skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"HN users can do this by flipping a switch called showdead in their profile"

I wish you could still see the URL though. If an article has been deaded, there may be some comments about it, but you can't see the url, or click on it...
Ive spent a fair while scouring the site and yet to find any form of pricing options for hosting on my own domain, the guys definitely need a lot more call to action points.

Ill just have to go about it the old fashioned way of emailing the guys there, shame as I would probably liked to read up on the pricing and possibly sign at that point having seen the features.
"it gets easier and more mandatory to do more in Javascript and harder and more expensive to fake the presence of comparable functionality using HTML, forms, etc."

You don't have to "fake the presence of comparable functionality" (and in most cases you simply can't).

What you can and should do is support the subset of functionality raw HTML and CSS sans Javascript can achieve. No one will blame you for not supporting highly dynamic features that can't possibly be achieved without javascript without javascript.
I'm going to disagree (if I didn't, I guess I'd just shut down RescueTime and cry!).

How much time you spend is correlative with productivity. Most of my really productive weeks are where I log an unusual number of hours in my dev environment. I think the relationship between # of hours and productivity is especially strong when:

A) Looking at a longer period of time (certainly there are raredays where you're in TextMate all day but don't get anything meaningful done, just as there are days where you destroy a critical problem in 30 minutes)

B) You're comparing to yourself. Comparing your work-month to mine isn't very meaningful. Comparing a month of my data the middle of our YC experience versus a month of data in the middle of our fundraising efforts vs a recent month of data is interesting.

But I also think that the sheer # of hours is a really interesting measure of engagement, motivation, and workload. If you're only really working for 2 hours a day, chances are the issue is with that rather than with your ability to be productive.
Situation: Microsoft is in court with a GPS company over some patents.

Problem: News story is boring.

Solution: Headline "Microsoft Sues Linux", add picture of Steve Ballmer looking mean. Sprinkle with spelling mistakes and "no word yet" unprofessionalisms. Lame.
I would be interested to know how much time PG and others spend moderating the site -- not improving the code but killing stories and comments, banning users, etc. HN always feels to me like a self-policing community, but this and other remarks from PG point to non-trivial amounts of intervention by higher authorities, which makes me wonder how much work it takes to keep things on track.
It's always relevant to consider the source. I like to keep in mind that the material arguing problematic anthropogenic warming all comes from public grant funded researchers, who would like to keep getting grants. "Impending Catastrophe" scares up money, I would think.
That made me think of this:

http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/projects.html

Ubiquitous computing at the MIT Media Lab -- I saw a great presentation on this a couple years ago by Joe Paradiso. Their idea was also to embed networked computers in power strips as a hub for everything else to communicate through. It's called the Plug on this page.
> 3) The best measure of East Asian creativity is probably through patent studies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity#Measuring_creativity

This links to a couple different creativity measures, although I have no idea if they've been used to make weird racial comparisons.
I've enjoyed HN as an anonymous reader and learned a variety of lessons too.

This essay finally compelled me to register an acount, upvote some links and to make my first comment.

Purpose defeated? May be I'm starting to ruin the news site I like more.
Isn't it pretty neat, though, that Paul Graham doesn't have to write an rss scraper to get content, he can just incentivize users with karma and the crowd will do it for him?
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3. The Kindle is flimsy. You’ll go through your day thinking you will break your Kindle. You don’t fit that much screen on a thin device that is meant to be thrown into a bag without a care and not risk cracking it. There will come a day when you open your bag and see that your Kindle is dead, even in its case. It’s not your fault. Say it with me: it’s not your fault.

True. I'm sure it's partly my fault because I'm not that careful with it, but I've broken the screen on my Kindle (v1) twice in the year and few months I've had it.
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Yeah, the assumption is "coal is cheap and unlimited", and "all green energy sources are expensive and will never get cheaper".

It's also pretty lax on the whole risk analysis of global warming. Even if there's only a 20% chance that we are causing global warming and can affect it, you still have to weigh that against the potential inability to grow enough food for the planet and suddenly spending significant money right now to try to fix the problem doesn't seem like such a stupid idea.

It also completely ignores the question of energy independence.
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37signals post about switching to a standing desk: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1001-standing-versus-sitt...

My favorite part: My attention span improved, too. I noticed an immediate increase in my ability to focus on a problem for longer, and with greater clarity. When I was blocked by some problem, I was able to just walk away from the desk, whereas before the effort of getting up from my chair often made me prefer to just sit and stew in my frustration.
I despise most of my employers for their focus on hours, and in fact I left a job last week that had me working long hours despite the actual quantity of work assigned to me.

