skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think using Google Chart API is much better than using these plugins. Lots of chart types, easy to make, gives high-quality result, and support all browsers that can display images.
For me, there are two types of bugs: bugs that can teach you something and random bugs. I love the first type - these are bugs that make me read and learn something.
This is obviously fixed now... MT FTW! :-)
Definitely with you there, if you can handle the complex urls, then go for it...
My impression from the talk is that they still don't have any clue on what they've built.
FF3: Address not fount - Firefox can't find the server at www.%e2%9e%a1.ws.
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Albert,

Do you think that everyone who has passed the karma threshold, does really have the ability to "down vote" a comment? I am talking about the ability, not the functionality!!!

This comment that I wrote above... I really believe in it, regardless if I am experienced or not.
And anyway I am here to learn... I am here to meet great people like you... but it's not good at all to keep receiving down votes!

Yesterday, I commented on Paul Buchheit's post about his friendfeed with mysql.. and I wrote to him that I like him so much...
I received down-vote because I wrote that!!!!!!!! Does it make any sense??!!!

The "guys" who can down-vote, are not angels or prophets... they are people that I can agree/disagree with them, and they are making mistakes for sure!
French government wants to ban file-sharers from Internet
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"You can't build a UI builder with a UI builder". :-)

I like your point about users "reacting" to an limited range of choices, explicitly stated (and surely using domain specific terminology). It's a grammar you don't have to internalize, with libraries you don't have to know about, or know the search terms to find term. It's very "discoverable", and the limited and clear range of choices minimizes the information content (increasing the probability of obtaining the desired outcome). I'm sure it would also prune the tree by omitting choice combinations that don't make sense.

I think people don't like the system guessing for you, like Office's Clippy. Maybe it's OK if the user asks for the guess - like getting a list of search results; or vim/bash completion; or suggestions (google, Stackoverflow)
I love it! I snagged http://➡.ws/♥ ... much fun to be had, here. Great job!
Take a drive down the expressway in West Virginia or South Carolina and you will see big billboards with busty women on them for roadside strip clubs and videostores.

There are strip clubs all over most southern cities.
But see "TCHunt - Quickly Search Drives For TrueCrypt Files" (http://16systems.com/TCHunt/).
More and more software at least recognizes the "www." prefix and turns it into a link. That saves some keystrokes:

www.➡.ws/퐐

http://➡.ws/퐐

The www version actually works on Twitter, so we may make an easy API for that one for tools to use.
You can do it in one line, if that is what you mean?

(Get-date).AddDays(10).ToString()
Ask HN: How do you build a developer community?
On Monday I start a new job that involves building a developer community around a software product.

(My employer makes a CMS-style platform. Developers create apps/modules that run on top of the platform.)

I was hired in large part because I have built a healthy developer community around my open source project, the Nitrogen Web Framework for Erlang (http://nitrogenproject.com).

Some lessons I've learned are:

- Focus on providing organization and growing leaders, you can't do everything
- Success is when a community starts answering its own questions
- Help to publicize anybody who blogs or tweets about you. This leads to more blogs or tweets
- If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a screencast is worth a thousand blog articles
- If all else fails, go to your newsgroup and answer one question at a time

Do you have experience in building tech communities? What lessons have you learned?

Any good books or articles?
What's intriguing to me is that they started with less features. I'll explain.
When some new thing comes onto the scene, like IRC or KaZaA or whatever, it is usually very shaped, the creators have a specific use patten in mind. And so they stock up on all the features that they think you're going to want. Twitter seems different (not using it myself). It comes with less features.
And now, having listened to that talk, I can see that originally it came with no "features" whatsoever beyond the starter "hunch", a sort of an objectified idea.

That is what's worth a ponder, IMO.
Found it on hacker news & created a Firefox Ubiquity command for it. Here it is http://➡.ws/⇷
(tinyarrows don't show up as links on twitterfox though.)
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Not working for me in Chrome or Firefox. It's like a Mac-only splinter of the Internet.
This would be a perfect example of one of the effects to [Bruce Schneier: Privacy in the Age of Persistence](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=497698).
Chicago has no "space in the margins".

http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html

All of the space that could be in this category is rendered unusable 9 months per year by the winters there. When you're on the ramen budget, I think climate is more important than most people realize. Enclosed temperature controlled space is brutally expensive even in the "cheapest" cities. I find that even when the space is afforded, being trapped in cars and buildings many months per year because it literally hurts to go outside has a huge impact on my productivity.
FF3 works great (for me) with these on Mac, Ubuntu, Windows, etc. What platform are you using?

