skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
rms is right, vaksel wrong: the point is that most people read the comments first, and depending on what they see there may not even read the original article (there was a discussion of this not so long ago).

Yes, this article is short, but I think the HN title is actively misleading. I'd never have guessed from the title that it had anything to do with network neutrality; would you?
Dont ask for what they cant give. $1000 is reasonable. If you ask for large amounts and fail, you could be sued and you will loose because you will have violated securities laws.

If I were you, I would draft a short letter stating what you were going to do with the money and state that the venture is highly speculative and likely to fail. This doesnt protect you but sets the right level of expectations. I think you need to state what the expected results are. I suggest a non-recourse personal loan with an understanding that this turns into stock. I am neither a lawyer nor an accountant. If you want legal advice see one of them.
I recently quit using Feedburner. Why? While it was a pretty good service, it got bought over by Google.

Personally, I'm planning to get rid of Google in my life. Entirely. And Feedburner was just the first step
Rate my Startup: automated game news classification and monitoring
www.automatedgamer.com
Also posted to our blog at blog.automatedgamer.com

After 6 months of development, we’re proud to announce the 1.0 release of AutomatedGamer.com.

AutomatedGamer monitors your personal game list against video game news across the internet, and provides:

* Personalized alerts and watch list
* Game reviews compiled from multiple sources
* Compiled game news and smart categorization

Behind the scenes, our game classification technology scans game news sites across the internet, automatically sorting the news by video game, and analyzing what type of news it is. We detect new game trailers, screenshots, reviews and other information; then deliver the latest updates to our members who are monitoring those games.

Our monetization plan is not adsense :) We plan on implementing something around revenue in 6 to 12 months.

Our technology is built using Ruby on Rails, Haskell for the classification algorithm and the Amazon EC2 platform. We’ll be sharing more details in future posts on our blog...

Love to hear thoughts, ideas for improvements etc.
http://johntaylorgatto.com/ -- if you want to improve (primary and secondary) education, you've gotta first understand the problem. I don't think anyone's done a better job than John Gatto.
I would like to see some sort of website with information on how everyone can use these techniques locally, and tools share their experiences. As Joshua said, crows are everywhere. Anyone could do this. It seems like a relatively inexpensive hobby.
(and every other e-book reader I've seen)

How many ebook readers have you actually used?
Then again, entrepreneurship can fund great basic (or applied) research. Three examples spring to mind.

1. Jeff Hawkins, with Numenta, and the Redwood Neuroscience Institute.

2. David Shaw, with D.E. Shaw Research.

3. Elon Musk, with SpaceX.
I used to have crows around my house alot and I'd try to trap them or shoot them with my bbgun or chase them or surprise them. But you can't they are too smart, looking back on it they were probably just playing with me. I've always been fascinated by them. A site like that would be great.
You could grab the kindle source and hack on it directly if you wanted; http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&...
Why are you people being such pricks?

This has nothing to do with how much the house costs, or where it is. Would you feel diffferently if it were a $80k house and she had worked for 10 years for the downpayment?
There's nothing special about an 80/20 mortgage except that it's "traditional" and a lot of people get hung up on tradition.

The bottom line is that she could afford the house when she bought it and she had a goal of paying it off completely when her deals went through. Then the bottom dropped out of the economy and now she's screwed. This affects high net work individuals just as it affects those struggling to get by. You can live within your means for decades and still be wiped out in weeks. Short selling it solves nothing since she will still owe the bank the original amount. In her situation, if the bank won't negotiate and she can't come up with the money the only solution that makes sense is foreclosure. The bank would truly be stupid to let this happen: it's basically cutting off their nose to spite their face.

The level of smugness around here is incomprehensible!
> Personally, I'm planning to get rid of Google in my life. Entirely.

Please do keep an account of your efforts on a blog or something...
If I called you and said, "Hey, would you like me to tell you your site has been cracked?", would you really say "no"? I would argue that the cost of adding a canary is similar to the amount of time that phone call would take.

I'm guessing that after that call, you'd go through your logs and attempt to find out how the site was cracked. Then, if you find some anomalous behavior, you might be able to isolate the component that was being exploited and fix it. Maybe you wouldn't find it, but maybe you would.
I hate the Al Gore snide remarks, because we owe him for what we have. He did not invent the internet in the sense of the technology, but he did help create it by sponsoring the legislation that funded the Internet, separating it from DARPAnet.

timbl DID invent the web.
Yes, and it has been discussed many times. Some of the proposed work-arounds are quite good.

Check http://searchyc.com
for the pythonistas

* UNTESTED SPOILERS

import wave

import struct

import pylab

f = wave.open('Spectrogram.wav')

t = f.readframes(f.getnframes())

v = array([unpack('h',t[i:i+2]) for i in xrange(0,len(t),2)],dtype='float').flatten()

pylab.specgram(v, Fs=44100, NFFT=2048, noverlap=1024)
Yes he does. He recently asked the question, "Significant new inventions in computing since 1980", on Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in...

