skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've built something very similar - http://www.mailerforge.com/ athough it does allow text and images to be added to a resizable canvas and creates a 'mobile-friendly' version.

I've not had much luck getting traction though, the people I show it to either prefer to build their own inhouse or just use a mailchimp/campaign monitor template and adapt that.
Good catch. I forgot that part.

The more I hear from the jury the more it sounds like they first decided "Apple good. Samsung bad." and filled in the rest from there.
thanks! gonna fix that later
Mass Effect's Extended Cut is basically 100% video and sound content, though, which is why it's so big.

It's certainly less complex than any of the expansions to The Elder Scrolls series.
Let's start together with obviously silly ones:

1. Cat pic "aggregator" & search engine.
How Two Amateur Sleuths Looked for FinSpy Software
Do you really want to handle error conditions in a resumey way far further up the stack? I'd expect most cases are either handle the error close to the cause, or a single application-wide handler (which could be provided with dependency injection).

The condition handling approach just seems too magic to me. It seems to mean the "inner" code calls another method defined somewhere else - but that "somewhere else" is defined by the call stack, something that's not really very visible in the code.
True, but just the act of forcing yourself to come up with 10 new ideas, seems like something that could be valuable. In fact, that's probably the most useful part of this article.

I might just give it a try, to see how it goes. I'll start a list of ideas, and try to add 10 new (unique) ones to it every day. I'm guessing after about day 2, it'll be hard to come up with 10 new unique ideas, that aren't just ridiculous.

By day 3, it'll probably look like:

1) Start a service to let people launch the remains of their deceased pets into orbit.

2) an Android app that makes Farting noises (probably already exists)

3) a YCombinator clone

4) Something that combines the best elements of Slashdot, XKCD, 4chan, and Ebay.

5) An AS/400 compatible RPG environment, to let businesses move off of (expensive) iSeries hardware and onto commodity Linux boxes without expensive porting costs.

6) A bitcoin marketplace for cat pics
We don't have to imagine how big cats would scale, big cats exist; cats much bigger than men. I don't think a lion or tiger could jump over a backboard.
(Eight years at Google here.) It's changed a lot over the years and has certainly disappointed me many times, which any xoogler can also tell you. But every time I've considered leaving I've been unable to imagine some other work that gives me the same combination of high freedom and good compensation.

I've also seen the occasional person pull a michaelochurch. I've been lucky in that my random fun hacks have been seen as valuable work for the company. I could imagine things not working out under different circumstances (there's a large wing of the company working on boring Java apps that I don't think I'd enjoy). With that said, everything has a risk factor to it and the number of michaelochurches seems pretty low to me.

I think there are some things Google is very good at (giving you powerful toys) and others it's very bad at (launching products where UX matters, for example; maybe Marissa's departure will help there), so perhaps it also can depend on what sort of person you are.

(All the above and most of the other comments are engineer perspectives. Other non-technical positions, like reviewing ads for bad words, are reportedly much more variable on the awful spectrum.)
I tried loading this on my android tablet running chrome and it worked reasonably well. The initial load took a moment to load all those images but after that I did not have any real issues scrolling. I am honestly surprised by reports from others that this webpage brought their machines to a near crawl especially since it worked fine on my tablet.
What I think works is being totally forthcoming about problems, risks, etc. in the past and present, but maybe being a bit optimistic about future possibilities. i.e. "This quarter our sales were down 10%, but we think it was due to reason x, and we have strategy y in place to address that. We will be monitoring closely and adjust as needed.".

You don't want to say "there wasn't a problem", but you also don't want to say "sales went down, we have no idea why, we're just going to continue" or "sales went down, we're doomed."
How to catch a tumbling, aging satellite
Where have you got your "5% of them make a claim with average cost £5000" figures from?

Are employee costs included in the £10 million for misc fees?

I would think you'd also have to make an allowance for fraud (both in terms of write-offs and fighting it).

The biggie: How many drivers aged 17-22 are there in the UK, and how much will you have to spend on advertising to get 500,000 of them to sign up?

£125 million + £10 million is not £130 million.
That's a really interesting approach. Basically mining a couple of key features from the data set, and plugging it into a supervised learning algorithm. The really cool thing is the simplicity of the features used, just daily activity and daily playtime.

The write up of the methodology is very clear, but I'd love to see some more description of the results. Ninety-five percent accuracy is a pretty bold claim, and I'd love to see some ROC curves to back it up!
I'm trying to decide, which has changed the world most.... the printing press, or computers... In the end, I think I may just pick flushing toilets.
The fact that a government would want a Google-free tablet makes complete sense, yet a quick search tells me nothing about any other of this type of initiatives.

