skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
non-tech news:

economist.com

realclearpolitics.com

(Heavy flash-blocking required for both.)
link plz??????
nyt, usatoday, wsj, reuters, local news
The Economist, BBC News, Al Jazeera.
I don't know what you want to discuss, really. Yes, there is a strange element of anti-intellectualism in America. It stems from its form of capitalism and it's a shame really, because America has essentially lost its production capability, so if it doesn't compete intellectually, it's not going to compete at all.
Add a page to http://news.ycombinator.com/lists that lists the sources/domains of submissions sorted by most-submitted (or highest voted among all submissions from that domain).
I re-posted this on the feature requests page http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=93611 so maybe you guys should vote for it there.
Looks like it... Yikes!
The profile is a fake. It's meant to look like the real one, but it's all human-generated content. All of the top friends links point to MySpace's special link catching program, and if it was a real profile, the links would appear normal because MySpace doesn't block links to or from its own site.

Good fake, though. I should've researched it a little more. The problem is that a lot of people are going to buy it. Oh, well...can't save everyone.
The Inanity of Airport "Security"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
Is the sorting non-live?

I see items in the following order:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=87772 21

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=86514 22

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84732 21
Given the prevalence of "college is for suckers" comments in this forum, I'm surprised that you need to ask.
Sure, it's a service. And for good service, you leave a tip. Don't just leave it up to ads - tip the musician directly whenever possible. For musicians: get your paypal button up there!
Huh? Manufacturing output in the US is at record high levels.

http://freetrade.org/pubs/pas/tpa-035es.html
Tech: TechMeme, news.yc, TechCrunch
US Politics: Huffington Post
Various: reddit, FSJ
Little known fact: the mortarboard, or "thinking cap", grants all college graduates uncanny powers of logic and memory. It is impossible to become an intellectual without one.
hold your horses - winter hasn't even started yet!
haha - news.ycombinator.com
Seriously, i've never submitted anything. I've been tempted to link to a few things from boingboing and mind hacks but never actually done so.
fox news ........no. news.com, reddit,digg,google news, AP, yahoo news, gigaom, techcrunch and last buy not least YC
Coral reefs operate free-market economy: fish cleaning stations
"This caused me to create a theory that I had a strong skill at certain sorts of learning based on pattern matching, and that overuse of this skill had stunted other learning skills. I told myself that I'd look out for opportunities to solve problems without using this kind of approach."

This, albeit in the inverse in your example, is a theory of dyslexia that Ronald D. Davis wrote about in The Gift of Dyslexia.

Basically, he argued dyslexics grow up with the ability to infer from juxtaposition - or intuition as I believe he calls it - and as this ability is quite powerful they use it in place of and to the detriment of more language-orientated skills.

In your case, it seems that you were gifted with more language-orientated skills from the outset. This, from what I can tell, meant you focused on the textual representation of the '*' operator instead of its context-specific functionality.

It's very laudable that you've managed to overcome your weakness through an emphasis on your cognition. It's something I have set about doing, but in the inverse as I come from the other end of the spectrum.

Thanks for detailing your experience. It was very enlightening.
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I think what is meant is that the US is not a manufacturing world leader and is not as high as it should/could be.
Why Mathematics (From Michael Harris for the Princeton Companion to Mathematics)
Offtopic, this is not news for hackers. This should go on Digg, not here.
The criteria for whether a vote affects the score and whether it affects the ranking are slightly different. Votes from brand new accounts affect the score but not the ranking.
That would be hard. Spring and fall are when we pick groups for summer and winter.
Probably in a couple weeks at most. We're redoing the application form.
I thought it was interesting. News for hackers doesn't mean only news about computers.
News.YC and the front page of the NYT in the line at Starbuck's. The Economist when I visit Robert Morris's house. I sometimes still check reddit.
From the executive summary at the link I provided: "And despite all the stories about the erosion of U.S. manufacturing primacy, the United States remains the world's most prolific manufacturer--producing two and a half times more output than those vaunted Chinese factories in 2006."
Better title: "10 Reasons the Age of Finite State Machines for a very small niche of the computing domain is Over"
aww, i had some text apologizing for incendiary titles. or at least fallacies in them. sry
I was about to add "(for game development)", but I thought: 1) that was clear as soon as you started reading the article; 2) most reasons were probably also applicable to other areas as well
news.yc, google reader (mostly maths, science, and tech blogs), science.reddit & programming.reddit sometimes, and I'm liking slashdot lately.
I didn't know anarchaia, very interesting blog, thank you!
Well, it's not my news site, but...

