skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for the feedback iterationx! i agree that search needs to be fixed...gonna need a little help with that so if anyone wants to volunteer!

interesting point about favorite vs best. i guess you could have two different answers...but i took them to be synonymous. im still playing around with the types of questions and how to best word them...

also played around with tags but thought they cluttered up the site. hoping to rely primarily on one top category and one or two subcategories.

i did have a forum set up at one point but decided instead to go with disqus comments for each top ten list and included a prominent feedback link to initiate open discussions. but ill revisit the idea of a standalone forum...its mostly a matter of do i have the time to moderate...
You sell them off, and it's someone else's problem. (Possibly they take them overseas? It can't be done legally, but it would be someone else breaking the law.)
Honestly, this is a classic usability vs security question. All the other suggestions (other than the over the top I'm flipping out because this is so insecure stuff) are ok, except for #5.

Are you seriously telling me that there are hackers out there waiting to break into a blog that you might never edit? No. But, if you do forget your password, and they sent it to you in an email you can go back and look for it. Most people do.

Web app security is a big deal, but not if what you're securing isn't worth the usability hit.

EDIT: I wasn't talking about storing plain-text passwords in the db, but more about sending it via email to the user before you encrypt it and store it in the db.
I've been on Twitter for a year, and I'll stay on Twitter if doesn't get bad.
Ok cool, that's pretty close actually.
Couldn't legislation state that all gold and silver coins are not legal tender anymore but just hunks of metal. For anyone who wishes to "get a refund" they can trade their gold and silver coins for paper bills by mailing them at a US treasury address.
Yeah you may be right. Another option is to go Craiglist or eBay and find someone who wants to upgrade to the latest processor and is selling theirs.
This was surprising to me, even after understanding the main thrust of the article:

Those who learned that they had a very high likelihood of developing [Huntington's Disease] were happier a year after testing than those who did not learn what their risk was.

Even though it's still just "high likelihood" rather than certainty, and there's still some doubt about when it emerges, the knowledge was comforting.

This may explain why various order-for-yourself tests -- like full-body scans -- are popular even though medical researchers warn they don't pass an overall cost/benefit analysis (especially given the rate of false positives which then result in unnecessary treatment).

Indeed -- might even the false certainty of a false positive be a net comfort, given what this article reports?
In this case, you introduce the concept of the "secret question and answer." But then sometimes users forget those too.

There is no perfect scheme, because there are no perfect memories...
There are behaviors described here that have given me qualms in the past when I've practiced them. It is useful to have someone else call you on them -- or describe them, as in this page. It lets you know that your unease is not merely subjective; sometimes, self-doubt is a useful message.
HTML 5 sounds great, but until MS gets their act together and adds support for it... no dice.
For OpenBSD in particular, there's a history of arguments between djb and Theo about the licensing for qmail and djbdns. They're both incredibly stubborn, and while this means they have very high standards, it also means they can be hard to collaborate with.
Google Web Elements and Google's Iceberg Strategy
You would be right, if the coins were not made by the US Government and marked "$50". What is the IRS going to say, that the US Mint is guilty of counterfeiting?
Homework before buying a digital camera:Analyse yourself before buying it
A Malcolm Gladwell quote from the article:

The consistent failure of underdogs in professional sports to even try something new suggests, to me, that there is something fundamentally wrong with the incentive structure of the leagues.

This pretty sums up why I generally don't watch professional sports. I love basketball, but the way that it is played in the NBA is so conservative that it's about as interesting as watching paint dry.

I would love to see the pro sports leagues implement financial incentives in order to reward teams that are taking risks. The only organization I know that does this is the UFC (via their "Fight of the Night", "Knockout of the Night" and "Submission of the Night" bonuses), and perhaps not coincidentally, that is the only sport I find interesting enough to watch on a regular basis.
If you look at the actual WP create account page here: http://en.wordpress.com/signup/

You'll see that there is a box for your password and a confirmation of the password, so that leads me to believe that they are actually sending the user the password they created the account with, rather than a randomly generated one. Otherwise, why have the input fields there at all?

Therefore, they must be storing either plain text or two-way encryption.
That's an overly broad generalization. There are many different types of feminist. They're not all man-haters.
Python isn't OCaml. It's not Prolog, Haskell, awk, or SQL either, and trying to bend it into those is largely missing the point.

A more interesting question is, "In what circumstances is Python an excellent fit, and OCaml a poor one?", and vice versa.
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Ecrypted wireless connections also help. I'm always very cautious about the kind of wireless link I'm using.

