skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an example which made me quite a bit of money. My website basically looks like this:

AAAAAA

CBBBBB

CBBBBB

CBBBBB

CDDDDD

CDDDDD

CDDDDD

CDDDDD

Most users will have their screen break a bit above the end of the B block. (By design.)

The heaviest part of the page is D. Eliminating it is not an attractive option -- the overall conversion rate suffers. The most valuable parts of the conversion pathway are in B and C. The first thing the customer sees is invariably A.

Solution: a bit of technical magic to make sure that the website loads element in A->C->B->D order (there is a competing technical imperative which means that in the HTML it makes more sense to order them A->B->D->C), and significant microoptimization of how quickly B and C are minimally interactive to the user. (We're talking measuring improvements in the kilobytes or tens of microseconds range.) Since customers have to actively scroll down to engage the D block, and since most do not engage the D block before first engaging the B block, the fact that D is heavy and slow very rarely impacts their experience.
Yeah, I agree. Our ability to use our brains so that we don't have to wait for evolution is our primary evolutionary advantage.
Start one then! That's what I did, posted it on HN and got 10 people out for a lunch.
As was pointed out when I submitted aviary.com a few months ago - this isn't nearly as powerful as Photoshop, though it has a good set of features. Photoshop is Photoshop because it is a dog of a program with more features than any casual user will ever need to use. I do understand why you mention Photoshop in your title, though, but something like "layer-based online image editor" works more precisely.

That said - anybody who likes this might like Aviary.com. It's got more tools, though it seems to be slower to load, it hosts your images online, and it's got a very nice social hobbyist environment.
Though this is impressive, it's still pretty far from the feature set of Photoshop or even Gimp. It's useful in situations where you might need a better image editor than the one that comes with the OS and you can't install one.
They are. There are many singularitarians working on concrete things in AGI/AI, life enhancements, cryogenics, biology... but of course, you'll hear more about the speakers and futurists, since that's what the news will go after.
No, my argument is "let's not classify a universal constant of all known life as a horrible problem, because the repercussions of messing with fundamental biological imperatives will probably open a can of worms bigger than anyone can anticipate"
sounds intense and very useful. glad to see the Woz back at it :D
Very similar to SUMO paint (sumopaint.com). I'm not a professional graphic designer, and therefore both of these are enough for my uses. On the other hand, I see very little advantage these have over free desktop software (I usually use seashore on my mac).

Overall, no professional can truly trust keeping their data here to be secure/reliable, and the functionality isn't any better than the GIMP was 10 years ago. The market seems to simply be people unable to install image editing software on their computers, which doesn't seem like a high-profit market to me.
"Remember: if it isn't worht reading it isn't worth posting"

Most people think everything they have to say is worth posting. I'd rather something specifically aimed at short comments, as mentioned above. Something harsh aimed at something under, say, 100 characters, and a brief little reminder towards something under 100 words?
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/01/roberts_and_han.htm...
I've seen that work in some cases. In other cases it encourages trolls to post enough times that they can't be downvoted more.

HN has the flagging system in place, though, so this might be worth a try. The Achewood community gives you more downvotes ('lames') the more upvotes you've received, though that might encourage groupthink.
Judge Tells UMG: No, You Cannot Sue Veoh’s Investors For Copyright Infringement
Focused on professional networking, not creative sharing.
From this article, I'd take this user experience lesson:
"It does, and in fact may start alerting members to the looming demise of their photo albums when they log on to the site -- a much more consumer- friendly approach."

You can't always rely on the email address you have on file. Since she was still using the service, doubling the message on the UI would have worked.
Writing software is essentially solving problems.

Some of these puzzle/problems are stupid, but if you do not know how to solve problems well and frequently you probably will not be a good (let alone excellent) software developer.
- An open API for all train and bus timetables and up to date changes. Imagine being in an unfamiliar city, opening Google maps. It finds your location, you click where you want to go, it finds a bus/underground route for you, next few buses, option to buy a ticket.

Why not simply take a taxi cab?
I'm the one responsible for Atlanta Startup Game night. You can register here (Atlanta only people please):

http://grokventures.wufoo.com/forms/startup-games/

Although all the slots for the February game are already filled. I'm thinking about how to expand this out into other communities. First goal though is to figure out a model that works. Stay tuned!
I'll do that too. I'm much more lenient towards people with good opinions here than I am anywhere else.