But, ironically, I use hours as an objective way to measure my own work. I use a time-tracking program similar to what freelances would use so I can get an exact breakdown on time spent per day, as well as by project. My actual coding time is there, as well as time spent answering support emails, and time doing things that support the continuing growth of the business.

Sure,sometimes a whole day flies by and I check the tracker and I've spent 10 hours actually working. But on days when I'm less motivated, it's sort of a game to rack up an hour here, 15 minutes there, and still manage to get a lot done.

It's a really good way to spur yourself into tackling a bug/feature/challenge that you'd otherwise procrastinate. "OK, I have no idea where the hell to begin, but I can at least spend 30 minutes diligently investigating the matter. If I'm nowhere closer, I'll stop then and work on something else." Then you might find that a few hours fly by and the problem is solved.

As long as you're brutally honest with yourself in tracking your time, and don't allow it just to become a procrastination mechanism (tracking time on things that really aren't constructive but seem sort of "productive"), it's a great way to measure yourself.
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This probably isn't over any system components since Microsoft is of course aware of the Open Innovation Network which has a patent portfolio specifically for defensive use in case there is an attempt for any company to sue another company for usage of base system components (which goes all the way up to the desktop, excluding media codecs).

http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/
I'm unclear why they would buy it.
Twitter is not a heavy technology thing, Google could easily roll their own very quickly.
The userbase also could quite quickly be built up from googles existing users.

The brand obviously has value, but I'm skeptical google would offer what Twitter would be wanting.
Those specs are pretty similar to a hackable wireless router or a Gumstix. There are plenty of slow embedded devices available already; I like this one because it is powerful.
Japan: ... and those whales are going to suicide at the beach anyway, so we... Ehm, study them and prevent contamination of beaches with decaying whale corpses.
This is excellent advice, but be careful about following it too literally: you could end up iterating on Artix or FamSpam.

You can draw a straight line from the abandonment of Artix (pg's first startup, making online art galleries), through Viaweb (startup #2, acquired by Yahoo!), to the founding of Y Combinator and the creation of Hacker News. And, as his recent keynote (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=487686) reminded us, Chris Wanstrath's decision to abandon FamSpam helped bring GitHub to the world.

It's hard to imagine any amount of 'tuning' leading Artix or FamSpam to fame and glory; in both cases, the way forward was to start anew. In startups, rapid iteration is a key to success---and sometimes you have to iterate at a higher level of abstraction than a single startup.
> That means Google most likely really, really wants to buy Twitter. (So does Facebook, but we'll get to that in a second).

I think part of the appeal of Twitter is that it is not a Google or Facebook property. A way to search content without going through Google. Real-time search can be really helpful, even if there is an echo-chamber effect at times. I find interesting people to follow constantly with 'SDK' as my Summize keyword. Plus, it appeals to at least two of the seven deadly sins (pride and possibly envy). I hope that they stay independent and start experimenting with revenue generation models.
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Our roof leaks and has consequentially filled a lighting fixture with water. The switch reads: TURN THIS ON AND (you might) DIE. Nobody's tried it yet.

Honestly, the hacker house is a bit of a dump.* But we're all in good company and have a sense of humor about the situation. I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I was speaking from general experience with USB wifi cards. Maybe the hardware just sucked and not the standard. :)
Let the community decide. The forks with the most activity will start be obvious on the network graph.
"If you want to evaluate results, why measure hours?"

I dunno-- saying that you shouldn't measure time spent as long as people get their deliverables done feels like saying that you don't need to track where you spend your money as long as your business is making a profit. Time is a really valuable resource.

Most people suck at time management, and should get better. Most managers have no clue how much (or how little) their team works or how workplace variables (like office layout and team composition) change how people spend their time. Most managers aren't good at guessing what an appropriate list of deliverables for a given full-time employee. If they try to dole out equal workloads to two developers, what happens when the manager screws up on their time estimates? Renegotiation mid-week? How does Dev2 feel when Dev1 gets to go home early? Who gets the bugs/tasks that have risk associated with them? Does SeniorDev get harder/riskier tasks than JuniorDev? Does he get more tasks?

The ROWE concept reminds me of fixed-price bids from my consulting days. To successfully give a fixed price bid with the least risk, you have to do MUCH more careful cost analysis. With a ROWE system, you have to have a pretty perfect handle on the "cost" of the bugs/tasks you pass around (which, with most knowledge work, is nigh impossible).