Has any other country gone the same way, even without going as far as providing a consumer version ?
Everyone out there needs some kind of cult, with which they can associate. This happens in every sphere of life. After the information revolution, everyone is exposed to the major success stories in the current times. So it becomes really easy to fall in a cult associated with those success stories. This is not a weakness nor it is bad. It is just how we are.

When you add above phenomena with easy access to development tools and free tutorials that can teach you how to make a simplistic app in a matter of days, then what follows is adaptation/modulation of currently successful ideas on a grand scale. This is what we're a seeing right now. Everyone thinks they can make a social app and make it big, because since the success of Facebook, even when many startups have failed to get going on the social front, there a still a few who've made it big and that is just enough to strengthen the cult. So as long as we don't see a real disruption, kind of a wake up call from the sleep, the prevalent cult of the time would sustain and keep sucking in a fraction of the intellectual talent on Earth at any given time.

But we don't need to worry. As Scott Adams says, the advance of human civilization has always been due to a minority and not because of the majority.

The majority will keep going through the motions of our current times. While a select few would lead us to new directions.
Why isn't this on the front page?? Seems massively important to me...
10 years gone: The VA Linux Systems IPO
I never see the problem that it's supposed to solve - but I do see development and runtime slowdown. I suspect the start-up opportunity lies in taking down companies that use middleware, by doing the same thing they do but without the middleware.
This reminds me of a game I used to play as an intern with other interns to kill time. Someone would pick a Wikipedia article deep down in the bowels of Wikipedia and we would race to the article from Wikipedia only using links. We could get the article surprisingly fast, most within only 5 intermediate page visits from the homepage.
Great answer. I'm left wondering if the solution is more complex than the problem.
As they describe in the page, when you describe something, you are trying to place it within a general framework.

In trying to describe a domain in an encyclopedia, it does little good to use language specific to the domain. If your reader doesn't know what Biology is, it's little use trying to describe it in terms of Microbiology and Immunology. You have to use more general language.

There are are few words more general and meaningless in our language than "organization".

edit - grammar
I can't replicate it, but I encountered a weird bug. I entered "Star Trek" and hit Enter. The suggested items list appeared and I clicked on "Star Trek". Page titles appeared as normal, but everything appeared twice, like so:

Star Trek
Star Trek
Cinema of the United States
Film
Cinema of the United States
Recording
Data
Level of measurement
Film
...etc until the last page title, "Reality"

Seems like two processes were running in parallel and outputting to the same stream.
One look at the Go standard library contradicts this. Go is perfectly adequate for abstraction.
I think there is a good question in here somewhere:

Is it better for startups to monte carlo (and/or) genetic algorithm style variations on a theme to find the best way, or is it better try find something truly different to create and push the state of the art into a new area?

And of course, that brings up the meta-question: did I just propose a false dilemma, are the two things really different?
Kangaroos don't run. :)
How Are You Going To Get Customers?
That loops between philosophy and preposition.
I love where he says the kernel is about a year away from being finished. :)

The interviewer mentioned public domain a couple of times, but Stallman explained how he used copyright+licenses to ensure improvements were passed on as free software. This is pre-GPL, so it's historically interesting to see the transition from public domain to GPL free software.
Epistemology reigns supreme.
NASA funds supersonic bi-directional flying wing aircraft
I was promised internet money!
How to get every article you write on the front page of a social news website: Exaggerate your headline to the point of absurdity. Write a list of agreeable platitudes in big font which fail to support your exaggerated title. Write some loosely related text underneath your platitudes.

So how can you win every startup competition you enter? #5 says to enter lots of competitions.
Apple Worked A Broken Patent System
The Russian customers are most likely the Russian government, military and civilian.
How does Lucene work under the hood?
Maybe someone on HN can invent something that shocks you when you type the wrong command instead! Funny post, and GTI's had great mileage
I think you miss the point.

I think the point is more that "finding another way to connect with merchants" really isn't that important or useful in the scale of things. The problem has been artificially created so that it can be solved for profit.

Solving problems that humanity really faces with tangible innovations rather than inventing slightly different ways to top slice cash using virtual real estate is much more important.

A million shitty rails apps yet nothing which truly changes the human experience.

My father once said (whilst slaving over PDS7.1 writing yet another payroll system in the late 80s): "I feel guilty sitting here taking money from people for this. It genuinely doesn't improve their lives."
This is beautiful. I've always thought sites like IMDB and Wikipedia are hypertext expressions of the purest form.

