skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best answer so far is so let everybody vote once in a while and to use representatives to make the day-to-day decisions.

Have you ever considered whether or not this is actually true? Sure we have a government run school system that tells us that our government is the best ever. But you know, that's what government run school systems do.

When you look at specific transitions from monarchy or aristocracies to democracy, do you see an improvement in the quality of government?

Did the transition from Louis the XVI to Robersspierre improve government?

The transition from the Bourbon Kings of Naples to a unified democratic government?

From Czar Nicholas the II to the Russian Provincial Government?

Did the reform act of 1887 improve governance in Britain? Did it usher in a golden age - or destroy one?

Did the transition from aristocracy to Jacksonian democracy in 1820's America improve the level of governance?

Did the universal suffrage Act of 1870 improve goverance in Germany? How about eliminating the emperor and creating the Weimar Republic?

How about going from Ian Smith to Mugabe in Zimbabwe?

To me the lessons from history are pretty clear. Aristocracy and monarchy are historically superior to universal suffrage representative democracy.
RedditJobs will definitely leverage reddit's (large) community - the volume will be there.

as for (c), voting doesn't affect the ranking of the jobs. We record the votes and share them with employers to get them some feedback on how their jobs are perceived.
I may have missed it, but are all jobs listed on redditJobs also shown in the advert spot on reddit itself?

If so, cool. If not, how will job hunters come by redditJobs?
This looks like a massive collection of Facebook-like quizzes. No thanks!
Reminds me of my AI class assignment last year in CLIPS. I'm guessing there taking the same concepts that have been around for a long time and applying them to a very general setting with a healthy dose of people power to constantly improve it.
Ask HN:  Why not build a chatbot using the entire Twitter community as an AI?
Why not build a chatbot using tweets as replies?

The twitter search engine would be useful in that regard.

For example, if the user types, "What do you think of the Lakers win?", one could search for Lakers on twitter to find a reply.

Some replies would require context (e.g., via twitter conversations). This complicates things a bit, especially since tracking conversations on twitter can be difficult.
Yes, I find it hard to believe that 50% of quiz takers have a lucky charm.
1. 'groupped' is not an "interesting spelling" i'd like in my url. if im using a one-click page builder, i probably don't know much about building websites, and i probably don't have friends that know much about building websites. trying to explain why its spelled "groupped" wouldn't be easy, natural, or particularly fun.
2. the colors make me want to cry.

i totally respect the "just get something out there" m.o., but i'd like to see it reflect more of "full site builder and a mailing list and a way to charge people for events/merchandise" before another "launch".
Could you give the option to get rid of the page header or make it not be a self-link? Changing the bg colours and the ability to have my own domain would be great too. I can see it being useful.
Do you really want employers getting into a popularity contest though?

It may change how a company presents itself but I can't imagine it'll cause any of them to really change their company to make it more developer friendly.
http://fuck.groupped.com/

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Great article, I just broke up with my girlfriend of 2 years last week and me being ultra-focused on my start-up was a big cause. I'm pretty sure relationships and start-ups don't mix even if you are older and wiser.
Harvard Medical School's Personal Genome Project
That's ridiculous! You can't claim that someone isn't "playing fair" if they are playing by the rules! If you don't like the rules, then either change them or don't play the game.

In Kendo (japanese swordfighting) I was taught that if for any reason my opponent was able to knock my weapon out of my hands, I should immediately body-check him so he couldn't use his sword and try to force him outside the combat area. It's a fighting technique: you do what you need to do (within the rules if it's a game) to win!
My long lines must be longer :-) I see > 60 sec pauses on a MBP/4GB RAM.
The ϱ is the Greek letter "rho" which is the official symbol for density :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho_(letter) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density

Volume discounting is something we do have, just not on the site. Based on your feedback it seems it might be worth mentioning that on the pricing page.

Thanks for the feedback.
Unpredictable elections look interesting but why do you support them? Is there any evidence that they perform well in any particular fashion?
Not sure about the Coding Horror hatred, although a few has implied that whatever gets posted on Coding Horror gets posted here as well, even when the article isn't particularly interesting or good.

I can't speak for everyone here not doing a startup, but for me however, Techcrunch is on average not very interesting, seems more interested in stirring up drama (at least lately) than breaking real stories, and too self-important for me to pay attention to.

I'm not sure why you would think people would need an agenda ;)
That's ridiculous! You can't claim that someone isn't "playing fair" if they are playing by the rules!

I didn't claim he wasn't "playing by the rules"; I claimed he was "playing like a douche."
http://www.hunch.com/should-i-start-my-own-business/
What? No. It's quite easy for teachers to locate a school that's looking for them. The state teacher's union usually has a website listing jobs and everyone just uses that one single website.
I don't call a 1.5% change big. A more appropriate title 'Small UI changes, less results'?

I have changed the wording on pages before to get 40% better conversions.
California is not quite a direct democracy. They have ballot propositions, yes, but they also have a legislature almost as bad as the NY legislature, and their state workers are completely unaccountable.

Arnold: Until the budget is sorted out, all state workers get minimum wage.

