skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
quality*quantity would support my claim. Personally, I think something like the h-index (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_number) would be most appropriate. A person is n smart if he's said at least n things of n units of smartness :).
If not for a standardized filename (which we already have), how would the programs find the filename?

Implementing a meta tag on the index page could work, but why change the already-working system that we have?
This is incredibly slow. Why not use Flash, Java, or something like Google Native Client (NaCl) which supports 3D rendering via OpenGL?
May I suggest flowers every week?
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You need a 'one on the way' option.
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This is a must read for anyone who builds links.
I have a 3 month old black lab puppy. Not a kid by any means but for a 22 year old it's a big change in responsibility for me. she gets me up at 6am and i end up staying up to work so i guess that's a plus.
Daniel,

Did you guys have the name twitvid registered as a trademark?
1) Get yourself in trouble by opening up to good friends about your ideas and dreams.

2) See them get on your case and nag you to death until you implement and carry out said ideas and dreams.

If it wasn't for others, I would have "gotten off" on short emails or perhaps the occasional prototype code for my own amusement. It's them who demand more from me: "Dude, can you make us that thing we talked about?", etc. Even my current startup, the life line comes from a good friend of mine who is bugging me for a license after he saw a 4 page prototype. Friends, specially those in procurement/acquisition/hiring positions will demand you polish your prototypes, write documentation, launch a site and do everything they need to cover their ass before their superiors. Before you know it you have a little something something going on.
Wow, these are kind of cool. If I could be shown studies that demonstrate that these don't affect health very negatively, I might be willing to give them a try. I think nicotine, like caffeine, can be useful, but its benefits aren't worth the risk of getting cancer from smoking. I have a friend who's never smoked but sometimes uses nicotine patches (cut into small strips - otherwise they're too strong) for the stimulant effect. I could totally see him using this as an alternative.
Make something non-trivial.
Could you post the text of the article here, seeing as the server is down? I, and I'm sure others, haven't had the chance to read it yet...
I mentioned this in another comment, but I just wanted to note that even as a very small company, we tend to avoid solutions that won't readily integrate with our existing LDAP users and group-based access control, backup system, single-sign-on, etc.

Not using web services has less to do with being bridled corporate restrictions and more to do with preferring to use our nice, fully automated infrastructure. Hosting another small java servlet isn't going to make us break a sweat -- it'll be less work than trying to maintain user accounts and access controls across another web service.

For this reason, we solely use products that drop right into our standing infrastructure. I don't think we're too unusual in this, although we may be amongst the HN sample set.
Well, I have. I did five years of hard-core assembly language programming on the Sigma 5 for a real-time medical data acquisition and analysis. I am quite familiar with how the hardware is classically built.

But it doesn't mean that it has to be that way. Everybody presumes that addresses are in binary, but this was not the case for many of the Burroughs machines, i think the 3500, just to challenge some assumptions.

So let me ask you a question in return: Are you familiar with the Burroughs B 1700?

And claiming that I have not done low-level programming is not likely to convince me that hardware is fundamentally necessarily procedural logic.
Yes design enthusiasts are the ones who design cars...but I doubt at GM/Honda/BMW that they are the ones making the engine choice. Nothing wrong with having a diesel option, but you are forcing your customers to pay a premium, for something they don't need.

I mean if you are going to use a BMW engine, why not use the one from 335i? If you look at BMWs: 335i sedan 300hp for $40K, 335d sedan 265hp for $45K.

So that's a ~$5K premium for the diesel option. I dunno about you, but pretty much every car enthusiast I know, would rather pay $5K less, and get 35 more hp. And lets not forget the fact that the 335i engine has a crapload of aftermarket support, while the 335d has none.

I'm not an offroader, so I dunno about jumping etc. But thats sorta the point, desert racers are almost non-existent, there are so very few of them out there, and only a tiny percentage of those can afford to pay $50K for a toy. You pretty much slashed your possible market to a few hundred rich guys who are into offroading.

The pictures I was talking about the other designs.

I'm not saying the whole idea is a failure, I'm saying that the starting vehicle choice is. Your motto is "Build the car of your dreams", but then you turn around and select a vehicle that only a tiny minority would want.
Make a product no one wants
I said left-right, not Republican-Democrat. Left versus right hasn't always matched up with party politics. The Dixiecrats were basically still on the right before 1970.