As a nerdy kid, over a few years I read my way through a significant chunk of the early 1990's Groliers Encyclopedia set my Grandma bought me at Krogers. And it was never cover-to-cover reading, instead it was filled with hopping around, page-to-page, volume-to-volume. Start at oscilloscope, but what's a cathode ray? And then it's in television? How does broadcasting work? I'd sit on the floor with a half dozen open encyclopedias open around me, the same way we can do now with browser tabs.

Wikipedia has many flaws, but it's a fantastic tool and I'd have killed for it as a 12 year old with 5 volumes of an encyclopedia in my backpack!
Joshua,

I have been playing the Photohunt and am currently in the lead - it is very fun! Thanks for building the Human API - I have many great ideas using this and have been taking notes to help improve the process. Contact me Hacker @ myusername ORG
Apple sure brings out weird feelings in people, it's like religion. I can't think of another company that would have people defending new proprietary connectors before any facts at all about it are released (or even if there will be a new connector at all!).
Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. is a motivational psychologist and author of the HBR Single Nine Things Successful People Do Differently and the book Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals

To editor who OK'd the book title ("Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals")? Did you not read the "Nine Things Successful People Do Differently"? Or, do you believe that a total lack of originality is the way to reach your goals?
Your mentioning of piano made me think of a auto-correct plug-in for an electronic piano. In the spirit of sl and gti, it would have to play a Rickroll first.
I played with this [1] when I first started programming in Ruby. The results were super interesting (but now I regret not using the Wikipedia API...)

[1] https://gist.github.com/1654064
about an hour after posting this, someone changed the philosophy page so the philosophy-reality loop doesn't happen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy

it still brings you to a loop, but it's not an immediate back-and-forth between the last two.
If you read this whole subthread, what you basically get is a confirmation of what Rob Pike wrote in his post: a series of objections revolving around things Go doesn't have that C++ does have. Pike's point is that these objections were in hindsight inevitable, because the whole idea behind Go is to simplify the language --- Go is even simpler than ANSI C.

The Go team's idea was, look at languages like C++ and replace groups of individual features with orthogonal components that can be composed to similar effect.

Pike is a little dismissive of C++, as am I, but ultimately he acknowledges the truth of the matter: if you're dead set on writing programs using template generics and inheritance hierarchies, you're going to stick with C++. And that's OK. We don't need to argue about it.

I am very new to Go, have a background in C/C++, am Ruby today, and was Python from '02-'05. My take is that there are definitely still things I would write in C, and I would still write web frontend code in Ruby. But I see a place for Go (backend network code, network clients, things like that) and I personally see no place at all for C++ (but then, the C++ people might not see any place at all for C). Go doesn't have to be all things to all people.
I agree about youtube comments. To make sure I never actually read them I installed the youtube herp derp extension on all my chrome/firefox browsers.

http://www.tannr.com/herp-derp-youtube-comments/
Getting paid improves my life...
I'm guessing that Barak Obama's blackberry hardening is something similar.

But most countries hand this kind of stuff over to their security services (in the UK this will be GCHQ and CESG) and those organisations are secret.
I've gotten to the point that any article that decries people making startups because they don't copy Elon Musk is an instant bozo-bit flip for me. It is not possible for some guy on the street to start a rocketry startup. Only an idiot would hand some guy on the street the requisite billions. There's some bite in the "photo sharing" accusations, but that doesn't generalize to all low-capital network-based startups, and trying to imply otherwise is definitely weak thinking. You have to start somewhere if you want to accrue capital to take on those sorts of challenges.
Incontrovertible errors: Jury foreman says Apple patents valid due to different processor architecture

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4446102
Questioning Kristof on Chinese Education
It's still long enough that it needs a table of contents with links, as well as long enough that the only people reading it are people looking for legal recourse.
Hmm, the same argument could be made of GOTOs in FORTRAN.
I also got a weird one:

Anime
Animation
The page you specified doesn't exist
Interesting, I saw one of the founders talk about the company a couple of weeks before this was announced and they were heavily promoting the company, felt like things were going well for them.
Actually, I didn't intend to be argumentative, contradict you, use
straw man nonsense, or try to convince you of anything. I'm sorry if
it came across that way.

What I'd like to do is just grasp the reason for the discrepancy between
your experience and my own (and folks I know)? Obviously, changing ports
works for you, and not for me, so I'm trying to figure out why. Maybe it's
the type of sites you run, how you host them (racked, cloud, home, ...),
upstream/provider filtering, where you're located, or something else?
Yeah - I always forget about Palantir!

I'm imagining they must be like the Spanish inquisition of tech companies.
I tried it, it seems neat, but pretty early ;)
The GUI is rough around the edges (the buttons and whatnot)

Also, Unlike what iMessage suggests, I do treat SMS and Jabber differently. It'd be nice to be able to treat them differently.