State workers: You can't do that. Besides, our computer are too old to handle paying minimum wage.

http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1132588.htm...
There's a nifty widget we're dropping in later today. In fact, we're doublechecking with our sales team to make sure removing banner ads from programming.reddit altogether (replacing them with the job widget) won't interfere with any signed deals. I think proggit readers would prefer that over traditional ads.
I'm pretty much capable of making my own decision, thanks.

Btw the site looks like a big compilation of quizzes ... shrug
The voting feature is as close to a useless feature as I can imagine. Not only is the voting prone to abuse since it is not in the user's interest to promote jobs to others. But if you do vote, it's more like an Iranian voting system. Your vote has no effect on the user experience of the site itself. It's just information that's tallied for statistical purposes for the companies who post jobs. Hard to see what sets this site apart from, say, Craigslist, except that Craigslist provides a more reliable indicator of job popularity - people applying for jobs. So another social site launches a job board - does this really need to be on Techcrunch or Hacker News? Very disappointing.
I should start an 'ocalypse of the week site.
Where? My brother is a high school teacher and since he's got a math and science background he practically gets hired sight unseen.
I've tried to install it on latest OSX 10.5.7 a few times, can't get it to work at all. I used it happily on my old macbook, but no dice now :/

Maybe I should try harder.

I do like the way TextMate opens a directory tree and has it to the left or right of the edit pane, can jedit do that?
A web service to help me decide? I'm not the guy you are looking for.

Thanks anyway.
This is valid, you will sound like a girl. However, it's better than not knowing how to speak at all. It isn't so hard to correct - just go drinking with some old japanese guys once a week.
Talking of mathematics as a bondage-and-discipline precise science always seemed to me as misleading. This is not how mathematics is done, even if the result looks so.

As to PG's definition of mathematics as study of terms that have a precise meaning, this is wrong too, as exemplified by problems of set theory and its logic, from which mathematicians escaped into more loosy setting of category theory and categorical logic.

I think article "When is one thing equal to another" by Barry Mazur somewhat fits into the theme of this blog note http://www.math.harvard.edu/~mazur/preprints/when_is_one.pdf
Google, Other Tech Heavyweights Back Volunteer Community Service All for Good
Thanks for posting. There's a lot of advice from experienced entrepreneurs that makes it onto this site, but I don't enjoy reading any of it as much as I enjoy Steve's stories.

There's so many bloggers out there who just seem to want to lecture you on the right way to run a business, and it gets really tiresome.

But when I read this guy's writing, it reminds of me why I wanted to work in this area in the first place: cause it's fun!
I wasn't persuaded to enter my email at that point.

Secret URL - how am I going to remember it?

Nice design. It's a good idea for notes. You might want a quick sharing bar.
Everything you say and more. Internationalization, ick -- anyone who thinks this is easy has no clue how deep this rabbit hole goes.

On Han unification: the Japanese reluctance to this is partly because they're being told "Some of your national literature needs to die so that our data standard can live. Deal." and partly because they're being told "What's with all the resistance, you xenophobic bastards, get with the effing program already.", generally by people who they perceive as not quite getting the issue.

All the educated Americans in the room have read Romeo and Juliet, right? Remember the balcony scene? Remember the world in the balcony scene that you have never heard in any other context?

O Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?

Imagine being told "For technical reasons, we're standardizing computers away from being able to accept 'Wherefore' as input or output. As a workaround, we suggest using "why", or perhaps putting the word in an image file and pasting it in when it is required. Most people don't use "wherefore" anyhow and, if you routinely do, you can modify your editing software to accommodate it, as long as it doesn't have to interface with any other computer ever. Oh, by the way, some other words you know are also going to stop working. It's nothing major. Well, OK, 'Gertrudes' might find it somewhat annoying but we've got a nice selection of names from Aluicious to Xavier and, if all else fails, you can spell it phonetically because your language is capable of that, too, and don't pretend otherwise."
Determining "Mood" from Text
Does anyone know of good articles that discuss parsing "mood" out of short bits of text. I am basically wanting to give a positive, negative or neutral score to textual phrases.

Parsing emoticons and making assumptions on their usage is fairly simple but there should be more available in regards to determining a score through some form of lexical analysis.

Any ideas?
Google adding microblog indexing to its search results
I'm confused - how is this helping me make a decision?

I answered a bunch of question until it told me I was finished, and then gave no further instructions. I went back to the homepage, and was presented with yet more questions.

I tried to start asking it a question, i.e. "what pet should I get?", using the top right search box. However, I can't get it to return results for anything, even the generic keyword "pets".

On top of all this, the obviously fake demographic data means I'm not getting any value whatsoever out of the experience.

What am I missing?
+1 for "Iranian voting system".
If the employers came out and admitted as much, I'd be satisfied. However, many of these employers go to congress to complain about a shortage of labor in these fields.
I think you're overlooking the added value of the company profile attributes. To wit, where else would you learn that your potential employer can't roll a Paladin? e.g., (see Alignment) http://www.redditjobs.com/Companies/reddit-com-1.aspx
I don't know any spell checker which is able to give you the amount of duplicated code, code coverage by unit tests, ditribution of complexity, ratio of documented api and so forth ;-).
Why you should make it easy for users to quit your product
> For instance, the exclusive rights to the television broadcast spectrum are sold without auction for $100,000 per year to NBC, CBS, and ABC, and estimates have placed the worth of those rights over a billion dollars per year.