Based on your error message, I bet it's not FF3 but whatever showed you the link. If I had to guess, you clicked on the link/page through a feed reader or something?

Can you confirm whether it happens when you click directly from this page/site on Hacker News? (which seems to be handling them great)
On the other hand, certain things that have an extremely high voting velocity might be necessary. Emergency posts from pg, news of some incredibly major political event on the order of 9/11 making it on the front page. Perhaps high velocity items should be referred to moderators?
Newspeak Prototype Released
> This was a single instance of somebody speaking as a private citizen

That comment is absurd. Hansen isn't "somebody speaking" and he trades on "NASA climate scientist". Moreover, the comment the setting of his statement gives lie to the "private citizen" theory.

> about people being tried (not specifically jailed)

Yeah right.
Chrome and Firefox both work for it fine. I use Windows actually.

Are you clicking them from a feed reader? Or from the Hacker News page? What kind of error do you get?

Sometimes feed readers or the like urlencode the domain name and it confuses IDN resolvers in browsers.

If it's not working directly from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498051 can you tell me what version of Chrome and Firefox you're using?

Thanks in advance!
Though I do not have any problems with tiny arrows on Twitter/Firefox3 Some of my friends complain that they see blah blah instead of the right signs. And when clicked they get errors. Must be a problem with unicode support I guess & it will be a major drawback for the tinyarrows :(
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Oh great, another pointless Twitter application that needs my password.
Less can be more.

How the 140 character limit was reached is also interesting; I don't think it's mentioned in the TED video, but it was discussed here: http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/6575
Almost all major oracle operations can be done online ... Index rebuilds, table reorgs etc. Depends how much hardware you have how much it affects things ...
i wouldn't call it less features, in general. it's more of finding a good design, an elegant solution. it's understanding the problem really well, distilling out the essential elements, and creating a platform that solves that problem really well, as in fast and easy, with as few obstacles as possible.

it's this focus and lack of obstacles and elegance that actually makes good technology flexible. irc and kazaa add on all these features to solve many problems, which add obstacles to understanding and use, removing elegance, removing flexibility and usability.
Entrepreneur sells bottled New York City tap water
Compared to California, not so good. But heating is a lot cheaper in Chicago than in Boston, because the housing stock is newer and has some insulation.
How are you sending the link to them? What software/tools are involved?

Some IM messangers and emails will mess IDN links up, so I'm on a crusade to notify vendors to get things working better.

Also these don't work in IE6. Are they using that?

Can they click on a page like this? http://ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ.com ?

Thanks in advance!
wtf kind of experiment is this? A digg link from reddit? Flagged.
FYI-- I reported this to the Twitterfox guys, maybe they'll fix that. Thanks for mentioning it.
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We once made a demo for our product in front of maybe a hundred people and everything went wrong. Our live system was down, our backup system was not working and we didn't have the right codecs for the videos. Sometimes the Gods of demo don't want you to demo your product.

Just another tip, create a demo user on your computer with all the stuff ready on the desktop (links, images, videos). It will more professional.
I just twittered via twitterfox. I checked on my Twitter page & it shows up well for me. But a friend using Fx3 on window$ just complained there are problems viewing it. WC.
I asked the same question here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=445455
Thanks a lot for the clarification. If it's not a hassle, can you ask them how they read Twitter? Did they visit the website or get through a different reader?
"stupidity more often takes the form of having few ideas than wrong ones."

best line of the essay.

This is probably sophomoric, but... I was wondering why there is no semantic engines that can identify the major themes in the comments and present them like a table of contents or color code them like checking a cached page on google? I'm imagining something like Yelp's engine that picks out the best dishes.

thanks.
I would say that there's am essential piece of information that's not answered in your FAQ: What happens to my data if you go out of business?

That is a dealbreaker for me. If you go out of business (which I hope you don't) I need to get my data out, or I'll be out of business too.

With that said, I've signed up for your service, and hope to use it. It's a great idea.
Such a strange case. The people who I think are technically in the wrong all seem to be wonderful people whom I'd love to have as friends and think it would be cool to hang out with while the people who are technically in the right to defend their copyrights behave so despicably that I wish I didn't have to share the world with them.

I of course want reasonable copyright law to prevail because I believe that much of modern progress is a result of the "ownership society" ideal. I just want these (Entertainment cartel) guys to lose because they've been such asses about the whole thing.

Such a strange case.
> To actually count this as evidence againt the global warming case

Strawman. I explicitly wrote that it wasn't evidence against (or for) the global warming case. I wrote that it was evidence against dejb's faith in the "science" behavior exhibited scientists with whom he agrees.

