skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once upon a time, I would have agreed with you about keeping gripes internal, at least until the dust settles.

But in the rising operating mode of constant deep interaction with a large vocal userbase, authentically sharing internal dissent might better manage customer expectations. It acknowledges and mollifies, a little, without making a commitment.
all set :)
We are in desperate need of clear thinking on this topic. Beyond the people cost of incarceration of those who should be in treatment programs, there is the cost to the rest of us of building and operating prisons. In CA we have a billion dollar prison construction bond. A federal judge plans to grab billions from the state to reduce prison overcrowding. The prison guards union is the biggest lobbying/corrupting group in the state.
Vulnerability Renders MPAA/RIAA Copyright Warnings Useless
Try http://www.screentoaster.com or http://camstudio.org
Version 1.4 will be able to fit better in smaller screens, such as netbooks or older computers.
A very ordinary article. Except common-floor and kwench, there is little innovation or originality in the others.
The title reads like spam, but it looks like there is substance. Programming, financial modeling, psychology.
Every web hosting company offers analytics software. Beside having Google Analytics you can use that too in your comparation.
They get a lot of their data by purchasing ISP traffic logs and parsing it. The browser data only serves as a much smaller "focus group" pool of users.
You're right, there's a good number of adults. Check out the age distribution chart at http://blog.scratch.mit.edu/2009/01/now-blogging.html
This article doesn't tell the whole story. On the whole, the Norwegian economy is strong - probably stronger than most other nations, but that doesn't mean there aren't problems here. I have several friends who have been laid off this year, and even the company I worked for laid off a number of employees earlier this month.

That said, I'm still happier to be working here as opposed to being back home in the States. And, while Norwegians do work fewer hours, most of them are more productive during the hours they do work.
But the point of these services is so that you can know how your competition is doing.
How to Measure Your Social Media ROI
In the end, what it comes down to is that you want something (which I also want, except for limiting new members) which is personalized. I couldn't agree more. HN is too general. There needs to be a way to customize, and only a client-side script won't do.
I'm being a pedantic dick by pointing out that I can't give you my piece of fruit and still have it for myself, right? That there are real costs associated with storing and transporting food, and that the production cost of food scales with the number of people who want to eat, right? I mean, it's kind of an assholish thing to actually write this out, as if you didn't already know it, right?
"Epidemiologists call this the problem of 'surrogate endpoints,'"

and I'm very glad the submitted article gets into this problem of many clinical trials. Setting up an observable endpoint, rather than a "hard endpoint" (such as preventing death or disease) that really matters, robs many medical studies of real-world meaninfulness, even if they have statistical significance and reasonably large effect sizes. As usual, my suggestion is to check the article by Peter Norvig on how to read research articles

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

for more about this important subject.
Now that the question has been asked, mean and median would be interesting. (And histograms and... :-)
Shouldn't this be on reddit instead? Seems a bit off topic.

From the HN Guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
My first impression is that the design is NOT clean. Clean, to me, can entail a large amount of content organized in a neat and easy-to-read way. Your design is simple, which is good, but a bit cluttered. My suggestions to you:

1. There are two lines that comprise the category links in the header and the two lines are arbitrarily aligned. They're off-center and don't look good adjacent to one another.

2. The thin scrollbars are cute, but they're a usability hassle; make them thicker so I don't have to pinpoint my clicks.

3. The logo is simple, which I like. I would suggest making it slightly thicker or somehow more prominent.

I second Kyro's second and third points. I thought perhaps these problems were due to Chrome, but the site looks identical to me in FF3.

Check out popurls and alltop for a super-clean design for a similar aggregator. Keep up the good work!
Neuroph: a lightweight Java neural network framework
I think you're just at the wrong site. A community made exclusively of people building websites would exclude a lot of smart and interesting people. That's only a small subset of hackers, even in the narrow sense of the word.
Agreed, this is why small, dedicated teams (for example, those with skin in the game in regard to the company's success) is the best insurance against this unfortunate scenario (loosing the original developers).
I'd say that I like the nytimes. Comparing it to other newspapers the articles seem a lot better written and more informative (possibly with the exception of the multi-page spreads that local papers sometimes produce).

At the minimum it seems to be of the same level of quality of any other decently sized newspaper. I can think of an independent newspaper that has some extremely well written articles, but it seems to me that the problem is more with the format rather than the nytimes. So what newspapers are more informative?
Why is it that a single vote can make a huge difference in social news sites?
It makes no sense statistically. Perhaps it's done that way to attract more users and encourage voting at the cost of fairness?
The message is a bit trite, but the production values are phenomenal. Beautifully done video.
Apps Status Dashboard has some info
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm:0/di:8/do:1/ddo:1
This and the "war on terror" are perfect examples of not creating actionable, measurable goals for an initiative. The equivalent of this in business strategy are projects with goals like, "Make the best iPhone App ever" and "Make the company more social".

