skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seconded. I've spent a lot of time here over the last few weeks as I've slowly come to understand the culture (not that I really understand it yet) but that is time well spent. I've seen several pointers I've already used, and come away enthused and eager to work.

I don't "spend" time here, I "invest" it. As I discover people with similar opinions and complementary skills, my network expands, and my "value" increases.

My time here is not wasted, even if my username isn't orange.
Yes. I would pay $5 per year.
I found that strange too. I'd probably have the date as a text node, so that there is still time information visible in the rare case when javascript is turned off.
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The point I would ask you to consider then is that a focused topic, even if it is as broad as "Hacker News" will necessarily exclude certain other topics and as a corollary it will exclude or discourage certain types of behaviors.

Because I do have a free will, if I have the desire to behave in a certain way, and it's at odds with the goal of HN, I can choose to use any number of other outlets for my communication, or even create my own avenues.

The counter intuitive truth is that if all of the social news sites where 100% inclusive in terms of content and were 100% homogenized (that is to say, the culture's of those sites fully exhibited all forms of communication/topics) then that would actually inhibit free will because nobody would have any choices in terms of what type of content they wanted to interact with: everyone would be subject to the same exact atmosphere with no viable alternative.
I think the problem is with those 18% loans (covered by your 3rd point, I think). What the hell? Who pays that kind of interest rate?

The article states: A correlation between B.A.s and incomes is not proof of cause and effect. It may reflect nothing more than the fact that the economy rewards smart people and smart people are likely to go to college.

I would say that there is likely to be a strong correlation between being foolish enough to take an 18% student loan and getting a low-paid job later (taking on that kind of loan shows a staggering lack of common sense).

Seems to me that that's the only problem there. People should not be allowed to turn that kind of profit on student loans of all things. If there's one kind of loan that should be government-sponsored, this is it.

For the record, in the UK, student loans come in at about 2.5%.
I would argue that, to some degree (har har), it is still accessible to "most." Maybe not "all," but I think of college as a luxury item. The formal education (in the US) that is guaranteed to everyone ends with high school. Why should it extend indefinitely? And why must college be considered a possibility immediately after high school? IMO, we need to insert a cultural cue that hints that it is okay to graduation high school, work a bit, save up some money, and then hit up college in a couple years when you can pay for it. It'd be a decent compromise and might make the ones who take the leap appreciate it even more.
I'm pretty sure this is not the answer. Metafilter does this, and I would not want the kind of culture they have there. What's prized there is sounding clever, and I wouldn't be surprised if the $5 fee was partly responsible-- if people were more willing to pay $5 to hear themselves talk than to e.g. answer a question someone had asked.
Also here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468209
According to the article, the loans were at 18% variable rate... that's probably most of the problem right there.
Sure, some of the monitoring systems I've written do some fairly detailed testing. For example, I wrote the Justin.TV chat system. There's a group of bots that periodically log in to the production chat server, send messages to each other, and email me if anything doesn't work.

That's certainly not unit testing though.
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do they ever say anything interesting to eachother?
It should extend to all because we all benefit from a more educated population. Better educated people less likely to elect another Bush, for one, but they're also more likely to end up doing high value jobs, rather than working in a McJob (which, while an honourable duty, isn't exactly on the same level as working for a start-up or a biotechnology firm).

Allowing people the opportunity to reach their full potential, no matter where they started from, adds value to our society. Intelligence matters a lot in how far you can go, but, for most people, so does education.
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If you are a christian the Council of Laodicea forbid you from keeping the sabbath on the same day as the Jews - it also forbade you from eating bagels, so you can probably ignore it.
It is interesting that a christian was watching ads coverting their neighbours SUV on their sabbath - while complaining about someone mentioning tits.
i heard mr. woz was recently working on [significantly] cheaper & more efficient housing. does anyone know to what extent that was pursued and how it turned out?
Most student loans backed by the government have pretty decent interest rates in the US, too. However some people either can't get enough in government-backed loans or fail to qualify or are stupid.. or something.. and so they hit up the private lenders which prey on them something terrible. I never went private so I'm not really sure, but I suppose another reason to go with private loans is so you can spend the money on things much more disconnected from your education costs - like a car. I seem to remember the government loans being pretty tightly tied to the school and thus it wasn't like I could borrow more than the cost of school without going outside the government-backed loans. (But I could be wrong.)
Out of interest, are you speaking from personal experience?
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It's amusing to watch server programmers come up with a thousand different ways to abstract away HTML. If you've ever worked with a good interaction designer, the best thing you can do is let them write views in something as close to HTML as possible. Every attempt to auto-generate sections of the view is something that will need to be worked around at some point.
A lot of these frameworks seem to come from the mentality that design is just a programming problem that can be solved by pushing code out from the backend.
A lightweight templating language (smarty, velocity, etc etc) should be all you really need. Poking holes in the HTML and inserting data is precisely the right way to do it.
I am going to put that down to the free thinking nature of Immad and Jude.

