skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems akin to the saying that "everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Well, yeah. simplifying to that point isn't exactly easy. And, worse, the act of simplifying your code to fit this description is something that is usually done after you had it working. In other words, instead of solving another customer problem, many folks spin wheels "solving" their own "problems." Even worse, often the solution is taken to that simpler place that the saying warns against.
Yes, maybe a system of display names would work for this. But the thing is you have an entirely different mindset when you are responding to 'shadowfaxx12' rather than 'Martin Carpenter'. It's more to remind people that there is another real human being behind that particular comment, and to be civil to them.
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I like the idea of devoting an entire page for one thing. But how are you guys going to make money from this?
Show HN: BeerQuest - find great beer and great places to drink beer
Looks like everyone has their own hn design. :) Here is mine: https://github.com/bjourne/readable-userstyles/blob/master/h... It's a user stylesheet so you need the Stylish plugin to use it.
I'm always fascinated by the response of everyday people to music like this. I'm a former professional musician — my degree was in viola performance, and I freelanced for a number of years before I decided paying the rent was important — and my perspective on contemporary music has changed since I ceased actively performing. I think the largest change is that I've become less concerned with interesting music, and more concerned with beauty; in this, I think I've become more like a regular audience member, who is less concerned with novelty and innovation and more concerned with whether listening to the piece is an enjoyable experience.

I think Feldman straddles that boundary with remarkable balance. I haven't listened to his second quartet, but I've listened with intensity to his first (only an 1/½ hour work), and it's effective on both levels. It is non-traditional in its organization and its sonorities, but it has a straightforward structure that is simple enough for a lay listener to at least partly grasp in a single hearing, allowing them to appreciate it as an object of beauty. At the same time, its form and content are original enough to pique a more demanding student's interest. From the OP's description, it sounds like the second quartet is similar.

Feldman strikes me as a composer who has partly avoided and partly succumbed to the trap — all too common, as I see it — of deciding that the state of constant revolution that music has been in since about 1885 means that they can do anything they please and write music according to their own inscrutable (and often mechanical) system, shattering so many expectations so their music defies evaluation and nobody can tell them it isn't good. (The stories I could tell about some "composers" and their methods…) I blame the vast difference between the expectations of academia, which is the main supporter of contemporary composers, and those of the general audience.
I think in general, when the quotes say MAN, it is used sort of as a short for huMAN i.e, all of us.
What makes this worth paying for versus something free like Joyride: http://www.zurb.com/playground/jquery-joyride-feature-tour-p... ?
It is priced like a textbook (not that that is an excuse but it is an explanation). The fact that it is a textbooks is likely also why it is highly pirated.

I checked the book out on Amazon[1] and, bizarrely, you can buy it new for $96.89, used for $45.87, and you can "rent" it for $62.79. If I were still in college I would get the $50 copy and try to resell it to a student the following semester for $40 (campus bookstore would probably buy it back for $5). Or if I were a broke student I'd just use the library's reserved copy (you can't check it out but nobody ever took advantage of this when I was at school so it was always available to use at the library).

1: http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Software-Construction-...
Google Docs used to do that (maybe it still does). It was absolute chaos and very confusing.
> Hacker News is a social news website about computer hacking and startup companies, run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator.
There is good, quality classical still being written today. Try John Adams, for example. His website is

www.earbox.com

My favorite piece of his is Harmonielehre, but there is lots of great stuff there.
Depends on the problem. Sometimes a "short program" means omitted error handling, lax input validation, not covering necessary edge cases and generally the sort of thing that leads to bugs and security holes. I prefer the word "concise"- brief but comprehensive.
It's a conspiracy because indebted grads are better for "the system", not the individual employer.

Just because you're in debt, it doesn't mean you can't change jobs. You're not inherently more likely to stay in the same crappy job because you have debt, you're just more likely to not drop out of the rat race, go live off the land, do a startup or lifestyle business or whatever "non-system" lifestyle that doesn't provide the financially stability your debt requires.

I'll accept evil employers acting for their own goals, but that they should selflessly (non-college-grads are likely to be a great deal cheaper) help the goals of "the system" assumes a collective long-term concern for the greater "good" that is not exactly founded in evidence.
If you don't mind me asking, have you hit your goal of earning your pre-Sifter salary yet? In the slides it looked like you were close.

Also, is your partner on full time as well or still part time in your venture?

I have a co-founder that I'm starting a small business with and we frequently talk about what level of reduced salary we would accept to come on full time to grow the business.
Rise and Fall of a Hacker Who Found the Secrets of the Next Xbox and PlayStation
Ok, it seems that this is just to measure the interest, as such product doesn't exist at all yet.

