skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so, "language should be exact where possible" and "People will continue to misuse the English language whether or not you use up one of the 25 front page slots with this moan."

That's a pretty strong contradiction.

then "Move along. Nothing to see here."

What's wrong with discussion, I did not place this 'in the 25 front page slots', the accumulated votes + the front page algorithm did that, no need to attack me personally for that.

"move along, nothing to see here." to me smacks of trying to stifle discussion, if you did not want to discuss it then why bother writing what you did ? Or is that your way of saying you should have the last word on this ?

For me the difference between a startup and some trial project is a major decider in whether or not I'm going to spend time on reviewing something. The items that have been labelled 'start-up' on HN sometimes are worthy of the term, but quite frequently - and not to get anybody's goat here - the term trial balloon or some other term would be more applicable.

It would be nice if the distinction was a bit more clear, if not before long 'start-up' will be just another buzz-word on the ignore list and that would be a waste. I think real start-ups deserve all the attention and help they can get.
Intact? Don't kid yourself.
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Do you really need to pay attention to those things? The average card manufacturer won't make a card with super slow memory bandwidth and put in a huge amount of memory. Most people don't really have to worry about such things.
Agreed, yes, slot type may be an issue, but that's not really an "option". It's more like a requirement.
The real nasty comment/trackback spammers these days use botnets. Blocking IPs is inherently a whack-a-mole affair.
Site is neat and great colours, you might need to do a little bit of re-desining to distinguish fron identi.ca. The software behind it is however sound so I suppose you are on a good footing. Are Nigerians really interested in these kind of services? Overall I think its good.
Could you explain in noob terms please?
It doesn't look like they are particularly helpful, but it also doesn't seem like they automatically remove the possibility of life, either. This is especially true when considering that any Martian life would potentially be significantly different than life here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchlorate#Health_effects
I tried it on my iMac, and yes you can use the Apple remote to control it.
Or just disenfranchise them.
Another possible Alzheimer's culprit found
Granted, those who just need storage (and CDN) there's no point of using an application platform. But with so many startups using EC2 it is clear the service solves a real need for them.

I agree with both of you - it is both the flexibility of EC2 and inflexibility of App Engine that makes a difference.
I don't know about the executives, but I would really like to know how their accountant signed off on that if it went on for a decade.

Or did Arthur Anderson revive while I wasn't looking ?
Ask HN: Please review our startup - timzon.com
Dear HN,

We went live a little while ago with http://timzon.com, a site currently focused on private collaboration using video. The concept is to enable threaded asynchronous video discussions between a group of individuals.

<elevator_pitch>
The office is virtual yet effective working relationships require knowing each other. While face-to-face time is ideal, companies are cutting down on travel... business challenges and complexity have outgrown traditional collaboration like email, phone and video conferencing. Phones can't show the subject matter of a discussion. Email is impersonal and easy to misinterpret (an emoticon doesn't get the message across) and business video communication is only real-time which doesn't solve the time zone challenge.

However, since showing or demonstrating something is often the only way to successfully collaborate, a better solution is required.
</elevator_pitch>

You'll notice that it's entirely free at the moment; we're on the freemium plan and are working on the "mium" part.

Any and all feedback on http://timzon.com is highly appreciated.

Thank you!

Tony and Jerome (TimZon)
What makes people pay for content?
Yep, I agree with moe on this one: you just get more churn. In Get Satisfaction's case, I signed up because I wanted the comment to get there, but I deliberately used a low-grade address, and have forgotten my details already. I won't be going back there.
The members of the forums pretty much deserve whatever they get.

These two girls were not posters on the board, and the things that were said about them were beyond repugnant. Although there are some good discussions and some really, really smart people on XO, the board's generally a cesspool. An educated cesspool, but a cesspool nonetheless.

I think both sides went too far. I don't have any sympathy for the trolls, and "Pauliewalnuts" I know offline and he's a sociopath. But ruining Ciolli's career, because he was one of the few "outed" targets, was out of line. They hit him hard to pressure him into outing the real offenders, who were anonymous. Hence the countersuit.
Thanks pg, cheers to us!
This place has grown to be such a great one. Thank you all.
Based on the article and the comments here, the following seem to be consistently agreed upon:

-Yelp "rotates" reviews

-They offer to "sponsor" good reviews for a fee

As far as I know, other sites (I'm thinking TripAdvisor, and for paid sites, AngiesList) do not do this, which makes the whole thing seem a little shady. Doesn't take much to imagine that they would go one step further into shaking down "customers" to rotate out bad reviews.
Most of the perps settled in order to protect their anonymity. The one who really got smashed was Ciolli, co-manager of the site.
BlackBerry grabs market share as the iPhone slumps
Trip around the world.
If you look at the amount of interest you pay vs. the amount you can actually deduct and the total taxes you pay, it's far, far more expensive to have the mortgage with the tax credit than to simply own outright.

