasn't suggesting to improve and publish someone else's copy without their permission. I meant for you to polish their copy and then approach them with it. Some may see it as weird or rude, but probably not if you broach the subject correctly. You wouldn't want to come of as a comment troll nitpicking minor grammar mistakes. You are doing them a favor – providing your editing and writing services for free. But hopefully they would agree to provide a reference or testimonial, and maybe they would pay you to do more. Execution is key. If clients just came to you, you probably wouldn't be asking.
This sounds like more of an argument for why you shouldn't be distributing stuff in the form of screenshots (although the horrendous entropy of the web is a compelling argument in favour of that, I realise).
This is brilliant! What a great cause. I have a few questions for you on the technical side:

- What did you code this in?

- How many developers did you have?

- How long did it take you?

- What kinds of problems did you encounter on the way?

Congrats on the launch.
This Machine destroys EVERYTHING
Ask HN: What are the first 6 months like in a startup incubator?
I am trying to get a startup going. I am wondering how people have managed their $20K investment from incubators and how long it takes to get VC funding.

I have very little savings and am tyring to plan my next few months. I'll be in Portland and am not sure how long it will be before a seed round or series A. Thanks!
I'm all for driving the price down on 3d printing hardware and getting it into more hands but the way he keeps saying trust is ringing my scam alarm.

$500k is enough to retire on for some.
Lot's of love for relative dates, but personally, I agree with the poster. Here's an example from HN:

user:	run4yourlives

created: 2012 days ago

Got any idea how long I've had an account for? I sure as hell don't, because 2000 days is a completely irrelevant measurement to me.

It would be a lot cleaner just to say that I've been around here since 19 Feb, 2007.

I think this is a bigger point than just the dichotomy between dates. If you are trying to make them mean something, make them mean something. 2 hours ago is fine, but 23 days ago is most certainly not. Was that a weekend? A morning? Last Tuesday after work? Who knows.

Actual dates work for longer periods of time, relative much better for shorter frames. Stick to this, for the love of God please.
I concur. I do think the "5 minutes ago" type of message should be shown first, with the detailed date/time in brackets afterward. What the users want/need is probably the key driver in this kind of UX decision though.
One of the author's points is that relative dates discard information. 10:37 and 10:36 are both encoded as "9 hours ago," and therefore you can't map back to absolute dates without potentially losing order.
This totally depends on context. For example, on HN, relative dates are great, it is much easier to see how old posts are at a glance. However, anything where date is important, use the full representation.

The more interesting question is, what is the best (easiest to read) way to format a full date? I believe it is: 8/1/2012 10:10:48 PM. I find twitters format slower to read: 10:10 PM - 1 Aug 12.
If you can recognize cases where timestamps are important, you should be able to recognize cases where they aren't, too. Why does it matter exactly when a Pinterest item was pinned? Answer: for the vast majority of cases, it simply doesn't.
I think Phill Torrone hits the nail on the head: The problem isn't that the's copying a device, it's that he's relying on the trademark of the original developer to sell his "new" version, without substantially describing how he's going to improve the device, while maintaining the high quality and solid support of MakerBot.
If not for an HN "Who's hiring" post I'd probably still have my safe job writing internal apps for an insurance company in Albuquerque; instead I'm back living in beautiful San Diego (my favorite city) and I get to see the ocean every day on my drive to my current awesome job. So add me to the list of people for whom HN changed their life. :)
Like Kiva, it would be good to also list the "sponsor" (read: 501(c)(3) name) on the patient's profile/donation page. If that sponsor name also included a link to a basic sponsor profile page showing further sponsor information, that would be a step in the transparency direction for me. I'm hesitant to donate until I see which charity is sponsoring the person who needs treatment.

EDIT: I dug through the pages and found a link to a Google Spreadsheet doc with basic information regarding the sponsor for each patient. This is one area I would definitely improve into a sponsor link on each patient's donations page. But all-in-all, great stuff!!