YC doesn't make anyone do any product, its the teams choice what they do.
I pay $20-30 a month for LinkedIn and find HN at least as valuable. I would be willing to pay the same for the knowledge that's available in these forums and the ability to take part. I find it extremely thought provoking.
That is certainly true. I've sometimes run across people cross-posting comments here and on Reddit who've actually taken the trouble to write two versions, a flame for Reddit and a civil version for HN.
So back to coding! :-)
downmodded and here's your reply.
heh, no they're awfully dull - they just say things like "testing 123" and "received 'testing 123' from bot456".
Note: This fee schedule is for payments by US customers only. You can allow non-US customers to pay using credit cards (not Amazon Payments balance transfers or bank account at this time) for an additional charge of 1% of the transaction amount. All transactions are in US dollars.
Probably yes, but think of all the budding college & high school entrepreneurs that that would discourage.

$5/year is absolutely nothing now that I'm employed. But for a kid who doesn't hold the purse strings, it's much more than that. It's not really the money - most parents also have no trouble sparing $5/year. It's the hassle of convincing the parents that it's worth it, and not just a random time-waster.

Plus, as soon as the 'rents are paying for it, you lose the sense of "this is something I'm doing for me, and it's my own identity and not my parents." For me, one of the reasons I got into computers was because my parents knew nothing about it, and I was overjoyed when I started getting jobs based on connections I'd made online instead of ones my mom had setup for me.
While a situation like this would initially anger me and turn me off to the idea of continuing, I've learned to channel negative thoughts into something positive. And don't mistake me, I'm not at all the mystical or enlightened type.

What I mean is that I've learned to channel my rage into productivity. In situations like these, you need to know how to motivate yourself. Visualize being in a much bigger spotlight than your competitor, getting blogged by TechCrunch and having every comment be positive, getting phone calls from high-ups at businesses interested in acquisition. If you're the vengeful type, think about having enough FU money to set things right in the future. Focus on whatever it is that means success to you, and try to get there.

If your #1 goal was really only to get YC funding, and if you allow failing at one particular goal to stop you, then you just weren't cut out for this.
What do you use that documentation for?
Talk to the grader. Tell him your handwriting sucks and that's why you typed it. (Show him your handwriting sucks, if you want.) Tell him you've talked to classmates with similar work who got full credit. See what he says.

If the grader gives you a reasonable answer, accept it. If not, go to the professor and repeat what you explained to the grader.

You won't be labeled a "troublemaker" unless you make trouble, usually... so just be honest and courteous. Profs and graders get students all the time that have questions about their grades.

Lastly, in the grand scheme of things, an A vs a B doesn't matter all that much when you're getting a job. All the companies I interviewed with at my college's job fair were more interested in my projects and extra-curricular stuff than my GPA. I wish I had been on some open-source project that I could've put on my resume, because that would have opened many more doors than a 0.01 GPA bump.
My app evolved in the following way:

templates with logic/inline JS -> templates without logic/ external js -> almost no templates/ JS + Ajax to draw the page on the fly
nice. I am working on a website redesign for my startup, ShellShadow http://shellshadow.com. Its a collaborative terminal client...there is a linux client to be published in the next week.

I decided a while back _not_ to provide a "Knowledge Base" section of the site and instead to partner with others that are organizing content such as what you have done. Please get in touch if you have ideas for me or want to link up somehow.
I have recently had to scale out a Rails application into a real iPhone application.

Let me save you some time and headache. Stay as far away as you can from the majority of syntactic sugar and shortcuts. The Rails way does not scale.

With that being said, I love Rails and I will continue to use it for the rest of my projects. You just have to realize what parts will be bottlenecks for your (Active Record) and customize your own way to talk to the DB so that you can shard and implement memcached easily.

Now I have obviously not seen what these guys have to offer, I'm sure it is amazing. But you can already communicate with the iPhone with plain old Rails and it works amazingly well.
It seems that the prof finds some value in the type of thinking that going back to pen-and-paper can help engender.

I would comply with his wishes even if you don't see value in it. I've forced myself to work on paper even though I am a computer nut and I absolutely beleive it is a good habit to have. It engages a different part of your mind, and is very valuable even when you do go back to computer-based work.