That said, it'd a nice enough app. I might advertise it as "iMessage for the Google ecosystem"

GL with it!
That's why you front-end app servers with reverse proxies like nginx and Varnish. In practical reality, most major sites run applications out of app servers that are less well tested than Apache. This is not a real objection.
World First Bionic Eye Implant Enables Blinds to Experience Some Vision
Heroku goes down every time US-East goes down, so it isn't true that its reliability is the same as EC2's in general
Anyone else feel like hbr is spamming this site?
I think you're confusing IE9 with IE8.
Can anyone clarify whether the IPO was technically at $38 or $42? On the day of the IPO, everyone in the press was saying the price was $42. But now a lot of the online charts (google finance, yahoo finance, etc.) are showing it opened at $38. Obviously there were a lot of technical glitches that morning. What is going on here?
Edit: Trying to be clearer

The official definition of species seems to be shifting.
The article claims that humans interbred with Denisovans, implying that the offspring were viable and lead to us,
and that they could distinguish between ancient humans and Denisovians via DNA testing.

That implies to me, that Denisovians and Humans are distinct species, and can be told apart by some DNA testing.

I am interested in the process of defining of species via DNA - the implications for that seem reasonable to infer given our unpleasant history.

What did they measure - which part of the genome did they say is human and which Denisovans. Are those sequences ever found in modern humans? Could they be? What would that human who had more Denisovian DNA than typical be called? Why?

There are two things here - the scientific metrics used, and the political decision to turn metrics into loaded words like species.

I can argue all day over the second but I have no infomration on the first.
I'm not sure why you expected any different, better formatting doesn't make a boring content any less boring; if you don't enjoy legalese pretty colors and bold sections aren't going to change that.

Still, a lot better than a lot of other TOS out there that you can't properly read even if you want to because ALL CAPS EVERYWHERE.
I actually like this idea. Don't just let it become Vaporware. There's probably others like it, but this could actually be useful to various online communities where conversations like the ones with your brother take place.
All About Knife Steel
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Start-ups are the new grad school, which was the new peace core. It's what you do when you don't know what else to do. That in between stage, where you don't have a next step planned but are anxious and need to do something. Back in the day, you'd join the peace core. It was something productive to do, noble and at least you weren't sitting on the couch collecting dust. Then when the peace core wasn't pleasing, people would go to grad school upon graduation from undergrad. You got your shiny new bachelors degree and no path, maybe no opportunities. So, you'd saddle up for grad school because it bought you more time.

Now, all those would be peace core grad students are starting start-ups because it buys you time. They disguise it as 'wanting to change the world' but it's really just buying time until you figure stuff out. This is why there is abundance of shit in the start up world. Too many folks just buying themselves time.
Congrats on the offer! I will be a Xoogler as of about 2pm today, so you could say my opinion is at least fresh.

Google is an awesome place, and huge opportunities will open up for you if you do accept the offer. Google is still very highly respected and has a great internal culture. There is very little bureaucracy and a lot of autonomy allowed. My life basically completely changed (for the better) after joining and I'm a way better developer than I was 2 years ago. You can also read Steve Yegge's recent G+ posts about what he thinks of Google - I would say I am about 80% as enthusiastic about it as him ;)

The one thing I will say is that the team you're on matters. Google still has the great "don't be evil" policy which permeates throughout the company, but the teams are free to organize how they want. If you're into TDD and pairing, you may find a team that is into that and have a great time, or find a team who hates it and not. Google is big enough that there are teams doing things very differently. The good thing is that you CAN change teams, and there is an internal application that lets you do just that. It's not really that hard.

If you are deciding between Google and the other big SV players like Facebook, Twitter, etc, then I would just pick the company that seems to fit with your personality the best.
As does London, but it's a proper loop.
2. internet forum designed for convenient arguing. Looking different from traditional boards. There would be one huge (potentialy infinite) 2d plane, and people can place their opinions somewhere in a rectangle, others can place their counterarguments nearby and connect it with arrows, there are other kinds of relations like "supports", "contradicts", "example of", "counterexample", "implies", etc. People can only vote on arrows, not on nodes.
I quite like the loop between Doubt and Belief http://wikiloopr.com/Doubt
Great step forward but if it is still over 50,000 words then there needs to be a new way of doing this.
Someone has come to a definition of a species that is

a) definable through DNA sequencing of a finger bone
b) excludes from being Human, a girl 40,000 years old whom the articvle claims we mated with and had offspring as her DNA is also found in modern day humans.

So, unless I got some facts wrong, quite possible, it is possible to mate with humans and have viable offspring and still be defined as non human by DNA testing.

That has implications. I would like to understand the science.