skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is performance penalty, but come on:

Under Linux, fork() is implemented using copy-on-write pages, so the only penalty that it incurs is the time and memory required to duplicate the parent's page tables, and to create a unique task structure for the child.

(from fork(1) man pages)
stop helping her. i can guarantee she won't develop that inquisitive trait or break the endless cycle of seeking your help if you continue to help her when she can't easily find an answer to a problem.
> Dedsys? I just looked at your site and you're all over the map, way too diverse, almost unfocused.

Fair enough - I actually make my money through consulting, so what you see there is mostly this: try something, see how it goes, and then just let it sit there, or keep pushing it, iterating, depending. So far, nothing seems to have really stuck, but I don't let that deter me, I keep trying different things.

"SqueezeNews" doesn't sound like a bad idea, but I'm not sure it's my thing.

> Programming language comparisons are stupid.

But it's actually a very popular site, and the #1 in its category. And it doesn't take a great deal of effort to improve and maintain, so I do. And comparisons aren't really 'stupid' - these things matter to people.
how many non-mathematicl non techy people (who realistically might want data like this, say, for a school report) would use vs. rather than /. it's just not natural english.

I understand your point: and I would have figured it out. But this is marketed as an everydfay search engine - which it's not, it's an advanced search for an encyclopedia :)
That section is being replaced by a moderated analogue
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It's pretty remarkable how fast their system is, too. I'm not sure how they do it, but they come up with a list for me within seconds. I compared against that produced by your code and it was all right too.
Definitely worth adding the "classic" link to the lists page.

http://news.ycombinator.com/lists

And, yes, as a member of the less-than-one-year-old group, I'm encouraged to see that classic tastes from when I first started lurking here are still reflected in current voting up to the main page.
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I don't understand how those two sites = happy website customers. Oh I know what those sites are and do but I don't see how it makes for a better experience for users. No need to try to make me understand either; I just don't happen to believe that those sites make my site better.
how many non-tech people would even assume that the search engine could produce this type of comparative results without learning about it first? in that process of learning, you learn how it works, and learn that /=division, vs=comparison

i imagine if it turns out to be a common problem, they'll probably give you a little reminder message about it. "if you're looking for data comparison, use vs. instead of /"
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It's more than 56 :)
What would be really cool is a form that took at arbitrary[0] Arc expression as an argument to the sort function.

[0] but restricted to a certain set of allowable symbols
I'm going to the hadoop summit, which should help. I've been to SF as a normal tourist, and this time its all about startups.
I'd be more curious to see the difference on a highly-emotional news day -- election, war, disease -- that kind of thing. Would the old guard stick to tech-related material? Or are they as vulnerable to highly-charged stories as the noobs?

In all honesty, there really isn't much going on in the way of external-to-hacking events in the world right now.
I probably should have been more clear - are there areas in the bay area with good schools, and homes that require significantly less earnings than 175k per year (say, 125k?) And I'd like to not spend 2 hrs commuting, because spending time with my children would be nice. In my experience, you have to pay a lot more here to get the same quality of life that you could find elsewhere.

I live in the Bay area, and am raising a family here. It is expensive - 175K/yr would probably buy you the same standard of living as 80k/yr would in Ottawa, Canada, where
I grew up.
Absolutely. She won't be able to work like that in the workplace. If she feels disgraced to ask for help, maybe you should talk to her and explain, "CS is hard. No one should be ashamed to ask questions." She won't enjoy working if she is intimidated by hard problems.
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You express the free speech you want to express by paying for your own server time.
My hope is that while I can't personally get the valley advantage in a few days, I can at least talk to others who experience it, and get some sense of it by observing the 'network' of people there interacting.
For wry laughs, go to Frys in Sunnyvale at lunch time and watch for about 30 minutes. You'll see employees with minimal technical knowledge (but lots of self confidence) being reeducated about the products they sell by the guys who actually created the products, who are visiting the store to look at their own offspring.
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The conflagration between hacker and cracker was and remains semantics. Sir, your argument is sound but your example is weak.
What about pointing her in the direction on an online forum that she could post and get questions answered? ExpertS-exchange and StackOverflow come to mind.
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Potentially cool site, but I'd really like to see the voting handled on the site and the twitter integration optional. I dislike twitter and, for the moment refuse to use it on principle.
even beyond that, she's on semester 2. my engineering curriculum hit its hardest around semester 4/5/6. things are only going to get harder. take off the safety wheels now so that she can appropriately gauge the major she's picked.

better to figure out you want to switch majors at semester 2 than semester 6 when your problems are too difficult or time-consuming for your bro to help you out.
I'm probably being unfair, but I want to "feel" the proposed interaction and the single picture + text does not do it for me. I know that people are proposing and not implementing a new interface but, to me, web interfaces hinge a lot on interactions.

