skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, Squidoo is about to release a feature which makes it very easy to create the kind of lens that Brad links to at the top of the post. So far I've made lenses like this on three conferences by hand:

http://www.squidoo.com/hacking_education

http://www.squidoo.com/the99percent

http://www.squidoo.com/blogwell-ny-2009

They each took 3+ hours, but with the new module it should be quick and easy. The conference organizers love these things, so once the new module launches if there are any conferences you want to go to then let me know and I'll try to get you in for free if you agree to make one for them. I think we'll run it like wikinews where you have to make one or two good quality ones and then we'll give you a press pass. (I still need to run this by the Squidoo staff again, so no promises, but I'll try.)

Of course you won't be able to submit them to the HN queue because Squidoo lenses are still banned, but such is life.
What is wrong with that assumption? I assume a lot of people are starting to browse from cellphones, mobile connections, more foreign places. You wouldn't want stuff to bog down your site, just because there are people who have faster connections.
And actually, for all intents and purposes, HN is a service being provided to me, whereby I sit and expect it to present me with interesting stories.

How is it any different for you?
Yes, you could theoretically struggle to write C code to work like Erlang, but processes are very cheap in Erlang, and distributed, parallel code is extremely easy to write. C performs well, but can be unstable; Yaws performs as well as Nginx.

Erlang's greatest advantage is not in its vertical but its horizontal scalability, which does have consequences for performance.
Couldn't the decline in "searches" also just be because more users were finding what they needed in the first page of results?
Agreed on the small homogeneous population.
Not true on the oil exporting. Just look at the neighboring countries.

Without oil, Norway would be like Denmark, or Sweden.
Glad you asked:

* more news about Startups, less news about things tangentially related to startups

* less churn on the homepage

* a community made exclusively of people actually building websites

* a limit on accepting new members

* less talk about useless academic subjects

* more "review my new project" submissions
On a busy day, stand on the bar and yell "Free latte to the first geek who can fix our wireless!" It'll be sorted in five minutes.
Also, it's interesting that treatment center admissions are in the 200K-300K range for pot (10% of the population uses), cocaine (2% uses) and heroin (.1% uses).

The heroin numbers look a little low, though: the number of stories on Erowid doesn't imply a 20:1 ratio of cokeheads to smack users, especially when you figure that someone coked-up is more likely to write than someone on heroin.
And the cycle continues. Diggeres move to reddit and complain about digg all day. Redditors move to Hacker News and complain about Reddit all day. You will all be bitching about HN as soon as you find another home, I'm sure.
Good point. I quickly did a google check and UAE does have debt but could not find percentage of GDP figures or how they compare with other countries.
Thanks.

-Columns: The titles of the columns are on the bottom (Needs to be changed).
-Scrollbars: Did not see that, because I use safari. :)
would you be willing to post up a membership fee for something like this?

or, perhaps you'd like a much more heavily meritocracy-based community?
This is the internet. Stupidity finds its way into anything you care to mention, no matter how hard you try and fight it.
eventbrite.com is so bitchen' it hurts. Ouch!
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I believe you want the following thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436523

FYI, I found this by using searchyc on "screen capture"
HN isn't a commercial site and actively tries to restrict traffic. The advantage of having already made something people want is that you can make non-commercialized sites and limit the growth to the level you find comfortable :-)
* less Erlang posts
I agree with all these points, but the point I had been trying to make is that increasing spending in the face of a trade deficit means that we are doing more to spur China's economy than our own.

I'm not sure that the public transport makes a difference with our car culture and low population densities. I can't really think of a good way to do a subway in LA, for example, though they tried.
We're not charging a fee because we're firmly against charging jobseekers (who are usually unemployed). We're able to finance ourselves through the CPC methods.
I remain skeptical, but this article sounds like generally positive news.
Scary? You must have a great life--on my list of scary things Google running slowly doesn't even register. They're having some latency issues and have no doubt dispatched people to work on it. Business as usual.
It looks clean. The one thing I would change is the way the page is loading. Right now the header is loaded first and then I see gray body and need to way few seconds for whole content to load. Maybe you could load full GUI first and then fade in separate news? Overall looks pretty cool!
However, the government is functioning like a corporation currently with its spending.

(And I'm not convinced banks are finished increasing their reserves. Wells Fargo is still in the danger zone after acquiring Wachovia, as one example.)
Hacker news is becoming digg.com with all the Hacker News related content. This is one of the reason I stopped going to digg.com. It was becoming annoyingly self serving and distracting to the original purpose of the site.
Well, that's high time.
The heroin number appears to be lower because it's a more addictive drug than cocaine. Users are less likely to try to quit.