Since dejb's only evidence for his faith is their behavior....

> I'd be amused to see what 'Global warming sceptics-sceptics' could dig up ubout individual sceptics.

The mark of actual science is looking for holes in what you believe in. The mark of faith is looking for support for what you believe in and looking for holes in what you oppose.

Note the difference....

> the motley crew of inferentially challenged global warming sceptics I have experienced I would back them any day.

Since "motley crew of inferentially challenged" also describes the AGW believers that dejb "have experienced"....

> Nothing you have said provides any sort of evidence that I should trust the scientific consensus any less than for any other issue.

Except that the scientific concensus isn't. Moreover, scientific concensus doesn't actually have any scientific weight. Then again, you have actually understand science to know why.

> We all individually and collectively have to make decisions based on probablilities.

Since we don't make decisions based on probabilities, this is an interesting usage of the term "have to make".

I recommend Feyerabend and some direct observations of actual scientists. Popper's discussions of "scientism" are also relevant.
Twitter has a massive future...I just hope they continue to open up their API (public XMPP, etc.) so developers can tap into the ever growing resource!

I'm not a big fan of the billion webapps created everyday which uses Twitter in some way which doesn't dig deep under the skin of the ecosystem, I'm more interested in the fact that twitter is (or will become) a live database of everything happening in the world.
The youtube video on Peteris' page doesn't seem to exist any more but the original is here: http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=630959

There is also a ton more stuff like this at: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/

Disclaimer: I'm proud to work with the YUI team :)
This is so last month.

Seriously, though, the consensus among mathematicians (of which I'm one) was that yes, being a mathematician is great, but not for the reasons this list suggests. Their criteria basically seem to assume that the best job possible is one where you get to sit in a climate-controlled office for a few hours a day, not have too many deadlines, do what appears to be nothing, and still get paid. It's just a coincidence that being a mathematician looks like that.
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In the states, college <=> university. Elsewhere, I believe college is below university.
Oops, just deleted it.
The most interesting aspect which they did not mention - how the nuclei of close contacts look like in the broader view. I wonder how it globally forms a high-connectivity core.

Here is a popular article about the characteristics of networks if someone is interested:

http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_61/iss_1...
Headline is extremely misleading.

From the study: ( http://people.hbs.edu/bedelman/papers/redlightstates.pdf )

"Furthermore, I found no significant relationship between subscriptions to this adult entertainment service and presidential voting in 2004, based on poll data by congressional district."

If porn-consumption co-varied with "Conservativeness," the correlation found at the state level would carry down to red/blue American Congressional districts.
I did go down that list. See the second section of http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html .
As a reasoning for the defensiveness: Each side is basically marginalizing the other. The anticollege people suggest that college is worthless and (occasionally) the people who go there are similar.

The procollege people suggest that people without a degree are lesser or cannot achieve as much because of it.

This leads to both sides feeling attacked, and for them to attack back.
What you said is basically true, though. College is a choice which is good for some people, bad for others. Some people excel with the pedagogy, and go far further than they could have on their own. Some subjects require this (or, to turn it around, in some subjects pedagogy is so effective that people without it are at a significant disadvantage). Some, however, do not.

Colleges are important and useful. Some people don't need/want that level of analysis. Some people don't need the help. It's a personal decision.
I've been using Flot a while after getting the hump about JS charting SDKs last week. A clever person I work with has ported Flot to YUI (http://github.com/bluesmoon/flot/tree/master).

I have to say I particularly like it, and I think we will be offering back some improvements to the jQuery version, such as the ability to have many more graphs on the page with destroying your browser.

I do really like the idea of Tufte graphs though. As a Tufte devotee I think I'm going to look at getting that look and feel out of flot as well.
If I recall correctly, Haskell is compiled, and Yi probably is (an interpreter does exist, but there is not much of a point).

It probably has a system like XMonad, where the code is compiled, but you can hot-recompile, which is effectively the same thing.
From what I've heard from people who've used it, it is much better than viper mode/vile, so for Vi people looking for something a little more configurable, it looks pretty good.
Mostly I think about it as an abstract exercise, but we've had people from two European countries (Switzerland and Sweden) visit YC to learn about what we were doing. I had very interesting conversations with them.
That's not quite the same video.

The one I linked to is from a few weeks ago, when he gave a talk at Google.

ps. the youtube video works for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook

pps. someone changed my crazy title for this post, this one looks much better and shorter. thanks :)
That is a very interesting idea. I didn't think of that. You could do the 30-startup experiment with private money. And what pressure it would put on the city if it succeeded.

