skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off in that the NYT should be worth more because it makes money, or off in that Reddit should be worth more because of it's ungodly amounts of traffic and devotion?
Ethics is a luxury for limited wars where you can't fundamentally lose anyway - where if you start losing, you can pack up and go home like in Vietnam, and BAM - no more deaths for you.

However, if a total loss (say, genocide of your people) is a possibility (as in parts of WW2 or the cold war mutually assured destruction) then the ends may justify the means. Quite a lot of means.
They've done an impeccable job of steering the site in the past. With their track record and the sheer sweat and grit they've put into the site, I'm confident that won't change just because they raise capital.
k - I wont lie, that wont be a priority. But I'll add it to work list.
All HBO has to do is open "HBO Go" to non-cable subscribers, and they'd get a flood of takers.

But they still make too much money of cable subscriptions to do that, so we have to wait for the tipping point when cable becomes a drag on HBO vs the boon it is today.
The same would happen with cars if the drivers didn't care of getting to their destination faster, just enjoying the ride for the ride's sake.
> So clearly Etsy users back up when venturing into results and apparently expect to be at the exact same state they were before clicking through

Which makes sense, given that the multiple-tabs-at-a-time is often a power-user only thing. Etsy's users are much more "typical" in their usage of the browser; similar to Tumblr (who also ditched infinite scroll).
Ask HN: Why don't most people listen to timid people?
I know someone who is very soft spoken, non confrontational, and super smart. Nobody listens to him even though he is usually right about things. I'm not sure why. You only need to look at his accomplishments to see this is someone you really should be listening to. It's very scary to see how smart he is if you just sit down and listen. It's also sad to hearing how low his salary compared to what he should be earning.

There are very smart people who can solve issues and give solutions to the hard problems many people have but are otherwise very timid. These are people who need to be listened to but they usually aren't. I'm not sure why. (Though, when they are listened to, a lot of interesting things happens.)

I'm definitely not as smart as he is but I noticed that people too don't listen to me unless I start making a mess of things. Even then, there's a 50/50 chance of them listening to me or sending out their attack hounds to chase me away.
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I'm wondering if it's worth it though. I run WoW fine through Wine.

After how much trial & error?

I realize Linux users are not Windows users, but how well would WoW have sold if the installation was as painful as a Wine setup can be for Joe User? If the install-to-run experience is a pain in the arse, this is a barrier to adoption. In commercial terms, this has financial ramifications.
Why is the NYT this wholy grail, that no company ever can aspire to be worth more than?

For me personally Reddit is much more important than the NYT will ever be. If the NYT disappears tomorrow I couldn't care less. There's other publications that will fill its place. Reddit has allowed me to meet great people, have in-depth conversations on topics that no one in my near vicinity cares about and expand my knowledge into fields I never knew possible. It's a great place.
That's such sites which tip you as why HTML5 is not the synonymous of "proper, standard HTML implementation" anymore.

"You are running a Mozilla browser. While such browsers generally have excellent support for HTML5 features, this presentation has only been tested using WebKit browsers"

Exactly. What you mean here is webkit-HTML.

A big part of HTML5 is "we're saying this is going to be an HTML5 API and thats it".

For example, Firefox and Chrome have different Audio APIs. How that's standard?
How ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ Would Be Advertised in 2012
The best/worst things about communities like HN and Reddit are that you're only going to get what the community is capable of producing. When the mean age/experience of the community tilts the wrong way the discourse is naturally affected as well.

That said; my Dad has a saying: "things are not as good as they used to be; and they never were"
For completeness, the original trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8TABIFAN4o
Not even Apple take Mac gaming seriously.
No, not right now, sorry.
It's surprising that Instagam would be considered a billion dollar business, but Reddit a 400 million dollar business.
Thank you for the insightful comment :)
subscri.pt is pretty cool. That would be a nice URL for a blog.
Working on a number of "gateway" challenges for a client.

Not sure if this is too hard with zero hints.