Some comments:

1. Reddit/HN style threads (sorting function by time and score) are great for news or current issues, not for topics that are continuous. That's why reposts and duplicates are actually needed. Old threads on HN and Reddit are forgotten quickly.

2. Upvoting mechanism / community moderation requires a sizable community to provide any value.

3. Real user names do not provide any value, usually it actually reduces to quality of discussion. Anonymous/throwaway accounts serve their place. Community moderation already solves the quality/spam/troll issue to some extent.

Most of these 'features' should be configurable, as there seems to be no clear thought of why this configuration would be good for everyone.
> Popular stuff on top, unpopular stuff at the bottom makes me think of downvote squads and paid upvoters.

Anti-gaming measures would obviously be part of the system as in HN and Reddit.

> Social logins. What when they go down? See facebook login last week. What about people that don't want to log in with their social account?

Local logins are also an option. However, social logins do indeed provide an ease of use. Perhaps some sort of backup login system might be used as well? Like get the emails when people first sign up and if your login provider is down send a temporary login link to the users email.

>The flamewar control seems that it might hamper legitimate conversations. Imagine 2 or 3 people discussing something civilised, and each time they post, they have to wait 5 minuten or more. I know I'd stop talking pretty quickly.

Have you ever been discouraged from a lively discussion on HN? Believe it or not, this same feature exists on HN, and it works rather well.
Ask HN - what service do you use, for emails?
Looked at mailchimp, sendgrid etc. All of them look good, and cheap to start with (free). But quickly become expensive even with just a couple of thousand subscribers.

Then there are hosted solutions like sendy etc.

Which ones do you use and how do you like it?
> the culture is just too different from that of Silicon Valley

If there's one defining attribute of Japanese culture, it is its willingness to absorb and syncretize outside influences. The most recent examples are the Meiji Restoration and the post-WW2 transformation. So I don't think you can write off Japan just yet.
As a Brit, I've seen this cultural phenomenon in the UK too. Maybe I've just not been exposed to the right people, but "failure" is still a dirty word and it's rarely seen as a stepping stone to success.

Although I'm not all the way through it, I have a feeling this presentation was probably quite a shock to its live audience, and probably perceived as being quite tactless and impolite. I wonder what they actually thought of it and whether it effected any change in mindset.

Edit: I'm cringing all the way through this video. I'm not sure if it's a cringeworthy video or whether it's exposing my own fear of being embarrassed!
Interview with TripAdvisor co-founder Stephen Kaufer
Just adding my voice to earlier requests for you to expand on your experiences with Bootstrap. I am more of a database developer and have never mastered CSS. I can hack it, thats about it. My initial thoughts were that Bootstrap is going to solve my lack of front-end programming skills.
Still, I feel like I'm playing Bioshock, reading those quotes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J47ENHSomc8
What about Rayleigh–Bénard convection?

"Convective Bénard cells tend to approximate regular right hexagonal prisms, particularly in the absence of turbulence"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh-B%C3%A9nard_convection
Most of your points are environment specific and I think that you forgot the strongest of them - "xml APIs usually suck". In .net they are non-issues.
And about being cumbersome and verbose, the point I tried to make is that you don't have to be zealous and put every small piece of data in a separate element. No reason not to put data in attributes or even in comma/whitespace separated strings, if that piece of data can be extracted in one short line of code.
You're wrong. Do you know Ruby is the breed of so many developers (who has used other languages, too) ?. You should compare Ruby to open source philosophy, it's one of its implementation. Yes, if Ruby was dead, open source is dead too, i believe it !
Great plan, until you get sued.
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I triple-boot my desktop and laptop (Linux, W7, XP), and have a pair of large NTFS partitions to share data (including my Steam library using symlink trickery) between all three operating systems. The downside is that the open source version of ntfs-3g is slow (still faster than using a VM), and its allocation strategy seems to cause extensive fragmentation.

To those wondering why VMs are insufficient, if you have work (or gaming) to be done that requires maximum performance in multiple operating systems, a VM is not fast enough. I develop software for my startup in Linux, write client software in XP, and do video work and game in all three.
Differences as such are:

1. User-tracking: we track which users have seen which tours and this data is persisted at our backend. So people are mot repeatedly shown the same tours and distracted from using your app.

2. Apart from including the tour player script you dont have to make any changes to your existing page.

3. We support using your aites own custom Bootstrap themes out of the box, so you dont need to spend time customiZing the look of your tours.
A blog where people can contribute photos of their friends doing stupid things. Why? Because people love stupid stuff.
So what's the difference between http://www.discourse.org/? I think discourse implement it clearly, I didn't figure out any difference.
The difference is pretty much strictly whether it can validate and generally display correctly. I seem to recall browsers were less than good about the tags, whereas just having the classes works great to bang away at a template, and then use it.