The best you can hope for when paying through the nose for college is that some prof you run into will have some subtle but deep insight that you couldn't, or wouldn't have stumbled on through self-directed learning. Those gems are rarely intuitive and never make sense on face value. True, this guy may turn out to be just a kook, but to me, it seems worth humoring him because who knows, you may find out there is real value in it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156530

P.S. Here are the screenshots of "before" and after:

http://www.zentu.net/open-space/hackernewsbefore.png

http://www.zentu.net/open-space/hackernewsafter.png
one of the meridian 59 devs picked the property off panasonic and revived it years after it closed (M59 a 3d MMO launched before both UO and EQ). it's now been 15 years since launch and it's still going [sort of] strong.

i'm comforted that game worlds outlive their creator's intent.
As a potential user, I'd love to subscribe to a human-edited "fu of the day" RSS feed. Don't really want the firehose.
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As a consumer, I'd rather have the checkout complete on Amazon.com than on your site. First, Amazon.com has all my payment information already. Secondly, I trust Amazon.com more than I trust your site. I may be willing to give you a small amount of money, but I'm not willing to give you unlimited access to my credit card.
From my conversations with ad networks I think Q1 2009 is going to be bad.
No, some Christians are bailing on GoDaddy because of the ads. Many of us just don't care.

A whole lot of Christians are not Fundamentalist Christians who want to control your life and dictate your morals. Unfortunately, the sane ones don't get nearly as much press.
One option under Firefox is View > Page Style > No Style.

It's black text on a white background, but you lose indenting. I tend to use this when I want to read text from a site that's really hard to read.
The "Council of Laodicea" has no bearing on Christian doctrine. Your response is what I feared might happen and why I stated that this forum isn't great. If you want to take this up out of band feel free to email me.
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I switched to dynadot.com. Love the clean interface, slightly more expensive. I did a gradual switch of my 30 or so domains. No problems in the past year I've been with them. I've also heard good things about moniker.com.

Here's a blurry screenshot of the control panel, no ads:
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7423/dynadotnq4.png
Green and black take me back to my standalone terminal days...

Two comments on presentation in addition to the aforementioned wrapping of the columns in a div:

1) More space between entries. The list looks very cramped.
2) Less items per page.

Hardest part about Unix is learning the command line. I luckily had an unwilling, but unavoidable, roommate back in 1989 to answer my "read the man page" questions :) Which leads me to my next comment:

C) Classify the entries as n00b, ..., guru.
If you need to go to court, they become legal documents showing you had the idea, and whom you told, and when. VC won't sign NDAs, so this is your best protection.

At the least, it can stop ugly boards (think: Blackboard) from coming after you once they gain traction ('cuz they got the VC funding, remember?).
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The grader for this class is anonymous (otherwise he would probably be getting death threats from some of the students), so my only recourse is to the prof.

I try not to care too much about grades, but a B in this class runs me a serious risk of losing a sweet scholarship (much more than I make interning in the summer). Sucks, but that's the way the world works.
I was thinking the exact same thing when I read that.

Sadly I know _many_ people that make six figures and complain about things like student debt and credit card debt. One guy claimed he was lower middle class (he was making $110k at the time, with only a wife, who didn't work, to support). If $110k is lower middle class, then I must be in poverty.

It's like the idea that they can lower their living standard slightly to achieve financial goals just doesn't occur to some people. People that make good money and manage it poorly garner zero sympathy from me.
Thanks for the posting this link. It is concise and written by a very experienced entrepeneur.

Good advice for those in startups now. If you don't have funding and you're not focused on monetization of web traffic, don't go to VCs.
or write one thats better
You had me right up until "bachelor's degree in history".
It will be interesting to see how this changes voting behavior. I know I am already voting up above average gray comments over above average orange comments. It wasn't purposeful. But easily apparent when I looked back at my voting behavior.

I haven't quite decided if I should just completely ignore the orange/gray experiment or if I should see it as an intellectual challenge. In some senses I have much more freedom to post as I please when I'm gray. On the other hand, there is seemingly more influence being orange. And there is something to be said about being gray and still having a highly voted comment.
Yep, I got TDD religion when I started working for a huge company.

I did some testing, but not much when I worked for a startup.
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..but someone has to end up working at McDonald's - and I think it'd probably be better if that person hadn't wasted $80k getting a degree they will never use in a subject they may not even like or really understand and have almost no hope of paying back the loan. We can't have exclusively high paying jobs and expect the economy to survive. Not everyone is cut out for intellectual work that requires a degree nor does everyone see the economic advantage. For instance, today I had to get a quote from a plumber. I doubt he went to college but he's making a damn good living doing something he's good at and providing a service I (and the rest of society) need, want, and will pay for.
I don't think you have to be a fundamentalist to have a problem with companies that run sexually suggestive advertising on programs that children are watching.
Even before the token fee, MetaFilter's culture valued witticisms and welcomed contributions whose value was primarily entertainment. So I doubt the fee is responsible, given that the behavior was in the founding ethos. The fee may have prevented that clever-competition from becoming as coarse as it has become elsewhere.
Along the same lines of the downmod quota suggested in the sibling post, you could make downvotes cost a user some of their karma.
>> Using the DOM to store program data just doesn't seem nice to me.