You have to be conscious on the internet, that's the moral here. I have stopped using websites that sent me my password in plain text, unless I just don't care about the account. If the developers aren't savvy enough to know how to protect their users, I lose confidence in them.
HTML5 is the next wave, be prepared...
In this example, it was "just a blog" but there are serious sites that will email you your plain text password too. Verio stores two way encrypted passwords and domains are important to some people and they do get stolen and they are valuable, so this is a serious issue.

Security is very difficult. You can't treat it glibly. Your users deserve more respect than that.
I think Feminism, like anything else good, has been perverted by some. But I think in general it was a good thing.

So basically what I'm trying to say is that there was a time when women were told "You can't do this, you can only do that" ("this" being things that were considered male like having a job and "that" being things that were considered female like staying at home with the kids). That thinking was wrong. Feminism combated that thinking and said "you can do anything you want" and that was good. So up until that point I think things were good.

But now we have a group that says "You must do that and you're a bad feminist if you do this" (see "this" and "that" explanation above). That's wrong headed. And to bring this topic back around to HN I think a lot of the efforts to get women into technical fields are also wrong headed. Women, like Men, should be exposed to technical fields early on but from there it should be based on their interests. There's no point in trying to force interest that isn't naturally there.
C'mon, I understand this site is "Hacker News", but with IE having an installed base of 42+%, you can't down vote me for pointing out the truth...

(Source: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp)
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For reference I give you: Reddit and their password losing debacle. (http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/12/15/never-store-pass...)
You'd be surprised. Remember the issue that happened with peoples' twitter accounts being broken into?

Also, imagine how many spammers would take over your blog if they could.
Oh heck yeah, this would make HN WAY more useful to me.

Currently I work around this by forcing myself to wait a while before visiting the comments page, then visiting it just once, because if I come back it is typically too time consuming to scan through and figure out which comments I've read and which are new.
I've applied twice to YC, so my own applications would provide a Rosetta stone for a lot of important words. But that would be cheating.
Which also suggests that these are passwords that most users use for other online accounts...
>>one top category and one or two subcategories

categories are really old school like early yahoo...

i guess do you want to find "best fish restaurant madison wisconsin" via the search, or via tags?

i think the 2.0 answer is both...
"If an acquirer thinks you're going to stick around no matter what, they'll be more likely to buy you, because if they don't and you stick around, you'll probably grow, your price will go up, and they'll be left wishing they'd bought you earlier..." -- The Hardest Lessons for Startups To Learn #5
Ah, sorry about the Ars digita mistake - my bad.

You're right about Kevin Rose, but it doesn't change the argument much. There are many other examples, I just picked a bad one...
Sure, anything that has sensitive information about you needs to treat security as a priority.

Most web apps (other than banks and people that store credit card data (not process)) are probably fine. right?
Generally, that's only reliable if you're using WPA2. There are cracks to all the other popular encryption protocols.
You point it to a repository. Apt-get currently knows about near 35,000 packages, though, and I've never needed to point it to a separate repository.
Why you won't be building your killer app on a distributed hash table
We at Tipjoy had similar ideas for a big conference coming up. The problem is that it would be around 3-1 for the left. That's just the profile online.
I wonder if you could make a similar case for hacking - switch tools every few years to recapture some magic earlier perspective on your work? Or just to avoid a rut? Is sounding too polished the equivalent of thinking everything's a nail?
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're trying to say. In the case you mentioned, there's an extra cost, but neither the business nor the employees are paying it. In the case I'm talking about, all he ended up doing was making the choice to pay corporate taxes instead of paying approximately the same amount in higher wages.

It's like breaking into a store in order to steal something, and then leaving behind enough money to pay for it. Pointlessly flouting the law.
There is a market-- I'm not sure how large. But I immediately started crunching the numbers to see how much value this would offer our team. We're still considering it.
Have you ever known a characteristically "feminist" woman whom you'd describe as "pleasant"? Feminism does not lead to fulfilling life-choices. Computer science, for example, is not the most emotionally fulfilling career around for women, even though they're constantly being hectored by well-meaning "feminists" to go into it. On that subject at least, most women vote with their feet.

The current sexual politics of soft polygamy, created mainly by feminism, benefits no one except for a few "alpha" males. It's terrible for the majority of men. It's terrible for children. It's terrible for women over the age of 25.

"Soul-destroying" is the best term for the modern dating scene. Be prepared to sleep with a lot of women before you find someone to marry (who has also slept with a lot of people and who has wound up rather damaged from it all). If you're lucky, she may be young enough to have kids without the help of too many fertility treatments, and you'll have a few blissful years before she divorces you and takes the kids and the money.
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Becoming a better developer, day 2: Write Shorter Methods
aditya, from a developer perspective, I cannot think of any reason to ever store recoverable passwords in a database. It's just too easy to do a one way hash.

