skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading this a few years ago. We had an SEO firm perform some site analysis for a previous site and have just taken onboard the main principles and tried to replicate them.

I think thats a good assumption reading up on it in more detail, the relevance of the rank itself is a very small factor in the performance of the site and its keywords etc.

I think we may have some relevant high worth links coming in that i wasnt previously aware of, our own link building campaign rarely acheived more than a PR5 or PR4 site so I will look into the backward links.
What I'd like (and what I'd build if I had more spare time & mental capacity) is a photo-hosting service driven by a Flickr-like API, but designed to be an intelligent "asset store" for photos so large sites or communities can use this service as their photo storage & hosting back-end. The service itself wouldn't need much of a UI and users of sites/systems that depend on the service wouldn't necessarily know their photos are there.

I imagine this working something like S3 except that it knows about images, so it can process/resize them (and provide APIs to control such things) and also include a bundled CDN service (CloudFront). The pieces are all there but an API that made it really easy to put images in, process them and get them out again would save a lot of time.

(I manage a high traffic blog network and am spec'ing out some image-heavy niche web apps/sites. I'm eventually going to have to build something like this for internal use -- wish I could just buy in now).
Will Intel let Jen-Hsun Huang spread graphics beyond PCs?
I've always been a big fan of the Joel on software article linked to on there: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
I disagree that the issue was "something that should be common sense". Every manner of trivial insults being criminalised in modern society is a huge, profound and controversial topic.

Spot on about the expedient solution to seeing something you don't like, though.
I do have a subtle feeling it's sliding but that's very likely just my paranoia.
"Make someone famous" is more than "a person becomes known by lots of other people". There's also some persistence.

Yes, a site that has lots of visitors can make them aware of a given person, perhaps even once a day, but what do said visitors get out of it and why will they remember last week's "new star"? Note that "make aware" happens before mass voting. Mass voting can only choose between exposed folks.

A small group can vote to expose someone to a larger group, but that assumes a solution to a fairly hard problem - why does the larger group delegate their attention selection to said small group?
It seems hard to believe now, but when Google started, some people wondered "why another search engine?", since Yaho and Altavista had that market "locked up".

So yes, there is room for another photo sharing service.
About half way through when he pulled down pictures from the site. In the back of my mind I was thinking "ok cool, but can you push your pictures to your friend?", and then it happened. Good stuff.
According to SawStop PR, SawStop has prevented about 150 injuries.

It appears that Stephen Gass is attempting to extort revenues.

> Here in the States the argument over licensing the SawStop technology has been hot, heavy, and plenty of it. Mr. Gass wants 8% for a license, which will add about $80USD to the cost of the typical table saw, plus the cost of the mechanism and the labour to install it. Delta, et al. balked at the price.

http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=60686&pag...

Woodworkers are pretty smart and safety conscious. I've taken a couple wood working classes at my local community college. As our teacher, a master woodworker, told us - "woodworking is about problem solving. it doesn't matter how you do it - there is no right or wrong - only smarter, faster, and safer. it doesn't matter how you do it, as long as it looks nice"
I completely disagree with what you're saying. I'm not sure if you've stood back and had a look at just how much flack Michael actually cops from day to day.

Sure, he may simply ignore a lot of it - but eventually if you're getting attacked from all sides, there will be a point that you break.

This was his.
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Oh man, by your definition I have some seriously stinking code...
Maybe We Should Call Them Venture Pessimists
If someone with an infectious disease knowingly infects another, whether it be by unprotected sex without disclosure or by spitting, then that is malicious intent to harm and is already well covered by law.
We currently lease offices out of our local university (excellent subsidised rates!) so I am already over this, I've sent out a press release relevant to the local market and the university. We should get some links on their innovation centre website hopefully - its a .ac.uk tld so carries some weight with google and other engines.
Jack: A port of Rack to JavaScript
Kind of funny, but definitely not Hacker News.
This is unacceptable. I'll venture to guess that it's coming from a european entrepreneur who didn't get the bad jokes that Mike was putting out in his fake fight with Loic.

But (you know there's a "but" coming). But actually, no, it's unexcusable, no matter what.

To you the spitter: no matter your issues, you made the wrong choice and deserver zero respect.
Assault is punished by law according to physical consequence. If you break someone's jaw, you go to jail. If you break their heart by verbal assault, you don't.

There are no physical consequences to being spat on by a healthy person (if they are sick and do so knowingly to infect you, that is completely different). It is an insult, a grotesque one, but an insult none the less, and should be treated as such by law.
Ask HN: Does karma affect what you write?
I find myself sometimes thinking about... Hmm will this be unpopular and ding my karma. In my case it seems like HN Karma encourages group think.
Also amusing that someone who seems to be fine with spitting on someone as legitimate communication, getting up in arms about a down arrow on a web page.