Your country's budget doesn't affect me a whole lot, and stories like heralded the end of the good days of Reddit. Besides, it was already popular on Reddit a month ago and has been submitted to Digg 4 times. There's no need for duplication.
Ask YC:  I have an idea for a physical puzzle requiring electronics - how should I proceed?
Other than prototyping it on a computer to show how fun/challenging it will be, how should I proceed?

I don't have the technical background required for the electronics.

Because it's a 3d puzzle, I don't think it would work well on a computer.
Firstly, i think it would be important for you answer the following questions

What are the list of things you need to achieve to make this a physical reality?
What knowledge, skills, expertise do you not have to get there?
Where are the people with those skills, attitudes, and experience found?
What compelling reasons do you have to convince someone to work with you specifically on this product? ie what can you do that others can't?
What is your ambition or objective with the project? Do you want to turn this into a company or do you want to just realise it physically for fun.

These are pretty fundamental to answer before you can proceed.
In 2007, housing and dollar crumbled, but oil and Web 2.0 soared
"On average, tappers expected listeners to get it right about half the time." Clearly the tappers were morons, because the minute I read that sentence it seemed off by several factors of magnitude.
The Mythical 5%
Famesource.com: Meet the guys hiring fake Indian users
You just can't quit Napster. Literally
Ask YC: How to prevent social news sites from devolving?
The thought occured to me this morning while perusing the headlines on Reddit. Many of the headlines are starting to read a lot like a tabloid. A few examples from today:

Surprise, Surprise: Dozens of CIA Officials Privately State That Tapes Were Destroyed to Avoid Legal Consequences and Public Outcry

RIAA sues man for ripping his own CD's!<p>Culinary Shocker: Cooking Can Preserve, Boost Nutrient Content Of Vegetables

Top Ten Female Streakers-NSFW

It occured to me why this might occur. It seems that letting a democratic process completely replace an editorial process dooms a site to devlolving towards the lowest common denomenator. Why are tabloids successful? Because they appeal to the lowest common denomenator. Whatever copy sells magazines at the newstand is what the editors are going to put in a tabloid.

What do you think? Are social news sites destined to devolve? Should we be expecting to see articles on the Bat Child and clips of "Ow my balls!" posted on social news sites? How does one keep social news sites from sliding down that slope?
It's true that we were the world leader once upon a time. From the 20's to the early 40's, we had a major competitive advantage: our factories didn't explode much, whereas European and Japanese factories did. In the late 30's and early 40's, there were also trade barriers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-boat, http://www.navy.mil) preventing the US from receiving Japanese and European exports.

However, in 1945, Europe and Japan figured out how to build non-exploding factories. The trade barriers were also removed. We retained our competitive advantage for some time after that, since it took them time to build up an industrial base.

But it is silly to expect us to be world leaders to the extent we were back then. That epidemic of factory explosions was a one time occurrence.
Microsoft Using YouTube To Promote Vista & Live, Leaves Comments Open
Not necessarily. I thought about this from the beginning with News.YC, because I didn't want that to happen here. The solution I came up with is to pick a group of smart people as editors and weight everyone else's votes based on how much they overlap with the editors'. Then as long as the editors don't vote for dumb stories, they won't take over the front page.