If you get $2,500 in reduced taxes and pay $10,000 in interest... :)
The first question annoys me - are they really still using trick questions like this?
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so, "language should be exact where possible" and "People will continue to misuse the English language whether or not you use up one of the 25 front page slots with this moan."

/me remembers to emphasize "WHERE POSSIBLE" "The web" is not a place where it is possible to enforce exact language. Hopefully that's not news to you, otherwise you're in for some rude shocks.

What's wrong with discussion

What discussion? I see no discussion here, just a moan and a couple of replies moaning along. What discussion could there possibly be on this topic? It's a non-topic. It's not a discussion, it's a moan. Like "Death sucks" or "I hate going to school", this ("People mix up start-ups and projects") is just a useless rant.

For me the difference between a startup and some trial project is a major decider in whether or not I'm going to spend time on reviewing something. The items that have been labelled 'start-up' on HN sometimes are worthy of the term, but quite frequently - and not to get anybody's goat here - the term trial balloon or some other term would be more applicable.

Do you think people will change their posting behaviours because of this rant? Of course they won't.

if not before long 'start-up' will be just another buzz-word on the ignore list and that would be a waste

"Start-up" IS a buzz-word. Have been for about 10 years now.

I think real start-ups deserve all the attention and help they can get.

Exactly, so stop wasting this space debating terminology and leave that front page spot open to actual start-up news.
I think you may be right. I retract my previous comment (don't seem to be able to edit it at the moment)
I saw http://news.ycombinator.com/x in my referer logs, what is this for? When I clicked on it, it said: Unknown or expired link, like if you leave the add comment window open too long.
Some links (not that I necessarily agree, just giving you info):

http://www.videonewslive.com/view/288549/peter_schiff_on_200...

http://www.naturalnews.com/019659.html
This is outstanding advice. Interest you gain is taxed while interest you owe is not. There's also risk involved. Debt at 8% costs you far more than investments at 15%.

Debt first, a nicely funded Roth IRA, 401k, 6 months or so of living expenses in a money-market account then park the rest in a mix of stock market funds with a nice 10+ year track history. This is THE time to buy stocks and real-estate.

This guy does it right: http://www.daveramsey.com/etc/cms/baby_steps_2867.htmlc
Judge strips MS 'Vista Capable' lawsuit of class action status
I would remark that the punishment of the defendants has been uneven and had more to do with whose identities were recoverable than who did anything wrong. About half the defendants were people who made one off-hand comment (e.g. "Get in line") and are now suffering extremely disproportionate consequences. Ciolli (Great Teacher Onizuka) didn't even take part in this behavior at all-- he was an outed lawyer-- and he lost his job over this. This smacks of opportunistic target-seeking.

On the other hand, posters like Pauliewalnuts, lonelyvirgin, and :D bordered on being sociopathic and I feel like those guys are getting what was coming to them. I also think there's an enormous difference between, for example, expressing desire to have sex with someone (locker-room banter) and making jokes about becoming forceful with that person, which most women would take as a threat.
The Presidents release $3 iPhone app with entire discography
Happy birthday! The only site on the net worth checking multiple times a dayIMO.
New Greasemonkey released
The link for direct clicking: http://timzon.com
Right! It's like paying a dollar to save 25 cents.
1. Get a good accountant
2. Be very careful in the stock market right now.
Instead of differentiating by font size you could differentiate by color intensity (e. g. like in http://www.artlebedev.ru/everything/clouds/linear/ )
Buy shares in companies from which you use and plan to buy products in future and that have good ROE. Be an angel investor. Travel around to every continent on earth once. Start a new company, where you can invest the money again.
How Not to Pitch to a Startup
That's not what "begs the question" means.

The phrase you want is "suggests the question".

"Begs the question" means "a circular argument".
Awful article.

However, I'll say this - Microsoft really needs to step up vendor support for WM. Every awful thing you think about Microsoft seems to be 10 times worse when you are dealing with WM support in Asia :(
Your forgetting about the return you could be getting. If your mortgage is 6% and your making 7% then keeping a mortgage is a good idea. The other option is to get a 7 year interest only loan with zero or 3% down and walk away if you get under water. With 1+ million in the bank you can trash your credit ratting with little issue so let your bank take the risks.

PS: One great option is to get US gov bonds that get ~2% over inflation for 10+ years which makes them really safe. (https://www.bernstein.com/public/story.aspx?cid=466&nid=...) Ok, you are still taking a currency risk if your living outside the US but that's fairly safe.