Leaders and institutions on the right - Buckley, Goldwater, the John Birch Society - were originally against the civil rights movement. Many have since changed their mind, some have not.

Ghandi was indeed an extreme leftist. He is held up by the modern left as a man of vision and ideals, even if they do not agree with all of his positions 100%.
They're pretty nice using Guido van Rossum's rietveld: http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/
It's hard to laugh at what used to be funny
It's been almost six years since that entry has been published. I don't perceive any big problems with robots.txt and favicon.ico files. Am I mistaken? Bandwidth is better and cheaper now so that's not an issue. Are other solutions just much more complex to implement? I hate over-engineering.
i still am one.
Make sure it's not swapping. Protect yourself against CGI-related memory leaks by making MaxRequestsPerChild small but non-zero. Revert any changes you made to various Apache limits (esp. thread or socket related) before the problem began. Turn off any other services.

If all else fails, add a redirect to all clients except the CoralCDN itself to the CoralCDN. (See instructions at < http://wiki.coralcdn.org/wiki.php?n=Main.Servers >.)
Forgot about Live. Supports VST and AU (mac version only).

At any rate, my argument was (although I didn't explicitly lay it out) that he should cover AU for the garageband kids (bulk of the users) and the actual musicians that use Logic at band practice (sizable minority), and maybe catch VSTs on the way out for the Windows folks if it's not too hard (I'm not a VST developer; I can't say). AU is where it's all going though--you've got a generation of people growing up with garageband for recording, producing, even taking piano lessons. I would imagine that would be prime market for a chord detection app. In addition, the GB/Logic family file format is based around chord notation (and is pretty easy to reverse engineer), so you could actually export the chord structure back into the arrangement if you were clever. This has all sorts of interesting implications for chord-aware events like Apple Loops-- mixing would be drag and drop even for the people who don't know one chord from another.

Agree that Pro Tools isn't much use for this sort of thing. I do know a couple of kids who've picked up Pro Tools LE because they think it's what the cool kids use, but it's not worth the effort to capture.

Another obvious direction for this would be an iPhone app that displays the chord it currently hears (and does so accurately). Not sure how good the algorithm is from a bad source, but that would be worth $50 to me.
I liked Clocksin/Mellish's book that I used in school. I will always have a softspot for this language, even though I've never had any time in my career to actually use Prolog.
I think we can all agree that people generally have short attention spans. I think we can also agree that quite a few HN readers are iphone developers and users. The developers among us develop on the iphone platform because the users like it. It isn't wrong to remind users about the hardships developers face in bringing quality apps to them. And I'm sure that most rejection still go unannounced ;). Hopefully this will lead to a) Apple being more reasonable or b) Users moving onto a platform that is more developer friendly.
Text of the article until I can get my blog back online:

I used to think that the point of editing was to eliminate all of the poor writing from an article so only strong arguments remained. It wasn’t until I started writing this blog that I began to appreciate how much good content routinely gets cut from the final product. Ideas will get cut if they detract from the focus of the piece, if there’s no logical place to put them anymore, some are even cut because they’re too interesting and merit their own separate post. I even cut a good line from the end of this paragraph because it wasn’t the appropriate sentence to close a paragraph with.

Of every post I write, I estimate that I cut two good lines for every one good line that makes it into the final piece.What this means is that if you’re reading a piece of writing that you think is pitched at your level, the writer had to be three times smarter than you to have written it. Similarly, I noticed that when I was speaking, I would only say about half of the clever stuff I wanted to say which meant anyone talking to me was probably twice as smart as I think they are.

This is, perhaps, why the internet is so full of assholes who think they’re the smartest person in the room. If you have a look at the comment section of almost any piece of content, at least half the comments tend to be some snide implication that the commenter is smarter than the author. Next time you read something, mentally assume that the author is three times as smart as they appear and think of how you would respond then. All I can say is ever since I started doing that, I’ve not only been far calmer, I’ve learned much more too.
What many design critics such as the author are slow to realize is that the interface is part of the design, and it still follows the same principles, just in a new context.

