skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the planned features (http://mostpop.com/idea/):

-link recommendations and anti-recommendations (things you likely wouldn't have seen, but lots of other people have read)

-a map of the Internet showing clusters of news sites that are frequented by the same groups of people

-make the web page visitation data available to everyone (anonymized, of course)
There are some rules in the guidelines (link is in the footer) which say more or less that, if reasonable, the original title should be used.

Unfortunately this is quite hidden away. It might be more useful to have a short statement on the submission page. Maybe including the rule to add a year in parentheses for older articles.
It's pretty amazing to see so many bit errors make it through DNS resolution without the client machines crashing instantly; imagine if the bit errors were introduced in RAM containing code or data structures with memory pointers, instead of a domain name!

Thinking about it, I guess such crashes are actually a much larger number.
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The market does not work in objective economic ways. The market prices different stocks because of various different factors - the weights of which are continuously changing. IMHO, this phenomenon is well explained by George Soros in his FT lectures from 2009:
http://www.ft.com/indepth/soros-lectures

Some good examples or this behavior:
- The run up in the overall market, and specifically in the Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) and the eventual crash was not based on good economics and lasted for several years.
- MDBX (MedBox) recent run up and correction is also a good example (TechCrunch, of all things, brought this to my attention)
- The recent drop in DDD (3D Systems) after a negative Seeking Alpha article, is also an example of how the market doesn't always behave in objective economic ways.
I've discussed these results with the team at 10gen and their comment is basically "that's interesting but we're not looking at it at this time."

All told, based on my experience, MongoDB's performance still has a ways to go.
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Chris Pirillo getting super excited about Nexus 4
It's not obvious what's going on here. This appears to be a custom solution for multiple projects on the invite-only koding.com?
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No, if the proportion of 2 people vs 1 person startup is skewed, which is very likely.

Also, the amount of founders could be neutral to the success, in such case neither is countering their own success, and again just a matter of samples.

Correlation is not...
I agree, but I can never get over the fact that selling picks and axes to gold-rush miners is selling services and products to people who are chasing unrealistic dreams and are statistically pre-dispositioned to fail. And is just a way to take advantage of the situation to your own gain.

Fully knowing that, at the end of the day, I can't feel proud of that ... unless I also increase the success rate of those miners.

So the moral of this is - don't just sell those picks and axes, but improve and progress the process of finding gold.
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The gear is completely irrelevant. They blew two hundred thousand dollars. How much of that went on gear, a tenth? That's down in the noise. Forget about it. The real expense was the other nine tenths, which presumably went on living expenses, representing the value of time. (Underrepresenting at that. You can always replace money. You can't replace time.)

The real lesson here is: time is precious. Don't blow it in large quantities unless there's going to be something a lot more worthwhile than "apps" to show for it.
This piece is interesting as a side defense of the original article's outlandish claims. Predatory pricing is unsustainable in the long run.
On the other hand, you may not want to reimplement sed, grep, etc in your scripting language of choice. There are times where a good "perl -e" can be very useful in a shell script.
>> What follows from individual productivity is productivity of the business. Unproductive people don't make a productive business.

You are still able to be productive, you just might not feel like you are as productive as you could be. But as a whole, the producitivity of the team increases, while individual productiviy may decrease. Just my experience for what it's worth
People are more willing to be critical of the company now that the reality distortion field is down. Being critical of is not the same as being anti-. I don't see a single anti-Apple comment in this thread.
This was a fun read. Thanks for sharing.
Wow I'm impressed, the numa numa guy has come a long way
By being on this site you most definitely do have special google-fu abilities. The vast majority of people do not know that the top search result in yellow is an add and that you can do "exact match" searches.

If you can find 40-pages of well documented information and condense it down into clear, actionable information that you can then form a plan from in 15-20 minutes you are a much better man than I am.

For those of us that lack that particular skill set, these are screamingly good deal even at $99. For even more of us who don't personally pay for this, but put it on the company credit card, our company should fire us for wasting company time by trying to do it ourselves and not spend the $39.

Clearly, we disagree, but all I'm saying is that there are a lot of people for which these are a screamingly good deal.
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Hi,

It's a custom web-app for Koding.com. Everyone can build something like that. It's a simple app that shows how to build stuff like that with the in-house UI API in Koding.

I've built this to make Django beginners/testers the life more easy. Just think like Wordpress.com, but together with the builtin Terminal app, Koding.com is a excellent way to work in the cloud and learn new programming skills like that (they are still in beta).