Thanks for this idea. I just added a paragraph to the essay mentioning it.
Sorry didn't work for me off the page. hm.
I can't think of a single major US city (san francisco bay area included) that, if it came to a popular vote, would likely choose the start-up fund over a stadium.
Where is the evidence the VC industry in California is even competent?

All around you. The cpu of the computer you used to make this comment, and the routers by which it got here, to start with.
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I'm gonna start selling sealed, empty plastic bottles!

I'll call it: "Make your own bottled water"
Great article. But the fallacy in the comments is that most thought about domestic competitors only.

As an example, the French community in Silicon Valley has been wondering for years how to get Paris (or some other city) to start resembling Silicon Valley more. Many French politicians visit for a week and always ask that same question.

There could be a critical mass of French people living in Silicon Valley who would love to spend more time in Paris to advise and help the local startup scene, plus some political will to make something happen. Plus some rich American angels would love some special angel visa that would allow them to skip the lines at le Louvre :-)

But this plan doesn't address the general lack of positive thinking in Paris. As we (the French living here) often conclude, there is a reason we moved out...
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In Ireland and Britain college = university. I believe the US has a ~distinction that a college is an undergraduate institution, which may or may not be part of a university, but the rest of the Anglosphere follows British usage in that a college is post secondary school though it may not be degree granting, like the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
not sure if the guy(s) who wrote this is/are here, but I don't think this should need my pass.

You can fetch someone's followers without the pass. (I've done it.)

In Ruby, it would be (from a working Sinatra app that I really need to get deployed):

Twitter::Base.new('username', 'password').all_followers_for(params[:user1])
Bookmarklet for it. It just displays the link (no copy to the clipboard like tinyurl, but I don't actually know javascript.), but it's better than nothing, I guess...

javascript:void(location.href='http://tinyarro.ws/api-create.php?url='+encodeURIComponent(l...)

Also, is there a better way to display this in the comments?
Seems like some useful wisdom, but the presentation is limited by offering only slides with no audio. Worse: no notes. Worse yet: not downloadable. Just not the way I absorb and assess information best. Sorry I couldn't have been in Denver for the presentation...

Plus, I wonder along with a commenter on her blog... how much does her emphasis on grids limit (which of) her recommendations for those of us who use fluid designs?
oh, I guess they need it for following/unfollowing. but there should be a passwordless version that just shows everyone's douchebag index
There are sports water bottles, even with filters, at discount prices. Less waste.

What a bizarre situation caused by consumerism.
Who is forcing them to put out a CD, if it is not worth it for them?
Reading this, I had one of those -- hey! "I invented that first!" entrepreneur moments, since I had blogged on the same topic a week or two ago. http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2009/02/who-was-i-aga...

Of course, like all big ideas, this stuff is "in the air" at a certain point in time and lots of people are channeling it. I think of it as a process sort of like waking up: usually you'll have outliers who warn of problems years or decades ahead of time without any traction, then suddenly everybody's thinking and talking about it. E-commerce was like that, and so it social networking. Who knows? Maybe Twitter is the next big change.

This is a society-changing trend, no doubt, and worthy of all the attention we can give it. While my post was overly lyrical, historical, and elliptical -- Bruce drives a truck right through the reader with direct analysis. I hope to see more writers take this on.

If I had to put the problem into one semi-poetic line, it would be.

Every detail. Easily recorded. Rarely noticed. Never forgotten.

Our species has never existed in a world where nothing was forgotten. Not only is the ability to forget a key part of remaining sane, it may be a key part of a functioning society.

We don't know -- we're in uncharted territory. But I do know that the matter is credibly huge and will not go away simply by us ignoring it.

And no, this is not a privacy issue. To think of it as just privacy is to miss the point. Even if we were the only ones able to access the data about us, is it healthy to have a life in which all the details are remembered forever? I don't think so. This isn't about ownership of the data, it's much more encompassing than that: it's about whether or not people are machines or evolving organisms. Machines don't care for the past. Evolving organisms are always forgetting and remaking the past in order to emotionally move forward. We may be reaching a "wet-ware limit" where our information systems are simply operating at too high an efficiency level for the interface to work properly with us sloppy, emotional, forgetful, slow, and illogical hominids.
The book discussed here is extremely thin. If you buy it, you should be able to read it over a weekend.
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I agree with you. Selling the idea of a billion dollar startup mecca to their constituents would be a though sell for any politician.
And clear out test data and files. I once did a demo and stumbled upon a page that had a file called "vida-guerra-nude02.jpg" or something like that. Ugh. I closed the page fast but probably not fast enough.