Would you prefer to be spat on instead?
At least it'll solve the financial and economic crises.

At this point, I am not sure it matters what destroys the world, as we're bound to do it one way or the other. If not the actual world in toto, then at least ourselves.
Infrastructure 2.0: As a matter of fact that isn't what it means
I feel the same way, but I had started to notice this even before I started working from home, thanks to the blackberry. How many times have you been eating dinner with others (at home, or a restaurant) and felt compelled to check it, and then guilty about what you are doing?
What struck me is that Branson not only responded to the complaint, but offered the man a job. I was thinking that this is a great example of dealing with customers, and the PR value for Virgin in all this is also interesting.
Totally agree, look at animoto, they took an idea (slideshows) that had a clear market leader (slideshare) and its basically slideshows on crack.

They've even outdone themselves with the iphone app for example.
nobody likes to work with legacy code... managing to work with legacy code and without a steady stream of complaints is what separates a good programmer from a noob.
Yeah... But just because a design is also a scientific paper doesn't make it overcomplicated.
I've been TV-free for about 3.5 years, and only had broadcast TV (in Spain) for about a year before that. So the last time I had cable was in 2004.

Sadly the time savings afforded by not having a TV are often eaten up by the Internet nowdays, but at least it requires slightly more activity on my part.
How about an app that kind of automatically airbrushes pics that you upload to it so that you can then upload them to other sites?
Not "most" countries. I am not sure it is even "many" countries. And whether something is illegal is not an argument for whether it should be illegal - see Saudi Arabia.

I don't remember defining bravery anywhere? I simply said that in my opinion, most "cowards" don't consummate their cowardice by walking up to big guys (Arrington is a big guy) and spitting on them.
Yuck! No matter how much you abhor a person, you don’t have a right to harm or intimidate the person. Intolerance seemingly is at it’s peak. I just hope the frustrated, overworked yet underperforming, and morally debauched ‘European entrepreneur’ doesn’t typifies our usual web entrepreneur. To me he seems like just another desperate chap who was hoping to be another run-away hit in the web without a lot of hard work. The declining economy, tighter markets, fierce competition, and resulting desperation could be blamed for the depravity.
This person doesn't seem motivated, and doesn't seem to have enough work to do.

I've worked from home for one year and have been more productive, thanks in large part to dropping my commute and avoiding non-work-related office chat sessions that can suck up 30 minutes in a typical day. I also work longer, because I don't feel guilty about staying at work late and neglecting my family (being able to have lunch and dinner with them is huge). I typically work right up until dinner starts at 6:30, and often go back for another 30 minutes to an hour afterwards.

On the other hand, having face time with co-workers is very valuable. Many office chat sessions do involve projects or turn into idea-sharing discussions that are very important to the health of an organization and can't be easily duplicated using IM or email. For this reason, I try to visit HQ about once every two months.
25 you can downvote

200 you can post polls

250 you can change colour of top bar
Fox News is an insult to logic and good debating skills. There are so many logical fallacies in this one piece...it turns my stomach.

They're the equivalent of the captain of the football team joining the debate team and, right in the middle of a debate, accusing his opponent of being "gay".
Of course not. And I'm not fine about it at all, it's a disgusting thing to do. I just can understand why people might be driven to do it, and don't think it should be an actual crime!

I'm beginning to suspect my writing style is prone to misunderstanding, though. C'est la vie.
> if a site is to allow 4x larger photos (driving 4x larger costs), the site needs to make 4x more money somehow

Not so fast. Bandwidth and storage needs scale roughly with resolution, but other costs scale more slowly or even not at all. Note that even storage (and to a lesser extend bandwidth) has a per-action cost that does not depend (much) on resolution. And, storage costs include meta data, which doesn't scale with resolution.

I've been working through a cost model for a (different kind of) image service and there are are surprises.

For a first approximation, work through how you might build such a site on Google App Engine and/or Amazon Web Services and build a parameterized cost model using their fee schedules for different things. Fiddle with the values for the parameters.
>> blissfully unaware of fb?

Yes, indeed. I have a few friends who use fb and after some time they tend to think that "everyone is on the facebook". ;-) But actually not. There are many more people who don't know what fb is, or they don't use it.
I've heard of a use, of gathering a text corpus of a certain type, eg "find an example of text where someone is unsure and asking for advice on something".
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Legal: Are you authorized to work in the U.S.?

