skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Continuing use, signed up despite myself:

Wow, you are ripping off Tumblr bigtime. Those are its "submit" buttons, too. What's the red-box-with-x design from? I know it's a generic icon, so is the red-border layout just generic or is that ripped off, too?

Your search is broken - you should also not require me to open a pop-up box to get it - and surprise! The search field is ripped off of Tumblr! This is the moment where I fire off an email to Marco to let him know somebody's stealing his designs.

You're using some sort of CMS for this, because I just got an error sign trying to search. So you're prepackaging somebody else's code here to make money?

Get an actual FAQ.

Your welcome email: "My name is Peter Nicholls I am the founder of LifesBook so id firstly like to give a big thanks to you for signing up!"

Fix your spelling, fix your grammar, and fix your punctuation. This is your creation: show it some respect. Also, why pound signs for header info? Isn't bold better for that? Or better yet, CSS maybe?

Tumblr's buttons give me indication that I've clicked them. Yours are totally static. (I don't know why I go on giving feedback, since it looks like you utterly stole this idea. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.)

Why does deleting a post give me a JS prompt instead of one of your Facebook pop-up prompts?

Why does a text post give me a "WWW" symbol? They have a goddamned TEXT BUTTON. Can't you even rip off their paid-for design well?

"Dam" is spelled "Damn".

This site is very slow for some reason.
I use two 15 inch laptops (Vista and Kubuntu) and one 22 inch screen in the middle.

Depending on the type of work I do (Windows development or nix) I physically switch main screen between two laptops. For example, when I do Outlook add-in dev, my screens might look like this:

Vista laptop: Outlook where I test.
Vista main screen: Studio.
Kubuntu laptop: docs.

or

Vista laptop: docs.
Vista main screen: Studio.
Kubuntu laptop: VMWare with different OSes. This way I don't overload Vista machine which is already running studio.

For nix dev, I like this setup:

Vista laptop: chats, music, videos, whatever.
Kubuntu main screen: Emacs fullscreen.
Kubuntu laptop: docs.

As is probably obvious, my setup looks like this:

Vista - Main Screen - Kubuntu

I also use synergy to handle supporting laptop (Kubuntu or Vista) from main machine.

I have to say, it really helps. There is a lot of ease on my brain which helps me relieve some of the anxiety.
In fact, you can flag comments regardless if you reply to it or not. Once you pass the karma threshold - I think it's 50 - then you can flag any comment.

If you want to flag a comment, you will find beside the comment headline: link
Click on the link link , and you will be moved to another page that you can see the flag link.

I hope this is useful for you.
I have been a lurker for somewhere over 6 months, originally referred by a PG essay, I think.

I would hate to see too much forced change/active management to filter the user base, as I have learned an astounding amount from the links, the comments, and my observed behavior (compulsion/obsession?) with the site.

This is my first post, and so far, I have not had any content links to offer. I, for one, would be disappointed if I did not make the metric to continue to read/learn.

(Edited for correct grammar - sorry.)
One final thing, because I've hit the wall of your featureset: don't make me click to four pages to get to settings. Put it all on one page unless you have a good reason to do otherwise.
Self-healing polymer uses sunlight to repair itself
Program Managers vs. Interaction designers
I'd go as far as to say that it's insensitive, lacking in tact, and that you should apologize. Is this really the right forum to discuss this? A thread about a guy's almost-death?

Talk about kicking someone while they are down.
There's a subtle difference here that isn't being highlighted: Releasing often does not mean giving in to feature creep. Feature creep and lack of coherent direction was the failure, not release timing nor release frequency.

Releasing often is about gauging user feedback to evolve features, seeing how user's really use things and discovering what nobody foresaw. That, however, does not mean that you're supposed to give in to each and every feedback request from users. Most of all, releasing early does not absolve you of the responsibility to consider the effect the feature will have, in either its requested form or your translation thereof, on the direction of your product.

To expand on that, your users will have ideas for features that would take your product in a direction that you do not want to go. Releasing often does not mean that you have to go that way. It's perfectly fine to say, "You know what, we're not going to build that," and still keep releasing changes every couple days. Users provide feedback, but ultimately, you control the direction of the product.

So the question becomes:
(1) Do you embark on this journey as a ship, taken by the winds and currents of user feedback wherever they may roam? Or,
(2) Do you get out some oars and influence your path.

Remember, it was your vision that caused you to start this. You shouldn't discount that just because users want things you're not providing. That's not to say that you shouldn't listen to user feedback, just that you have to decide upon your philosophy and either stand firm with your product direction, be comfortable with having the direction swept out from under you when the site begins to grow, or drift somewhere in between.
As much as imaging has advanced over the last few decades, it still seems primitive and barbaric. How could they have missed a chunk of tissue the size of a finger?