Maybe if there was some way to storyboard an interaction, I'm not really sure.

Also, there should be some form of anonymous voting, I didn't feel like letting this thing onto my twitter.
idea: use this technology for atm cards. you authenticate to your card by punching in your pin on its built in pad, then feed the atm your activated card. the card transmits a one time use number to the atm. this way, the atm never gets your pin, and your card data is never good for more than one use.
K, thanks for that, i debated about that too. I don't see it being too hard to have native comments and slurp in twitter posts.
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It seems likely to me that this is just because "old timers" are seeing the same data as newbies. How many folks look beyond the first hundred posts, or even the front page for stuff to vote up? It makes sense that accounts older than a year will just slightly reshuffle the top 20 posts or so.

EDIT: It would be interesting to see this comparison in an alternate reality where we could downvote articles. I would bet that you would see more variation between newer and older accounts.
Isn't it silly to judge a huge system by a single query which happened to to one logical thing instead of another?
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I totally agree. Real html of the redesign is better than just looking at an image. You can add whatever link you want so when people click on the image of your design it can definitely go to a site where you created an interactive experience.

I should probably add a "click to see more of this design" or something since it may have not been apparent that you can see whatever else the poster wanted you to see.

Also noted about not wanting to use Twitter.

Thanks for the feedback!
She's not a real engineer if she doesn't fail by herself. Of course, by fail I really mean try and try and eventually get it right. What should you do? Tell her to quit engineering.
The Twitter message it throws off when you click "Tweet my vote" is completely non-human readable to someone not familiar with the site. It almost looks like spam. You have room to make it more verbose, which could help with virality.

Also, since you're in Chicago, why the hell don't we ever see you guys out?
ditto, these posts are the main reason I visit the new section
I had no idea that page existed. Would be great if it could be added to the navigation. Please...
This is probably a bad idea; the main advantage of this controversial section is to keep prostitution ads off the main personals listings. I'm guessing there'll be an increase in these types of ads in the other sections.
Maybe I should have read the article, eh? :)
Can you mail me a password for the account reconbot - it was my old hc account, I'd love to get it back.
It's at the bottom-left, "Lists"
Dead. It's just the ways of getting there that look unpleasant.
I'm not sure why, but my feeling is that I am personally less happy with the content a) being submitted and b) making it to the front page than I was even 6 months ago.

Maybe since I'm not a newbie on HN anymore I'm remembering through rose-tinted glasses and yelling at the kids to get off my lawn.

The things I care about are programming tips, new software, javascript/python/ruby/etc specific articles, new startup companies. There seems to be a lot less of this kind of content and more general tech news, which I can read at any number of other sites.

I don't care about business stories(other than those related to startups) and rumors Techcrunch has started about something.

On the plus side, the discussions that happen in Comments are definitely still good. I would be great if there was a way to get easier access to the comments than the ity-bity link we have now.
I don't like the idea of a web cast for something like this, but if I were going to do one, I would use something like Hulu which is all the rage right now anyway. It is marketing, and Hulu has been getting a lot more air time than Justin.tv
Am I missing something? There are two review our app submissions; one of them is #3 in both views, and the other is #17 in regular and #16 in classic. Perhaps you confused the second review submission in regular with the first in classic?
I knew it was weak, but it was the only point of reference I had that I knew we shared, without reading through your comment history.

I think you mean "conflation", by the way.
i actually wanted to use HN from RSS reader but so many stories get pushed that it was practically useless. So i created a filter which pushes stories to rss only when they gain 20 votes or more before being pushed out of front-page:

http://hackernewsrss.appspot.com/downloadrss

it has around 60% less articles. add to ur feed readers if you find it useful.
The Bay Area is much bigger than the area immediately around Sand Hill Road; there are certainly neighborhoods where you can raise a family on 175K.
Don't give her the answer, but it's okay to help her train of thought get to the right answer.

Give her debugging skills.
Except everyone thinks that, which means there is more competition for attention on Tues than any other day.
In fact, the two views are almost identical -- I wonder if it is simply because there aren't that many votes from accounts less than a year old. Could you share what fraction of front-page votes came from new voters? Thanks.
Most voting systems can be gamed. Interesting to see if this approach will reduce the PR submarines on the front page.

Payperpost, astroturfing and mob-voting are the worse diseases of news aggregators.
For things like this, it'd be cool to have a checkbox on our profile pages that lets us opt to use the classic or standard view as the default list.