Correct. It is possible to be authorized to work in the United States without being a citizen. Asking about citizenship directly can be illegal because it can be a proxy for excluding recent immigrants who have green cards (permanent residency status) but not citizenship.
It is somewhat unfortunate that this isn't in the guidelines, but it is a natural tendency and would be impossible to try to clean up by enforcement. Eventually, you will get used to the general group mentality. Some things can be said in a very few words and will be understood and accepted because they follow the way that most of us think. Other things have to be laid out logically so that a debate on your thinking can follow.

In defense of the site though, your initial downmodded comment was rather condescending and showed a lack of knowledge of the area. Responding to someones idea with "Huh? You really think that?" isn't very respectful and it shows a certain amount of arrogance. Arrogance is frowned upon pretty heavily here. It doesn't add anything to the discussion when you are correct and is just plain obnoxious when you are wrong. Be humble about what you know, ask questions about what you don't, and provide logical arguments for what you think. That's a big part of what sets this site apart from a lot of the other sites like it.
Linked from Penny Arcade - PA Day 2009
My startup got a link from Penny Arcade, and boy was it a wild weekend :)
Even conceding all of Cuban's points, this is really only relevant for events people want to watch live. Meaning sports and some news, mostly. Concerts, maybe, but what's the market for watching a live concert without being there? Even bands like the Stones, I think, don't do live broadcasts of their shows, do they?

But in any case, all of the fiction shows on television, and even news commentary (e.g. the Daily Show), work fine on the download model. And that is exactly what's happening, $1.99 from iTunes or free with commercials from the network's web site or Hulu the next day, in HD (don't think it's 1080p, but looks pretty good on my monitor).

So, again, even if Cuban is right about everything he says, it demonstrates a much diminished role for cable TV going forwarded, limited mostly to live events.
an example of how low folks in our industry can go

There's nothing special about our industry, crazy people are everywhere.

It's a simple numbers game, become popular enough and your popularity will cover some number of mentally unstable individuals.

Actresses, singers and presidents have all been shot for no other reason then they were famous.

Public criticism or lack of coverage probably makes things worse for Arrington, but I'm guessing not by much.
Crazy people by definition do not behave rationally.

I'm not sure there is a solution to that beyond, make sure you keep as much of your life as you can secret.

The name of the young actress who was killed by her stalker some years ago escapes me, but I think he was able to get her address form the DMV.

Arrington can either quit, or keep paying for security, or find a way to keep his office and his home secret.
Thanks for the advice on focus. I will definitely post my finished product.
"Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World" by Greg Critser has a chapter devoted to HFCS's rise to prominence.
I don't mind checking karma results of my individual postings to see which ones fit best into the site culture.

I've been considering karma systems, and I guess I think a two-dimensional system might be a useful improvement. One dimension would be

1) agree or disagree (factually) with this post,

with no impact on the user's cumulative score but display by each post

and the other would be

2) this post is a significant contribution to the community or not,

with the same cumulative scoring by user that now occurs on HN.

Sometimes people want to register disagreement with posts that are good posts for getting other people to think and bringing new ideas into the discussion.
I can't stand using Java with just a text editor

Same here and imho that's quite an alarming indicator for the "towering abstractions" that paul mentioned. When you can't realistically navigate a significant codebase without tool support anymore then many of the components just aren't "out of the way" as much as they used to be or should be. Personally I jumped ship when java went through the heights of its XML disease which is apparently cooling down nowadays. The available toolchain (part of which you mentioned) is mighty impressive, no question. But it's the amount of boilerplate- and meta-code required to glue the stuff together that's driving many of us away.
Yes, there is a room. For example, I myself still didn't found an "ultimate" sharing site for myself. I use Google picasaweb, because I like the integration with the Picasa client, but I miss the social features. I can have those on flickr, but on the other site, the free option in flickr is rather limited and there is not a seamless integration with a good client.
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I've heard of the Sawstop technology before and what I heard was very depressing if true.

Basically none of the table saw manufacturers want to deal with this guy because they are afraid or lawsuits.

The logic goes like this, right now everybody knows a table saw will maim you, there's no expectation that it won't.

But if they implement that technology, and it then fails, then there will be a BIG lawsuit.

Meanwhile everybody who uses a table saw and sees Sawstop, wants it.

But the guy is having a very difficult time setting a major manufacturing operation to ship Sawstop table saws himself.

Again, I don't know if this is true, but it's very sad if it is.