I'll get in touch with someone working there, hoping they sending some invites here in HN to let test it :)
Here's the link to the article cited in this article. http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
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Problem is, this will do for forward-thinking Russian entrepreneurs what it did for you in China - and will give them another reason to work on Plan B (not involving Russia). And that will affect foreign investments.
Does he though? I know Red Hat gave him stock, but how does he make his money? By giving talks?
Ask HN: Design Resources for Developers?
I've been working on a side project for quite some time and have been skirting around the issue of design. I started out using Bootstrap, then purchased a nice looking design from ThemeForest and hacked it to my needs. Even with my lack of design skills, it's actually starting to look pretty nice.

The problem I'm having is how to visualize data. Users rate an item on a scale of 1 - 10 for how often that item was required. For instance, a rating of 1 would mean "I needed this item infrequently. Chances are you won't need it either." and a rating of 10 would mean "I needed this item all the time. You will need it.". When the user is entering the rating, it's easy enough to have a quick text description of how it works, however when you're browsing through reviews without that context it's hard to tell what a rating 1 - 10 actually means.

Are there any good design resources out there for visualizing data? I need to figure out how to display that kind of data in a way that can be interpreted and understood at a glance.

Thanks.
The article says it cost $200,000 "in lost income". That's not quite the same as spending $200K, they're factoring in opportunity cost to make it sound more dramatic. It's also possible that some of the equipment (eg laptops & displays) was purchased before they started iPhone work.

Definitely agree about iPod touches & cutting costs, though.
Apologies for that.
I think they're just called "arrow buttons."

Unfortunately some influential sites and UI designers have lately been trying to improve on the standard scrollbar [1], often in an attempt to make them work better for very small screens and/or touchscreen devices. IMHO, their changes have mostly been steps backwards as far as traditional mousing is concerned. The scrollbar is old and highly evolved. It's not immediately obvious that it can be improved. I suspect it will be with us until we eliminate scrolling itself.

In Firefox and Opera, the arrow buttons are showing up fine for me. How are you viewing this?

[1]] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/11/...
1. It's worth mentioning that lurkmore was removed from blacklist one or two days after removal of the articles on "marijuana consumption methods" and "dudka" (slang for marijuana or bong).

2. Together with articles on lurkmore wiki, couple of other sites got blacklisted, including, wait for it, eve online fansite, because it had a page about making and selling in-game drugs.
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Then declare the array with 13 slots, fill slots 1-12 with the appropriate strings, and don't use slot 0. Or better, put in an error check for being passed a zero.

Suddenly, a 1-12 value for "month" is directly an index into an array to convert the number into a string...
Those essays are available for free on his site. If you want to scrap it for yourself, you're in a grey zone, but it will be fine. But hey, authors deserve respect : if an author wants to publish an ebook, he will.
The US political context plays a part:

As the Bush tax cuts are set to expire in January, 2013, investors are selling profitable equity holdings to lock in profits---before a capital gains tax hike. At the same time, uncertainty over the fiscal cliff has left investors feeling bearish about the US equities market.

As a result, while investors are selling, there is no one to buy---what surely is---an under-priced stock.
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For the alternative viewpoint, see "Amid Slumping Revenue, Punch Quest Switches To A Paid Game" over at Touch Arcade: http://toucharcade.com/2012/11/14/amid-slumping-revenue-punc...
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Imagine your friends see this app running on your computer, i mean gooosh.... whatevahhh they wouldn't invite you to their minimalism exquisite design parties anymore.
Aw man! You have made it sound so complicated. I would say if you are wrong apologize; if not do not. I don't think your apology should be viewed as something against you. If it is; I think you are are working for the wrong organization.
What does this do that Vim doesn't? I'm just not sure I see any selling points. You can extend Vim with Lua, vim has multiple viewports, support for hundreds of languages, and all the other features like code complete, etc... What itch is this supposed to scratch, that something like Vim, a proven project, cannot? I understand that every developer wants to carve his name out and be king of his own sandcastle. But as a rule, I don't support that unless the developer has really thought about the problem and decided that a new project was the only way to solve a problem.
Nexus 10 linux and great keyboard please! I would definitely fund that!