Startups kick ass because (among other thing) the founding team really cares about what they're doing-- I think it's pretty rare for a founder to say on a Wednesday, "Well, crap-- I finished all of the stuff we said I'd do this week. I'm off to the slopes!". Instead, they say, "I'm on a roll and there is an endless to-do list. Time to hit the next item!".

Don't get me wrong-- I think the punchclock mentality is ridiculous. But I think we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater-- You should measure BOTH.
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Yes in BC, theirs actually quite a few of us.
Ideally we should use the right tool for the job, but sometimes time constraints pressure us to try to use the tool we know best for any job, and the next thing you know we're using a wrench to twist a nail into the wall. We might get it in there, but it's ugly, crooked, and likely to fall apart with little weight, and all because we didn't have, or didn't want to take, the time to learn to use a hammer.

To be fair, one equally shouldn't try to program in Java with python on the brain, it's going to turn out just as hideous and slow, and the developer will probably be more furious at the number of recompilations caused because approach the problem with the right mindset.
Yeesh. Jamis wrote great code and has been rightly praised by commenters for it. I'm not trying to negate that, just suggest he could've hung it up better. Not every discussion is sbout black and white, I'm not trying to tear down every good thing he's done.
Domain Squatting is illegal and has been for about 10 years.
I've knocked up a quick prototype ruby client library for redis. So far it supports GET, SET, EXISTS, DELETE and KEYS. Should be able to have a fully compliant library in a few days.

http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/master
Uh, clearly he could choose not to "take the cases" of restaurants that were structurally incapable of improving. And yet his producers do, because they are the ones willing to embarass themselves on this show.

More importantly, the fact that Ramsay is willing to yell and bare his chest for the camera does not change the fact that he does not seem willing to stick to his guns and demand that they fire the old guy in the kitchen and hire a talented Ecuadorian to take his place.
I am less concerned by the implication of reduced productivity. Though reading Hacker News may negatively impact present productivity, it may improve future productivity by exposing readers to new concepts, approaches, etc.

It reminds me of an article about Pixar (though a cursory search doesn't seem to find it...) which described their workspaces as having only a few central bathrooms in order to facilitate people running into each other, discussing ideas, and being exposed to different people's work. I think Hacker News provides a similar service without having to get up and walk at all.
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If only I was allowed to talk openly about the specific problems I and my fellow product engineers solved in the semiconductor industry. Let's just say that the setting of a single knob can make the difference between a fab that produces millions of dollars of profit and one that produces millions of parts that are broken and will eventually be scrapped (hopefully before they are sold to customers as part of their cell phones.)

There's a legend about the Intel shipping clerk who single-handedly destroyed a sizeable percentage of his fab's output by being too diligent. He wanted to make sure the company wasn't being shortchanged, so when a box of wafers arrived from the silicon supplier he would open the box, carefully count out the wafers into a pile on his dusty desk, then put them back in the box and send them on into the fab.
I think a lot of the growth problems might have to do with the devaluation of karma. The solution to this might actually raise the quality of comments and front page stories.

When I posted a comment here a year and a half ago, I felt like each vote was a real, actual smart person praising or agreeing with what I had said. Each point had a lot of meaning, and back then 5 points was considered a pretty good score. Now each point means much less for some reason. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because I don't trust each individual person as much. For example, as I write this, the top comment is about someone using a script to submit this article. It's two sentences, and it has received eleven votes. To me, each of those individual votes mean less than they used to.

The net effect of one vote, for the whole culture of hacker news, has gone down significantly. This reduces the total perception of worth for each user, and, more importantly, for each voting action. Back in the beginning, I felt like I had some amount of power, in that if I voted something up it would literally rise in the list. In fact, I felt like I had some sort of responsibility. Now that active, obvious change in story rank rarely happens, so I feel like my vote is somewhat worthless.

I tend to mostly agree that the quality level of submissions and comments has stayed the same during the growth of this site, but the devaluation of karma has led to other cultural changes. There's something comforting about sharing ideas within a small group of people because you feel like you have real influence, and I think I'm starting to lose that feeling here. There are so many new faces that my perception of quality has gone down, even if the actual net level of quality for each item has stayed the same. Seeing many posts with 100+ karma on the front page recently has kind of solidified that feeling for me. Who are these hundreds of people?
whew! we dodged that ugly mess...
You can still see it by using edit?id=whatever
Don't business fail also just because they run out of money?

You can have all the morale in the world, but if you run out of money and you need to pay your rent, you have to move into something else.
If you research this issue even as a layman you will come to the same conclusion. Global warming caused by man made CO2 emissions is a total farce.