Cool to see that Heist is effectively the Lift templating system. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised to see some movement in that direction. I do still for more templating like this in the jvm, though. I'll have to look into TAL more when I get the chance.

Of course, right now I'm having to use GWT for a project. Don't know why, but I loath UiBinder. And, well, most of GWT at the moment. :(
Behat, Cuke4Php, Codeception, phpSpec and a few other solutions have shown up since I initially penned this prototype in early 2010.

While I think these are all great solutions I do still think there is room for better integration with phpunit out of the box. I would hardly recommend jumping on prototype code for your own testing solution right off the bat but do please give things a look over and if you like help contribute enhancements and bug fixes as they come up.

-Keith.
Signatures? One line is still to much for me, all forums need the option to turn off displaying signatures.

Real names? Hmm. That kills basically all but talking about pets or whatever. No forums for whistleblowers, abuse victims, with alternate sexuality and/or religion and the problems arising thereof in certain areas of the world, no place for really nutty art. It's also trivial to make a fake facebook profile I'm sure, so in the end it might offer a false sense of security more than any actual security.

The "flamewar control" stuff.. Yup, definately too nosy to me. Wouldn't know the difference between flaming and a burst of creativity and all around merryness, either. Have you ever been member of a really wild forum, I wonder? Why seek technical solutions to social problems?

And then comes "tagging". Just to increase user engagement, because that's useful for the site owner, not because it's useful for the users :/

I don't mean to be negative though; built it, it's bound to be useful for someone, just not me. If anything, it would make for a neat "facebook-like" forum (facebook, last time I checked, was completely broken for complex discussions, and the forum apps are ugly and slow). All the complaints I have about this forum I would also have about facebook, so they shouldn't be a negative to "that crowd". I'm simply not the target market, but I am a forum user since I'm a web surfer, and I do care about them a lot, so I have to ramble.

A next generation forum of my taste would have complete moderator action transpareny and accountability. How's that for a radical new idea? Or hey, how about making page views and ad revenue visible to the people providing it? Maybe allow users to tag and organize content like they want it, with a bayesian filter suggesting stuff they might like. My next generation forum would focus LESS on real-time and "current" and "popular", and make all that just one of many factors. It would be not for ants to pass the time, but for ants to build weird little palaces over time, with many twisted passages, and if they so choose, to refactor and straighten out the bits that turn out to be most useful, to build a library; be it of knowledge, fun, friendship or anecdotes.

Instead of more tools to use on the users, more tools for the users.

And of course, it can't be hosted; gimme the source or I'm not interested in the least.
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A blog where my 6 yr old daughter can review toys. She's been asking for this for a few weeks.
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I went to a state-run community college on Georgia's HOPE scholarship. I went in to learn network administration, but it ended up patching all the holes left by a K-12 system that was broken long before immigration in the '90s stretched it to the breaking point.

It's popular to joke about how easy it is to get a college education in this state, but I don't think Georgia's $400+ billion GDP amid the century-long economic turmoil of this region is a coincidence. PINES[1] probably helps, but I think Georgia's focus on getting everyone into some sort of college is key.

[1] http://www.georgialibraries.org/public/pines.php
This is why I'm amused by the constant prognostications that X country (in the 80s Japan, today China) will become the next global economic superpower / hegemon. There's certainly plenty of room for massive economic growth and technological advancement, but to become the next engine of economic vitality for the world requires cultural changes which countries like Japan and China are just not ready to make. The economic future belongs to the inventors and innovators. To disruptors and revolutionaries. To people who can persevere with novel ideas through the difficult stages while the world mocks, dismisses, jeers, or fails to understand long enough to see the idea reified in a way that is finally accepted and pioneers entirely new sectors of industry.

That's the startup mindset, and it's one that has become ever more accepted in the US but is still frowned upon elsewhere.
Great thanks! Glad you like it! We've some ideas - we think it'd make a cool iPad app and have also explored merchandising opportunites but for now we are just enjoying seeing people come to a site we created! It's a bit of a buzz for us and if it doesn't make any money but people like our site, and get inspired by our content, then that's a real win for us.
To be fair, template error messages are still a black art. They can take half a page. Reminds me of the old CFront days when C++ compiler was a front-end for another compiler. Templates are not very well integrated still.
Can you please elaborate on "reason about parts of a program in terms of what they mean rather than what they do"?
I spend too much time procrastinating... so I'd like it if I could speed up my "stupid" time.