Edit: Think of the first 1 million as 40k inflation adjusted every year for the rest of your life and only take risks when you need to until you have more money to live off of than you need. Risk is something you don't want and buying a house is risk.
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Could you explain why gold can't go above $1000?
Part of me wonders this: If you're the sort of person who gets annoyed by questions like this, rather than thinking of them as an off-the-wall challenge to have a hack at, maybe you're not the kind of person who would do well at Google.

Maybe you're brilliant, maybe you're the best coder/hacker/analyst/whatever on the planet, but if you don't fit with the culture, you might not be of positive value to the company.

And if it's full of people who thrive on this sort of "trick question", then you'd probably hate working there anyway.
That's a nice little group of quotes.

Quote 7 is a mismatched metaphor though. Somebody finish this sentence for me:

If programmers wrote programs the way builders built buildings...
You can negotiate your own rate when you have a large sum.
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They will be free
What are the items? Are they best represented by single words or short phrases? (If not, I don't see how you could use a tag cloud anyway.) What does "importance" actually mean? What other characteristics of the items might the users care about? Are there any that you can usefully use to arrange the items in whatever sort of display you choose, putting "similar" or "related" ones near to one another?

Some options:

Big list, starting with most important. Paginate the list if it's too big, or something. Very, very old-school, but worth considering briefly. Will be less unbearable if you can offer ways to filter the list; the same probably applies to all the other options too.

Tag cloud (words with size proportional to importance). Can also manipulate the ordering of tags in the cloud -- alphabetical is standard, but you may have other ideas.

Image cloud (images with size proportional to importance). Can also manipulate the arrangement of the images, draw lines between "related" items, etc.

Random selection of items (selecting few enough not to be intimidating, but maybe give a way to show more), more important items selected with higher probability, plus a button or something to make a new selection.

Find a way to categorize the items. Order categories by total importance in each category. Allow the user to drill down into categories (which may be nested, if appropriate).

Diagram showing a box or something for each item, no text or images or anything so all you see on looking at the diagram is the sizes; show information about the box currently under the mouse pointer. Will work better if you can arrange the items meaningfully, but probably won't work well whatever you do.

Arrange in two dimensions by some characteristics other than importance. Show items in some subset of this 2-dimensional space, choosing the subset by importance and its size so as not to have too many overlapping items. Allow zooming, panning and maybe adjusting of the permitted density. (Think of it as a map with items for cities/towns/etc.)

Have a text box with autocompletion, with suggestions filtered by importance and a fixed target number of suggestions.

Filtering mechanisms:

By importance. By name. By characteristics of the actual items (can't suggest what since you've said nothing about what they are). By when the items were added/changed. (You could have a slider thingy so users can watch how the world has changed over time.) By similarity/relatedness to a particular item or set of items that the user has selected already somehow.
Note: anything with a lot of information visibly present in it is "not very approachable for non-techies", so filtering is probably at least as important a problem as presentation of the filtered data.
Pay off any debts you have and set aside some for taxes. Consider some diversification, but keep as much of it as you can (or stomach) as liquid as possible (high interest savings accounts, CDs, or treasuries). There may be some great opportunities in another year or so for those who are still solvent and have a lot of cash-- housing will probably be a lot lower, and so will stocks. Wait until then and you may pickup some of the deals of the century.
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I think Google needs to start treating searches on people as a special use case where user-generated websites like Autoadmit get low marks.

It used to be that "public figures" could be scrutinized harshly, in print media, while private citizens had a certain degree of protection. It would be considered harassment for the paper to write an op-ed about John Q. Doe, store manager at the local Drug-Fix, being bad at his job.

Now, it's worse to be a private citizen, because it's much easier to destroy a private person's "Google resume". I could talk shit about a prominent politician for days and wouldn't have much of an effect on his Google presence, but if I (or anyone) decided to go into "digital hit man" mode on Joe Q. Bloggs, it wouldn't take more than half an hour. Because there's so little content about him, it would be easy to make over 90% of web content about him be negative.
Actually, I'm surprised it's so high (150,637 as of today).

It means quite a lot of HN visitors (which are not necessarily just registered HN users) have installed Alexa toolbar.

Which is what ultimately Alexa rank mean. It is a huge source of bias - different types of sites have very different likelihood that their visitors would have installed Alexa toolbar.
To keep you on the site as long as possible bro.
The karma barrier to entry is a good first pass. Though, if someone wanted to get their resume on the site they could find ways around the karma. (Automated upvoting of a story/comment that they made for example.)

There should be a way for the top 100[0] people to flag the profile as spam which would strip them of the right to post a resume.
right now is just about the worst time in the last 3 decades to invest in real estate

Correction: right now is just about the worst time in the last 3 decades to already have invested in real estate.

