skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion there are no good alternatives to AdSense. Depending on your content you might be able to run CPA or CPC advertisements.

http://www.cj.com
http://www.peerfly.com
http://www.maxbounty.com
Dublin? Everyone in Ireland (well 99.99%) speaks English as their first language. Some people even speak Irish ;)
Well, at any rate it is a ripoff of Hacker news :) They do the same as ycombinator..

Which in itself of course is a perfectly valid course of action but it makes their outrage over a supposed clone of their work a tad less convincing :)
I think he is talking about the discussion[1] about the new facebook news feed.

This is not an isolated instance, however. For some reason people who reply seem to always look at things from the worst prespective possible. Some are valid concerns, others not so much but you end up with a (very) pessimistic view of things if you consider only opinions expressed on HN. It makes me feel a bit sad and down.

I think this happens because people who like the post, product, etc don't know how to express appreciation in a meaningul way. Maybe it is easier to pinpoint specific things that you don't like than to be specific about a product you like. You get that overall feeling that it is an improvement but cannot easily pinpoint all the reasons why.

I also have faith that things can improve if people, instead of only writing about specific things that they don't like, take some time to also write about the small things that often go unnoticed but make great products great.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339287
I happened to be poking around DN when this went up (I had a tab open from when I was reading about the Flat UI malarky)

This was close to the top of the front page on HN, so I'm fairly confident that they're talking about this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339287

Nothing too suss in there from what I read, and most of the top comments are still the same as when the Design News post was made.

If you can't be bothered reading, topics included:

- Facebook steals from Google+. Google+ steals from Facebook.

- People overuse certain adjectives when describing products.

- The impact that new FB design has on advertising, particularly that ads can now take up ~30% screen space

...I don't see where the meanness is
Ask Me Anything About Rampart.
>> SaaS Game ... (Game as a Service)

This is hardly a new concept, Eve Online is a fairly prominent example of a game that is run entirely as a subscription service. I'm sure there are other MMO games that do the same, however there are others like World of Warcraft which combine a subscription service with a "boxed" game client.

In the context of the current discussion, I think EA could have made the new SimCity game entirely service based, like Eve, giving the client software as a free download and charging for access to the server, where most/all of the actual simulation logic would live. Instead they've pulled a bait-and-switch with a boxed product.
"serious" is a very blurry word in this context.

I do consider "serious developers" people who can focus and build solid solutions. What kind of toolset, environment, language they use doesn't matter.
TFA talks about the fact that SQL simply doesn't scale to volume as big as the ones that companies like Amazon need to deal with.

It's not the first time I've read this: Google also has similar problems and fixed it with a DB (or DBs ?) of their own. In Google's case, AFAICT, it's also a gigantic key/value store on which monstrous map/reduce are done.

My question is simple: up to which amount of data and for which use cases do SQL still work? In other words, at which point do you need something else than SQL simply because SQL ain't cutting it anymore?
Those aren't made up numbers. I actually did the math based on my income. How about you stop being a dishonest coward who characterizes your opponent, rather than making an argument, hmm?

You don't get what you pay for, of course, if you bothered to actually add up what you really do pay, and what you really do get, but then that is the essential swindle isn't it? You and all the rest of the thieves like to pretend like it's better to pay government $20,000 a year for services the free market would happily deliver for $20. And then you act as if those of us who point out we're getting ripped off are "greedy", or in your case-- dishonest.

Well, if you have to lie to make an argument, that tells me even you know your argument is the suck.
Great lightweight app, I like it.
EU vote to 'ban on all forms of pornography' - to 'eliminate gender stereotypes'
Yep ... and eventually we'll probably show that most of these inventions can be traced back to one famous Scottish clan - The MacGyvers
I wouldn't play any game that required me to like anything.
That's a really handy list. Thanks!