I'd build a site that has the design of pinterest/instagram or whatever the site is that has the multi-columns of different heights for individual cells.

And the content would simply be from various RSS feeds -- npr, cnn, fox news, times, huff po, etc. Ideally I'd bring it to a level similar to HN, Reddit and Digg with the only difference being the content isn't user generated and you can't "vote" on a story's popularity -- it's timely.

Add the necessary ajax elements so it "stacks" stories on the top of the scaffolds. I should be able to sit on that page and not do a thing and have fresh content load for me.

Then if there's any interest you could easily add more features.

I'd probably write it one day if I weren't so distracted by other things. Shouldn't take much longer than 4 hours to code.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987) was convinced that he was a major 20th century composer. That point of view put him in the minority. Now, 26 years after his untimely death, people are starting to agree. Classical music-lovers, numb from all of the brutal, post-war contemporary music, are intrigued by this unusually intuitive composer and his tender, obsessive music.

Feldman's "late" works are the most remarkable. Often spanning hours in length, he transformed the concert into a ritual. "Is music an art form?" he liked to ask. In other words, is music more than just entertainment? His answer was clearly: "Yes".

Feldman's works are not just listened to, they are experienced. They are a mixture of music, performance art, and philosophy. Unlike John Cage, his close friend and mentor, Feldman was not interested in Zen philosophy. But listening to Feldman’s music leads to a heightened state of mind, a kind of musical enlightenment.

I just recorded two of Feldman's greatest works for solo piano: "Palais de Mari" (1986, 23') and "For Bunita Marcus" (1985, 67'). 15 minutes ago, I would've put the probability of seeing an article about Feldman on Hacker News at zero. Bravo.

Feldman's "Rothko Chapel" is a great way to get into his music (written following the suicide of painter Mark Rothko).

Here is part one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxSt_w2ODaQ

The story of the Rothko Chapel is well worth reading if you like abstract expressionist artwork (de Kooning, Rothko, Kline, Pollock, etc).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothko_Chapel

Also, I recommend listening to the conversations between John Cage and Morton Feldman:

http://archive.org/details/CageFeldmanConversation1

They talk, drink, smoke in the radio studio. It's all very 1960's but the insight into the lives of great composers is priceless.
Yeah, I should have mentioned Wicket (it is credited as an influence for lift, after all). I can't remember what made that so difficult to work with. I think it was because you had to effectively mirror the template in code at parts, if I recall. As I noted somewhere else, the lift way of more directly manipulating the template is what I like. (That is, I don't have to have a ton of "liftId" attributes added to the template. In general, I just need the base class attribute added, and then I can manipulate the template using css selectors. This does mean some shape of the template has to be preserved, but I haven't found that limiting yet.)
Thanks for the link. I also like minimalism, I can say that it is my favorite style in modern classical music. Found this little clip while I was preparing my music history exams few years ago, it really explains Philip Glass nicely :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNiOqa1nWgI
Agreed. As is MacRuby, though it doesn't compile down like RubyMotion.
As is Hamish Sanderson's RB-Appscript (AppleScript replacement), although the deprecation of carbon events has sunk it sadly.
Based on what I've read (the screenshots are just of reddit and Facebook) this sounds like it would be a genuinely irritating service to use and be a part of.

• If there's any place for a 'social' button, it's certainly not a discussion forum. Typically the content you would be talking about on a forum would be separated from what you might want to post on Facebook (see pseudonyms).

• People love pseudonyms, there's no escaping that. One of the large attractions of discussion forums is that you can be pseudo-anonymous if you are so inclined. If Google Plus failed to convince people to give up their real information, I can't imagine a forum suite would either.

• Profile photos make page loads long and make the information on the page less dense. They add absolutely nothing to the conversation, which is why I presume HN and reddit (large influences in this) don't have them.

• "Flame war control" will just obstruct constructive conversation. Speed and depth of posting isn't an indicator of malice, and will just make users discouraged to contribute.

• A hosted service isn't a feature in this case. I can go and read forums that I was a part of in 2005, but there's no guarantee that a hosted service will be around next week. If the service disappears, so does the content.

• "Banhammers Galore" isn't a feature, see the current attitude towards StackOverflow's moderation.

There's headway to be made in bulletin boards, but I feel you've missed the main issues with the current solutions (vBulletin, phpBB, Vanilla).
I'd be the same but on the basis that I spent about £750 on text books at university when I went. Recouping a chunk of that by reselling them was important.

You can't do that with e-textbooks and I bet they cost the same.

plus eBook readers are horrible for textbooks. I have a hacked kobo touch and its pretty much only suitable for linear reading.