Here is some scientific proof for you to start your research..

http://www.discovery.org/v/30
Charge a dollar a month and quit preening.
Here's a piece of trivia: The original iPhone calculator was designed to mimic Ram's designs (as seen part way down the linked page).

compare:

http://www.designmuseum.org/__entry/4799?style=design_image_...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruber/667023357/
I've been there. It's a good place to be. If you have other (trusted) coders that you know, see if any of them are willing to take the work from job 1 at the going rate ($19/ hr). Ethically, I believe you can send the work to them (and they might be grateful, given the economy...) Additionally, be sure to bill for the hours that you spend spec'ing the work to your subcontractor (these will be few and far between -- but most companies would be willing to pay to have stuff completed sooner).

If you don't have trusted colleagues (and/or cannot find someone working for $19/ hr), I'd start looking for them. I recommend trying out oDesk (outsourcing). As long as you have decent specs, they can crank out work quickly for you. Of course, you will still need to rewrite a bunch of their stuff (most don't have great code quality, IME), but you bill that out as well.

This leaves you time for the real money making project.

The big problem is the on-site requirement. After working with them for 5 weeks, you should have some trust karma built. Talk with your manager, explain that it is necessary for you to work from home for the remainder of the project. Tell them that you need to work with other programmers in order to finish in a more reasonable amount of time. A decent company will agree.
Maybe http://news.ycombinator.com/active is what you are looking for?
They've already got it. On Google chat you can have a status and on Google latitude you can have a status.

Google WANTS the users and the information they provide.
If you want to go viral, you need a hook.
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I'd like to offer my perspective as a relatively new HN user.

First, I stumbled upon Hacker News by searching for information related to angel and vc investing. I found Y Combinator naturally. As I was reading the application (just to see what the process entailed), I read one line about how good applicants come from HN. My impression at the time was that applications were screened for high karma points--even though I had no idea how a karma point was earned.

So to be perfectly honest, for the first few weeks I was obsessed with Hacker News. I spent A LOT of time on this site, before I came to the conclusion that Mr. Graham noted. It took a while for me to realize the TRUE value of this site: a civilized discussion forum where I could meet other people just like me and learn from their experiences.

But I also noticed competition in the comments section that has left me a bit turned off. Sometimes I feel like people are trying to prove something, by unnecessarily down-voting a good comment or arguing just for the sake of arguing.

I think the sum of my newbie experience has been good. Nothing is perfect. I have certainly learned a TON about the start-up scene, hacking, and just this forum in general.
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If this actually poses a threat to Linux, you can bet IBM (and Google) are going to be taking Microsoft to court over their patents that Microsoft probably infringes on.

Software patents are like nuclear weapons. You bring them out, and everyone loses.
The graph in the article is difficult to read, but it appears that 'technology' was first used in JFK's 1961 address. This, however, does not necessarily mean that the concept we nowadays refer to as 'technology' did not appear in earlier Presidents' addresses by other terms: 'invention', 'innovation', 'engineering', etc. Therefore, I find the author's racing of 'future' and 'technology' in the historic speeches to be rather meaningless.
I think it is probably most relevant to consider where the funding comes from - 'He who pays the piper calls the tune'. You really would have to involve those who fund the research in your little conspiracy theory for it to make sense. Publicly funded research money generally comes from the government. I don't really see enough incentive for the governments of the world to be paying for biased research in favour of global warming. In fact I would argue that the previous US administration demonstrated a significant bias against the global warming case.

In the case of private organisations the incentive to pay for biased research is obvious and it is an expected tactic.

When proposing a conspiracy theory such as the one you are with respect to global warming it can help to point to a previous examples of where a similar thing has occurred. As an counter conspiracy theory example I'll put up the debate over smoking. Although public research started to show signs of health problems, the smoking industry fought with their own paid 'research'. Millions of lives have probably been lost as a result of the delays in changes to public policy because of the FUD spread by the smoking lobby. To me the incentives with global warming seem to be the same as with smoking was and I see every reason to believe the situation is the same.
Nothing like the puzzle of collecting and putting together UUEncoded-split "warez" (invariably one or two pieces would be missing)
I suspect they came to that conclusion by studying the guts of whales.
NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered passenger ship, built in the late 1950s
If you had a time machine and wanted to make decent amounts of money, one way would be to register the generic keyword domains (like creditcards.com which sold for $3m)
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I've been noticing the time machine effect the article mentions using Clojure. A couple weeks ago, I needed a GUI to update whenever an agent's value changed, and it turned out that watchers had been added to the language only a few days before.

I think the effect is what PG was talking about when he discussed the difference between languages designed for the designer to use and languages designed for other people.