What's more important to consider is that treatment is not always voluntary. A sentence for a marijuana-related offense frequently requires that the convicted seek treatment and pay for it out-of-pocket. Treatment rates influenced by compulsory attendance cannot be trusted as accurate public health data.
That doesn't sound like "Hacker News" at all. That sounds like "Startup News". Why are people building websites the only ones you find helpful? Why are academic subjects bad?

I agree that there are more than a few links that don't interest me, but that doesn't mean I throw up my arms and say, "Well, that's it! This site has jumped the shark!"
a community made exclusively of people actually building websites

Do you actually believe that "Startups" and "Hackers" ONLY build websites?

Assuming that you yourself "actually build websites", this seems like a good project to take on. The HN code is open source, it would be neat to see someone make an adaption of HN that fits the spirit of what they believe the site should be about.

I'd be very curious to see what the community and activity level around such a site would look like.
Ask YC: How do sites like Compete, Alexa collect traffic estimates?
I've always been curious.
Slave labor is wrong. Dubai is wrong for using it. So is anyone else who does. Norway rightly deserves credit in this regard. My initial comment is from a macro-economic point of view of how countries use/abuse their natural resources.
Considering exercise (especially resistance training) increases your metabolism and overall oxygen intake for many hours after, if you aren't getting antioxidants you will be slowly killing yourself. They don't have to come from vitamins, though. Green tea, blueberries, and purple corn are all excellent sources.
I think what kyro is trying to say is, if you don't like what you see on HN - why not submit the type of articles you'd like to see, hopefully starting a trend?

imho it doesn't help that your post sounds more like whiny bitching than constructive criticism
The Twitterverse is hot http://www.roomatic.com/%23googlefail

But nothings wrong from here.
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Can the downvoters please explain why you are voting me down?
Are hackers receptive to Gary Vaynerchuk's call to "Crush It"?
Where would you say "Hey, we're better"? Mentioning it on the service's site isn't that useful since the visitor is already there.
let me fix that for you:

SERIOUSLY? How does any of this "gratify [my] intellectual curiosity"? (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It does not.

Hacker News failed [me]. Does anybody have a better hangout spot [for my narrow definition of interesting]?

[update: removed pre]
Not clean enough for me. Or did I mix up clutter & clean?
Ease of adoption has a lot to do with HTML.
noticed it as well. back to normal
and are you helping the site out by flagging down the articles you have problems with?
As of now, the only way we've gotten users has been word of mouth. No incentives for them yet. I think $100 is reasonable, though, I'll give it a shot.
I haven't even heard the term "viral loop" before, so I'm learning about that right now. Thanks!
No wonder, I was having all sorts of issues with Gmail this morning.
Each of the posts you mention satisfied my intellectual curiosity way more than this one does.
If they could vote your submission down, they would. They can't, so they're voting your comments down.

If that doesn't make sense to you, just give it a few more minutes and the submission will probably be flagged dead.
Wouldn't making baby monitors that use Wifi mitigate the issue?
adwords is a good start.
Compete & Alexa heavily rely on browser toolbars (http://www.compete.com/help/s11) to estimate their data. They work hard to normalize their data, but you can probably imagine that the demographic of people with that kind of toolbar installed is heavily skewed (and some people argue loudly against it: http://venturebeat.com/2007/02/22/traffic-measuring-continue...)

Other sites, like Comscore, use various methods like router-level analysis & client-side monitoring software (like Nielson w/ TVs).

In the end, no method is 100% accurate and the best analysis comes from looking at various sources & taking it all with a grain of salt.
Fair enough, and I agree with that.

but look at the behavior of the community right now. The highest voted comment on this post is basically a "screw you dude" and all of my responses are downvoted without any reasons given.

Below in comments I stated what I personally would like to see change, but that too is downvoted without explanation.

These reactions are reinforcing my original point: Though many precautions were taken, Hacker News is no more immune to large group behavior than were Digg and Reddit. The community has reached a tipping point.
Anyone have recent experience in whether search keywords in the domain name itself matter?

Separately, what about subdomains?
Have you flagged the stupid stuff? It is only because users don't flag it that it stays around.
there are many countries with no CGT (Capital Gain Tax)..