Okay, there is only one reason, if you are building a system that allows the storage of multiple accounts and passwords that are "re-used" like in some browsers' auto-complete feature. Then the concern is security of the local machine and if you use that technology, you're increasing your personal risk.

In the scenario I mention there, it is absolutely imperative to use an advanced two-way encryption algorithm. In that case, the hacker will need to compromise the database and the code, which should be obfuscated as well so the decryption keys are more difficult to discover.

There are some hackers who will always be able to hack you and some that will never be able to hack you. It's a probability game and you want to reduce the probability as much as possible that anyone will get in...
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The author was referring to feminism in light of its real-world aims. The question of whether all feminists are "man-haters" is irrelevant to the question of whether the movement's political activities are best viewed simply as power grabs rather than a pursuit of some mythical ideal of equality.
Ugh. I wish there was some kind of voting undo. (I accidentally upvoted you.)

First: I assume you mean that Wordpress _definitely_ encrypts their passwords, not defiantly.

Second: What is your proof they they are hashing passwords, salted or not?
Poll: Would you try this brainstorming search engine if it were built?
I wonder whether one can build a brainstorming search engine by simply returning other people's queries that are similar to your query.

Such queries might be ranked by hot, top, and new say.

As an example, searching for "car" might return related queries "foldable car", "flying car", "shape-shifting car", etc. Clicking on "shape-shifting car" might return "shape-shifting boat", "shape-shifting building", "flying car", etc.

Incidentally, others may have submitted more specific queries such as "foldable car" to see elaborations on this idea or related ideas. RSS feeds would be provided to track queries over time.

Would you try this brainstorming search engine if it were built?
yes, but I doubt it will reveal any worthwhile ideas
yes, but without revealing any of my ideas in the queries
Marc really needs to start writing again. Really really.
But we can hope that it happens the other way around: what we need is a definitive "killer app" that can only be done given near native speed JS + HTML 5 capabilities.

If it truly IS a killer app, it will kill IE in short order.

We can dream, anyway.
Of course they are. We went from a country where you could support your entire family, in middle class lifestyle on pretty much a single income. That would get you 2 cars, a house and a retirement. And this wasn't from some high end job, middle class was pretty much achieved by 3/4s of the country.

Now surviving on a single income is next to impossible, unless both parents work.(I'm not counting the 80-100K/yr single earners)
The real real-world aim of feminism is to take the strongest, smartest, healthiest women, and reduce their reproductive output.
Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome are working together on HTML5.

That's consensus.

Pull that way if you want, progress goes the other way...

...with or without IE
Don't forget the joys of collecting copies signed by the author!
How about a simple economic explanation for these graphs? If you look at them, you'll notice inflection points during the recession of the 70s and early 90s. The overall downward trend probably reflects well-known rising economic inequality of the past 30 years. Meanwhile, the accelerating decline in female happiness probably reflects the fact that economically, women are still not equal, as evidenced by the persistent wage-gap. So their experience with rising economic inequality has been even worse than that of men.

So, rather than indicating that feminism has been a failure for women, it reflects the fact that feminism has yet to completely succeed.
> If you're a virtual company with no physical office,
> you can set up your LLC in any business-friendly state
> you want. (Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming, etc.)

I think this issue is very interesting, and I would imagine it's important to a lot of HN readers. So let's say you're developing software (e.g. for a website, an iPhone app, etc.) by yourself out of your home. Are you really "doing business" in your home state?

Unless I'm misinterpreting the parent comment, the answer is no. But if anything, it seems the opposing view may be more common. Specifically, many people say yes, wherever you're doing most of your work/programming/typing/etc. is where the business has "nexus". And if you're deploying a website, then there's the issue of the location of your datacenter, which could very well be in a different state.

What are people's experiences and thoughts on this?
Short answer is: they're brought in as "consultants."

By "consultants" I don't mean blue-suited guys from Accenture. A consultant could be the local machinist who is asked to make a gearbox to connect two diesel engines together and then realizes that he could sell a bunch of them to other farmers.

There is considerable value in having friends whose interests are radically different from your own.
Really? My takeaway was the difficulty of trying to uphold otherwise-worthless paper as legal tender.
Engineered monkeys successfully pass on genetic modifications to offspring
There is an economic law called Gresham's law. It says in a scenario where there are two coins with different intrinisic values, the coin with the higher intrinsic value will disappear from circulation.

http://chestofbooks.com/finance/banking/Banking-And-Currency...

As an example, pennies used to be made of solid copper. When they introduced the zinc filled coins, the solid ones all but disappeared. You can still find some if you look carefully. The reason is because the value of the copper in a full copper penny was actually worth more than one penny, so people collected them, melted them down, and sold the copper.