How do you know when to stop? How do you know when you're done?
This is evidence of an interesting new phenomenon. It's a big shift.
I'm now contemplating montezing my new social network/company GOTRIbal (gotribalnow.com) - gettng answers from members that monthly fees and yearly fees would be 'acceptable' and 'reasonable'. from my analytics i can see we're outperforming some of our 'goliath' competitors... this is an interesting survey you published...keeps me thinking...
thank you.
Tanya
Take my karma! Laughter must be erradicated forever!
You're absolutely correct. However I would argue that, if you are in a situation where the developer (developers, development team, etc.) is no longer is aware of these edge cases, you have bigger problems than a shipping delay due to a re-write.
Ok, Norway is a net oil exporter and has huge benefits because of that... But can you please stop mentioning that every time you read Norway, completely ignoring everything else they managed to do right?
USA had much more natural resources than Europe, that doesn't mean you should ignore everything else they did well over time to get where they are now.
http://slowforeveryoneorjustme.o ... oh wait, no one's made that one yet.
Can you please let me scroll Left to Right (vis versa) for more feeds?
That is great news. I considered getting her an OLPC to replace the Mac but this particular limitation made me pause.
Wolfram Alpha Demo by Stephen Wolfram [screencast]
A simple way for NASA to get massive news coverage in this mission.
It could make a big deal of the (apparently minor) tile damage, send the rescue shuttle to take all astronauts except one who would land the damaged shuttle.

Doing this would likely get massive news coverage and get people interested in the space program again.
Ideally yes - but we can't (ethically) do that ;-)
The pendulum has finally swung away from XHTML; developers are starting to understand that HTML is not inferior to XHTML. The HTML5 unification process -- such that XHTML and HTML are actually just syntactically different -- should help kill the XHTML-is-better meme for good.
When you see advice containing words like "never" and "always" and "just" you need to take that advice with a HUGE grain of salt.

Joel's point stands - rewriting for the sake of rewriting is frequently a mistake. I know it was a huge mistake in the case of Delicious 2, for example. But that doesn't mean that starting from scratch is ALWAYS a mistake, etc, etc.

As a programmer and as a manager of a product, I think you basically need to try a bunch of things and get burned a bunch of times to properly learn when and where to do things.
you've missed the point in spectacular fashion. aggregate spending has been above incomes for years due to easy credit. of course at some point you need to increase savings to make up this shortage. the whole point of a payroll tax holiday is that it would get us through this phase faster and back to spending.
and if it were to ever leak out that it were just an overblown PR mission that burned millions (billions?) of dollars in a recession, they'd get their proverbial asses kicked by the government.
Exactly. And besides, I'm really not sure that I want to be an early adopter.

The thought that any bugs or problems would be directly affecting my brain kind of freaks me out.

I definitely like the idea of reshaping my brain, but I'm pretty cautious. I'm comfortable with things like exercise, diet, and meditation. But I want to know that I'm in control of the process.
This ain't no search engine. It's something else altogether.
Ouch. That's probably worth it.

I keep wanting to install this stuff, but I just know in my heart of hearts as soon as I buy it something much better will come out. I've heard a lot of good stuff about on-panel inverters recently, for example.
Indeed. The state of inner city life and relations with Latin America are very closely tied to drug policy.
While Erlang is not the first choice one would make for heavy string processing, in most web apps you are doing far less string processing than people assume. For an Erlang solution you just keep the "string" as an Erlang binary and pass it around in this raw form. With the addition of unicode to the list of types that are available for processing with the Erlang binary datatype in the recent R13 release this option is becoming more interesting.
Doing an SVN "Update" before a commit even when I know I have the latest code (for example, when I'm the only coder working on the project).
actionable doesn't mean what you think it means.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

Actionable \Ac"tion*a*ble\, a. [Cf. LL. actionabilis. See
{Action}.]
That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to
call a man a thief is actionable.
[1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

actionable
adj : affording grounds for legal action; "slander is an
actionable offense"
I disagree. They don't really go into why they made these decisions, but just "oh, our old model had weird sized differences between payouts of adjacent places." Why did it take them 6 years, a bunch of smart people, and hundreds or thousands of man-hours to use a second degree polynomial (constant second derivative) to determine payouts? I'm sure they dealt with more complicated problems than just figuring out an equation with a constant second derivative, but they don't really address that in this article.
Well that's not quite the same, since that story is about municipalities investing poorly. Hopefully Norway's sovereign wealth fund didn't do likewise.