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

http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Asia/Hong-Kong/capital-ga...

it would be really interesting (for the people migrating to other countries for better opportunities) if someone compares cost of living in different countries based on their CGT ... may be this would really change the whole scenario ...

for example if a family wants to decide between new-zealand and canada and lets say that their total saving (as per history) is around 10 to 20% which they regularly invest in real-estate/stock then CGT can change their decision or help them to make decision; of-course there are other factors such as job opportunities, cost of living etc. But for large amount of immigrants CGT plays a big role after they settle down in a new country.
That would drastically increase the cost of baby monitors. Right now they use very simple analog RF techniques. Switching to 802.11 would increase the design complexity and cost.
being an energy exporter ensures that there's enough wealth to go around to provide its citizens with a large social safety net

This is a powerful strategic argument for proactively promoting carbon neutral energy in advance of the market. This is especially true for energy delivered in the form of electricity, due to the nature of its delivery infrastructure. Someone stands to benefit from first mover advantage here.
My bachelors degree was paid for by the Florida lottery, and the school paid me an extra $8,000 just to choose them. The cost of college is relative to the effort you put in prior to applying.

I honestly enjoyed college, and the experience I gained by going through it was invaluable. I didn't party. I didn't drink. I went to class every day, worked at a small web development shop when I wasn't in class, and I took it all in. I graduated on time, and with the knowledge that it had all been well worth it. That was college for me.

College is what you make of it. If you go into it hating the establishment, you're going to drop out. The school I went to had a foundation exam for CS students after their first 2 years. Basically, it filters out those who knew the material (or were passionate enough to study and take it 3 times, yes that was me) and those who were just doing the degree for a piece of paper. It works.
What you can do is filter the results using searchyc. If you are only interested on start up reviews search something like "ask hn review" and grab the rss.

http://searchyc.com/ask+hn+review

Hope that helps
OK, so you won't charge jobseekers. Does your service have a flipside where you allow employers to search resumes, or do any sort of matching between jobs and seekers? Are you charging the employers at all? And if not, why not? A free service is good for individuals looking for a job, but charging companies looking for excellent employees will actually make you look more credible.
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i remember seeing their browser toolbars, i didnt know that was the only source of data.

it seems like collecting data like search engine queries, number of inbound links to the site might also be used. no?
Just to avoid further confusion, New York City has a population of 8 million. I was referring to the New York State.

Either way, the point still stands.
Scary is the fact of how dependent I am on this single company. They have my e-mails, they have my jabber account, they have some of my documents, they host the stats of my websites, people find my stuff using their search engine... Not to mention that my job becomes radically more difficult without the search (how am I supposed to find new libraries I need and documentation, hm?).

I usually don't realize all this stuff until something goes wrong (eg. they have latency problems). When everything just works having Google feels as natural as having fresh air or fresh water...

And yes, thank you, I have a great life :-)
My only complaint right now is that it only offers payment via Paypal and Google Checkout. If it weren't for that, I probably would have settled on it.
I don't get it... I don't even have an option to turn off/on @replies to people I don't follow... I just see them all.

I've NEVER had an option to turn off @replies... is this only a thing for users who've signed up recently?
I'm pretty sure they would have factored that in to the study. Google is very good at counting which link you clicked, and how long it took you to find it.
In a way, but it's doing so more like a drunken sailor than with any rationality.

The Austrian school says that recessions occur when the economy gets over-invested in some area. The recession occurs as we recognize that what we've invested in is not worth as much as we thought ("hey, these are just regular crackers!"). Then the values roll back as we get out of that dead-end while moving our investments into better values.

To the extent that this is true, our government is not helping. They're spending with abandon, but direction of the spending is either wildly shotgunned, or politically correct. With the decisions in the hands of the people and corporations making up the market (I think I can see you cringing as I say that), the processing of transitioning will in all likelihood be faster and much more efficient.
"We aren't catching up to reddit" isn't very reassuring. A downward slide is still a downward slide.
Yeah. And Denmark and Sweden aren't particularly bad places to live. There is broad sentiment in Norway that we would be living in caves if it wasn't for our oil reserves, but this obviously isn't the case.

There are downsides to having a very homogeneous culture, of course. If you are different, you will have a hard time finding a broad network of friends. Norwegian culture is pretty tolerant in the most important ways, but a total population of 1/4 that of any major world city is noticeable. In terms of land area, our country is larger than you would think. This isn't just some weird enclave.

But it is probably impossible to enforce harmonically coexisting, internally homogeneous cultures. And I'm not even sure that would be something we'd want. My most important personal value is freedom to, within reason, do and say and think whatever I want. Meeting different cultures first-hand is often necessary in order to be able to do this, since there is a broad range of behaviors and mindsets that are excluded within any particular culture. We create our own intellectual walls without even thinking about it.
Is this running RoR?
Hmm... I knew this would be a down vote magnet. Anyway I was trying to help the FREE service.
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I'm a fan of Yongfook. He's working on another project called Peashoot that I'm pretty excited to see/use.

http://peashootapp.com/

Also - I used Sweetcron when it was first released. I think it's good at what it does!
Google was really broken for me about 30 mins ago, in San Mateo, but it seems to be back now
That this headline got so many upvotes on reddit is, to borrow a word, "mind-blowing" to me.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/8k9f2/dear_reddi...