I don't have this turned on, but I do have something in the code that shows me where stories would rank if I did. The good news is that, as of right now, the front page wouldn't look significantly different if vote weighting were turned on.
This has been asked before, a lot of the comments seem to revolve around the idea that it is unpreventable.

As sites grow in popularity, they attract more "typical" users. These new users represent the common interests moreso than what a bunch of early adopter tech-geeks want to see :)

It can sometimes be shocking to remember that the large majority of people on the Internet are not logical and rational.
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I take a look at cnn.com, corriere.it, ilsole24.com to keep up with world news. This site, programming.reddit.com for computer stuff, with a quick glance at lwn.net and slashdot. The Economist to have something to read for... those moments when the laptop wouldn't be easy to drag along.

If I were in Italy or the US, I think I would consider a local paper, to read about local goings on. If I subscribed to a more international paper, I think I'd go for the Financial Times.

I'm a bit of an information junkie:-/
Why (And How) I Just Canceled All My Music Subscriptions
I thought it was more about the things you know and focus on, which are right in their narrow domain, but which prevent you from looking at the wider problem and therefore prevent you from perceiving, possibly better, alternatives.

I know I've spent days perfecting a certain programming paradigm, be it function composition or object orientated design, only to realise that I've lost sight of the overall problem domain and therefore how best to tackle it.
Are there really enough good companies out there to justify four cycles? At 20 companies per cycle, 4 cycles per year, 3 cofounders per company, $6000 per cofounder, that's $1,440,000/yr for roughly a 5% stake in each company. Just to break even, these companies must end up being acquired/liquidated/taken public for a total of $28,800,000... a very high threshold. Given that YC has only had two or three successful acquisitions (Reddit, Parakey, ???) and only one extremely successful still-private company (Loopt), I'm not sure that YC could beat those odds with four cycles per year.

BTW correct me if I'm wrong about the number of YC companies that have been acquired or are doing extremely well... always happy to hear success stories.
Well, nothing may be new in this case, perhaps. But innovation happens very erratically and in spurts. One never knows what an artifact will be used for in the future, or what it will inspire to be created next.

Regardless, my main argument was against the author's overly sensationalistic and dangerous "stop writing text editors" point.
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I like mashable.com. Stop by reddit once in a while to get my rda of what's new with my man Ron Paul.
But this site is also much more targeted than a digg or reddit or mixx type of site.

I think if you stick to any given topic (hacking, politics, biotech, environmental, etc.) you have a lesser chance of the site becoming a giant cesspool of repeated lame topics.
Maybe you should consider adding new partners (chuckle) to cope with the workload.
Those with the wherewithal to wage battle against this idiocy would simply rather fly privately.

http://netjets.com/

Now that planes are the new buses, can't say that I blame them.
tom's real profile is here: http://myspace.com/tom
Do the electronics require a microprocessor to execute the game logic, or is it an analog based design?
I don't think you would want to as the site gets bigger. I think the solution is to give the end user a way to filter this stuff out.

take digg for example if you filter out all the stuff you are not interested in or just look at what your friends are digging it works.
Secure website-authentication using GPG keys
xautomation - Control X from the command line
Pattern matching in metalua
There may be a fair amount of criticism of college as it exists today on news.YC, but I think it's also fair to say that the average poster here is not hostile to knowledge itself.
Was Parakey a YC company?
I think my brain just exploded
Huh? An opinion piece from the Cato Institute?
Too bad no one wants it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_current_ac...
i-Snake robotic surgeon 'will transform surgery'
Tied Up in Knots: Why are knots so pervasive?
Man, weather.com really sucks. I bet I could make a better one in a day.
A little project I did over the holidays. I got sick of how slow and cluttered weather.com was, so I whipped up this little service. I hope other people can find it useful.

It took me about a day. It is written in Rails. It contains about 100 lines of application code.
Not sure. How can you tell if a microprocessor is warranted?
.... Um, doesn't work?

