skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't all of the Ning networks be on the order of MySpace or Facebook?
This is exactly what I've been complaining about lately. Hacker News seems to have been mobbed with people who have zero sense of humor and no ability to recognize satire. Hackers like to laugh. They like to laugh at themselves most of all.

I've noticed this trend for the past couple of months...comments and articles that are clearly intended humorously being voted down as trolls, or responded to as trolls, or both. I know we're supposed to be politely nudging these new users onto the path of righteousness and into becoming productive members of the HN community...but how does one teach someone to have a sense humor? I really don't want to be one of those Eternal September types, but hackers like to laugh.
As of yesterday, Warren Buffett is below cost basis for his investing career. Does that mean people will stop listening to Warren Buffett?
IPv6 makes routing packets harder, not easier.
Three MySpace Execs Departing To Start New Company (Leaked Memo)
It has nothing to do with the nature of the activity. Graham's point is that the social networks provided the last stimulus needed (over the last 30 years) to get computers into daily use in almost every household in the first world.

You didn't cancel your cable, but you likely spent more time in front of the computer after picking up AIM and FB than before. This signal indicates the front edge of a trend. This is visionary stuff, not hindsight.
Even on print preview, if the css sheet does not include print (like media="screen") it will not be pulled in, at least in firefox (on linux that I can test). If you open firebug and set the css sheets to media="all" it will pull the css into the print preview and look (more) correct
4% on 35% is 10% more taxes.

Yes, that's marginal, but you're forgetting the phase-outs for various deductions and credits. They can push the marginal rates up quite a bit.

Most of the ones that I know about are at less than $250k.
> You can afford to slow down and enjoy life.

You're thinking of it from the wrong side.

You want these people to work hard and long because they're good at what they do.

You benefit from their work. You don't benefit as much from their vacation.
Is it just me or was there no audio in the video?

I think divia's problem is that there is no documentation in the program itself. I downloaded it and unzipped it, and ran it. After entering the registration code I had no clue what to do. The program seems to just "end".

I had seen the video so I figured that I should try dragging a file onto it. I added it to my launcher and it works as it does in the video, but had I not seen the video I wouldn't have known to do that.

I suggest that after you accept the registration code you ask if the user wants it installed in the menu bar. Also I suggest telling the user that they can drag files to it to upload them. Perhaps embed the video at that point again.

Hope this helps.
Jer

EDIT: I also find mac programs distributed as .zip to be annoying. I strongly prefer .dmg files. Also, why is my "Downloads" icon now the same as Droplink's?
I thought 'funcall.blogspot.org' might have given it away... ;p
Sure - there are obvious patterns but I don't always know what those patterns are and other smart people do, so aggregating them using a market is pretty convenient for me to let others tell me what I should do.
Same thing quits right after it opens,

10.5.6, imac
Ah, I see - thanks for the explanation.
Perhaps real hacker's spend less time here [ducks].
See my first comment; I believe it is working as designed, but there is no message to the user.
Whats your email address? If you want to be able to patent it I can give you a start on a few ideas that haven't been done.
In the technical sense, sure, you're allowed (entitled) to do whatever you want.

But that's not what tptacek is referring to. He's referring to the "I want something for nothing" sense of entitlement. You have no moral right (entitlement) to read their content without viewing the ads the put up. That's why ad-blocking has never sat right with me: it's implicitly accepting that the model of ad supported, free content can not work on the internet.
Just tried it. I like how fast this is! It's a good alternative to dropbox for a quick image upload or something. It would be nice if it auto copied just the url.

I would also like it if the file stayed hosted longer than an hour. Say I want to email the link to a friend, but the friend doesn't check their email for 3 hours. If they click the link the file will no longer be there. Having the droplink icon in the top menu bar would be great, instead of having it in the dock.
Sorry, yes - after registration, clicking on the icon will do nothing. It only does stuff if you drag-and-drop a file on the icon.