Edit: Das keyboard in laptop form with a battery. When I use the keyboard i'm sitting down for 'serious work' anyway, so a bit bigger wouldn't matter; 20 hours battery life + a real programmers keyboard in a clamshell would rock.
Except being critical has nothing to do with OP's question. Internet criticism do not account for large market fluctuations like this. Only fundamentals, either in the company's balance sheet (which is not the case) or market forces (which I believe is the case) can have influences like what we have seen.
Steve Jobs have been dead for a while, and criticisms of Apple have been around far longer than his death. I am not arguing for the validity of those criticism, I was simply trying to answer OP's question from a stock market perspective, which is what he asked.
Like most companies it's a question of who you perceive your customers to be:

Apple — end users

Google — advertisers

Microsoft — OEMs, IT departments (although they seem to be changing their mind about OEMs)

Amazon — investors (which bizarrely works to customer benefit, or at least low prices, right now)
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No question, it takes a lot of commitment and effort to change eating habits. People can't just simply undo the habits they have acquired over the years overnight.
Cool! I've used HTTP upgrade in the past too and it's quite useful. My main goal was to demonstrate the usage on a popular PaaS.

It's always interesting to see less known features of a technology used in an original way.
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Not sure if I'm thinking of the same thing, but I believe Cornell's former introduction to computer science used C and a functional style. I'm also unable to find a description online, now.

I was handed a few lecture notes by my former professor who interned there in the 90s or so.

edit: To clarify, I looked, but couldn't find the notes right now either. Not sure if I still have them.
Commit times do not necessarily convey the correct information; in the worst case i could have worked two days on a commit, or even commit it the following day. Time zones are also not accurate when travelling is involved for a developer/engineer or eg. Is it even correctly set. I believe evidence comes from first hand, conversation or questionaire
>I don't even need to look at the data to say that in the US most successful companies have at least one white, male founder. Does that mean that if you start a tech company and are non-white or non-male you should make sure to partner up with one to ensure success?

I feel This statement assigns specific attributes to the data-points in question where as the original data is more generalized (and suited to the argument). Doesn't the assignment of random attributes skew the point being made and just try to forcibly fit a separate tangential argument?
Why? That would just result in this story, which I found interesting and a lot of other people seemingly also do, not getting picked up and placed on the front page.

The issue isn't duplicate URLs, the issue is that the submission system is broken. This is an example of that. When a story doesn't get a single upvote the first time it is submitted, but gets 50+ upvotes when it is submitted just two hours later, something is wrong with the system.

In good upvoting systems the "winners" should be decided by how interesting they are and not by the hour they was submitted or seemingly totally random factors. Creating a system like that is incredibly hard though.
Yep, the information is pretty much outdated, and honestly the site's contents is mostly rubbish (but the discussions can provide quite many lulz:) ).

My commy cheers :)
Also worth mentioning that the whole site was not blacklisted, only the page about pot consumption methods was banned, but the fact that the ISPs need DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) for banning just one page from the whole site (which they don't have implemented) they were just banning the whole site.

Also worth mentioning that now some lawmakers consider introducing new laws to outlaw "anonymizers" like web proxies or networks like Tor and I2P, because they help people to route around the law. Don't they understand that it is not technically possible? People will just start using VPN.
>the PC platform had only succeeded because IBM opened it up to clones

That's a little misleading. More accurate to say IBM didn't consider the personal computer strategically important and consequently did not bother to erect barriers to competition, particularly, did not buy MSDOS outright or take other measures to prevent MS's licensing it to competitors.
> I don't think even most Vim fans would claim vim is "as extensible" as Emacs

Vim fan reporting. Apart from async(which Vim can't do), Vim is as extensible as Emacs in letter and spirit. Considering that you are vowing vim allegiance, I think tpope's plugins would have made it pretty obvious how extensible vim is.

> Still with proper support for Lua, I suspect it might be forced to do a lot of the same things Emacs can be forced to do

Again, async. Vim can't and won't do async. If vim starts supporting async execution, vimscript will wrap existing imap, smtp implementation and update the ui. I am guessing emacs does the same. If it doesn't, I am in complete awe - not by the extensibility but by the pointlessness of implementing smtp server in elisp.
> What does this do that Vim doesn't?

It's not vim. That alone will be a selling point for a vast majority.
I could see how the writing would indicate that.

We can't exhaustively fact check our pieces, but we can at least link to our sources. Maybe false information is the cost of doing business in high speed journalism?

Thanks for the comment.
I had a Macintosh on my desk in 1997, and it was the biggest piece of crap around. "An OS ... 10 years ahead"?! What a joke. It crashed hard far more often even than Windows 95. It was also slow and expensive. Eventually MkLinux came along and I was able to replace it with something solid.
Very fascinating... if a very narrow scenario with a very low probability resulted in this, how is it that these errors are not apparent during other computer activities ?
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You edited out what I was replying to. I should have quoted it.
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I edited out the part where I was thinking OP may not get the best answers because HackerNews is pretty anti-Apple. I took that part out not because I don't stand up to my words, but because it doesn't contribute to my answer and may distract the conversation (you down-voted me over that part instead of my real answer is proof). I have no interest in starting or be involved in another flamewar whatsoever.
Just stopped and deleted after the sign-in splash screen!