Are basic electromagnetic principles big news to such a large segment of the populace? (A segment that is internet-savvy and fancies itself as being more sophisticated somehow.) Unfortunately, when basic physics comes up with my Stanford-educated girlfriend, I see more evidence of how far the US education system has degenerated. (When I explain, she gets it, but the education system simply didn't effectively equip her with the knowledge.)

Not only do they not know, they don't even have a framework for knowing the magnitude of their ignorance.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/8k9f2/dear_reddi...

Or is that a troll? Please, God, let it not be real and be a troll!
This is a screencast which demonstrates some of the features and capabilities of the application my startup is working on. Our software is an open-source network tool
framework with an emphasis on security assessment. It's also a distributed platform which is the main feature we are showing off in the video. After installing a small
self-contained Java VM based software agent (which we call a 'probe') any tool created with the framework can be transparently deployed and launched remotely and runs
autonomously without needing to be connected to the UI.
Hacker News was originally called Startup News.
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The site he mention is http://linkup.com . HNers please suggest how to promote the FREE service. I have no connection with this service but like to see things free as long as it's possible. (No offense with making money with technology but if someone is happy & able to offer a free service it's cool I guess.)
If it was a 17,250-square-foot, 14-bedroom mansion, I'm pretty sure it wasn't just some random ramshackle home from the 20's. But that is just an assumption.
Wait, this article had nothing to do with the GPL. The GPL is almost entirely unrelated to the notion of code audits and transparency. Lots of code licenses and business models allow for (or even promote) that approach.

Why did you bring the GPL into this?
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"Oslo retains a feeling of modesty reminiscent of a fishing village rather than a Western capital, with the recently opened $800 million Opera House one of the few signs of opulence."

What a bullshit article. Sorry...

Lessons learned: it's good to have a lot of oil.

Did they invest so wisely? Maybe, maybe not - even if they did, who says they were not just the lucky ones that are bound to exist (just as with fund managers)?
I'm hopeful we get more policies that are results-driven, rather than ideology-driven.

And while most of this is just talk so far, I'm encouraged that they're going to begin deferring to State's Rights in at least the case of medical marijuana.
I see nothing in lynx.
Are functions first class objects in Nimrod, because I couldn't find function type in manual(pointers to function isn't what I mean :)).
Sweetcron is really nice and light-weight but 1) it's missing a few features and not for everyone and 2) hasn't been updated in awhile. We use it for aggregating austin-area startup blogs:

http://startupdistrict.com

Could this be done with WordPress?
Since the service doesn't have jobs on it, it just points to josb (like Google, ignoring their cache), there are no resume services offered. For people wanting resume hosting, we point them to http://emurse.com

The service charges employers for sponsored listings, like Google's AdWords. Another paid service is for more frequent indexing, and another is for direct access to customized company-specific job feeds, which is useful to recruiters, affiliates & competitors.
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Last night google searches were being returned to me without any CSS styling.
I'm not proud of it but I did some SEO 'stuff' for a local company (gas money) and there really was only so much I could do; they were using a flash as their navigation that targeted an iframe to generate it's content pages, if you think that isn't bad enough, I had no access to any of the *.fla files to do what I needed to. I even tried working around this with JavaScript, but it ended up not being completely compliant in older versions of firefox. . .so what did I do?

I said fuck it, and rolled back their index page back to HTML4 transitional and, low and behold, it actually worked. In fact, it worked so well that I've grown to become suspicious of XHTML.
Thanks to the submitter! That link is the best I've seen all year.
There's no way to them to get that interstitial data without having code analyzed/reporting per-page on the site (either backend Apache-log analysis or something like Google Analytics). Alexa did this for a while with their "embed your site's score", but that was too easily gamed so it was discontinued as a metric source.
Yes, I am very interested in this exact same question.
What effect does homogeneity have?
Yea same for us. We also discovered our ISP was routing all google related traffic to Japan first.
Exactly. I'm sure this was really useful at the time, but SEO and the web as whole has changed drastically since 2002. It's gotten a lot more complicated and competitive.
OH MY GOD IT'S THE END OF THE EARTH CYBORGS AND ROBOTS WILL KILL US ALLL!!!

I admit that some of the latest advancements in brain-machine interfaces have been impressive, but articles like these are ridiculously bogus. Even if we could make a nontrivial BMI it would still require a surgeon to plant it just right. Don't even get me started on AI.
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Is this something like we already saw, Facebook CNN Live.