Of course this is illegal, but the laws of nature are stronger than laws of man.
If you pay someone a nominal $2500 in $50-denominated gold coins, and that someone sells the coins on the open market for $50,000, haven't they just incurred taxable income?
XMM-Newton takes astronomers to a black hole’s edge
GMs problem has never been that it lacks the engineering, design or production talent to create innovative cars, technologies and processes.

Their problem is a corporate culture impervious to change. People who know GM point at The Saturn Experiment when they express their doubts about the Volt.
Do you mean you want to pay employees? What do you mean by "pay people?"
If he had 3.3 million to buy out the company he probably was not filling out his own taxes.
If Tesla, Lamborghini, and Ferrari start making all electric cars, but Ford doesn't, that's consensus right?

Market share matters. Maybe for specialized hacker sites we can cater to only the good browsers, and graceful degradation is a must anyway, but it's a hard sell to build a successful mainstream site by eliminating 40% (or more) of users right off the bat.
I've been facing a weird issue as well.

If I submit a URL, it gets submitted normally. But if I submit a question or a topic to initiate discussion, it does not get submitted. The page goes to http://news.ycombinator.com/r which is just a blank page with no error message at all.

Also, there is no support/help link anywhere for HN so I could not report it as a bug either :(
Maybe the population migrating to the United States between 1975 and 1995 were less happy than people who were here at the beginning of that time. Immigration was accelerating over that time period, and it makes sense that new immigrants would be less happy than more established folks.

Stats can be a bitch to interpret.
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"The world will belong to the ego-centric, narcissistic, I-can-shout-louder-than-you generation."

Not to get too philosophical here, but I'm pretty sure the world has always belonged to this group of people in each generation. Or at least it has appeared to since they're loader than everyone else.
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Fast food joint.
I've used Google's suggestion feature in a similar fashion many times. When you start typing a query, a menu appears with similar, popular requests. When I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for, I put in a general word, and I see what other queries are popular.

This helps me find the correct term for things when I'm not sure, and I'm sure could be used to see if similar ideas to your idea have been documented before. I tried typing in 'folding car', and the list was full of different folding car parts and accessories. Executing that query would quickly reveal if anyone had toyed with the idea or blogged about the possibility. More importantly, it would show if anyone was already using the idea commercially.

So I think you could specialize in this kind of searching, but it would be hard to catch up to Google. Have a large user base would be essential to the success of such a system.
Yup, same here. I disabled Java in Safari months ago. Haven't noticed a single website stop working because of it…
I would recommend anyone interested in Canvas to check out this exhibition of experiments. There are a lot of "I can't believe it's not Flash" projects collected here:

http://processingjs.org/exhibition
Typing just "car" into Google doesn't reveal interesting ideas about cars though.

Additionally, what I propose can give you ideas that aren't already popular on the web.

This can be used to generate novel ideas.
Doesn't this fall down on its face as soon as you have a competitor with a team or product significantly better than yours? I wouldn't base my strategy on not having very much competition.

"In a great market -- a market with lots of real potential customers -- the market pulls product out of the startup.

The market needs to be fulfilled and the market will be fulfilled, by the first viable product that comes along.

The product doesn't need to be great; it just has to basically work. And, the market doesn't care how good the team is, as long as the team can produce that viable product.

In short, customers are knocking down your door to get the product; the main goal is to actually answer the phone and respond to all the emails from people who want to buy."
postfix was designed by one (that is very important) talented engineer - there is an excellent well-balanced architecture behind it along with professional implementation. It is much better to ask the author to make a special release with different licence and then import it.

It is much better to reuse an excellent code of great projects like nginx, postfix or dovecot than [re]write it from scratch.
Looks great-- as I mentioned in another comment, I'm definitely considering how we might use this. We have a number of sites with user-generated content and not enough hours in the day to review it all.

Regarding your semi-automated plans:

* What's the process for evaluating false positives/negatives?

* What guarantee do you provide against incorrect results? I know you have each item moderated 3 times, but it's still a worry. What if porn gets by?

* I assume your team will be able to handle really terrible objectionable content uploaded by griefers? The kind of stuff no human should have to see?

* I feel you should mention MTurk usage on your site somewhere. "How" you perform the automated pieces was one of the biggest questions I had, and I would not have purchased without emailing you to find out if you outsourced externally, used Amazon, or what-have-you.

* What's the turnaround time like for the moderation? Any estimates on that depending on the content?

Thanks in advance.
Is it really possible to learn something by skimming books way over your head? I Always figured I was fooling myself when I did that.