skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got my first.last name, which I share with 3 students at by Big 10 school and well over 500 members of Facebook.
Didn't give me the option to use just my first name, I guess I might have just missed out on it though.
"awesome" was taken :(
Thats was my first try
May I suggest http://www.artima.com/, although not just anyone can post news there?
I couldn't choose my first name; "Jeroen" (common dutch name) saying it was not available? Odd because there is no profile on facebook.com/jeroen , well, there are worse things in life.
What sucks is that www.facebook.com/username/ doesn't work...wtf
Virtually all traditional media reviewers get their gear for free (though all the good ones send it back or pay for it after the review).
Hmm, kinda sucks my name got taken minutes in.
Thanks for the submission. I'm happy to have a username I like.
I'm also working on something similar at http://swooshnews.org/. I'll post more info later when I have something to show.
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"notavailable is not available"
GA is the keys to the kingdom for an online business...conversions, cash flow, ad sense, ad words...it is all there. You'll also need to offer a very clear and compelling value-add over Google Analytics for a serious person to even consider it. Heck, I don't even use 1/2 of the stuff GA gives me-- why do I need another service? You've got to answer that question.

You should also charge money for the service....I'd actually feel more comfortable about using it.

Also, the site lacks basic things like a location address, privacy policy, an obvious About Us page, and a TOS that protects my data.
Right now this is just used for vanity URLs, it doesn't change the name you're registered under.
I beat out a senator, astrophysicist and author to claim my name.
No. I'll be first to say that I would not, in fact, visit it.

Or so I expect. I could of course be proven wrong.
I think that description fits with the content you find on http://programming.reddit.com
Nevertheless, I've gotten so bored by the sight of movie CGI. There's just too much texture or not enough light or something. Please, someone, make a physical model, shine some lights on it, and do some stop motion.
It's quite fun to see who took a link, like http://www.facebook.com/hacker.news or http://www.facebook.com/the.great . Well, at least for a few minutes, after which you forget about it.
I got my first.last as well.

If it said I could change it I would have tried a million other things, though.
Agreed, but I don't see how starting yet another site will fix the problematic lack of discussion.
If everyone actually knew how little they know, they wouldn't be cocky.

There's nothing wrong with being self-assured in what you do know, and honest about what you don't, but cockiness does seems to be a good indicator of an individual's ignorance of his (or her) own ignorance.
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I tried writing my 3 letter name like : a.b.c so the link would have been abc . But it still didn't let me unfortunately.
Were popular names awarded randomly? I went for my name within seconds and it was already taken. It seems like they would just take all requests and randomize for a winner...
Many common first names are taken by facebook employees - including the facebook.com/andrew above, or facebook.com/brian.
I didn't know I couldn't change it afterwards, so I ended up with something a bit weird... but lets just not talk about that :P
I think dictionary words don't work, I guess maybe google is a verb and isn't available :P
I bet you could build one in about 5 minutes and see what people think. http://slinkset.com/
Where do you draw the line? I see the pattern for most of those (things that directly relate to code), but it seems arbitrary to include The Hairy Ball Theorem but not Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming.

I realize the answer is probably "I know it when I see it" - but then, how do you make sure other people know, too?
Why does the status of third-party client apps need to concern Twitter so much?

Twitter isn't responsible for a third party's product. That's why it's called a "third party".
My T30 runs OpenBSD really well. It feels a lot more lightweight than most Linux distros I've tried, even with KDE & Firefox & what-have-you.
I got my name without the dot, but it still works with a dot.
Didn't the have a problem with Microsoft Vine, the names can confuse people. There was an interesting case of Mike Rowe Soft, where Mike Rowe had to surrender the domain for it rhymed with the word Microsoft - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe_(student) .

I'm not sure if we're gonna see some Amazon Vine Vs Microsoft Vine name battle...
EH. Come back and tell us that when you have experience with both sides of the subject matter.
Interesting! Dots have no significance.

http://www.facebook.com/spen.cer........fry is the same as:

http://www.facebook.com/spencerfry
Two comments:

- bug here, the reply button wasn't in your message until I refreshed the page

- I agree... I think maths is extremely hackish (maybe not a wikipedia link though)
I'd like to know the availability for cocoainside.com.
I sent you email yesterday.
What does it say about me that I haven't (yet) received a single Tagged email in the past 4-1/2 years (assuming Gmail search is working), unless they got shunted off to spam folder (which doesn't have any, currently)?
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Good question, I thought about those twice when compiling the list. The Hairy Ball theorem however did generate a great discussion on how it applies to game programming, so that's why I added it. As for the LSD article, while interesting, I didn't think that it was enough about code to matter. The key here isn't that we are trying to replace proggit and HN, but merely trying to organize the scope of the posts better (naturally there will be some overlap); So you should be able to still visit those sites for the lighter programming articles.
It would be interesting to know how many of that workforce actually work in engineering type roles.