Even so, sometimes I'm tired and in a bad mood and I'll read somebody making a long, utterly wrong point and I'll downvote it instead of responding. Nobody's entirely innocent.
I just ordered a map and I can't wait to see what turns up. I especially like the comparison chart... can't wait for my JoeMap so I can finally ditch this compass!
They exist in physics; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretation_of_quantum_mecha...
Actually this game is intended to be played by kids under watch of their parents or tutors. My personal experience and comments from current users show that a lot of kids just like it and it's hard for me to get my iPhone back once my kid start playing it. There's definitely a market for it, as we have seen thousands of downloads after "Cute Math" being featured on iTunes in less than one week. But the market might not be big, as you point out.
Errr.. @ardell, I never said once a month! :-) I'm thinking once a quarter so we don't burn out on this event.
I'm not sure, but probably because productivity of programmers is hard to measure? You, as a programmer, solve different problem each time. Productivity can be defined by

(* individual-productivity-coefficient
(/ (* amount-of-the-task difficulty-of-the-task)
time-to-implement))

Within these parameters, managers can only see time-to-implement clearly, amount-of-the-task vaguely, individual-productivity-coefficient relatively (to other coworkers), and difficulty-of-the-task hardly. Suppose you spend a week to solve X in busy environment, then spend a day to solve Y when the noisy manager is on vacation and you know X and Y are more or less the same amount and difficulty, so it's 5x boost! But the only clue the manager has is that you finish Y in 1/5 of the time of X, and each counts as single "feature" so the amount of task should be the same, and they conclude that the difficulty of Y is 1/5 of X instead of thinking that your individual productivity coefficient raised 5x.
If you want to actually help with scientific research in areas that traditional big pharma DOESN'T cover, please donate to the Methuselah Foundation:

http://www.methuselahfoundation.org/index.php?pagename=mj_do...

Thanks!
I wouldn't prevent people from posting short comments, just ask "are you sure?" I don't think anyone would go to the trouble of making their comments longer just to avoid an "are you sure?" screen.
It could also be signs of vanity. Reddit went downhill after a month of a ton of people writing Ask Reddit posts.

I'm not saying we have that problem, but usually, the presence of a topic like this is just taking away from an external news story.
Birth rates are falling rapidly in the developed world, and they'd be a lot more spaced out if we had bodies like 30-years old for a long time. More than enough time for technology to increase out productivity to support these people.
It's been discussed before, and rejected.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373789
The fact that we can't conclusively answer why this is so is reason enough not to temp fate in this way.

No, it isn't. We're talking about death here. It's not like the alternative could be any worse.
I think it's good; it shows foresight, even if it is running out of cash.

I think they can get some money by providing premium APIs to access their quality content.
> we are implementing compilation of whole or parts of ECMAScript programs and functions into native code.

This seems to be a new, popular approach to JS optimalization. For an open-source implementation it's a reasonable approach, but for a proprietary system it usually just delays builds for new architectures.
I already penalize Ask HN posts (or more precisely, url-less ones) significantly in the ranking algorithm. That seems to keep them from taking over the front page.
3001: The Final Odyssey. Skyscrapers to geostationary orbit.
Somebody show me a service where I enter a URL, and it shows me comments on that URL across networks such as Digg, Reddit, and maybe even Hacker News, and I'll be impressed, and I'll thank you.

I've read that uberVU is going to do this, and Artiklz is supposed to be able to do this but there's nowhere on their site to access it. Somebody needs to do this!

Edit: right now, I'm impressed by Twitturly, which manages to do this for Twitter, a problem made more difficult by the amount of tweets and the fact that URLs are shortened with several different services.
If I walk by a roulette wheel and I see someone put $10,000 on black, I deduce that the person who laid down that money is an idiot. I realize that one can make sophisticated arguments about "risk preference" and the idea that the market sets a price for everything and so on, but at a certain point you just have to say that the emperor has no clothes.
dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=345140

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=336903
So why don't Perl, Ruby etc. use Thompson NFA?
I use the Caps Lock key as a Control key, and indeed I type Ctrl-X with my left pinky and middle finger. (I realize that I touch-type "X" with my middle finger anyway. Is this unusual?)
For basic text editing vi(and vim) are pretty much identical to any other basic text editor. For someone to get started with vi all they need to know is that pressing i gets you into insert mode which is like every other text editor. You can move around with the arrow keys and press escape to stop editing. To write the file press esc and type :wq "write" and "quit." or :q! if you want to quit without saving.

If you are using vim I should also point out that pressing escape and then press u to undo changes. Repeat as many times as you need. Ctrl+r will redo. (I believe vi only lets you undo one change and no redo. Correct me if I am wrong.)

This editor is on all nix systems and is quite easy to use in the basic capacity. But to each their own. I have not tried emacs lately so I cannot attest to that editor.
Just as natural as dying of diarrhea, exposure, septicemia, TB, polio, contaminated water, aids, starvation...

"Natural" != "good" or "desirable".