Please see this blog post for installation/usage help:
http://blog.droplink.me/post/83016847/using-droplink
It's not new, it's not about islam and its' not about 911.
I am a British researcher working in an American institute on a joint USA-UK project. I visited our research site in Antartica and when I arrived back in the USA I simply wasn't allowed back in.

The minimum wage moron (MWM) on the desk said my visa should have another piece of paper attached - he was wrong, but you can't appeal, you can't question, you can't see his superior.
Fortunately my institute is famous enough (and my project has Nasa/goverment/military links) that they managed to get a letter from Washington confirming I worked there.
Then I just had to arrive at the INS office at 5:00am queue all day to be shouted at by another bunch of MWM because there was nothing wrong with my Visa and I should have had it stamped at the airport.

But it has put me on some sort of list - which means an extra search and bag check now whenever I fly in the US.
I know it's a joke article, but I still find it pointless and without substance. What can anyone learn from it?
I had actually tried to do this exact thing. Problem A is that you can't execute very much in a clients browser at any one time. Okay, so you make the jobs smaller and fetch more. Problem B is that it turns out that by the time you've pulled the data from disk, shipped it to the browser and back, put it back to disk, and done the same cycle for the reduce, it ends up being cheaper to stream 64M HDFS blocks around EC2.

That doesn't even get in to verifying results from an untrusted client.

Here's my half-implemented proof of concept from a while back that runs on AppEngine:
http://github.com/markchadwick/emarer/tree/master

Slightly different implementation, but the same idea (which I think is a very cool idea!).
Hi, thanks for trying it. And yes; I can see how it's not exhibiting the expected behavior. I started by adding a Growl note to the "no files dropped" case post-registration. There's also a simple help document here, which I'll start sending with registration emails:

http://blog.droplink.me/post/83016847/using-droplink

Re DMG: Yes - a DMG is something it needs. Workin' on it.
Re Downloads: Your Downloads icon is the same as Droplink's because the Droplink application is probably the last thing you downloaded. You can move it to your Applications directory, and then drag it back down to the dock.

Thanks again for testing, you guys are coming up with really good feedback :)
I'm not against meanness in defense of people's feelings, I'm against it because the only outcome is starting a feud or feeding a troll. Being mean directly degrades a site's quality... in no way does it preserve it.

When you say something mean, even to a troll, you become part of the problem.
Hacker News seems to have been mobbed with people who have zero sense of humor and no ability to recognize satire.

In my tenure as a hacker I've found that the subset of hackers who don't get satire and seem to have no sense of humor is at least as large as the subset that does. For every cool, funny hacker guy you meet, there's at least one weird, humorless semi-autistic guy waiting to make the next teambuilding outing more awkward.
Did you notice that everyone who commented but didn't get it has been here for at least 200 days?

Also, I wouldn't call this satire, since I get the feeling it's an accurate description of how the author felt when he was first introduced to Lisp. And since it's missing the "Eureka!" moment that I assume is coming in part two, I can't fault people for not spotting that.

Regarding attempts at humor, I think most of that becomes noise. Most people aren't funny, but are convinced otherwise. Half of most Slashdot threads are posters trying to be funny. I think attempts at humor don't scale well.
Linux Foundation taking over Linux.com
The PrintWhatYouLike bookmarklet (http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/bookmarklet) does exactly what you're talking about. You can select the contents of pg's article and the bookmarklet will remove everything else on the page. There are lots of other options to reformat any page to your liking. And everything is undoable.
First Touch-Screen, Bendable E-Paper Developed
Samsung u470 Juke (Teal) Verizon CDMA
The Samsung U740 is a trendy phone with a remarkable drawing. It has a comprehensible emotionless cylinder steering wheel, plus skin texture such as a built-in composition player. It has got beautiful dimensions of 3.82 inches by 1s.18 inches by 0.83 inch, which makes it, bear a similarity too.
Tips and Themes from Future of Web Apps
I like it. Tried it out, works quickly. I emailed you about a possible integration, let me know if you're interested.
Skittles + Facebook?
It does auto copy the URL, but you can only paste it into email/IM convos. At least from what I've seen.
Fractional Horsepower Twitters?
Towards Better Technology Journalism
OK, all you smart guys, we know what a marginal rate is. It is still the case that any entrepreneur will have less incentive to earn that 250,000th dollar than she did to earn the 249,999th dollar. Maybe this isn't "rational", but it is empirical: there do exist entrepreneurs who will decide not to earn that 250,000th dollar. Maybe that means they'll each sell one less widget, but it also implies that some of them will lay somebody off. Business decisions are not continuous, and they are extremely path-dependent. A small change in circumstances (not 4 cents, but the analysis holds if someone decides to make $270K rather than $310K) can lead to very divergent results.