If out of neglect, that would point to the need for an automated system that can analyze an MRI and make these kinds of diagnoses.
But that's not what release often means. If you've got a half-baked idea, then it's half-baked regardless of when and how often you release.
is that story of 100 IQ - 60 = 180 - 140 in terms of relative intelligence true?

Short answer: no.

Longer answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407083

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Also: as katz mentioned above, IQs of historical figures are complete nonsense. I can't believe it actually got so many upvotes here on HN.
I always tell people I'm a programmer. I don't really like terms like "software engineer" or "architect".

This is largely because I think programming needs to stand on its own as a discipline. Sometimes I think people are worried that they'll be perceived as "merely a coder", so they play up the non-coding aspects of their jobs in their titles. Personally, I don't know a single programmer who "merely codes", and I rarely encounter a coding project that I'd use "mere" to describe anyway.

I also avoid the term "engineer" because I don't want engineers to start thinking they have a claim on programming, especially with regard to these PE initiatives in software engineering. Maybe this is because I was a math major, but these people worry me.
I would go further, and venture that 'serious hackers who will make good HN citizens' and 'people for whom the above problem is trivial' are two different sets (though the intersection of those sets might be significant).
Yeah, since i just wrote a spider last night using html5lib, and had to wrap it up in a try block, I can categorically say that it doesn't work for all webpages:

parser = html5lib.HTMLParser(tree=treebuilders.getTreeBuilder("beautifulsoup"))
try:
document = parser.parse(response)
except Exception, e:
print 'parse failed ' + str(e)
return
Cynical quote from Joseph Stalin:

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Apple ready for third generation of iPhone
Is the problem here commuting, in general?
I love his idea for idiomatic language correction. That would be an excellent service for non-native speakers of a language.
We use Twitter regularly for updates for special offers now we are live to our 2000 or so followers, it sure would be an excellent way of increasing followers and probably extremely cost effective, even at $120,000 per year.

That sort of money is way out of our league but it certainly does put light on this ongoing debate about how Twitter can monetize its service.

On another note the search.twitter.com facility is invaluable if you have any form of product or service people are looking for, weve managed to capitalize on 4 sales in the past fortnight alone just replying to users tweets
Software? :P
I did go through a phase of using some crappy software package to lay out sites. But in the end it seemed to take more time.

Now I generally sketch briefly on paper (just ot remind myself) design in photoshop, slice graphics out, position and apply CSS and throw in the data :D
[I retract my answer, this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514142 is much better]
At first blush, this looked far cheaper than EC2.

But, actually, it's the 2GB Mosso machine (at 12 cents/hour) that's most comparable to the EC2 Small Instance (at 10 cents/hour). The EC2 Small Instance has twice the local storage, but a little less RAM.

So, they're roughly comparable, with Amazon perhaps coming out a tad ahead in price.

That said, I think offering S (1GB), XS (512MB), and XXS (256MB) sizes is a great idea that could be a solid differentiator for Mosso.
If it's urgent, you can borrow a friend's cellphone, that's true. But, wait, crap, now you need to notify everyone that needs to get a hold of you of your new number, which we've already established is something we want to avoid. If only there was a service that let you configure which physical device your calls were being routed to...
Pandiculation tracking at YawnLog.  It even sounds poetic
Looking back at Lehman’s Online Advertising Forecast 7 months later
I don't think we were the prey of feature creeps. The human factor of wanting to release often caused us to lose our vision. In a perfect world, it wouldn't happen but we're not part of this world.
It might be most effective on a state by state basis. A few states opting out might make the others complain for Federal action, which would then do away with the system, hopefully.
New Yahoo Home Page Caught In The Wild
Thanks for the tip (no sarcasm intended). That's how I've been flagging the two or three comments I've found inappropriate but it wasn't clear to me at first. On the other hand I can see how keeping the flag link off the main comments page may be desired to prevent mass random flagging.
Releasing often has lead us to stop seeing the bigger picture. I think the danger when you release often is to rush the releases... and in the end transform what was a great idea into a half-baked product. I don't want to say that this statement is always wrong, because it certainly isn't, but I think people should approach it with care and stop applying it like it was a God commandement.
We don't care what you plan to do. We care what you have in place already that allows data portability.
I'm not an iPhone developer, I don't even own an iPhone, so this is all coming from the outside.

Obnoxious penny-scraping behavior is not something we intend to be apart of out of respect for other developers.