(as an aside: I've been to Narvik, in the summer, and the scenery is absolutely stunning. The 2am sunshine is also amusing to behold.)
So why is 'misery' in quotes? Are the workers bluffing?
It would be a slight undercount if karma didn't follow a power-law. How many users are there again? How many were loaded when you ran that?
I think it's more of a continuum than that:
Let's make the best program ever
Let's make a great calendar
Let's make a calendar that makes it easy to share files
Let's make a calendar with ftp
Likewise, I might be willing to pay for Pandora, though I don't currently, and I would be willing to pay for gmail. But, I don't like the idea of having a recurring cost to use email unless I can copy all of my mail out into another program.

...tags are so much better than folders.
Fridays meeting with the FIA and formula 1 teams.
could you elaborate more? i'm not 100% following. huge difference as compared to what, or in what sense?
Does this mean that I will be able to buy pseudoephedrine at the drug store without having to show my Papers? (I imagine pigs will fly first. When has the government ever repealed a law after noticing that it didn't work?)
KSplice seems to be a interesting concept, but seems like the product/service is quite an unfit for the domain they are operating in (Linux Kernel updates).

The KSplice software is open source under GNU, so why not a community behind KSplice's technology simply package these (just like you would deb or rpm packages) and publish them freely (instead of having to pay KSplice, Inc simply to convert these diff's in to KSplice format).

The technology is wonderful, and I am very glad they open sourced it as well, but I am just wondering why they made it a Inc (assuming it's for-profit with their subscription service) instead of making it a open source project.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhbRyLATEPo
Sappy but uplifting video. I'm going to bookmark it and replay it when motivation for my mISV starts flagging. :)
Don't feel bad about waiting... solar power will be as cheap as, or cheaper than, other electrical power by 2015-2020: http://www.tiogaenergy.com/tioga-news-solar-power-boom.php
Jerry Avorn's proposed a two-phased drug evaluation process would be a great improvement. By shortening the first phase and lengthening the second we'd get more drugs and more drug discovery and in the long term better trial results.
2: capable of being acted on <actionable information>
Average Karma per utterance would also be interesting. Or, indeed, per word.
13527 of 43817 accounts are currently loaded.
November 2008 onwards has been a different job market than 2007 was, so the comment here is not valid. While in Oct 08 one could find a job, many companies started hiring freezes or limited hiring last November.
Is a Heat Pump and Gravel the Answer to Energy Storage for the Grid?
Every morning I come in and stand in the middle of my team's area and ask is the site still up?
What a load of crap. According to this tool, Linus Torvalds writes like a woman, and so do Zed Shaw and Steve Yegge.
It's not really an obscure option. The stream of tweets I see is dramatically different today than it was on Monday. And, it's also dramatically different for people who had the option set the other way. They've managed to come up with a "compromise" that makes everyone unhappy with the changes. It's just stunning.

Oh, and the new system really is weirder. It now matters whether you type "@soandso" yourself, or click the reply button to insert it for you. That's crazy.
That is assuming pg is included in the count. I haven't looked at the code so I'm not sure if pg is classified as a user or something else.
I've had a ton of these lately. I've read that some people using Google App Engine have had it on their apps, which seriously degrades the halo IMO.
The core methodology is good. But:

- 5-12k may not be as useful as a guideline as before.

- HTML 4 & JavaScript recommendations may no longer be as valid as they were then.
Ask YC: Real time web app updates
What tools/technologies do you use for real time updates without reloading a web page?
comet, ajax polling, jabber?
P.S: it has to be open source
I would guess that the supply of high-quality submissions is fairly inelastic compared to the supply of high-quality comments; i.e., there are enough people submitting articles that the good ones will likely get submitted either way, while the same may not be true for comments.
Misery:a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune;

I don't think the problems workers face due to globalization are non-existent. I do think that they aren't unforeseen (which is the definition of misfortune). I would argue that as programmers, our skills become obsolete faster than those of factory workers in a particular industry. If we can foresee this and learn new programming languages, it should be possible for workers to do this as well.

In short I think any misery globalization brings is avoidable but it would take not just efforts by governments but also awareness on the part of individuals and a willingness to accept change.
What do you mean loaded? You mean in order to filter spam, trolls, or bots?
The end of prohibition is one obvious example.
Ask HN: What do you use to track bugs?
Drop a comment if you use something different.
HP Quality Center
Ikiwiki
Perhaps it's more about de-politization than clearer thinking. Sounds like some intelligent moves have been made here, but just for political or financial gain.
Four BlackBerry apps you can live without (but won't want to)
Capitalization of largest banks 1999-2009
The best hypothesis on the scaling explanation is that at the point where your tweet is injected into the message bus, they have your full friend-of-followers network available. With that information, they can reduce the number of followers that they send a message to. Otherwise, they blast it to everyone, and then figure out on the receiving end if it's an @reply that that person wants to see.