I like how he refuted most of the responses usually stating that a given invention was already invented at Xerox PARC in the 70s.
Unfortunately, free markets don't really apply to ISP's in the US. In most areas, there is 1 DSL provider and 1 Cable provider. Possibly 1 FiOS provider (Verizon) if you're lucky. Telecoms are essentially monopolies.

Where I live, my only hardline choices are Frontier DSL and Time Warner Cable. Time Warner's service is significantly faster than Frontier's (20+Mbit down vs. 10Mbit down). If Time Warner began to prioritize packets from 'partners', and I chose to vote with my dollars, I'd have to settle for a competitor that's half as fast.

When megacorporations are involved, free markets are merely an undergrad Econ student's fantasy :)
I cant stand Stanza. Unless the file is too big to email to Amazon to be converted, I do everything possible to avoid opening it up.
I completely agree - but I still want it. Besides, only 1-2% of people really use the web in a powerful way, doing things like sending links to maps and yelp reviews. This will just help them do it faster.
Ok, just finished reading the story. Here are my impressions:

- Stylistically, I really enjoyed the story... as someone mentioned earlier, it seems to be a have a bit of a Charles Stross influence, whose SF work I like immensely. Would read again!

--- SPOILER ALERT ---

- I was a bit disappointed in the (real) ending. I would have given humanity a bit more credit for being willing to change, for the better (arguably).
I love reading articles from HN users. I love the feeling that I'm in a community of active thinkers. Thanks for sharing! :-)
Are you saying I should have added an agnostic choice? Or there is a better intepretation to what I've seen than "religion is not attacked as rabidly?"
That isn't what theism means, i.e. believing in a specific god. Essentially it means believing that the primary cause of reality is conscious, and continually and intentionally active throughout history (the former by itself is deism). The specifics are a different matter.
Looks like it went ok.
Sorry, my timeout is set too low, so I didn't keep track of comments. If I added it now, then it'd look like agnostics just didn't vote.
I agree it would be nice to see new items, but I would be afraid of losing the simplicity of the design for the feature.
I didn't like the design, but it's hard for me to provide quality criticism on this area because it's not my cup of tea. It just seems that the information isn't presented tightly. Some things are hard on the eyes while others I have no clue why they are what they are.

For example on: http://www.automatedgamer.com/games/bestlist the plataform list is ugly.

While on http://www.automatedgamer.com/games/release I have no idea why some game titles are bold and on larger fonts.

Your logo reminds me of download. It looks like a logo for an application.

But anyway, moving from design, it would be cool to see an example of what I am going to get when I register. I dig that you're going to provide me information about multiple sources about some games that I choose. But I need examples of what kind of information I will get, and how they'll be presented. In other words, what's different than just going to Gamespot and checking its game page?

On a game page: http://www.automatedgamer.com/game/201/bioshock I have no idea what a "high alert" is.

The screenshots links open a new page... IMHO opening new pages is a complicated matter. Lots of users aren't able to understand exactly what this is, how to get back to the previous page, etc... This is mainly an issue for people new on the net, but the solution (opening on a the same page and with navigation links) doesn't hurt anyone, so why not do it? Even newbies know what the browser's back button does.

More navigation options. For example, on http://www.automatedgamer.com/game/201/bioshock you could have links on "First person Shooter", so your users keep on navigating the site. And on Take2, leading to a page listing the developer's games.

You could have a page showing what games most people are tracking. This is your service, so play its cards.

Your blog should have the same design as the main site.

The "All games" page http://www.automatedgamer.com/games/list is a huge list of confusion. Do you really plan to list thousands of games there?

Also, its ordered alphabetically, but "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time" appears first. There's a space on the game title (I noticed the - as first character on its slug).

DISCLAIMER: I have a gaming website ;) But in portuguese, and with different goals than yours. And I haven't updated it for almost an year.

EDIT: Since you're already gathering this information, your alerts could also display new games of a determined genre, developer or keyword on a plataform. For example, "notify me when a FPS is added to the PS3 database".
I have owned an iLiad, the older model, for about a year and a half.

The iLiad has numerous design mistakes:

* It's very easy to push random buttons while reading, getting off page. There's no easy way to go back; the go back button, with an odd icon, works only for some aspects of the GUI.

* When disabling buttons, then the turn page button is also disabled. Very inconvenient.

* There are useless buttons on the frame. For example, a software update button! And if you happen to accidentally push it--which is easy--, one goes for a 10 or 20 second detour until safely returning to whatever one was reading.

* The battery lasts about 7 hours. Not bad, but for a book, one would want something like two days, or a week.