I did give RamNode a try today after seeing them mentioned here, and they do indeed seem to do a good job of delivering on the SSD promise. I'll probably stick with Linode in NJ instead of RamNode in Atlanta (because the way I use my machine means that network latency to places near my home matters a lot more than disk performance) but it's nice to know that at least one vendor finally seems to be getting it right.
This isn't a thin skin problem.

Mean comments are a waste of space; they take up the space on the page where actually valuable content should be.

I've always hated the "grow a thicker skin" comment, regardless -- it shifts the blame onto the victim, and is simply impossible for some people and some situations -- but the problem here is that one person gets hurt (more or less, depending on thickness of skin), and lots & lots of readers get crap instead of brain food.
"Anonymity online, one of the most important problems of the coming decades"

...and a solved problem. We have numerous technologies for this.
Don't bother. You're frustrated and want to vent, that's understandable. However, your feedback will most likely not be taken seriously. Instead, take the lesson to heart and be better when it is your turn to be a manager some day.
I loved the presentation. Once I was done reading, I scrolled back up just to view the whole thing again. Now, time to try the game :)
Little OT.. like I predicted over 1-year here in HN, the future of antivirus will be crowdsourced as in SocialAV
I'm not really sure I could tell them apart in an ABX test. But it's not like the game is demanding in any way. The amount of sprites is way too low and they're all bitmaps. Furthermore, you don't need the webaudio api to playback an audio track and few effects concurrently, like this game does. Standard <audio> elements with the preload attribute work fine [1].

What I'd like to see is a comparison between 2D vector graphic performance of Flash compared to Web technologies as implemented in browsers. In my experience browsers are still very slow at that (without WebGL) while Flash had excellent performance for as long as I remember.

[1]http://robert.ocallahan.org/2011/11/latency-of-html5-sounds....
Every educated Dutch person knows English. Even more than that - they willingly switch from Dutch to English when an international person joins the conversation. I can't say that I got the same impression about German people. They have very monolithic culture and it's not very open to foreigners.

So if you do not want to learn neither Dutch nor German you better move to Amsterdam than Berlin.
While I can appreciate the sentiment of being friendly, it's something I strive to do, what this post actually does to accomplish it is nothing. It's a fairly sweeping generalization of a community, and to top it off you try to admonish the naysayers with "don't be stupid," and accusations of arrogance. It comes off as petty with low effort.

If you want people to be more positive, that's admirable. That being said, this post accomplishes nothing to encourage people to be more friendly.
Dutchman here. Depends on where your from. Trying to find an affordable place to live can be difficult. (Depending on what you feel is affordable). On the other hand, distance is nothing in Holland. You drive through the entire country in 3 hours. An affordable place to live just 30 min outside Amsterdam is a lot easier. Public transport is good, most of the time. Driving and parking in A'dam is expensive as well... Most people just drive a bike (not a motorbike). There's a ton of info over at http://appsterdam.rs/
It's like I'm really on /r/atheism!
Mobile gaming revenues are shifting to tablets…and to Asia
i cannot possibly disagree more. Are you using NFS from 1999?
Actually quite difficult to learn Dutch. Just about everybody will start to talk English to you when they notice you're from UK/US.
Ranger - Finder clone for the terminal
I know its torrentfreak, so I should expect it, but there is way too much hyperbole in this article.

Just give us the facts! </rant>
This is not what i experienced. I live in Germany, but i am quite often visiting the Netherlands. I was even able to speak to elderly people in English when i was lost in some small Dutch village.
Especially since the rent on your mortgage is deductible. Adding to that, expats have extra tax discounts (30% ruling).
What's worse than people "wasting electricity" making ostensibly mean comments? I know. It's writing an entire blog post about it!

The anti-dote, usually, for a "Don't be mean ..." request is "Don't take it personally".

To defend HN comments ... The comments are the reason why I, and I'm sure many, come here to read. Most times HN comments far out-value the original articles posted.
I was excluding MMOs from the above since the expectations of those are that they are multi-player and subscription based.