(Texas)
Sorry, we couldn't find a result for "77915".

(New York)
Sorry, we couldn't find a result for "12345".

90210 works
High Performance Ajax Applications
> a strange element of anti-intellectualism in America

There is a healthy distrust of elites claiming authority on the basis of intellect and education. "We are in charge because we're smarter than you and know how to take care of you" really does fly in a lot of other countries. Call it "Mandarinism"; its hallmark is examinations and elite institutions. In America, opposition to this sort of thing goes back to the defeat of the Hamiltonians.

As for a general disdain for intellectual pursuits in the culture at large, that's just a bunch of bullshit. It's no different from any other country once you take demographics into account.
There are so many things wrong with your example! You basically wrote the ugliest Java code you could possibly think of for this simple program.

First, in order to get an objective comparison of code length you should at least use the same (length) variable names. You used "lineTokenizer" in your Java example and "l" in your Ruby example!

Second, you could have just written System.out.println(sum) in Java. The fact that you had to write System.out.println(Integer.toString(sum)) shows your lack of basic Java knowledge.

Lastly, the brackets around your one-line while loop in Java are unnecessary, unlike the brackets around your closure in Ruby.

Also, the Java main method declaration is irrelevant to your point, since it's written only once per program, and is automatically created by any IDE.

How about this equivalent Java code to match your Ruby example:

int count = 0;
Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
while (s.hasNextInt())
count += s.nextInt();
System.out.println(count);

Not so different now, is it? You can write concise code in any language if you know how to use it.
I've been trying to stay away from TC as well. Their stories are well written, but it's a heavily biased source as many of their editors are invested in the companies they promote.
I wish I had 130K to spend on 25 hours of flight time.
Interesting. I reached the same conclusion. I start by inviting trusted friends and friends of friends to sign up to the community before it's open to the public, and use their voting data as a base to measure against. And, of course, continued tweaking is also required. It's not 100% democratic because a selected few set the tone of the community, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Seems to work great in news.yc.
Here's what I don't understand: you can only take 3 oz of liquid or "gel" onto an airplane, but you can take unlimited amounts of powders and solids.

Assuming, for the moment, that every piece of carry-on luggage is screened for explosives (doesn't seem to be true, but let's go with it), what's stopping the enterprising terrorist from smuggling aboard a dangerous powder that isn't an explosive?

I'm not even an expert in the area, and I can think of a few.
I personally believe that this is where the data you collect about a persons voting should be used to recommend articles for them specifically. Then you can go to the main page to see what the community votes up, or you can go to a personalized page that is designed for you based on your voting and what other similar users vote for.

Its a mix between democracy and personalization and it allows for the users who really do want to be the lowest common denominator.
Feature requests: ip to location or save zip in a cookie that's easy to change. The most annoying part of weather.com for me, aside from the clutter, is typing in a zip. Having the forecast oriented horizontally like a calendar would be nice. ical integration would be pretty slick.
Then stop reading this and get back to work.

(Do what I say, not what I do.)
Are those valid zip codes? Neither 77915 or 12345 are in my database of zip codes.

I have a table that has the lat/long of zip codes so that I can find the closest observation station.

Edit: If I can't find the zip, I'll default to that state's center. So even invalid zip codes like 12345 will "work"- in this case, it'll go to around Schenectady.
I find the vertical forecast easier to digest. I'll experiment with horizontal layouts.

Doing geolocation would be sweet. I'll try it out.
Great question, and there is always a fair amount of debate in this area. A way to start thinking about it is to ask how many logical states you need to store. If it exceeds a trivial amount you are almost always better off using one. I can't give you a more accurate answer without knowing more about what you are trying to do.
news.yc, nyt, reddit, my Aunt Helen (she seems to know about everything as it happens)
there are better ways to get attention

http://tinyurl.com/244asc
The Economist (the absurd price for the print edition is, alas, worth it), Hacker News, Google News and Yahoo News.