* The machine itself is slow. Dead slow. One gets bored and loses ideas in the few seconds that it takes to open a new scratch pad to write in some notes. Passing pages is also noticeably slow. Resizing and panning within a page is dog slow.

* Writing is not very nice. The trace has a different origin depending on whether one starts a trace or tries to continue one. Sometimes off by many pixels (10?).

* For what it is, it's VERY expensive: about $700. For that price one gets two Asus EEE, which have better reading abilities and just about as much battery (the 1000 models).

Despite all the above, the iLiad is still quite nice: reading on it is great. I only wish I could yell a few design concepts to their GUI engineers.
I think it would be perfectly acceptable for the banks to allow her to continue to rent the house, until a new buyer can be found at a lower price. But yes, that's about all the charity I'm willing to extend to someone who made bad decisions, and now wants to profit from them.
Awesome. Thanks for that.

I won't get into a long discussion -- HN seems to frown on these in-depth things. I'd like to point out that to a casual observer you sound like our Civil War vet talking about how much better his life is now that he's hooked on dope.

I did some investigations into MMORPGs a year or so ago. The average WoW player spends a little more than 35 hours per week online playing the game. That's about as much as a full-time job. The virtual goods industry alone -- that's goods that are purely digital -- is in the billions.

Perhaps there are these great mental exercises that make us all the equivalent of digital Mozarts or something. The external evidence is lacking -- there's not some huge increase in SAT scores or math prodigies among video game players. At the very least to an outside observer it seems that there is a huge amount of time and energy being spent in something with no physical results. Except, of course, the usual results of spending 40 hours a week sitting on a couch plugged into a LCD eating Fritos. At the very least, it's completely unprecendented that so many people would spend so much time in sedentary, er, contemplation.

Great comment.
You have very low information density. I go to Craigslist and see an incredible amount of data instantly. On your site I get very few things at once.
Model checking.
Do you think the poll itself is uninformative/uninteresting? I think things turned out alright, the comments have been pretty civil. Don't worry, I probably won't post something like this again, at least until the newbie surge passes.

And, there is informative contribution, like this comment:
http://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=470158&whence=%69%7...

As for your other point, I don't know if disallowing certain topics is the solution. I see value in easing the community into discussing controversial topics without flamewars. They draw flamewars because people are so interested in the issues, so everyone gains if we can get past the flamewar stage.

For example, I am considering broaching ID, because no one really gets what its about, or its significance. I want to clearly demarcate it from creationism, and also explain the theory as clearly as possible. If you want, I can send you my blog post link once its written, so's you can give thumbs up/down.
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That is interesting. Do you know of such a study that breaks it down across scientific disciplines? I've heard that while the proportion of atheistic scientists is high, it is actually skewed towards the softer sciences.
If you look at the comments, they are largely free of flaming. Where disagreements did emerge, people are largely civil, much better than in other threads not even related to controversial topics.

I think this is a step towards HN being able to handle the topic maturely. Such a process is probably best done by not posting inflammatory articles. I tried to not make the poll inflammatory, though I forgot the agnostic option.
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Well, even though it died, I think it managed to get interesting numbers. Overall, looks like nothing got out of hand.
He seems to be saying your thought experiment only shows reality is too complex to be viewed the same way by multiple people, and your claim assumes too much.
Minimally, I would say a conscious being in control of all of reality.
Let me save everyone the time: a bunch of random gripes (mostly with poor Windows software/drivers) with a linkbait title.
I tackled the same topic in "Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization": http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/superstimuli_an.html

Opening paragraph: "At least three people have died playing online games for days without rest. People have lost their spouses, jobs, and children to World of Warcraft. If people have the right to play video games - and it's hard to imagine a more fundamental right - then the market is going to respond by supplying the most engaging video games that can be sold, to the point that exceptionally engaged consumers are removed from the gene pool."
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tl;dr: Some guy is mad about having to restart Windows to install updates (okay, that's fair), repeatedly screws up his partitioning/boot sector/etc, then gets frustrated with bad video editing software.
First off, I think you're not doing nearly enough. I already have RSS. I don't want another site to visit to find things. Your main page doesn't advertise emailings or RSS, so I'm not signing up until I have more of a motive.

Too many fonts. Too many styles. Title font, subtitle font, tagline font, subtagline font (why do you have a tagline for your tagline), blurb descriptor font, bullet list font, register font. All different. You have sizes that are too close together, and it makes the entire thing feel weird.

"Create a free account today!" should not be on a bullet list.

You mention my "personal game list" then mention "Personalized alerts and watch list". Too repeptitive.

Get rid of the underline around your "Register now" and "Learn more" boxes. Get rid of the [+].

Don't use a "skewed angular view of a picture" if it's a picture of a web page. That's just silly.