What doesn't make sense about this is that if they were to store the @reply preference for your followers along with the friend-of-followers graph, they could maintain the original behavior, and avoid unneeded traffic on the message bus.
Funding Options
Wow. One of the links in the article lead to this:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14000-robomonkeys-use-...

Researchers have several Macaque monkeys controlling robot arms via a direct neural interface and using the arms to feed themselves...

The fluidity of the robot arm's movement are amazing, you can see the monkey interacting with it as though it genuinely has come to associate the arm with itself!

Watch closely and you'll see the arm move closer to the monkey at one point because it has spotted a scrap of food stuck to it that it wants to eat.
Articles On Ruby’s New Concurrency Feature
http://maps.live.com/

Please don't slaughter me for mentioning the evil empire.
No, I think he was saying that normal people make moral compromises to improve their quality of life. A lot of people could walk or bike to work every day but drive instead. We recognize that choice as morally suboptimal, but we don't get worked up about it. We don't think people have an absolute obligation to always make the morally optimal choice.

As an ideologue and a moral gadfly, Stallman is less compromising than most. That's central to his role and value to the community. And it makes him annoying. Pike's statement was trying to swing sympathy from Stallman to him by pointing out that he (Rob Pike) is like us -- more compromising -- and Stallman is a purist who doesn't cut us the kind of slack we're accustomed to allowing ourselves.

Which does give me sympathy for him. Even minor moral compromises look dirty when you examine them closely. But there's value in the kind of intolerant, absolutist examination that a self-styled saint applies. That's Stallman's role, and I think he plays it well.
Export one sheet on one page. How hard is it?

Why is it that so many people export PDFs with two slides on one page? We all can use a printer. But scrolling with sheets like this is very annoying.

Good stuff though.
I'll take a stab a reframing the OP's question.

Why not start posts at zero karma instead of one?

Does the current initial karma setting (1 point) affect user behavior in any way?
I predict a dilemma. On one hand, there will be an offer to become a cyborg with superior intellect. And let's just call this futuristic mind-enhancing technology "chip", to simplify further.

So, on the other hand this chip will contain methods to manipulate thoughts of people. Thus, making thought crime possible. Sex offenders and criminals will be forced to accept this, of course. So if you pee in public, you'll have to have you thoughts controlled for the rest of your life.

On the other hand, as the thought power of intellectuals will be brought further and further forward, their differences and disobediences will also be punished. The consciousness will be merged together. So, we'll have a giant brain made up of intellectually-enhanced cyborg-people that will be able to solve a crapload of problems.

Ok, this scares me. A lot.
Today's software environments are the result of a huge amount of creativity. Certainly there are many, many things in them that are valid patentable ideas.
I suppose I should clarify: I had been ignoring the link because I seriously thought HN had been hit by some spambot. After I read the article, I saw that there were topics that would be of interest to HN. You are correct, there are not a lot of details about how and why, but just bits of info. I personally think this is an interesting story of how a simple game of cards and "winner takes all" has evolved into the complex ecosystem it is now, using the tools we use in other endeavors.
So my karma is very low, at least it's below the average :D
In many subreddits, a single up vote would send a submission to the front page.
Be strict in what you send, and forgiving in what you receive.

Browsers are just following this basic networking principle.
> Is it just to keep people from being swindled?

That's the stated reason. Your guess is as good as mine as to whether it's a real reason or even the only reason.
Pivotal Tracker (http://www.pivotaltracker.com)
I highly recommend it, I have nothing bug good things to say about it so far...
Unless you signed up in the last day or two, you most certainly did have that option.
bugzor.com (note: This is a site that we created for our projects. Bugzilla worked fine for me before this decision was made.)
I recently wrote something that displays a list of the users with the top average comment scores. I could make that visible.
It is an obscure option. Less than 5% of twitter's users found and used it. Those affected are a tiny but obnoxiously vocal minority who seem to think that they're entitled to dictate the direction of a social network because they've deigned to use it.

It is unfortunate that this affects you. Expressing a bit of displeasure is one thing, but the #fixtwitter public outcry and the sheer histrionics of those involved are tedious to the extreme. There are other social media and microblogging options out on the web and they also come at the low low price of free. Please feel free to avail yourself of them.