That idealistic attitude is honorable but a bit out of this world, too. It's somewhat akin to entering the tiger's cage and asking him: "Can't we just be friends?".

Okay, maybe the tiger will fall into your arms, cry, and tell you how he has waited all his life for this moment. Then you'll be watching TV and killing a sixpack for the rest of the night.

But I think more likely is that the tiger will fall into your arms and do something else entirely...
2 points (I downvoted this - here is a rationalisation of that).

Firstly we have no info about what happened. In all liklehood (as in the majority of cases) this was a cry for help to which his friends responded well. Calling it an almost-death is, at the moment, an overstatement :)

Secondly I think you missed the commentors point. I feel nothing but a passing interest in this - yes I hope the guy is ok but there is nothing I can personally do. It's not something I will remember tomorrow (unless it hits here again). If the posting here bore fruit then that's great.. but otherwise lets move on.
EDIT: of course if it was someone I happened to know I would have been notified by the posting and would have done something (just ot be clear :D).

And finally one has to wonder equally whether messages of support from random people he has never seen (on a thread he will never see) would have a positive effect. I doubt it. The same is true for semi-negative posts.
Gestures: [Press Ctrl or Right-mouse] + Click + Drag

Old style navigation: Locate mouse cursor + Locate 16x16 px target icon + move your mouse across a 1600px desktop to the tiny icon + Click

I use StrokeIt ( http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ ) for regular Windows apps and Firefox Mouse Gestures Redox for browsing and I cannot live without either. I close app windows and browser tabs by a single slash across the screen and it is so much more efficient than going to the top-right corner of every window or locating the tiny close-tab icon. Keyboards are always faster but 90% of the time, my hand is on the mouse anyway.

The gestures work because they can perform the standardized function regardless of the UI. I can configure a 'slash' to Ctrl+F4 for Photoshop, Alt+F4 for default Windows Apps, and Ctrl+W for my text-editor. I don't think each website having its own set of gestures that do different things will be as helpful in this regard so yeah, this library isn't as useful in its current incarnation. But everyone knows what came out of being able to drag an image inside of a div using Javascript (hint: maps) so who knows what novel application this concept can help power.
just flag it.
Then you run into problems of other parents since they will have their own parenting style which will affect the IQ.

I wonder if there's a big difference of the IQ in twins. If there is then the IQ difference of 3 in the article may not be all that significant.

The ideal case would be children from the same parents that lived in the same town, went to the same schools, participated in the same activities, had similar friends, and a whole list of other factors. It would also be convenient to have there be more than 2 kids to see the quantitative meaning of "older"

This may just be an indication of a first time parent spending a lot more effort on the first child or just having the resources to do so. During the early years the IQ of the first child is developed while there are fewer resources for the later children.

On the other hand, younger parents may just be starting out and have fewer resources/experience to help them raise the child.

You can also take a look at grandparents - younger parents will have a more active set of grandparents which may be contributing to this IQ boost as well.

Too may unknowns here but an interesting topic.
The tumblr icons are all removed, I just put this site together quickly and admit it was the wrong thing to do, I apologize.

Im not sure about the facebook stuff your talking about I also thought using lightbox and Getsatisfaction the way I have is ok.

Header was never ment to offend, its was just a bit of fun. As most people would assume I am not implying that you die if you use this service. Has also been replaced.

I put the site together in a few days and design is not my strong point. The orignal diary type design is shown here:
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/design-watercolor-e.... I have permission to use this stuff, including the 404 page.

I honestly dont expect a HN user to use this site, its more geared towards people that havnt got a clue what wordpress or tubmlr is.
Don't forget that amazon's local storage is volatile and dog slow, too.

So all in all, if those prices are correct, this seems like a very competitive offering. I for one would seriously consider to trade in the hassles of maintaining those AMI images for a few bucks of monthly markup.

But on the other hand: Amazon is a battle-tested platform by now, whereas we have yet to see how Mosso performs. Also just today Amazon revealed their new pricing model where you can get away with $48/month for a small instance if you commit for a year (or even $36/month if you commit for 3 years).

Anyways, in summary I welcome every new contender to this space. Choice is good.
On the other hand we don't know how comparable it really is because there is no "Mosso compute unit" to compare to the "EC2 compute unit" (defined @ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ )

Not only the processor used and how many vcpus the VM has, but the timeslice you're given (best determined by your own experimentation). The CPU scheduler rations can have profound effects on how your application runs, we've run into some issues with this on CPU intensive physics jobs.