Your "username" and "password" bar is located in possibly the worst place I've ever seen on a web site, ever. I literally have never seen a worse placement on a site.

Your ONLY color background is located around the search bar. That's bad. That 2px border is also the thickest border on the site.

Your logo is far too generic.

Your "New and Upcoming Releases" looks bizarre with the multi-sized list format. Also, remove the bullet points.

The "gray tags" thing works (barely) for Delicious. It doesn't work for you. It's ugly.

Don't combine sans-serif fonts and serif fonts without a clear idea of what each means. You're using them merely for visual distinction. It gives me a feel of clutter.

Why does only Killzone 2 have a rating?

I haven't clicked anything. Once the front page looks good, I'll click further.
It kind of seems like self-righteous crowing IS the point. I there no mercy anywhere?
This woman has woken up in a nightmare. It's a worst case scenario. Maybe she gambled and lost. Don't make it about morality. Give her some credit for chutzpah, say something nice, get down off your soap-box and start talking like christians (even if you're not). There's got to be more to life than stoning those less fortunate. jeesh. I'm embarrassed for y'all.
Of course, once you install the twitter app in facebook, they become one.
I'm sure the fact her house is so expensive brought a bias to many of the comments. But the main flaw everyone is pointing out is that she believes she deserves to be helped out, instead of taking personal responsibility in order to solve the problem.

She believes its not her fault she can't afford to maintain her lifestyle, so the banks and government (and ultimately the tax payers) should be helping her. There's nothing smug about attacking her lack of justification of why she deserves to be helped at other peoples expense.
Not really, people in FB cannot communicate back into Twitter. And the noise from a prolific tweeter is far to great for FB. IMHO.
The average WoW player spends a little more than 35 hours per week online playing the game.

Do you have a source for that? According to this article, Nielson has it at less than 15 hours per week. Still a huge amount of time, mind you.

http://www.tvturnoff.org/index.php?option=com_content&ta...
I just download random stuff to /tmp or /var/tmp, which gets automatically cleaned out if it is not accessed for 10 days (distribution dependent). If I explicitly want to keep something, I move it to my home directory. I could see it being worth it to create dated directories in /tmp to make it easier to find something ("I know I downloaded this two days ago" kind of searching).
Addendum: Did you write a program to crawl the webpages yourself?

And more importantly, would you pay someone to crawl it for you?
There's a project at the University of Toronto working on voice recognition for Ubiquity.
It should still be optional. The most frustrating thing about browsing the web on the iPhone is when people create special versions of websites for it without providing an option to get to the original site. Keep in mind that the iPhone was designed to browse the web as-is.
any innovation in this area is going to face hard opposition from the textbook publishers. you could encourage professors who are writing the new textbooks to use a new distribution model, but you will face a lot of resistance.
I did some investigations into MMORPGs a year or so ago. The average WoW player spends a little more than 35 hours per week online playing the game. That's about as much as a full-time job. The virtual goods industry alone -- that's goods that are purely digital -- is in the billions.

I agree with Jonathan Blow, who said that it's awful that Blizzard doesn't take more responsibility with its games, that WoW's model of gameplay is awful. That said, I think the design of the game itself is of an incredible scope. I don't play WoW, so I'd agree with you that WoW is kind of icky.

Video games aren't big mental exercises. Then again, neither is reading a book in and of itself, or watching a movie, or talking to somebody. You get what you want to out of it.

Most of the things I get out of gaming involve lessons about game design itself. A few exceptions: the video game Passage - available for free online - changed how I looked at life (and also made me a bit weepy); Portal taught me of the incredible values of lateral thinking - that won't show up on test scores, because you can't test creativity, but Portal is the video gaming world's Gordion knot, and it showed me just how imperative it is that you create your own mindset when designing rather than mimicking somebody else's; Half Life 2 (also by Valve, who made Portal) taught me about the impact of small things. When you play a shooter game that starves you for bullets, every shot you fire counts, and you begin to form a bond with the few weapons you have, and you begin looking at the environment around you - the lesson there being to focus on the little details until every little thing is wonderful and worth caring about.

But that's antithetical to the discussion. Listening to Mozart doesn't make you smarter. In fact, Mozart wrote pop - he made easy, distinct, catchy themes. The only genius involved with Mozart is Mozart. There are similar geniuses now working in the world of video gaming, and online. It's not the masses, it's the individual that gains.
Oh. Double-tap on any headline to fit the content to the screen. Works like a charm.
I disagree. I was pretty impressed at how readable it was on the iPhone. The biggest problem with copyright free e-books is that they are 100 years old, and mostly boring. Not all, but most.
True, but they're both evil.
That's a fun article too. However, I'd argue that if anything that's a cruel example of social Darwinism. The ability to focus on yourself rather than to rely on the opinions and worlds of others is a trait useful for survival.