-- EDIT:

I missed this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=453822
Blurry is all BS, but there is another obvious reason : anybody who really travels knows that TV is ubiquitous in the Arab world, and they mainly watch Western programs. Moreover, there are a lot more occidentalized anchor women on Arab TV (like Aljazeera) than you might think, who don't wear anything at all. Tradition is not to be confused with dumb ignorance.
I rarely think about karma before posting, but I used to think about it a lot more. It was never about following the HN group think, though. There is some of that here, but it really isn't comparatively that bad. In general, it just makes me think twice before posting a comment that isn't well thought out, adds nothing to the discussion, or is actually outside of my knowledge. It also encourages people to simply post more respectfully.

As I said though, it doesn't really matter much to me anymore.
Yeah, I guess I'm more used to slashdot. I'll take some time to get used to the culture of the site before poking the nest with a stick again.

I assume you're a moderator - although they're much appreciated by myself, these well-written tips will just get lost in the noise here. You might consider adding them to the FAQ yourself : )
And I hope that my peers who tend to sit on the sideline while others attack will start to take a stand against it.

And I hope people take this literally. IE, grab the jerk and call the police. Don't just let him walk away.
GM cancels contracts for Cruze/Volt electric engine plant
I always assumed that our work and integrity would speak for itself.

It does.

Unfortunately, in your business, just like ours, you have to account for outliers. When we miss them, computers mess up. When you do, ever worse things can happen. Sorry to hear about it.

Have a nice month off, Michael. Looking forward to having you back in March for the 99% of us who really do care about your (and your family's) well being.
Wow that was profound...
You mean, the people who wrote the Washington Post article. The report clearly included the data.

The report also mentions that the EPA has a "reference dose" of mercury of 0.1 ug/kg/day for women of childbearing age and young children, which they work out to 5.5 ug/day for the average woman -- versus an estimated 28.5ug total mercury/day consumed by the average American via contaminated HFCS.

However, it's not clear how this EPA standard compares to the "US allowable limit for mercury in bottled water", which is presumably an FDA standard, or what assumptions went into these standards.
I'll respect anyone who tries to put their ideas out there but this is a pretty ignorant piece. The problem is he doesn't seem to grasp the difference between an ideal and the rational application of an ideal. So what he's doing is taking the strictest interpretation of Libertarianism and arguing against it even though no rational Libertarian would ever argue that.

I'll give one example. The author lists the "Libertarian Fallacy" as "the idea that freedom is measured by absence of laws". He then goes on to argue against this fairly unrealistic idea. The problem is most rational Libertarians wouldn't advocate for the absence of laws even if they could make it happen. So he's arguing against a straw man. The real Libertarian point is that we should have only the laws that are absolutely necessary to keep society functioning.

In addition to that he's extrapolating Libertarian points to unrealistic levels to support his argument. For example, he says "The Taxation Fallacy counts how much wealth is taken away by taxation, but ignores the amount that comes back from it -- it treats money that is taxed as if it simply disappears". The problem is that no Libertarian actually believes the wealth completely disappears. The Libertarian point is that Government is inefficient so it takes wealth and then returns significantly less wealth back to the economy due to waste (such as not being able to dock some government employees pay even when they are being disciplined which essentially gives them a paid vacation for doing something wrong).

It's a long piece and I could go on to refute every point but there's really no reason for that. The bottom line is he doesn't have any grasp on what Libertarians truly believe making the whole thing not really worth reading.
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Housecats weren't designed, they were evolved. That's a big difference. There can be cleanliness and simplicity in design. Also, a housecat's goal is to live and to reproduce, which involves solving many problems, whereas the ranking algorithm's goal is to match text to relevant pages, which requires solving far fewer problems than a living creature, so it's really not a fair metaphor.
WordPress creator Mullenweg is many bloggers' best friend
Nothing is as dangerous as half truths so let's look at what really happened as far your example of female leadership in Muslim countries.

Yes, at first glance 3 of the 4 countries in your example (Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh) have "elected" a female as president/prime minister. However, without exception these women were the daughters or widows of the previous heads of state. Their appointments represent the feudal tradition of inheriting power by family relation rather than popular vote as you are implying.

The 4th country, India, is an even worse example. Not only muslims are a minority in India (a quick lookup tells me between 15% and 20%), prior to the elections the muslim-indian leadership demanded that the female candidate be disqualified because she made some sort of a statement against veils.
Thanks for the valuable feedback :-)
Google search is that google creates only 1 list, and you can only search 1 topic per browser window.

As well as this it doesn't allow the user to easily subscribe to an aggregated RSS, share a link or widgetise the results.

ThreeFeeds let's you aggregate seperate search 'lists' and add more than 1 topic, and then easily feed, share and widgetise the results.

So an example use case could be tracking an election campaign, whereby you can track several candidates (as well as additional terms or topics) across web, blog and social sites and then feed this into your reader, add a widget to your website or share the page with friends