It's so hard to measure when you're the one who created the puzzle. I came up with a couple solutions but again how do you separate the personal bias of being the puzzle maker?
Yep, thanks matey!
Yeah. Your friend who you suspect may be able to read your thoughts and predict your actions so you have to basically wipe your own memory each time you have a malicious thought.

Imma switch back to AOL now.
When I use these things (and even pagination sometimes), I might find something I like, but it's so easy to browse ahead that I'll skip over it in the hope that I'll find something I like even more further on.

At that point, there's no easy way to get back to what I originally liked unless I had the forethought to open it in a tab or remember it exactly.

As for the metrics, it depends on how the business wants to position itself. It's evident from the quote that they care more about just the sales and would prefer to encourage more engagement with their site.
We (a friend and I) built a simple application[1] that gave folks relevant clothing for the weather in their location.

We shelved the infinite scroll at the time out of haste.

It turned out to be a happy accident, as active users refreshing would generate a ton of pageviews.

Not only that, but the act of clicking refresh to "get more" is a nice way to get the user to engage.

[1] http://wevther.com
This is scary to read. GERD, Barrett's Esophagus and acid reflux is not to be taken lightly. It is life altering. I have a relative who has to take 3 days every year to be sedated and have their throat stretched, another 3 later to have it scoped and this is after the surgery that effectively tied her esophagus in a knot (she can't physically vomit).

If you're popping antacids all of the time, be wary.
NYT is one of the very if, possibly only, newspaper media companies with a worldwide brand recognition to actually have value/goodwill in its own right. That is why it is considered to be worth more than other media companies; it is due to its brand and reputation. Not to say this couldn't or won't change at some point.
Well, Dick Cheney, along with a large number of other people, does not have a heartbeat anymore. He was implanted a continuous pump.
What's worth more, producing excellent journalism that occassionally exposes wrongdoing, or entertaining millions of people every day? Is police officer a more laudable occupation than movie director? What about a farmer versus a politician? I don't think it's so obvious that the NYT does more for society than Reddit. (Though you could argue that Reddit is more replaceable.)
iPhone Mini -- Could This Be Apple's Next Big Thing?
Infinite scroll annoys me, period. I spend a lot of my time on 3G mobile, and data costs me money. When I scroll down to the bottom of the page, it's because I want to read what's there, not because I want to give my mobile provider more money. When we're all on flat-rate, unrestricted hyperspeed connections, maybe. (I wait with bated breath.)
-- Lost a lot of trust in the userbase when they did the ridiculous "Matt has viewed the following questions" stunt.

-- Kicked one of the 2 co-founders, Cheever off, rumour has it he didn't want to go as aggressively after growth as D'Angelo & other powers wanted.

-- Widely sneered at in SV as being the company to look at if you want to know what "taking it too far with forcing growth" means. Their "sign-on to view this content" is a joke. Especially if you combine with their "Our mission is to grow and spread the world's knowledge"

Personally:

-- Their site's JS is a fucking mess. Crashes both my Chrome _as well as_ my iPhone's Safari frequently.
Pretty much the same article was posted yesterday:

Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Martian 'Flower' and Snake-Like Rock (mashable.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5014353
foobarnation.com - planned to be an ecommerce for geek apparels. a nation of foo bars, innit?

loladoku.com - wanted to build something like mint.com.

bangbingbong.com - supposedly like twitter, but more anonymous.

joompa.me - social networking. i'm planning to repurpose this domain for my dating website.

achievery.com - haven't thought for the idea. bought it because it sounds cool.

animalystique.com - planned for a chinese horoscope app, but apparently the name is too long. i let this expire. mentioned here in case somebody find the name interesting.

obviously none of them manifests, otherwise i wouldn't put them here.
HBO actually offers this in other countries than the US, the Nordics for example. HBO Nordic gets content as soon as it has aired, so they are aiming to beat piracy with instant availability for $12/mo. Just not in the US yet.
Reddit is replaceable. Shut down today, a dozen clones would rise up tomorrow.