Of course, our income tax system (not payroll or sales tax!) is already quite progressive, so this was already the case. Also, if you believe in utility functions, you can imagine that the 250,000th dollar is intrinsically less alluring anyway. But Obama wants to make the system yet more progressive, so no one will be surprised when these effects increase, with negative knock-ons for jobs and growth. It isn't as though business owners have nothing better to do with their time than provide jobs. Few of them will close up shop, but all of them will reevaluate their workload. When they're not getting paid enough for their work, they'll do less of it. Actually, I think most of us plebes are basically the same.
What cities Twitter the most?
There was an article in the NYT a month or two back about Proctor & Gamble trying to build up a Facebook presence. I don't know how many other companies are doing this but I really don't see much use for a Skittles page. Wouldn't this be targeted at children? How many children actually have Facebook accounts? I'm assuming not too many. But I'm open to arguments in favor of this being a brilliant marketing scheme.
I realize that now, heh. One of those mornings I guess.
I think Lispers like to pretend they are soooooooo smart and so baffled by the stupidity of (cough) "normal" people that they don't dare assume any lower bound on human intelligence.

"You eat poop? Really? Ummm. Gosh. Welllllll, that's understandable. I... um... used to eat poop too! Before I learned about food. But if you give me a chance I think I can convince you of the merits of food. Let me tell you about my Road to Food!"

(Yeah, I love Lisp and like HN; I just can't resist poking some fun.)
Judging by the page itself, Typogridphy isn't a fluid layout.
Even if it's "big spending status quo", actually spending it on making peoples' lives better as opposed to killing them seems like change to me.
I asked a similar question a few months ago, and included my policy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=361390
This is awesome. Of particular interest to YC:

"He's currently a co-founder of LaunchBox Digital and Rock Creek Ventures,"...

Any news on the CTO front? I saw this:
http://www.obamacto.org/
It's not new, it's not about islam and its' not about 911

Did anyone faced such troubles before 9/11? Believe me, America did not even care about activating it's immigration laws as it's happening now.

extra search and bag check now whenever I fly in the US.

These words remind me with what an egyptian girl told me, when she traveled to U.S.: "Their procedures are very repetitive"

Why would they keep make a search everytime you travel, since they already knew that you are working for the government, and you look like a "low risk traveller", according to DHS!

If America is serious about it's security, then they should make it automated with "human editors".

The Department of state in D.C. is talking about work shortage...
I don't know how does Americans check their security at their airports, but if they can have automated systems with data mining figures, and automated detection for "high risk travelers", then it should allow them to keep "secure", keep costs low, no need for more employees, and it's done!

I think that Usama Fayyad can do such a thing for them.
Actually i am not sure what was new in the article. It seems to be a rehashing of the usual pros and cons of GAE, but voiced by an indie dev...
It looks like: "Myspace's lose is SV's gain". :)
I understand what your saying, however I had the extra constraint of I was getting this TV definitely before Jan 1, so I wasn't going to wait for the Super Bowl. And so I honestly have no idea how TV prices change historically just before Xmas, and especially with the doom and gloom of the economy how prices were going to play this holiday.

Also, this does save me some work be really getting other people like yourself who have insight to look at historical prices to go ahead and do that and share their opinion. And if your right, your right, the better you do in Inkling. Put your virtual money where your mouth is kinda thing, right? :)
The History of Python: How Everything Became an Executable Statement
The Rocky Mountain News' server diagram
Well, I don't think it's either good or bad in a moral sense. As you say, people want it, so in a sense that makes it good. But it also has a very low signal:noise ratio, which, in a sense, makes it bad.