When I was talking about GaaS I was sarcastically talking about ostensibly single-player games are crippled in this way.

Crippleware is a good one too :)
Hacker news reputation means something mainly in the context of the hacker news community, surely. But the Hacker news community manages to centralise a lot of discussion in the tech community, and how does it work that people are attracted to and stay loyal to HN? I do think the Ycombinator / Paul Graham brand has played a part in that.
Isn't Dublin a part of England though? ;)

But good catch... I meant countries where English is not already the native language.
On MacOS X, you can simply do:

brew install ranger
I don't think people are intentionally trying to be mean, but sometimes it appears that way to others. Generally this site is full of smart people with strong opinions, and for the most part that's a good thing that drives some interesting discussion.

Unfortunately, smart people with an opinion sometimes have a problem seeing the other side of the coin, and tend to see their point of view as the only right one.

A good example is yesterdays 'PHP is the right tool for the job' post.(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5337498) The authors point that PHP is a great tool for getting something up and running quickly without having a lot of knowledge of servers and software was spot on, but he got a lot of hate from the HN community. As a bad programmer (programming is not what I do, I've only learned it to be a better manager, strategist and sparring partner) I can tell you that PHP is by far the easiest thing to get up and running for a fool like me. Yet noone seemed to accept this fact, and came up with a whole lot of 'ruby is just as easy, you just need to install [something I've never heard of, and probably wouldn't understand], or in python you just run [stuff I don't know] on the command line [which I haven't got a clue how works] and you're good to go.

These comments weren't meant to be mean, but from my perspective they were, because I'm at a very different skill level than the peolpe making the comments. They totally missed the point that PHP works for a lot of people because Ithey have no idea how a command line works, don't know how to edit configuration files, and don't care.

The problem isn't that people are intentionally mean, it's that some people are so knowledgeable in their area of expertise that they have problems seeing how it could be hard for others, and thus end up making remarks that seem mean, but really aren't meant to be.

I bet a lot of people on HN still don't see why PHP is so popular, even though the answer is unbelievable obvious. To me.
Definitely the post in question.

However, what I see in that thread are valid criticisms. The article and author were self promoting the author's expertise in UX -- with the promotion rather more prominent than the article content. Meanwhile, aside from the, um, "self aggrandizement", the site violated cardinal UX rules.

Readers called him on it without using faux polite weasel words, and he says he'll fix it.

Pretty sure constructive feedback is what submitting your own material to HN is for.
Global temperatures are close to 11,000-year peak
>>they convinced the labels to stop requiring it.
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>Are you sure it wasn't the other way around?

You must have missed this. A Steve Jobs classic. Music industry execs have confirmed Apple was behind the move away from DRM.

http://www.apple.com/uk/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/
quality > quantity - absolutely.
Maybe I've got a high threshold for meanness, but what about that discussion is mean?

Negative isn't the same as mean.
I'm not following this. Can someone dumb it down a bit?
"Set limitations for your work"
I think this is one of the single most important components of creating anything of value. It is very difficult to innovate on a blank and limitless canvas. Barry Schwartz wrote an excellent book about how increasing choice decreases our satisfaction with our decisions. I think this is the same with design/creation it is so much easier for our brains to process- I have these inputs, these constraints, now what can I do with what I have.
Social app monetization kicks in: Revenue jumps 87% year-over-year
Reading the thread, the most interesting thing seems to be that this is a problem partly caused by the website satoshidice.com, and several people are adding special filtering to ignore any transactions performed by this website.