I sometimes check reddit when the Hacker News anti-procrastination feature locks me out. :-)

N.B. There have been some recent claims here at news.YC that The Economist has been going downhill recently. This may be true, but I've been reading it for the better part of a decade and haven't noticed any decline in quality.
The Economist, All Things Considered & Marketplace (National Public Radio programs in the US).

I regularly read the NYTimes opinion pages and occasionally more of the NYTimes for background if I find I'm missing it.

I listen to the New Yorker (Audible.com offers it as a for-pay podcast).

I Tivo the McLaughlin group every week and occasionally even watch it when I have a hankering for talking heads.

I used to read the NYTimes religiously, but I've become convinced that the idea of regular news consumption in non-varying amounts is poison b/c of the way it elevates the importance of trivial events that happen on slow news days (see any local TV newscast in the US for the extreme version of this).

I think the Economist is somewhat immune to this effect because of its international focus. NPR survives this effect pretty well because it has enough arts/humanities-oriented material to round out slow news days.
"There's a converter for 2.x to 3.x."

In theory this will work 100%... but I'm predicting this will probably introduce really nasty bugs and I'm sure they'll be limits...

"Or you can transition code by hand"

More bugs...

"Being "out of date" doesn't make any sense -- today's libraries aren't suddenly going to become less functional later."

I'm not talking about stuff you have now. I'm refering to new hotness features that you'll be missing out on; being trapped.

"You change versions IF the new version gives you something you need. You don't change just because it's new."

Typically with good languages like Python, you may not need new features - but they sure as hell make life easier and coding faster.

"Not doing something today because it'll be outdated in a few years would mean never doing anything in the computer industry."

That's not what I meant. It's more about why trap yourself in a building that's set for demolition in a few months? Theoritically migration sounds easy with the converter but to me that's a wait and see.
One possibility is to build something that you would plug into your computer. The object could have touch displays on its sides.
This is Patrick Smith of Salon.com's Ask the Pilot series.

http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2007/12/21/askthepilot25...

Great writing and also a great inside look at the industry.
i thought this was a little waffly, not that i could do better but it could have been clearer as to how to scale for success.

I'm interested in this as my latest site is exploding exponentially and were running into all the usual problems, lack of memory, trying to cache popular quires rather than hitting the mysql. etc. etc. I could really do with a good article about this subject.
I suggest monitoring Arts and Letters Daily http://aldaily.com to get the best bang for your buck (where the currency you're spending here is time). Every day the site lists three of the best articles covering subjects of import from anywhere on the web. Often the articles have a theme, and cover an issue from multiple angles.
Regardless of one's position on "knowledge", criticism of college is a form of anti-intellectualism.
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Social sites which use a democratic process are just that - democratic. You may not agree with the masses but these are the stories they like. I don't see this as a problem. The problem I really see is that 'we' only consider what we think appropriate/intellectual content as acceptable content. These sites are designed to promote what the masses vote and they do a darn effective job of it.

"Whatever copy sells magazines at the newsstand is what the editors are going to put in a tabloid"...isn't this what every startup hopes for - serving the users need?

PS: I do see spamming as a problem but that can be tackled separately.
"Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike " - I disagree!
Thanks for the direct CMU link.
As I've thought more about it, it sticks in my head: Have you tried weighting votes by the voter's karma? Use some floor for overall karma, or a logistic function, and you let the community be the editors. It could drift over time, but it would take a while to move significantly if at all. I'm willing to bet that the community principles would continue to drive submissions and votes. That inertia creates a stable orbit.

The editors seem like great training wheels and a good sanity check over time. But I'm really curious if they become irrelevant as the community takes on life. Seems like you could test this hypothesis by using karma-votes to predict edited-votes. Drift could then be measured as that prediction varies from the edited standard.
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