MySpace, being part of news corp, also probably has a large amount of people in traditional media content type roles. I think they have managed that side of the business well, they are certainly better at monetrization than facebook. It's just the state of there platform that lets them down.
Yeah, I too listened to one song on repeat when I hacked. I too felt like the odd one out.
You can create these routes via ISAPI, but not via ASP.NET (i.e., writing your own .asxd and observe the same borked behavior)--hence why I know the bug's somewhere in ASP.NET proper. You're correct that my post as-written is off, though. I initially thought ASP.NET was hitting files even though I'd told it not to. After more investigation, I think it's blocking those routes as a security feature to protect you in case you at some point turn file routing back on.
I think the community will auto-correct and weed out the reviewers who are not sincere. For example, if a user buys something based on Amazon reviews (of a Vine member, say), and discovers that the review was insincere, he/she will most likely go to Amazon and give a negative rating to the member/particular review, which will probably feed back into the Vine members reputation, which will in turn be used to determine eligibility for the Vine program.

Agreed that it'll take a while for the system to reach the critical mass, it is, nonetheless, a system that will work very well after it reaches the tipping point.
I couldn't handle yet another site to check regularly. I sub-hn might be more appropriate.
Fair enough, but how would a user decide whether a story is on topic? For Hacker News, the one-liner is anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I guess what you have in mind is anything that will foster interesting discussion about programming?
I thought a game development business is alway a long term endevenor and that one should not expect great profits or huge crowd of roaring fans straight away.

Granted, I developed games for three years and have not seem to attracted any players. However, my games tend to suck because I have a tendancy to abandon projects as soon as I see new pasture ground. Coupled with no easy way to distribute my games, it is a killer.(Try making a window executable for your game written in a esortic programming language on a linux machine!)

However, I think I am onto something with my tetris-like game. 5th version of the game is supposed to be tommorow and I have not abandoned it yet. If only I can find an easy way to distribute my game to window users then I'll be golden.
Did you really think HN was that dumb? Don't come here just promoting your stuff. Use digg instead.
One would imagine posting MORE to the existing site would solve the problem more readily than starting a new one with even less users.
Hackers embrace new programming paradigms whole heartedly

I guess. But I've seen so many fawning articles on Lisp (birthdate: 1958) that I'm tempted to stand by my original point: It's a slow-moving craft.

EDIT: By the way, I was shocked to look at my own username's created date. 842 days. Jesus christ, time flies. Anyway, most of you probably don't realize that this forum was originally called "startup news" and was designed mainly for business, not "hacking" whatever that is.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombi...
I couldn't find any mention of that in the help, but it sounds like a valid limitation. Do you know of any supporting documentation?
After you've done it long enough, there are no unusual times to sleep. Most months I will sleep at least once for each of the 24 hours.
There's a minimum length. It probably ignores the periods just like Gmail does.
I'm just guessing from what I saw. I don't have any supporting documentation, sorry :). I edited my comment to make it a bit more clear.
There are few things more cumbersome than sending patches via email, especially when you have git.

Really? That's the only way my partner and I exchange code (git bundles rather than patches, but same idea).
Maybe the catchier name will help? Also it wouldn't simply be an HN clone, it would have features specific to its use case.
Nah. The creator of Arrested Development, Mitch Hurwitz, never wrote a crappy television show from the start. He climbed the learning curve by going to Georgetown, outside of the television industry. Writers shouldn't be paid to make crap just to help them climb the learning curve.
Did you check the source? I have never heard of this feature, which certainly doesn't rule it out, but I try to keep abreast of issues like that and haven't heard anything about it.
Academic Hacker News may be suffering because the term academic in the name scares a lot of people away.
More or less, anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity about programming
Not to mention, if I receive something for free my opinion of it is likely higher than if I paid for it.

Case in point: the Motorola RAZR that I inherited a while back. It's a solid enough phone, got the right features, and for free it's very damned good!

But charge me $100 for it and watch my review go the other way.

Even without the arguably malevolent notion of positive-reviews-for-more-swag, the mere fact of receiving something for free likely induces a more positive review.
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> the Green Dam code uses DLLs identified with the CyberSitter name, and even makes calls back to Solid Oak's servers for updates.