I disagree. I think the DOM is where data should be (look at meta tags, for example). Storing data in json style or xml-like attributes sound a bit like repurposing things.

Also, according to Steve Sounders, sprinkling script tags everywhere (which I suppose is the easiest way to get the json approach working in a site of arbitrary complexity) is not a good idea in terms of loading speed.
Yes I would. While I recognize that a pay for access methodology won't cure all of the ills of the virtual world, like a padlock on a door, it will serve as a deterrent to casual ne'er do wells.
The Japanese Yen is up vs. the US dollar so the manufacturing in Japan just got a lot more expensive.

Febuary 2009 average 1 USD = 89.4 Yen
Febuary 2008 average 1 USD = 107 Yen
Febuary 2007 average 1 USD = 120.4 Yen
Febuary 2005 average 1 USD = 105 Yen

(http://www.x-rates.com/d/JPY/USD/hist2008.html)
Everything you mentioned I count as part of TDD or BDD or what ever automated testing acronym you like.

What I suspect is that all of us have basically the same idea in mind, and what we're disagreeing over is mostly semantics and context.

Btw, all of my unit tests include memory usage validation. It's easy in c and c++, but I'm not sure how it would be done in a web development environment.
Perhaps this is a bit over-the-top, but look at The Internet versus Wordpress versus Tumblr.

Given a blank page, people will create anything. You can take three HTML-only pages at random and you'll come up with 3 very different results.

Given a blogging engine, people will start restricting themselves to the form of their engine. That means you get lots of different posts, but very rarely will you see a blog using the Wordpress engine for something really standout and unique.

Given a system that divides posts into 6 types of content, the vast majority of blogs created will all start looking the same. The average tumblelog is self-referential, generates long winding tags of citations upon reblogs, and content tends to be amateur and haphazard. Very rarely is a tumblelog interesting or a source of good original content, and deviations from the norm are even rarer.

I'm in the middle of writing an essay about how medium affects content - it's taken about 5 months so far, so perhaps it's not quite even "in the middle" yet - and the gist of one of the things that I state is that the more defined your form is, the more rigidly people adhere to it. And form is good for some things. For other things, it's better to keep the form as loose as possible and let people riff on their own.
Real solutions to better monetizing the web are what investors are interested in.

Such as...
Good job. I like the idea, but I think what might be special is the execution, the design and karma system, making useful/common stuff a bit more high-profile than jokey aliases :D
The site's slow, but that's a good thing, congrats!
Nice work.
I agree with the second statement. As a community we should wait a bit to see how it settles. If we don't like it in a week/month/quarter/trimester/whatever, it's just a revert back to the original state, right?
A great team can sometimes recognize a bad idea early enough and replace it with a better one. I've seen that happen. Good ideas have a lot less ability to replace bad teams. (Or rather, they can do that just fine, by letting the bad team fail while their competitors win.)
Well then, here's a pretty interesting example of complex visual patterns arising from relatively simple systems: http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pubs/paper249/PAPER249.HTM

One physicist (Wolfram) maintains that natures rules are quite simple (I prefer "elegant"), and that beautifully complex patterns can arise from these. http://www.ur.umich.edu/0203/Oct14_02/m_wolfram.shtml

Alternatively, it seems intuitive that when given a complex system (or a multitude of parameters) that objects within the system will have less room for deviation from these given parameters.

Let's take baseball as an example. With its plethora of rules, only a few possible outcomes can occur, and the game is actually quite simple. All agents operating within the system can only act along the limitations given by the rules, and because there are so many, there is little room for deviation.
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I think they're actively worse than old, normal buttons - the way they run into each other means I have to expend more effort to figure out where the button I want to click is, and then be more careful when I click it lest I hit the wrong one.
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If you want a critique, update your title to Ask HN: Review my web site {web site name}, and provide some background and additional information. Otherwise, it's just spam.
Uhmmmm.... I think the Stanford Prison Experiment is exactly what we want.

We deliberate seek a way to enforce an exclusivity based on a shared hacker "culture" if you will.
Validating the colors contrast/luminosity/readability should be done using this:

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/accessibility/webaccessibil...

or

http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/contrast-analyser.htm...
Opting out. I'd rather speak my mind then play games. You've suggested how to do both, but I can't help it if sometimes I want to reply to non-popular threads.