For example, if a "compute unit" is around 1.0 GHz, it's not really the same thing to give you a 2.0 GHz chip scheduled on the real processor just half the time (competing with another VM), some thrashing can occur, especially when I/O is involved.

Anyhow, it all depends what you're after. For a lot of applications it makes no sense to pay for that much RAM per machine. Or in many cases it's not the CPU that's important. And so on.
Why is there Anti-Intellectualism?
Amazon also has EBS which is fast and should be very reliable. Slicehost (also acquired by Rackspace) has RAID 10 for the images and is pretty good.

Still hard to tell what they're offering here.
Then you have to ask yourself whether or not people will pay $10 for a web site without first looking to see if there are major competitors who offer a service for free.
How can you evaluate an SDK? Compare it to a different SDK that provides a similar solution.

HackerNews is filled with such debates, like Java Vs. Python, Tables Vs. CSS...

The features above were part of the Andoird SDK beta, Background processes have been around for few years in other mobile platforms, I can get excited if Apple will come out with a killer features that are unique to their platofrom (e.g. Bonjure is a unique feature)
I think he just meant them as the opposite of the little-boy demographic to whom a fart app would appeal.
I guess this is as good a time as ever to be concise and blunt. You have competitors that do exactly the same thing, better, for free, that have traction, and a recognizable brand. Good luck.
How much does it earn on the other side? People are extra productive on the day they get that extra hour of sleep.
Yes - it all traces back to chronic pain. If someone hasn't wanted to kill themselves (seriously) from strong chronic pain, then they haven't experienced it strong enough yet. If you come to the realisation that there is no end in sight, its a horrible, horrible thing.
Everybody has their own monkeysphere, and they naturally care about people within that sphere and don't care about people outside of it.

What also happens is that through the power of media some people end up in your monkey circle, while you are not in theirs. If you see something really graphic on the screen or read something that makes you empathize it becomes more likely to happen.

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
Why Amazon Web Services just became a competitive web hosting provider
IQ scores may be disputed, but the intelligence of these people generally are not.

The IQ scores claimed for these historical figures would have to be very strenuously disputed, because most of those persons never took an IQ test. The book Terman's Kids

http://www.amazon.com/Termans-Kids-Groundbreaking-Study-Gift...

by science writer Joel Shurkin, the first independent researcher to have access to the Terman longitudinal study files, explains the fanciful way in which those figures were arrived at. They were not validated by the member of Terman's team who made up those historical guesses at the IQ scores of people dead long before IQ tests were ever used.

Have any of you ever wondered how lists like this are compiled? It's laughable when you look at what was actually done to make these unvalidated guesses.
The http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#ZeroInWo... hack is reminiscent of the strlen discussion the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510326
Same here. I am a programmer, but I spend so much time making comics that I consider it a second, very low-paying job. When people ask me what I do, I say programmer so I don't have to justify myself.

And people understand what programmers do, that's easier to imagine than many other jobs. My father was a marketing manager and I grew up not really knowing what he did.
I know they're in the SDK beta. But Android doesn't stack up to the iPhone in other ways, so considering this isn't an article about iPhone versus Android, I dislike that it was brought into the conversation.

HackerNews is filled with such debates, like Java Vs. Python, Tables Vs. CSS...

I also get mad when people ask for CSS help and other people respond with "use tables", and when people post to a thread talking about, say, Ruby, and somebody posts saying "Python ftw".

I love debate - I write copious prose blocks when Mac vs Linux comes up, though even that is beginning to wear on me - but debate has its place, and it's not here. No need to interrupt a speculative discussion with smug, as I said above.
He's a major contributor to the Scala project.

Here's a wikipedia entry about something he did called Reductio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio
I usually tell people I'm a programmer. Sure, it doesn't sound as nice as "Software Engineer", but it gives most people a decent-enough idea of what I do - I sit in front of a computer and make software.

It doesn't matter than people don't know exactly what I do day-to-day, since the same thing is true of almost any other profession.
Comparison of data analysis packages: R, Matlab, SciPy, Excel, SAS, SPSS, Stata
A very good book about fallacies of treating psychological tests as measurements is Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept

http://www.amazon.com/Measurement-Psychology-Critical-Histor...

by Joel Michell. IQ scores definitely do not, as bd correctly points out, constitute an interval scale. They are not measurements.
A Little Web Spider I Wrote Last Night (code included)
"I honestly dont expect a HN user to use this site, its more geared towards people that havnt got a clue what wordpress or tubmlr is."

If the people you are targeting do not know what Wordpress or Tumblr are, how in the internet world would they stumble upon you before first landing on one of those sites?