For example, the interface of the iPod Shuffle is meant to be operated without looking, often while moving, hence the form has just one main button located in a stable stable position operated by squeezing instead of pushing. Even the process of syncing with a computer defaults to requiring no interaction beyond plugging it in.
For most social apps/websites, critical mass is important. Nobody is going to recommend your site to their friends until you get at least a few thousand users. "Social proof" and all that.
No, the LLLL.coms have been bought up by domainers. They had some crazy bubble (which has now burst) for them as well. There are plenty of okish 5 letter .coms available.
4 and (maybe) more to come down the line. In the end, family is everything. Sacrificing anything to another end is foolish in the long run. 100 years from now, what will become of any of your companies? What of Google itself? What else is there?
From what my actor-friend tells me, the best props an actor can have are a chair, a good hat, and a cigarette.
All of these Twitter apps are really just a diversion. The rest of us can hack with a little more peace of mind since our potential competition is off in the echo chamber.
Indeed. I'd love to use my Java knowledge to write pretty interfaces, but on the server side I'm better off using Python.
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So what does that say about people who put a lot of effort into promoting? Does it mean their customers aren't telling their friends? Are the customers just not internet users, or is the product bad?

What does that say about companies (newspapers, Google) whose income stream is from people pouring money into promoting their products? Does it mean they'll be continually in search of new advertisers as the old ones go broke, unless they can fool their eyeballs into confusing ads with honest recommendations?

I have been thinking this from a theoretical point of view for years. But it doesn't seem to be happening. GM is still in business, the New York Times isn't going anywhere, AdSense payments-per-click aren't dropping, and Anheuser-Busch still seems to be spending plenty on ads — right?
Good start. Here is some feedback:

1. What does "Flexible learning environment" mean? I don't think this phrase adds any value.

2. "Learn from people you know and trust": Not sure if the people I currently know possess the best knowledge. I've been out of school for a few years.

You need to iterate over your landing page copy a bit more. Get some help from friends or classmates.

3. The text on the features page (/features) is too verbose. Most people won't read all of it. Make it shorter and to the point. Also, more pictures or screen shots would make it easier to understand.

4. The typography of the word "Cafe" in the logo makes it hard to read. Black on dark blue does not provide enough contrast, and the font is too faint to make the logo memorable.
So my advice is to: a. Choose a high contrast color scheme and b. Choose a more prominent font for both words in your logo.

The logo also seems to be inconsistent across the pages. For example, it looks different here:
http://www.cafecourses.com/courses/31-integrating-authlogic-...

5. The "Feedback" div on the left occludes some of the text on the features page. I realize that I'm on a small laptop with 1024X768

6. Hmm. Are these courses or tutorials? "Adding CAPTCHA to your site" sounds like a one page tutorial.

7. You need to iterate over the copy in the "About" page. It is hard to follow, and can be structured better. For example: you should encourage people to upmod great content, rather than vote down courses. Especially when most of the content is written by you.

Best of luck.
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This feels a lot like Juggernaut (Rails plugin) Although its not XMPP based. http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org/
The thing is, most webapps are just database frontends.
You're kidding, right? Since when has hacking been all about utility? This is clever and cool!
But the DMBS is written in C (or similar). And that's usually where the heavy lifting takes place.
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no offense, but if you have more than 2 then you're likely living vicariously through HN. if you're giving up founder-time, then it's at the expense of your child's development in relation to personal influence. IMO.

I'm 27 (i think), i seriously have no idea how someone with 2+ kids could do it. i really don't. whatever i'm missing, please teach me the ways to better time/life management.
It's not exactly the biggest crime on the modern web, but you have to admit that a hardcoded, root-level URI is pretty inelegant.
He never said we should abandon the already-working systems. He said we shouldn't continue to create new services in this manner: "Let's not continue to make the same mistakes over and over again."
The largest problem with the only-use-the-meta-tags solution is that the page to be excluded has to be retrieved before it can be excluded.
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I've been happily using Gitosis for quite a while now. It's like Github without the web interface (so it manages central repositories and user authentication).

I recall it took a bit of finagling to set it up, but I haven't had a single issue with it since. It's also cool that the configuration files are stored in a Git repository (once you try it, it will be clear how that works).

http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-e...
This article is extremely thin. The only source in the whole thing is an anonymous “former U.S. diplomat in East Asia”. Why couldn’t he go on the record in his claim that North Korea doesn’t counterfeit, or in his claim that North Korea makes money on the stock market? Anonymous sources are the worst. The have little motivation to tell the truth, and even if they do there’s no way to make sure the author represents them accurately.