I don't have a problem with it, it's not like it hurts anything, I just think that it generally appeals to people interested in it for marketing/PR purposes or to people with insecurities. Neither of these purposes strikes me as especially noble.
Pretty awesome! I have an almost daily need for something like this when sending files to people over chat/irc.

Your link creation needs some work, however. I can't paste the link into a non-RTF box (this input box for HN, for example). You should reverse-engineer how Safari creates links when they're copied to clipboard and do the same.

For example, if you right click on any title on any website, and copy a link, you will notice that when you paste it to an RTF box, you get the same behavior as what you currently do but when you paste it into Terminal, you get the URL. When I paste Dropsend "URL" to Terminal, IRC or to Safari's address bar, I get nothing.
Hire HN: Flash/Actionscript developer (with some PHP/MySQL)
One of my developers put in his notice this week (going out on his own) and I saw another job post on HN today–so why not.

I'm looking for a developer to work on new/existing Flash-based websites. The sites are Actionscript heavy with a good amount of dynamic data/images being loaded. The sites are powered by a PHP/MySQL based CMS.

About us: we're based in Bend, Oregon but half our staff works remotely. I don't care where you work as long as you can get the job done. If you're interested in working at our HQ, I think you'll find Bend a wonderful and affordable place to live (plus all Bend employees get a season pass to Mt Bachelor).

Our company is 5 years old, profitable, and growing strong. We serve professional photographers with a wide range of products–using everything from Flash to PHP to Rails.

More info on the job at startuply:
http://tinyurl.com/cvevqg

No rockstars please! :)
I saw this in my feed reader... 11 years ago ;)
We're looking at using Google Ad Manager. https://www.google.com/admanager/

Anyone have any experience with it?
not sure if im missing something here, but you realize that you could have just dragged and dropped that same file into the chat window, right?
Must everything be a lesson?
Fiscal Darwinism?
How does it compare to dockdrop? http://dockdropx.com/

Is it just stored on your servers vs. my own?
In theory, yes, but not in practice. From my experience, Skype's the only app that works reliably when you try to send files. Adium, much less so... it's a hit & miss (and more of a miss).
General weather forecasts may be a poor monetizing niche (because 5-day forecasts are a commodity), but severe weather is completely different. Depending on where you've grown up, this may be more or less obvious.
The recent stories of Skittles using Twitter, and now suddenly Facebook, for their online presence makes me wonder if the marketing team at Skittles knows what they're doing. Besides getting some free press, is this anyway to manage a major brand?
There are often issues when sending files between someone using iChat and someone using Adium. Also, I've recently been talking to someone who uses Meebo and I can never receive the files he sends.
Ayn Rand quotes align really badly with pro-Obama and/or anti-conservative ideas. First of all, she would most likely have railed against everything Obama is doing. The conservatives attempt to draw on the whole Randian capitalist ideal, although I don't think they are quite equal to it.
2009 World's Safest Banks [pdf]
A Skeptic's Take on the Public Misunderstanding of Darwin
Twitter Eyes Search as Means to Monetize
I actually prefer mac programs to be distributed as .zip files. Safari auto unzips it, and I just double click to try it out. If I like it, drag & drop to the /Applications folder.