NYT on the other hand...

The latter should be worth far more than it is.
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How to make your message go viral - infographic
Quora does the dodgy 'Experts Exchange style' answer blurring crap when a google search links you to them. I've blocked them from my google results because of this nonsense.
I think the caffeine itself is linked to the stomach irritation, actually.
Nope

http://www.imgur.com/B19Rk.png

No right arrow key means that even if I can use 2/4 of those html5 features, i can't use your presentation.
Anyone working on a Zurb Foundation one?
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Yes, it must be. Surely it's not normal or representative of the general population. The normal thing to do in such situations is to stare (something that has been milked for comedic effect in hundreds of "hidden camera" pranks).

The general population did a lot of things it later stopped doing, or did less.

That said, I don't really believe what you claim. You are probably overestimating your powers of not staring in a kind of Dunning Kruger effect. I'm pretty sure if Megan Fox (or whatever rocks your boat) entered your classroom naked you WOULD stare. A lot.

That said, I don't really believe in your claim of estimating what is a part of uncontrollable behavior and what is not, in a kind of Dunning Kruger effect. For example, as a person who has seen a sauna, a mirror, and a public outdoor female-only bath in the middle of a city, I can assure you that I'd only stare if he/she specifically asked me to. I guess that's because I've been breast-feed in the Chernobyl era.
Agreed. I'm not gonna bother sitting through that just to learn what the site actually does. Ridiculous.
iamfuckingamazing.com - gonna lose it in few days

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This is not very useful, but since it's a github page there's http://whytheluckystiff.net/CNAME with "whytheluckystiff.net" in it.
Or maybe you aren't privy to the numbers that Universal and HBO are? HBO is in my limited experience (from talking to them when I was at iTunes) a very, very, very smart company and I wouldn't expect them to make bad strategic decisions.

The number of people who do not have TV service (myself among them) is utterly insignificant in comparison to those that do; but even more important, carriage agreements and the cable business model are such that a la carte purchases of content just don't make sense; for the studio to make their money back, they'd have to be charging you $80/90 a month, per channel.
The European mood is shifting (no pun intended). I see an increasing number of models being offered with automatic gearboxes, even at the lower end of the price scale.

Sales numbers are probably available somewhere, but, for a quick sample, I took a cursory look at a local used car site - out of 5058 cars listed from 2010 onwards, some 716 are automatic. Nearly 15% is pretty good for something that used to be much harder to come by.
Why Does Everyone Think Google Beat The FTC?
brocombinator.com -- anybody interested?
You'll notice that the link you provided does not actually include an example of the usage you intended it to serve as a reference for. This is probably because the usage is nonstandard, which is probably why GP asked their question.

It's reasonable to assume that "x * 10E^(y)" was meant as a notation for "x * 10^(y)" = "xEy", but many mathematical notations are overloaded. I have no way of knowing whether GP was genuinely confused, or merely trying to point out the nonstandard usage, but I prefer to believe the former.
Instagram wasn't "worth $1B". It was worth $1B to Facebook (and even more to Twitter, apparently).

It has to be viewed in that context. A context in which Facebook was botching mobile major time and described it as its major challenge in public filings.
> For me personally Reddit is much more important than the NYT will ever be.

Honey Boo Boo is much more important to me than NatGeo and NPR.
This was my thought. The author does mention a combination of drugs that his doctor put him on, which is probably the "triple therapy" of antibiotics and a proton-pump inhibitor.

After this part of the story, incidentally, is when he starts getting better. Maybe it was the lack of coffee, but the antibiotics were probably helpful too.
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Of course, 2001 has so much good visual material that such a recut was possible.

But this confirms why I stopped watching previews.

1. They are rarely a reflection of a movie style, although they are at least forced to use the same images (but weird fact, not the soundtrack, why?)

2. They give away too many twists, what's the point of showing some major twist that in the movie happens 30 minutes after the beginning?