This immediately raises a large number of very interesting questions. I was under the impression that the whole point of bitcoin was that it allowed anonymous transfer of funds with no central authority. If some group of large miner groups have the power to a) identify satoshidice, and then b) ignore it's transactions, then what is the point of bitcoin?
im pretty sure Cook got like a $400m grant to vest over 10y when he got started. Anyways, I do hope for Elop he's getting paid in cache and not stock.
Do you have any numbers to back that up? This site (http://www.nfia-india.com/why_english_speaking_society.html) says 62% vs 91% in favor of the Netherlands.

edit: seeing this guys profile/comments in this thread it's an obvious troll.
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On my experience, everyone in the Netherlands speaks English. I had problems getting by in Berlin and I know some basic notions of German (had to use English when that wasn't enough), English does NOT cut it, you need at least some basic German (maybe 1 or 2 months of studying).
So, people who are mean - by this person's judgement - are stupid?

For fear of being mean (and stupid) I shan't put words to what I think about this.
GUIdebook is old and pretty much abandoned but still interesting: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/
I bless (and curse) my high school math teacher for the insane amount of homework he gave us. Thanks mr. Rappaport!
Maybe they should call it a "more durable road".
I definitely plan to learn some Prolog, but I don't know when. For now I plan on learning Datalog because it is used (or a variation on it is used) in Datomic.

The relation between Prolog, Datalog and the "Datalog-like" query language used by Datomic is still not clear at all to me but hopefully soon the picture shall get clearer.

I know it's OT but that's what I really like about Clojure: Clojure taught me about Lisp (even if it's not a 100% pure Lisp), functional programming (even if it's not 100% purely functional), lazyness, monads (yup, really) and now it's probably going to introduce me, thanks to Datomic, to Datalog...
Even better, according to the guys at Appsterdam there's this piece of law created after WW2 where anyone from the US can start their own company in Holland. USA citizens can apply for a Dutch residence permit to be self-employed or operate their business in the Netherlands. They can also sponsor their married partners and minor children for residence.
http://www.expatlaw.nl/dutch_american_friendship_treaty.htm
The Roman church has been around for two thousand years.

The lifespan of your average publicly traded company is what .. a decade?

Advising the Vatican to change everything based on the listed problems is like telling Bezos he needs to overhaul Amazon based on shenanigans that happened yesterday.

This might be the right thing to do. Or it might not be. Mr. Bezos would be advised to study the matter for a few days before taking action.
no the problem here was not checking the integrity of your backups.

not a "one kind of anything" single pt of failure problem. he expected LayerVault to not corrupt the PSDs sent through them (and the syncing actions made it worse), which is not unreasonable. it's the same as trusting Photoshop to write PSD files to disk that are identical when opened later.

the difference is that Photoshop is more time-tested and well-known, which changes the odds, but in your argument still would make Photoshop's saving mechanism a single point of failure as well.

and then what, use more different graphic design tools? :)

in your example, if you burn your backups to a good ol' DVD, don't you check that the files are actually on there? and have the burning tool check the integrity? and finally, if you don't check a few of those PSDs to actually load in Photoshop, who knows that the data your DVD burning tool received was correct?
Working with filesystems in Node.js
During WWII, the U.S. promoted the capabilities of women through their "Rosie the Riveter" posters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter). Too bad more of that attitude didn't stick when the "boys returned".

From a business perspective, I have to wonder how the U.S. economy withstood the end of the war. The troops returned, flooding the market with labor and at the same time, much of what was produced during the war had no market in peace-time.
I wish I could find cheaper Juniper gear on ebay to help study. What hardware is currently there is 10x more expensive than what Cisco has. :(
This is a mafia-like tactic. "It would be a shame if anything happened to the rest of your games..." A state attorney general should weigh in on this.
"To be fair you might expect that, if you have a command economy you can say "how can we get more women in IT?" and answer with "Take women out of nursing and put them in IT"."

During WW2 in Russia, the Soviets had female snipers and female fighter aces. Why shouldn't they have females in a new, blurry position of a computer programmer - a position so new and so alien to most people that no stereotypes could have evolved by then?
Coders attacking designers attacking coders ... this happens too much. I often wonder if the underlying problem is the rift between designers and coders constantly reinforced by pure business people who keeps us at a distance and call us each the most important in private. Can't we all just get along?
"Whenever you are thinking about writing a comment ask yourself, is this helpful, is this funny or is this a question? If you get no positive answer don't post it."