Why i need to create a account BEFORE i use it? I dont like to share my project! I dont need to push it to public!

Its a phishing app for idea grabbing?
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I downvoted a needless stab at critics. That's a fine reason to downvote. Changing votes (especially when the target of the downvote goes away) is one of a long list of features HN needs to take from Reddit.
I edited out the part where I was thinking OP may not get the best answers because HackerNews is pretty anti-Apple. I took that part out not because I don't stand up to my words, but because it doesn't contribute to my answer and may distract the conversation (you down-voted me over that part instead of my real answer is proof). I have no interest in starting or be involved in another flamewar whatsoever.
That is how it has worked for a relatively short period of time, since the appearance of modern newspapers--at the earliest, in the 1830's. With the advent of cheap, instantaneous publishing, it seems that our expectations are getting closer to the days of partisan pamphlets. I'm not really sure that this is an obviously bad thing, just different.
Maybe my protest is more against eye-grabbing-headlines than connotation...

Now that you've put it that way, the word journalist might be too broad in its definition. I think there are good and bad journalists with different positive skill sets.

I wrote the blog post after seeing too many scientific topics where journalists were inaccurate. This doesn't represent all journalists.

I think photo and video journalists do a particularly good job of news casting. Sometimes their content becomes described inaccurately. The napalm girl photo of Vietnam is a good example of this.

Thanks for the comment. Just checked out the book.
> something is wrong with the system.

Maybe. But really, people were just asleep and didn't feel like waking up to give their upvotes out. Most people who read HN were asleep three hours ago. It's Sunday morning, many HN readers are on the west coast of the US. For them, the previous submission was at 4am. Why are you surprised it didn't get many upvotes? Even for US East readers, it was 7am on Sunday.

Timing your submission for when most people are asleep and expecting upvotes is not going to work. If you want people to read it, submit when they're awake.
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HTTP 1.1 includes a header field called Host.

Technically, this statement is correct, but don't overlook the fact that while the Host header is optional in HTTP 1.0, most HTTP 1.0 clients will include it out of necessity. It's nearly impossible to guarantee you'll get the correct resource without a Host header, these days.
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Kind of funny that every single thing you said is wrong.

Apple isn't overpriced according to its P/E. The market couldn't have cared less about maps. The iPad Mini looks like being a bigger success than even Apple predicted according to Morgan Stanley. Apple only fired one manager related to iOS and it was for more than just maps. Finally sales of Surface/Win8 have not met internal expectations according to many recent reports.
I am sure that this will make them change their mind. Do you think that there is any piece of feedback that they have not received in the last year? They have reasons to do this the way they do it. So chances are they have heard it. A million times.
Just to be clear, I wasn't complaining about it, I was saying I think the character limit is a good thing.
> "because HackerNews is pretty anti-Apple. I took that part out not because I don't stand up to my words,"

It is not. Why would you (wisely) edit that bit of idiocy out to avoid a flame war before putting it back in with two other comments? It's like you're desperate to get the stab in despite knowing what will happen.
Except that lots of reports are coming out that Win8/Surface have not been selling well.
This is a delightful and very helpful advice. Thank You! I must point out: my efforts to reach out to Media personalities on twitter has not been as successful as I had anticipated. But then again, I have not reached out to anybody on NPR. Is there a reason you specifies NPR? also, any tips to reach out effectively would be great. Thank You again.
I disagree. If we make changes to the programming model that allow for better tool integration, we all win. In fact, tooling really is a part of the language, and you should co-design your IDE and language together. Treat any third-party plugin as a language extension. Programming models will always limit the effectiveness of features like edit-and-continue and IntelliTrace, so let's fix that!

I don't think the Omniscient log-the-world Debugging is practical, but if we just had some form of deterministic replay, we could take snapshots or even cheaper memoizations at certain points in the program. Going backwards is simply a matter of going back to the last checkpoint and going forwards to the point where you want to stop.

I agree that the key is UX, and as Gilad said in the blog comments, they aren't necessarily technological (once we know what the right experience is, we'll build the technology!).

Disclaimer: I work for MSFT, though I study this problem in research (MSR/MSRA).
>Mr Soldatov says ... that Russia has not outlawed the use of secure browsing protocols, https, used by Facebook, Gmail, and other sites with sensitive personal data. But he says that some ISPs have already been approached by Russian security agencies and told to prepare for such a possibility.

Is this as batshit insane as it seems? Does even China block https connections?
They probably are, but people are used to bluescreens and unexpected app crashes and think nothing of it.