3. They are not helping you understand whether you'd like a movie or not, they are there to maximize the number of people going to the theaters.

I know it's more complicated than that. But roughly that's what comes down to it, for me.

Some of the trailers are so much similar to each other that it's hard to think it's not pure software what's making them.

Imaging going to watch the above advertised 2001, what would you think after watching the real movie?
Would be nice to randomize the url id so that you cannot see all the posts that have ever been written just by doing +1 on the number.

Also, I usually stick to Wordpress because you can embed code. Any plans to allow syntax highlighting?

Thanks!
Definitely. Tests are really like a dual to the code, in the sense that they are another way of describing what it is supposed to do. Like you say, as the test grows more complicated, the risk that the test code itself has bugs grows too.

The risk is small with simple declarative tests ("the output of f(x) == y") but with complicated systems with large state spaces, you start writing combinatorial tests to try to cover more of the space and incur a bigger risk your test code is buggy.

Few things are as frustrating as fixing a bug that should have been caught by a test and realizing the test wasn't actually working correctly. This is even more acute when working on code where speed is important (where performance is correctness, in other words) and you realize a test has been measuring the wrong things, such as asynchronous runtime showing up in the wrong place.

TDD has always seemed more like a useful tactic to be applied to certain kinds of problems than as a silver bullet.
If "impact of it disappearing" is your metric, I don't think it would take long for new Reddits to pop up if it disappeared tomorrow.
Why? I'd love to know what value Honey Boo Boo provides you that's unique and can't be filled by others.
hckr.it
Pretty awesome, I love the simplicity.

Curiosity. What have you used technically?
Why are any of them stupid? They hold the ultimate card. They own and produce the content. Universal sold their content to the highest bidder, which was HBO. HBO sells their content (and their own) to the highest bidder, which are cable/satellite companies. Does Netflix, Amazon, Apple, et al. have the current scale and reach to justify outbidding Cable?

There's a tendency for tech geeks to be armchair television/movie execs and it doesn't amount to much other than uninformed fantasy because they lack perspective outside their own self-interest.

And for some this leads to the faulty rationalization that this justifies piracy (as I've already started to see here). But this is little more than entitlement, because watching Game of Thrones isn't a right.
But you don't know that these were to satisfy investors, against the wishes of the company leadership.
A HTML5 presentation that works only in Webkit.
No thanks, I am not interested.

Web and HTML5 is about standards, and my life would be easier if IE would not do the things it did in past, now I'm seeing the same from Webkit.
"Unless the cable industry comes up with an a la carte, on-demand, ad-free model, I'm just not interested. It's too easy to pirate."

Well aren't you just a god damned Saint? With an attitude like that I can't believe content holders aren't bending over backwards to make you happy!
Even worse, undoing the damage can take a very long time. It's hard to make the change to exercising and eating right when the results (energy and the like) can be months away.
yes because I can write Perl that will make your eyes burn. So can Larry Wall.. So What..

How does that work towards the longer term goal of writing code that I can DIE and it still lives on?

If nobody understands it then it will die... If they understand it they can maintain it, give it loving care and feeding and it will live for a long time.

No kidding, I have code that has been in production for 27 years.. still.. think about that..

Chances are I will leave this planet and my code will still be running somewhere...

Can you say that? And if not, why isn't that your goal?