Yes, but take out the "is this funny". I've been funny many times and gotten downvoted. By the way, a penguin, a priest, and a rabbit went into a bar and ordered a drink...
What's more amusing is people keep returning! It's Command & Conquer 4 all over again and I will never forget that.
Relevant, although it takes a while to get there:
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/03/05/honesty-and-the-human-b...
Having worked in the industry for a while, my rubber duck is quite educated by now. I find he understands most of the applications I write (it wasn't so in the beginning!) and at times makes very helpful suggestions, although I'm loath to admit I don't always give him the positive feedback he so deserves.
Based on my very elementary understanding of bitcoin, it seems to me it would undermine trust in the entire system, as the bitcoins lost on Satoshidice may still be spent elsewhere, and entire chains of transactions may be lost. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Seems like this fundamental issue of every node needing to replicate all transactions is turning into a real problem. I expect there will be a system of supernodes at some point, and most nodes will only store hashes. Operators of the supernodes could then become targets of regulation, undermining the decentralized nature of bitcoin and eliminating it's primary purpose.

I'd love to be wrong. Anyone?
Here is the thing about Hacker News Comment Threads - They are precisely as mean as the subject/object allows.

HN Commentators take pleasure in dissections (and even more pleasure in dissecting those dissections). That can be tough for people, especially if they submitted their content because they wanted feel-good feedback or some kind of community exchange.

It is very easy to burn your fingers around here - one slip of technical details, get one fact of history wrong and you will be told. Ruthlessly and again and again. If anything at all about your content is distracting, that will be what users latch onto.

Of course it's kind of bad, of course people are often dismissive because of trivial bits to the point where they actively obstruct themselves of interesting discoveries.

But I value it's Zen-like quality. I know that if I ever were to submit something to HN, should it find its way to the frontpage, I would, definitely find out every single flaw about it. Quickly.

From a technical perspective, that is kind of neat. From a social perspective, it's about as emphatic as a meat cleaver.
Quite timely article as we're also looking to streamline the sales process, but in a slightly different context:

we're still in customer validation stage (that is, we're not sure of our business model yet) and we need to convert feedback from multiple silos (kissmetrics usage of the app, wufoo survey results, welcome and end calls tracked in an excel spreadsheet) into actionable insight so we can continue to build the product.

I'm actually researching this area (customer feedback in early stage companies and the build-measure-learn cycle) at the moment, so if this pain sounds real to you, feel free to contact me (contact details in profile).
> Given these premises,

Your premises are faulty. But that's a lengthy and tedious discussion, probably not suitable for this post.

Instead, I invite you to visit your local parish with an open mind, celebrate Mass. I suggest you'll find not ignorance or fear but knowledge and joy.

Also: coffee and donuts afterwards.
Even if it were to be documented, I imagine it would read something like:

"This API works exactly like this. Except when the user disables local storage. Oh wait, also not when the Flash version is 11.0.635.24.b. Well, also it's different if you don't have a security-inst-config.xml installed in the home directory of the user under the path .adobe/flash/securityPolicy. OH! Also it works completely differently if you're using HTTPS. And it won't work at all if you're trying to access any server without a security policy defined on the DNS TXT record third from the top. Also there are some slight issues between 3 and 5 PM GMT on Tuesdays, but a workaround can be found on the Macromedia support forums."
How Gears Of War: Judgment was made on two continents
This is tangential to your very relevant comment, but FYI, a command line is somewhere you type a command (a 'line of code') and it executes as if it was in the middle of a running program.

Very useful when you want to see or confirm how somethig works. Type it and press 'Enter'. It comes with the python installation, and it's commonly called Interactive Interpreter.