If I were Solid Oak Software, I would've been ecstatic. They just basically got a root-level access to millions of PCs and they are not bound by any EULA provisions. At the very least they can stick a SETI@home client in their DLL and help finding those aliens already :-)
It's almost certain that only a small fraction are actually technical people, because you don't need many tech people to keep such a site actually running.

But you do need people doing:

* Marketing/sales/advertising

* Finance/accounting

* Customer service

* Public relations

* Compliance

* etc., etc.

You also need at least some management to keep things running. And, at that size, human resources. And probably facilities/B&G people. And... well, let's just say I'm not surprised that there'd be 750 people.
how terribly unsurprising...
What about a program to translate your typing so you can sound foreign?
It's times like these when I am very thankful for my unique name.
You can install the netbook packages over a standard 32-bit ubuntu installation. There are a couple of pages on the wiki for how to do that.

If you really want to stretch your brain install one of the BSD's and use that as your desktop for a while.

If you load up FreeBSD or OpenBSD and work through the documentation and stick with it for a couple of months you will be a better system administrator and a better developer because you will have been exposed to some of the different ways of solving the problems of building an effective operating system.
> Canadians tend to import a vast (and to some disturbing) majority of the "culture" from the United States.

And the US imports a lot of Canadians to produce said "culture", so saying that US culture is different is somewhat strange. (No, Jennings, Shatner, and Pamela Anderson aren't the only ones.)
No need.

Every time I have wanted a to know about a specific topic on HN, I have used search (searchyc.com) and found plenty of success. I think HN/similar would become rather stale if it was ONLY about programing/CS concepts. I think a variety of discussion topics keeps this forum healthy and well balanced.
The theorem lacks a certain aesthetic beauty. Apply Occam's Razor to create a smoother, more palatable package.
Good luck; starting a social news site is hard.
Alternatively, users will notice sooner or later that Vine is less about trusted reviews than 'Actual customer testimonials!!1!' and ignore or even avoid such products. Now maybe it's just me and the mass of people are gullible morons after all, but these kind of initiatives have a poor history on the internet compared to tabloids and TV.

Or so I thought until I discovered the secret to making REAL money - and now I'm going to share it with YOU.
Great idea, but "tailrecursion.com" is biased towards functional programming. Not all hackers are lisp/fp-hackers.

Of course, I understand that that's the domain you have, and your starting point is "what to do with it' - so you have to use it! And it's quite alright with me if your site is targeting lisp-hackers only. And it may be that the interests of lisp and non-lisp hackers substantially (or maybe totally) overlap. And, for example, the name "Y-combinator" doesn't seem to have done any harm.

PS: I do about 3-6 hours vi per day when typing, but most of my "coding" is done on paper or in the shower. Do I count as a hacker? Can I join?
pages turn about 2x slower than in a pdf that's mostly text. but it's readable.
When I used to work at PC magazine, (in London, ~1993-4) we never gave anything back unless it was a prototype or something. Just as well, considering the pittance we were paid :-)
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Was able to get my desired name:

http://facebook.com/dharmesh

Oddly, that makes me happy.
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Really? I quite enjoyed it - the style of critical thinking, pros/cons, and a fully flushed out and balanced argument. The article that was more interesting to me was linked to from it though:

http://www.shrinktalk.net/archives/why_marriages_fail_1.phtm...
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100% pure grade A FlameBait.

Not sure why this is posted here and really don't understand why it's getting upvoted. It contributes no technical knowledge and nothing but ad hominem arguments.
Too bad all the links on that page are dead.
I was so quick to get my desired username, kfischer, that I didn't even think of the username I should have taken... rupertmurdochsucks.
IOW, you would evict the userbase.
"A bias for action" - if you try something, you can learn. But if you are (rightly and accurately) timid, you're less likely to.

One might think that bullshitting only works with people, and that if you act over-confident/over-optimistic with the computer, it won't be impressed - but it is. When I've approached programming problems is an aggressive way, I learn more, see better solutions and perform better. There's still a need to clean up the disasters afterwards, and it does make me feel dumb to make mistakes - but it's a more effective way of learning. For me, timidity is a mistake.

Being so timid that I don't try anything until I understand it 100% perfectly is not as effective. But I do like timidity. It's more authentic and accurate.