But even though I prefer .zip, I don't find .dmg files annoying at all.
From a technological point of view, I think he's spot on. However, from a technological point of view I don't think any of what we've seen in the last ten years is really groundbreaking. Facebook doesn't really bring anything new to the table outside of maybe scaling; it ties together all the social connectivity that the Web can offer and makes it available to the common person. We're seeing services package up the technology and provide it to the average person, who now has access to the Internet. Twitter absolutely could have been done ten or twenty years ago (given a platform, of course), but no one had the idea and few could use it easily. That's the key.
Scariest Asteroid Attacks on Earth: The Near Hits and Approaching Terrors
There seems to be an assumption that using "social media" is a must regardless of the business you're in. Typical buzzword bandwagonism.
Everything that gets upvoted to the top HN position should have... something interesting about it in some way. Apart from a linkbait title.
Hot Cars Don’t Need Hot Girls
It copies it to the clipboard, you should be able to past anywhere. Pro tip: you can drag an image right from a web page into the dock app.
I don't understand it. On the one hand you have people like you who make the claim that kids these days are developing an overdependence on society. On the other hand you have people claiming that our devices are preventing us from interacting with other people (i.e. kids playing video games all day or whatever). I think the fact of the matter is that you can't talk about a generation with blanket statements. People are different and they play differently. Some will play alone, while others will go out into the neighborhood and try to play with other kids.
Mapfilter
Why would a designer need to know all that.

Troll right?
Of course, iTunes movie rentals stream 720p (which is what most HDTV channels use). They spend about 1 minute buffering the stream, then you can watch the movie.
Here's what I got when I went to paste the copied url from an image called storepromo.png - http://img.skitch.com/20090304-tqx32knar1rhd6gcxhwmc98qic.jp...

if you hit submit, it tries to go to <name>.<extension> - it's like copying/pasting a url from safari into iChat or Adium. It shows a clickable name, not the full URL.
Yes, but they've targeted so many people that they've started getting people who have the balls to fight back. The worst thing for the RIAA would be if a judge ruled that they cannot sue individuals for copyright infringement.

You have to consider that the RIAA is currently going up against Harvard, including a counter-suit alleging that their practices is unconstitutional. If ruled unconstitutional it can be retroactively enforced, meaning all money they took will have to be paid back even if they paid peoples wages with it.

So essentially the counter-suit from Harvard could potentially destroy the RIAA in one bang of a judges gavel. The RIAA could be trying to get themselves protected by the whole statute of limitations, I'm unsure how this applies as I've never really looked into it (not living in the US and all).
Totally agree. Unfortunately, it would seem Thomas seldom thinks about what he is doing until after the fact. That didn't work for this post. :)
Your example of the Daily Show doesn't really hold up. If you use torrents, a lot of shows are up before they even broadcast on the west coast. If you use Hulu, the Daily Show is available the next morning.
I don't know about TV, but for a very low budget film the major costs are:

1. Talent (although assuming you write and direct yourself, and use unknown actors, this can be brought down to under a few thousand).

2. Film stock and processing (over 50k with celluloid, but obviously digital is much cheaper).

3. Equipment (camera, dollies, lights etc.): 40k

4. Crew: 70k for a 2 week shoot with a cheap crew, including catering

5. Post production: 40-60k

This sort of money will get you a surprisingly professional looking 90 minute film. However, production costs on film are always eclipsed by marketing costs. It can cost thousands of dollars just to market a film to the distributors, no matter to consumers.

Obviously, you can make a film for much less than this, but only if you want to make a film like Clerks or In The Company Of Men (i.e. one location, shot in a weekend).
Pretty much, yea.
Justin.TV is quantified: http://www.quantcast.com/justin.tv

including embedded players: http://www.quantcast.com/p-16uNVwiyGoWyg

Also, some real-time data: http://live.justin.tv/
Try again it, it should copy the full URL this time.
Please update, this was just fixed.
Ask YC/HN: Freelancers, what do you use to organize your time/cleints/invoices?
I'm moving out west and I'm going to freelance for a while (I do a little now, but it's easily managed). As I pick up more, I want to be as organized as possible, since i'm not a naturally organized person.

What software/tools/tips do you have for someone about to go full-time in freelance/startups?
You should check out the Firefox add-on "Print Hint":

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/700

It will search a page for a "Printer-Friendly" link and display a glowing green printer icon in the bottom of your Firefox if it finds one. I find that on some pages, this can be a way to quickly navigate to a "Reader-Friendly" page that does support pagination. Of course, sometimes Print Hint doesn't detect a printer link, though I've never had a false positive.