It's not that different a list today, but over time it might be nice to have the option.
another instance of upvoting an uninteresting article due to the comments within hacker news being worth reading
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Agreed, that twitter message looks gross. And I wanted to keep it as short as possible so people felt comfortable adding their own message rather than just leave some redundant default text. Feel free to add a throwdown of what the default message should be? :) We'll think about it more over here too. Thanks for bringing it up.

I don't know why you don't see us :) We are pretty social.
If you're moving cross-country to be near your VC, I just assume you would need to be very near the office? The one case I know of, it was that way.
http://www.zagrebdox.net/2009/en/program/competition/regiona...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Dani
PG is a Lisp fanboy.

And before you down-vote this... well, I suppose I deserve it. Carry on.
The compiler is written in Pascal.
Anyone else happily surprised their vote counts on the "classic" version? :)
You mean like Obama deciding to fight the release of pictures of prisoner abuse by US Forces?

or

Sri Lanka's government shelling a refugee camp containing rebel fighters despite a no artillery pledge?
I think simplicity for the user is important, but whats even more important is simplicity for the representative. Ultimately all change rests in their hands, and if your solution makes their lives and jobs more complicated, they're liable to ignore it.

Imagine getting 1000 passionate emails on a topic that have nothing to do with your job, or demanding we do something about clean air when you've already supported every clean air bill that's gone through your office. By increasing the noise they have to deal with, you make it even harder for real issues to get through to them. Focus on designing this solution around how it would be beneficial to the reps, and how they could better understand whats important to their constituents so they can get reelected.

Heres some quick ideas on how to possibly accomplish this:

1) Let people click a button if a story or issue is important to them and allowing them to add comments. As a rep, seeing 1000 emails is overwhelming, but having a control panel that can easily show you how many people care about different issues is helpful. It could sort the different stories / issues by activity, and you could read comments if it looked like a lot of people cared about it so you could get a better idea of what the sentiment was.

2) Somehow show what the stance of your rep is on that issue. Theres no reason to blast them with comments if they're already supporting the issue.

In summation: If you make something that the reps want to use, then people will gravitate towards it so they can get their voice heard, but if you make something that they don't like, then it doesn't matter how great your users think it is. If it doesn't lead to change, they'll eventually stop using it.
TED's Open Translation Project brings subtitles in 40+ languages
If you are using functions you have to first construct the whole page and only then render it's html.

If you are using macros you may start sending the html parts before the whole page is constructed.

The latter approach is advantageous if a page needs some heavy computations to generate it: with macros the user will start seeing at least something right away; plus, the browser will load CSS faster if you send that part before the computations.

On the other hand if there was an error in the middle of page generation you will not be able to handle it gracefully since you've already send half of the page to the user.
Polluting my Twitter feed with the votes from this is a total dealbreaker for me. Of everyone that follows me, only a small group of people read HN and will have heard of this. The rest of them are going to see some convoluted hashtags.

Is that your way of marketing this? It's not a bad idea in principle, but you're losing (1) non-Twitter users and (2) people like me who want to maintain their Twitter stream.
I wonder what would happen if you did a diff between the two - a front page of only the stuff new people liked..
It's probably overkill but the wordpress plugin that the backtype guys made is wonderful for reclaiming your comments.

http://www.backtype.com/home
yep, heard loud and clear. we'll do something better around that
I'm definitely off-topic but I think this raises an interesting idea for generating different views of HN's front-page in statistical terms. I think it would be cool to generate a front-page that evaluates according to a simple comparison like, select stories that users have upvoted where karma-accumulated to days-alive is greater than 1. Even more interesting, would be to generate a front-page according to some interval of values [or range of karma].
Getting controversial iPhone app rejected an easy way to promote your accepted apps?
Controversial app rejections tend to make mainstream news. So why not submit a controversial app on purpose to direct traffic to your accepted apps?
I wouldn't be quite as harsh as people have recommended...

For one thing, getting an education includes learning how to solve your own problems. Your explanations of your solutions may help her gain that knowledge. Assuming that because someone is not a problem solver in their 2nd semester, that they never will be... well, that is just false logic.

Even if she never does learn to solve problems, she may still get a basic engineering job. But she will not become a senior level engineer.

Ultimately, you need to explain to her that her goal is not just to solve the problems... it is to improve her own self-sufficiency. If she udnerstands that, it might change her approach to things.

And finally, she is your sister -- Just help the girl out.
Yes, I was agreeing with you, and commenting on your parent post. Craigslist chose to exercise their right to not allow a free-for-all on their adult section.
"Founded in 1998, The Venture Company is a catalyst for disruptive innovation; helping entrepreneurs, corporations and investors innovate."

I noticed a similar article yesterday. I'm skeptical that Hacker News will weather the upcoming storm once all of the professional-entrepreneur-advisers decide to start drumming up clients here.
okay, I don't know if I am alone in this, but whenever I see someone mention 37signal I think "Wannabe Fanboy Ruby-extremist" which is not good!