PS: @nostrademons: that confirms something I wondered about you... :-)
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And lots of user data.
What? I thought nearly all languages supported tail recursion.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I was having a hard time choosing between name.lastname and namelastname.
OK, If it's really good I'll make it the secondary home page.
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In the US version of the site you can change this setting in the preferences tab, but it doesn't seem to be available for India or many other countries for that matter. I think putting this setting in and making a link to the preferences on the block page would solve the problem for most people would it not?
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From a performance standpoint, it was perfectly smooth. I was surprised. Then again, when I told a sibling to get her facebook username, she had no idea what I was talking about.
I've met and spoken with some of the "instant successes" in Flash gaming. DTD, Filler, etc. From the little bit of discussion I had, I got the impression that they didn't really have any profound understanding of how or why the game they made became hugely popular. Mostly, they were benefiting from right-place-right-time effects, from being relative outsiders to gaming, and from having just enough skills to do the job.

Basically, trying to crank out games quickly isn't really a recipe for success. It is a good starting place for creative ideas, though. You can start a project with one thing in mind, build it up to a certain stage, leave it a while to think about, and later come back and iterate on the whole concept.

But if you are looking for reliable success in games, the time spent is way more important.
I agree. But what I really wish to see more of is startup ideas/stories/projects that are based on deeper domain knowledge. What I'm interested in is how long standing business practices or social patterns can be disrupted by the right mix of creative business models and solving tough technological or scientific problems.

I'd rather hear something about solving waste management in Naples or interesting software ideas for the upcoming smart grid than about accessing some social network on the iPhone. To be honest, I just don't need any technological solution to keep in touch with the few friends I have. And I'm utterly bored by CSS 3-liners and MySQL sharding.

In general, I wish there was more cross-pollination between people with technology competence and people with domain knowledge. This may not be the worst time in history to find people with valuable domain knowledge who are looking for new opportunities and would like to join forces with hackers.

I realise that this is difficult and it's obviously not HN's fault that it's so rare. Maybe ycombinator could do more to break out of the pure web dev space.
100% horseshit. if it hit him THEN made a crater in the ground, the kid would be dead.

another article said it hit his hand first, and there's a "scar"...

would have blown his god damn hand off.
Why the archived version?

See the recent one:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html

By the way, Donald Knuth uses Emacs to write TeX :-)
If those stories were excluded, I'd be very uninterested in visiting here. This sort of tunnel-vision is why hackers and engineer types often seem completely out of touch with society -- and not in the good way. It's engineer-itis.
Was able to pickup my first name: http://facebook.com/nirmal
... and that would be a Good Thing. Perhaps we should have public IQ measurements then.
only if it was stamped on their foreheads...
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where? I only saw them list each "advisers" confidence level?
That's something I hadn't considered, but if it's good at it, it could swing me into spending the money... seconded!
It has as much to do with the community it attracts as the articles themselves.

Every social news site has it's unspoken core values that can't be parsed out (easily :) with a script. HN has it's libertarians, reddit has it's contrarian only-I-took-the-red-pill mentality, and 4chan has its poop and kiddieporn. Go against the respective grain, and get ostracized.
from the comments: http://i40.tinypic.com/ddp8qc.jpg
Except I cannot hear a word the guy is saying.
It just comes out as ... ... ... ...... .... ....
It's ali-
annotations do not work with pdf's at the moment.

and AFAIK, the font choices available outside of pdf make showing code less attractive.
"TV and the web don't really compare yet. Not in quality, not in the viewing experience(can't really watching anything with more than 1 person)"

Internet vs. cable TV:

-Hulu: 480p. Cable TV: Not unless you have digital cable or HD. But that costs money. So does iTunes, but iTunes has HD. If you really want free HD, hit BitTorrent. Tie.

-Timing: TV is either live or DVR'd (asynchronous with use of your own equipment). Internet is completely asynchronous, starting a few hours after the TV (BitTorrent) to the next day (legal services).

-Viewing experience: TV can only be viewed on a TV receiver. The internet, and downloaded videos, can be viewed on anything from an iPhone to a notebook to a 22 inch TFT right next to the couch in a tiny studio apartment to a 72 inch HDTV. But hooking your MacBook up to a 72 inch HDTV may not be for everyone (though it's only as difficult as knowing how to hook the right cables the right way).
Plaintext is readable as-is, without any explicit conversion step. That being said, if you really want a code review device, you might want to look at a cheap laptop or tablet, for one basic reason: there's no direct text editing available on the Kindle, and annotations are painful to write because of the keyboard. The DX doesn't even have numbers on the main keymap, so you have to use a symbol shift to type them.
Note that that's still half of what MySpace employs now, according to the article.
That's hilarious. Something a friend of mine would do to me too :)
You say "goodbye to karma" because you say something bad about Windows on hacker news? That would be surprising.

And with regard to backwards compatibility, I believe, Goedel's incompleteness theorem holds. It's always either kludgy or incomplete ;-)
Sure, but how does that happen?