We write code to solve problems for people, not to prove how smart we are. I would argue code that lasts decades is much smarter then 10 lines of something nobody understands and gets whacked on the next refactor.. But then again that's just my style.. :)
you could use one of the various strategies for disabling access to distracting websites (hosts file, rescuetime, et al) while you were using this if it's really an issue. I think "distraction-free" was referring to the fact that the interface doesn't distract you with a bunch of bells and whistles though.
There's a .podspec file in the repository and a matching Cocoapod: https://github.com/fpillet/NSLogger
Reddit has a unique and incredibly community. If you take the time and actually explore all of the amazing small subreddits that have developed their own cultures & rulesets and the content they've created, I doubt you would make this statement. There are great people in the specialist subreddits. Reddit is only worth as much as its community and that is _incredibly_ hard to reproduct and immensely valuable. Just look at HN. Dozens of people have come up with way better web apps to clone its functionality or have proposed redesigns. Nothing sticks and no one cares. The community is what makes sites like reddit & HN.
You might even get characters who magically disappear. :)
They took over the most popular subreddits as AskReddit or IAmA. They also ban subreddits/users and remove posts that can make a bad name for reddit in the media. Both from these brand subreddits and from the whole site.
isitbetterthanpredator.com - my friend and I baseline a film on Predator. If it's shitter than Predator it's not worth watching.
An Open Letter to Larry Page on the Matter of Hiring Ray Kurzweil
Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Hell yes, especially over the long time. You've ever tried to target the Linux desktop ecosystem, you will know that it is a moving target. I'm not talking about the server/command line ecosystem, that one is relatively easy.

On the higher level, the desktop ecosystem has seen a number of major platform changes over the past years. GTK 2 -> 3, compositing, new X extensions, etc. Each change results in subtly different semantics that can break apps.

On the lower level, the ABI (not API) keeps changing. Many g++ releases change the C++ ABI, and most games are written in C++. Each glibc version adds new symbol versions.

Binaries that worked 5 years ago may not work anymore.
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> http://iamzachreed.com/contact.html, if you are interested.
I remember hearing Aza's push for infinite scroll on search results... and that guy is wicked smart, but I feel like it only works if we assume I'm already engaging the scroll bar.

Clicking is so much faster than dragging, (barring terrible page load times)... a part of me wishes no one ever invented scrolling.
I have this problem frequently on many sites; whether its from a UI deficiency or my own memory error. I have trained myself to always open listed/grid links in a new tab as a result.

When building sites now, I usually contemplate using target=_blank on any lists just to aid this kind of pain point.
>Reddit is replaceable. Shut down today, a dozen clones would rise up tomorrow.

You don't understand the value of reddit. As I've written in other posts in this thread. It's the community and that's impossible to replace (as evidenced by the hundreds of other forums that have shit communities) Reddit is far and above many, many online communities in terms of breadth & depth.
> a stack that is resilient enough to withstand sloppy code.

There is no such magic stack that withstands sloppy code.
Have used this in combination with CocoaLumberjack on a good number of projects and it has come in VERY handy. Highly recommended.

Not too difficult to get it wired up with papertrailapp.com either - That combo makes it VERY handy
There is cost associated with keeping code alive. It is magnified when that code will have follow-on effects for how other code (search results format, etc) gets designed.

If the code is not providing real value, it should be thrown out.
A front-end dev friend of mind asked for code-embedding/syntax highlighting too! I'd be happy to add it if I can come up with an elegant implementation. Is there a "markdown" for code that you know of?
To like reddit you have to unsubscribe from all the default subreddits and swera to never read discussions in them. Then find yourself a nice set of smaller subreddits that you like. Either there are alternatives with stricter rules to the default subs or there are more specific subs.
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Thanks. Django + Postgres + Javascript.
"Go stick your head in a pig."
If I recall correctly, the standards process itself requires multiple competing implementations for a single one to be chosen as a standard. Having multiple versions of a feature or API is therefore a "good thing" for getting new HTML5 features approved as part of the standard.
Why is green tea not included in the drinks to be avoided. I thought green tea also contains caffeine.
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keys.io

fubar.io

tele.io

I've mentioned some of these before, but then decided I didn't want to part with some of them for "maybe one day projects." Not anymore; I'm just ready to be rid of them honestly. I'll take $100 for any of them (buy them all for $400 ;)). That won't really even cover the reg fees for as long as I've had them, but it'll recover a bit of the investment at least.

Just e-mail me (HN username at GMail) and we'll do it. :)
What language are you in? pygments seems to be the best regarded.