The article also discusses North Korea’s gold reserves and access to the stock market. While these might be means by which North Korea has access to markets and currency, it’s hard to believe they’re a major source of income. Does North Korea have financial geniuses they’ve somehow groomed, through Communist schooling, to compete on Wall Street and win?

The only serious income sources that this article mentions are mining and manufacturing, but there are no numbers on either. Mining seems like it would be easy to track (it’s unlikely
that North Korea is trading steel on some kind of black market), but there’s no indication the author contacted any experts on the subject.
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Regardless of the source, the damned thing actually works very well.

I'm quite impressed.
Do y'all consider this a ballsy move by the creator (and collaborators), or are there enough people working on this project that anonymity and risk of persecution are very low?
I've heard a fair number of people say this, as a ha-ha throw-away line.

...but it alway galls me.

Raising and providing for your kids is the most important thing in life ... and yet some guys think it's amusing to note that they might very well have created kids, but (a) they don't keep track of who they've slept with and thus with whom they might have procreated; (b) they don't give enough of a shit to find out.

Apalling.
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It's a inevitable service built on top of another service. It's like saying CBS copied NBC.

Use this as motivation to make yours better.
I'm sure the author understands that, but the point is that you have to know what you are doing before you operate it. Give any schmuck a Sony Walkman and a Fresh Prince cassette and they can get it playing in just a moment (if less).
These are the challenges of creating more functionality in smaller devices.
Did you meet online? If so, that would make sense according to this article, since she would observe you being a third less smart.
I quit my job and started on my own the day my first child was born. I ran back and forth from the hospital to one of our first demos. I figured it'd be better for my kid to be the son of a poor man who tried than a slightly less poor and much more ordinary man who was too afraid to.
I become much less articulate when I'm talking than when I'm chatting. I chat quickly, much more quickly than than most of the people I chat with, but there's still that extra second, second and a half to gather the thought and frame it properly. Even my jokes get funnier.
No way. I've got 4 kids (1, 3, 4.5, & 14)

My main business is 5 years old but we work like a startup, keep innovating and I have all sorts of startup-esque side projects.

Some things take longer but it can be done.
This sort of makes sense to me for small tactile keyboards, but with a touch screen, why does it even matter? You could just as easily have no gap between keys, but calculate a "confidence" level of what key was pressed based on how close to the center of the key the press occurred. It seems to me that this layout would just turned incorrect key presses into ignored key presses if you hit in the dead space around the triangles. I guess you can consider that better since you don't have to backspace, but a decent smart-correction implementation is better still.
When you think about it, dead baby jokes are horribly offensive too...

...which is a good reason not to think about it. ;-)

I completely agree that if you think through the joke, logically, it's really not all that funny and kinda offensive. But there are lots of jokes that are pretty offensive when you think through them. Dead-baby jokes. Microsoft Bing jokes. Various ethnic jokes. Holocaust jokes. The reason why we find them funny is because they stretch the bounds of social propriety.

I find it's better to draw a line between lets-be-serious-this-is-a-bad-thing mode and okay-we're-joking-now-say-whatever-you-want mode. Because things get awful dreary if you never joke about stuff that's morbid, depressing, and generally a bad thing. It's like humor is the natural human coping mechanism...
I think that there may be floodgates open if the right keys go in the right locks.

One problematic issue is accreditation/validation. Part of the reason vocational training is so different is because of this. This could work for a wide range of areas from programming or accounting to medicine & carpentry.

Other changes such as a move towards more self employment might also trigger something.
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Reading his other posts, he seems to think that the verbose and convoluted discourse he prefers is somehow at a higher level. IMO, there is no reason for philosophy to be complex and difficult to understand. If you want to solve extremely complex and difficult problems, be a physicist, not a philosopher.
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Are you hyperinformed?
Maybe he's a dead praying mantis...
Just for clarrification:
1. robots.txt excludes CRAWLING e.g. downloading but NOT indexing, e.g. including a URL / site in a database of known URLs / sites.
2. Robots meta tag disallows INDEXING but NOT crawling.

So it is semantically correct, although most modern SEs do not do this, to index a site / URL that is disallowed via robots.txt, using link data alone.
Pretty inelegant. Exaclty. Those two words sum it up. Not sure what the point of the whole rest of the article was.