As for the design, its okay, but the site 'raison d'etre' is not obvious thought, you also could have used a better logo! or a logo!
I would agree. As an aside: Isn't the subservience part of what many employers are looking for? I think some are even looking for it legitimately. Of course those aren't the best place to work. I have always felt like there is a fine line to be walked here (as an employee).
Just say, "Well, how would YOU approach this?" to gauge where she is at. So rather than solve it for her every time, have her give it a stab first. Let her be totally wrong, but at least have her try. Then correct her approach and set her on the right path. Then if she really is stuck after making an honest effort, then help out with the answer, but basically the more times questions like "What do you think?" are put to her, the more she will hopefully think on her own.
Doesn't surprise me.

I don't know why some people here rag on new users so hard: everytime I've encountered a particularly low quality submission or comment it was from a 100+ day account.
Help with out doing it for her. Ask her to teach it to you. You would be surprised how well people do at teaching something they "don't understand", and usually it provides that ah ha moment they need to get it. Also it will help point you in the direction of the bit she is missing. She needs to understand that she has to figure it out. Help should be a lever not a crutch. I have to agree with the others hand holding reduces creativity and originality.
I am doing this - working 2 days/week for my previous employer and it works really well... eases out the initial cashflow problem.
How do you measure quality?
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What inspired you to do this?

As a quick & dirty test, can I see "HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over 2 years old"?

Can you turn this into a feature, with a user-specified time period? -- would be an awesome filter to view HN by and to see, if, over a period of time there is any difference in quality?

Thanks very much!
The advantage the Valley has isn't so much a collection of discrete items, it's more of a gestalt.

I'm a believer in geography influencing thought, so let's start there. The weather is fantastic and there are plenty of awesome things to do all year. Since it'll be summer, try driving up Page Mill and one way or another along Skyline, find someplace to hike. Windy Hill Summit or Russian Ridge would both be good, as they give a great overlook of the area. On a clear day, you can see the ocean, San Jose, and San Francisco from Russian Ridge. On your way out, get lost in the streets of Woodside to get a good sense of just how much wealth has been accumulated here. Hop on 280 North, and head up to San Francisco, get a burrito in the Mission, hang out in Golden Gate Park, watch the sun set from Battery Spencer (http://amid.st/p1197), etc. Spend some time wine tasting in Napa or Sonoma (or Cupertino, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, etc). Wander around the Stanford Campus (although Spring Quarter will be just ending). My point is, people enjoy living here. There's plenty to do, lots of little communities with their own character, and the weather is great. In my view, that's a huge part of the advantage.

As far as specific places... try Coupa Café (http://amid.st/p61) in Palo Alto. On weekdays, I usually see a few people pitching ideas, working on iPhone/web/whatever apps, professors having spirited discussions, etc. Most of the area around University Ave is good for that. Buck's of Woodside (http://amid.st/p1) or Sundance (http://amid.st/p1190) are good places to spot VC's, but you'd have to know who's a VC to see them. The Four Seasons (http://amid.st/p1193) in East Palo Alto is usually empty. Garden Court (http://amid.st/p1192) is a little more central and usually a little more happening hotel-wise, although there are several other places in downtown that are good.

Most of the big VC firms are either on Sand Hill Road or on Middlefield in Menlo Park, although there are several in downtown Palo Alto. Do a search for "venture capital" in Google Maps, then zoom in on Palo Alto to get a good idea of where to drive if you just want to see where things are at.

You'll be in town the same time as Apple's WWDC in San Francisco (http://developer.apple.com/WWDC/). You may want to see if there are any parties you can crash (there will be... check Upcoming.org). Or, just hang out at The Chieftain (http://amid.st/p1183), The Tempest (http://amid.st/p1189), The Thirsty Bear (http://amid.st/p1191) [surprisingly, -not- a gay bar], etc. There is usually a party during WWDC on the weeknights at 111 Minna (http://amid.st/p1194), although there may be guest lists (check Upcoming).

Hackerdojo (a hacker space I'm involved in starting) should be open by then. Come check it out: http://hackerdojo.pbworks.com/

I could probably go on. Shameless plug: check out my places on Amidst for more specific places in the area: http://amid.st/~andrew

Really, the best way to figure it out is to live here.
For the uvar example you could get could get close (from news.arc):

(mac uvar (u k) `((profs* ,u) ',k))
(def user-age (u) (hours-since (uvar u created)))

Without a macro you'd have to call uvar like: (uvar u 'k). For this example I'd favor 'k because it makes the behavior clearer.

(Did you mean uvar instead of upvar?)