Most of the smaller investors I know who have cash to spend instead of struggling for survival are snapping up some incredible bargains. Even though values are way down, the rental market is relatively strong, at least in the areas I've looked at. I have friends buying large fully-occupied cash-flowing apartment complexes in metro areas for forty cents on the dollar. The difficulty is mainly in financing the deals, not finding them.
Did you see my suggestion to make the names darker rather than orange?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467461
As everyone else says, save the lion's share of the money, and act like nothing happened. Ensure that you will never have to work at a job if you don't like it.
Are you planning on monetizing this site at all? If so how?
As pretty as it is, I'm always on the fence about overcooked designs like this for a blog - blogs always have more html to download than a typical static page anyway and I just want to get reading. I based my current site design around minimal reading-friendly sites like:

http://informationarchitects.jp/

http://garrettdimon.com/
The items represent dynamically defined category hyperlinks. These will all be all be top-level categories that are not nested. They will be enforced to be short single words.

They might be loosely related to each other, although I'm not sure yet.

Importance rating will be dead simple, it will be based on page views in a specific time frame.
It is gibberish because it is the result of a bitter, angry paranoid mind.

Why bother to read it? Perhaps to understand Kaczynski? But why, really? Isn't it enough to accept that he's insane and criminal? There is undoubtedly better reading available.

Some people can "get into the mindset" of other persons. That ability is both a gift (helps understand the other's motivation) and a curse (often it's a demented mind - a sick viewpoint). One either has that ability or doesn't. Some FBI profilers are good at this. Usually people with broader experience and open minds are better at it.

The lesson to be learned from reading such madness is summed up by the Roman writer Terence:

"I am a man and nothing human is foreign to me." (L. "Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto")

Montaigne had the saying inscribed on his library ceiling.

Most who, out of curiosity, examine the writings of psychotics such as the Unabomber or Marquis de Sade reject them as incomprehensible. "Understanding" requires the ability to temporarily suspend one's own beliefs and to accept those of the demented individual. But you can see the danger; to accept the individual's beliefs fully would make _you_ mad.

In the end you'll find that the time spent trying to understand would be better spent elsewhere. There are so many examples of deranged persons' writings and they all lead to little more than headaches. On the other hand some exposure to such writings might make it easier to accept what Terence said. Once you accept that, you won't ever be surprised by what you read or see again.
I haven't made that much at once before but I have made a considerable amount and I have this one bit of advice. Make sure you don't lose your work ethic.
Again, life imitates The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39109
I wouldn't want my real estate purchases to be put on a high-traffic website with a link to my resume.

Then don't buy a house?

I don't really see the problem here. Who cares what house you own?
Here's a discussion on metafilter:
http://ask.metafilter.com/56228/Alternatives-to-a-tag-cloud

You can find more experimental UI elements at infographics sites and various visualization lab sites:
http://infosthetics.com/
http://labs.digg.com/
http://sandbox.yahoo.com/Experiments (it used to be much better before they cut a bunch of projects)
http://www.etsy.com/buy.php

I understand that you're probably looking for an established alternative; however, most solutions need to be appropriate to the situation. Feel free to email me and maybe I can help you brainstorm.
Scientology is very sensitive about it's IP rights; It's one of the way which it controls bad press. In fact, they are one of the most litigious organizations on the planet with regard copyright laws. So, it seems logical that the MPAA would hire one of it's lawyers.
I don't know very many people who use SMS shortcuts on Twitter.
It complains about every href that has "=" or "&" in it

You should escape characters such as these, as they have different meanings in the source context. It's merely a courtesy that the browser knows what to do with them.

you must put an ALT attribute on images

This data is used not only as descriptive text, but as a replacement for missing images and for those who use screen readers.

<tr></tr> is invalid

Of course it is, it's empty. Why do you have an empty element? It shouldn't be there.

Worry about errors or don't, I certainly don't care either way, but there are good reasons for those errors. The only difference between compiler warnings and validation errors is you don't care about the latter. Major browsers are nice enough to allow you not to care. That courtesy doesn't magically turn syntax errors into style guidelines. Ugh.
I've also used both, and they are both incredibly confusing.

I'm going to blame myself for being ignorant, though, rather than insisting that the software is the problem. Clearly it's not.
With the interest only loan, wouldn't you need to make sure that you had non-recourse debt, or that the property was bought with a business entity that protected your 2 million in case of default? Are most mortgages (I'm specifically thinking in the U.S.) non-recourse in the sense that the property is the only collateral? Or is there still a way for the bank to come after your personal assets? I'd want to be 100% sure of the answers to these questions before betting on being able to walk away if the house loses value.
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Site looks cool. Don't like the iframe, makes it difficult to bookmark and post links. Also the inside scrollbar is a bad idea.
Consider using hand-picked instead of generated aggregates.

For example, on a picture sharing site, showing me a mix of other users' latest pics is just noise. But if an editor creates a album of "Old Mexicans Smoking Cigars", that sounds interesting.