I don't want to give up clothes, shelter, clean water and farming just to be 'natural', nor do I want to accept aging just because it's 'natural'.
I'm in the USA and I don't. (I did buy a $30 USB DTV tuner so I could watch the Olympics last summer)
I don't get it. Could you explain why it delays builds?
Perhaps, in exchange for the $25K, you will learn how to convince our future robot overlords to upload your brain into one of the good mainframes.
When 1-ton, 43-foot snakes roamed the Earth
Sunlight Labs Redesigns the FEC Website
Hey Paul, just putting down a quick observation as why this could potentially penalise some users based on geography (That is if you have it so features are enabled/disabled based on your average karma instead of total)

One of the things I've noticed is that us on the other side of the world have trouble generating the same kind of karma that other's can generate which is really a function of being too late to discussions.

For example, east coast USA is often around 14 hours behind my timezone, so I typically get to conversations about 6-8 hours after they've started and when people are usually heading to bed.

Generally I find my comments down the bottom of threads with 1 or 2 karma.

However, if I post in the middle of the night (usually as I'm heading to bed) or really early in the morning (essentially as I get up) I am in the peak hours of HN, my comments on average do very well for Karma, simply because more people are available to read them and as such vote them up or down accordingly.

Just a thought - you might want to have thresholds based on a person's "prime time" instead of a predefined average.
And people wonder why some pay money for Smugmug when there are free options available. I don't: they're pretty fanatical about making sure that this never happens to them.

I can't remember the blog post about it where they discussed how many redundant hardware installations they had prior to moving to Amazon, but their sales page conveys the general impression:

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/photo-video-backup/
I dismiss it completely. "The human condition" as a phrase is usually associated with pain, suffering, horror, inhumanity to others, and so on. It's not a pleasant phrase.

The current state of 'being human' or current society have no inherent right to stay as they are. They change every day with every invention, and if longevity changes them again, so be it. If people opt-out of longevity, so be it. But the changes wont be magic - people will still be alive to guide and choose how society changes, it wont be instant-hell in a handbasket. And if it is, you can find a suicide booth and be in the same state you would have been otherwise.
Yeah, I know about this problem. I hope to cook up some kind of solution eventually.
But now you've left the argument about whether fiscal intervention is productive, and embarked instead on an argument about politics.
No, you're ignoring the fact that every time a desk company tools up a new factory, they are investing, and when those investments track a faulty projection on the demand for desks from financial services companies, they too have malinvested.
Move it forwards to what end? Society isn't moving towards a goal (and if it is, then why don't you want to be around to help it?)

Death so society can 'progress'? Why not life for as long as you can / as long as you want? Society can progress more slowly if people die more slowly, but what does that matter?
I was quoted in the article saying that we're working on it. In fact, we could release comments from originating source, Digg, Reddit and Hacker News right now, but we'd like to include more than that. Very few conversations extend to Digg, Reddit and Hacker News.

It will be available in a few different ways, including what you mentioned (entering a URL and seeing the "conversational graph").

We're open to more suggestions -- thanks for the feedback!
ok cool - just highlighting it ;)
Is big data at a tipping point?
Have you people stopped to think about expertise? It takes 10 years of meaningful practice to get very good at any profession. If you factor the reality that you have to put up with your share of unedifying grunt work, it takes more like 15 to 20. Retiring from your profession just when you are barely making it sounds like a plan. :P

This things take time and you cannot speed them much further. You cannot make 9 women to produce 1 baby in 1 month!

Sounds like you have drink the pg's cool-aid. You turn 30 and your brain dries off. Hope you enjoy cleaning the toilet, old man!
I think what he is inferring is that it will tend to be delayed on alternate architectures because the company puts manpower on things that will deliver the most bang for the buck(i386, ppc maybe). When it is opensource the people that are affected by the delay have the opportunity to help out.
This post does a decent job explaining the phenomenon: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/08/de-gust...

The core problem is that economics cannot use falsifiable experiments, and it is very highly politicized.
I have something vaguely similar -- http://lunchmapr.com/

Though it's more focused on private/smallgroup sharing.

I've been considering a refactor lately to enable more lightweight list sharing, and having some kind of collaborative database of restaurants, ratings, etc.

Was considering scraping the NYC Health Inspection database to seed the data... citysearch and menupages don't license, yelp doesn't permit you to show any reviews but theirs...

There's also this: http://www.freebase.com/view/dining/restaurant
in django i separate model components into different files and then mixin in the relevant fields and methods. for example, suppose i define models Blog and Post in blog.py, and Rating and RatingMixin (extends object not base model). I'd give Rating a method, say Initialize, that gets called when importing the whole models folder. Rating.Initialize() would then mixin all the fields and methods in RatingMixin to the specified models. In this case, it might be useful to give Blog and Post the method "average_method".

Is this good practice?

Also, what's the advantage of keep lots of data in a single row versus multiple tables? Does it effect performance that much (esp with caching)?
John Gapper - Curbing a few bankers’ earnings is a small price
Sure, it's hard to measure (the root of the problem) - but there's plenty of people out there (Joel Spolsky for starters, Peopleware is another) that suggest some of the things that adversely affect it. Why are those factors so hard to communicate to managers?
Is that a real question? The answer seems rather self evident, let me guess... still in your 20's?
Economic Good News is Now on a Roll
You're being a fear monger. No other species has had the capacity to take control of their own evolution, that doesn't mean doing so would be bad. We're in a unique position and the natural order of things sucks, if we can fix it we should.
those are sweet. i want one.
Perfect! I'm working on a mega-bookmarklet type app (to be released very soon) which organizes various web services and actions, and would love to feature some sort of "discussions on this URL" action.

For now, I'm stuck with "view this on Digg", "view this on Reddit", etc... which will work well for users of those specific networks, but not for someone such as myself who wants to get a wider view of discussions across all networks.

I have to ask, if most comments don't extend to Digg, Reddit, etc, where do they come from? The blog post itself?
Yes I am sorry I just put this up and used an existing domain I had I will clean that up soon. Basically it is like a cross between google groups and a blog. So you can share things and cross post to specific groups. Rather than a blog where only one person makes things public lots of people can blog/post/share things publicly and privately. Also you can share lots of things links videos files posts etc and it can interpret them and render correctly. As I said it is like a group blog.
Most of the space humans take up is accounted-for by farming. Farming need not take up as much space as it currently does: http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/TCHAR0...

PhytoFarm techniques could feed a hundred times the world's present population - say 500 billion people - with factory buildings a hundred stories high, on one percent of present farmland. To put it differently, if you raise your bed to triple bunk-bed height, you can grow enough food on the two levels between the floor and your bed to supply your nutritional needs. [...]

Only two hundred years ago, half of the diet of Sauk and Mesquakie Native Americans came from hunting, and "It took 7,000 acres to support one human." Phytofarm's one acre, which supports 500 or 1,000 people, represents an increase in productivity per acre a million times over compared with the Native Americans. [...]

Nor is this any "ultimate" limit. Rather, these gains are just the result of research over the past few decades [...] It is likely that before the world gets to 500 billion people, or even to 10 billion, the maximum output per acre will be increased much beyond what PhytoFarm achieves now.
We're definitely going to have this available through the API, so look out for our release.

In addition to Digg, Reddit and Hacker News, we're looking at other blogs as well as FriendFeed and Twitter.
Some people are losing their jobs because they were in sectors that had too much malinvestment ( housing).

But many other are losing their jobs simply because of friction caused by the increase in demand for money. All contracts ( wage contracts and debt contracts) were written assuming an easier availability of money. When a deflation occurs, many businesses go bust not because they were "malinvestment" but simply because their contracts were denominated in 2007 dollars, not 2009 dollars. The correct response is to print money to prevent the deflation, thus removing the need for every business in the country to into bankruptcy court to get out of their debts.

Before the Great Depression, many people wanted cars and they could afford cars. After the great depression, the production of cars were even greater. Why did the factories need to stay idle during the great depression? Idle automobile factories were not a result of liquidating malinvestment, they were a result of collateral damage from deflation.
I redesigned a snow shovel (with some HN help)
The calculus of saying "I love you"
Why would say someone who has a Wordpress blog, for example, post those links at your site when they automatically get published in Wordpress, Technorati etc? I am trying to understand what would drive users to your site and I can't think of a reason for now. Is there something I am missing?
Even mathematically inclined people get brainbusted when someone says the I-word, but I have to try: if you are able to buy some commodity for $1 in 2005, and you are able to buy the same commodity for $1 in 2008, then the real price has declined by about eight to ten percent, give or take.
So 'pgrank' is much more advanced than we think.
I wouldn't mind a .net version, but other than that I agree that clojure loses a lot of its benefit over other lisps if it isn't tied to an existing runtime and library set.
Modern Art is pretty fun, and since it's auction-based you end up thinking about negotiation and valuations.

I'm learning to play Go, and it really appeals to me in the same way Lisp might - simple, elegant, but with endless depth.
Not to mention that many who are in the right place and could profitably use new people are not sure of that fact, so they lack the confidence to bring in as many new people as they might otherwise.
this is where i got 99% of the inspiration. without thinking it over for a longer time, i can only make marginal improvements on that model. there were a few disadvantages:

the flick action can be difficult for older people;
no flashlight, no fluorescent handles;
design is a little awkward, very big wheel;
blade is not modular, fixed width;

that's about all i could think of, but they really nailed the concept.
I'd rather have this only for the smartest, to keep them immortal during their prime.