The "old" (VHF and UHF) broadcast frequencies were given to the various stations without any fees whatsoever, I believe. Each broadcast station has to pay a $170 (sic) license renewal fee every couple of years. Those frequency allocations are going away, being reclaimed by the government in the digital TV transition. Some of the old TV frequencies have already been auctioned:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/700_MHz_wireless_spectrum_aucti...

Many of the digital TV frequencies (which are in the same area as the old VHF and lower UHF frequencies) have been given to the existing TV stations free of charge. These would have been worth a great deal of money if sold or leased, as you can see from the 700MHz auction above.

So it's actually somewhat worse than the original poster says, in that there's no $100,000 collected.
One of the main distinctions between redditJobs and Craigslist is that redditJobs is explicitly designed & built to be a resource for connecting the reddit community with interested employers. That's why you see "social sites" with job boards - because they create value for both the community and growing companies.

As for the voting - we'll watch what happens with and see how we can make the data useful to job seekers as well as companies.
what if the system used your votes to determine which jobs to show you in the future?

also craigslist gets a much broader demographic, to the point that it's almost useless for filling a specialized position. by posting something on HN (though I don't know about reddit) there's a feeling that we share at least some ideological ground.
The rules that govern the structural integrity of airliners should not include asterisks.
They should have an encoding standard for characters that are not in the standard character set. I've see base64 encoded images in CSS for a long time. Sure, it takes up a lot of space, but isn't this the best of both worlds?
Of course, the images could be SVG or a sort of typeface definition. It doesn't matter because it's base64 encoded.

Of course, I'm not trivializing the problems with internationalization. I'm simply pointing out that there are simple solutions to some of the problems, such as this one. I think the biggest problem with character encoding is getting people to agree on a standard.
But applications with good design always have good metrics and unit tests ... The technical debt can't say that an application has a good design but it can say that it has a poor one.
It's never a good time to rebrand.
I thought the same thing until I made an account and found topics relevant to me. The front page is filler.
Cool idea, but what I'd really like to see is a better way to find short-term freelance gigs. The options I'm aware of are currently so unsatisfactory I'm half considering making a startup to fix it.

I love the inclusion of alignment in the profiles, though I don't think companies can be trusted to accurately rate themselves on the good/evil axis.
Drop badly encoded email on the floor because you hope it's probably spam? That deliberately violates Postel's Law, which is what keeps this mess mostly working.

And doesn't multipart/signed rely on knowing the actual charset the signer was using?
In China,this may be internet porn.
Angel Investor Non-Admissons: 10 Things They Won't Say
It's certainly a challenge to balance the two, but from what I've seen there is a large range of workable tradeoffs. We all want to validate the particular tradeoff we've chosen, but ultimately the way you go is a question of your own values, not something inherent to the challenge.
Looks very nice overall.

Ditto on the currency point, I initially thought 10/15 meant two different price plans.

Also, I'd be eager to see a bit more info about how the monitoring script works, and exactly what data is being retained.
Or, for people who want to demo it, default the page name to something that's actually available.
I like how quickly I can get a page up and running. I like the secret URLs for editing, so I don't have to deal with another password.

As others have said, you could add a lot to the site with some extra design options, and a simpler color scheme (if not a few color scheme options). I think there's a lot of low-hanging fruit in the design piece that would really improve the offering.

A couple of features I'd like to see, that would be easy to implement:

- Expiring pages option (delete the page automatically after 1, 3, 6 or 12 months)

- ability to add a Google map

- ability to add a password

- go directly to an URL that doesn't exist yet, and be offered the option to start using it right away

I use cl1p.net for this kind of thing, and its great. But I'd like a similar service that was a little more polished for ephemeral items like directions and instructions.

Congrats on getting it out there. I wouldn't get hung up on all the mailing lists, merchandise, and event stuff right away - keep it simple and work on improving what you have.
Full disclosure: I'm the Rex in "By Rex"

But this is one of our better blog posts and I thought HN would like the info. You guys were hugely helpful a few months ago when we did an Ask HN. I thought I'd share some of what we've learned since.
I loved "Do you procrastinate?" and one answer was "I'll come back to this question later". Nice.
How To Evaluate Early-Stage Web 2.0 Companies
I bow to your awesomeness. The overall improvement between designs was 12% overall. The article is one post in a series where the overall conversion goes from 10.3% to 14%.
I think the biggest problem with character encoding is getting people to agree on a standard.

Prior to the Unicode standard springing into being, Japan had relatively little problem with agreeing on standards, by the simple expedient of agreeing on enough of them such that most stakeholders left the table with at least one they liked. People are sort of reluctant to leave these and the tangible benefits they offered, hence the lukewarm reception to Unicode. (If I hear tsk-tsking from any Americans on this point, just try to imagine how much adoption UTF-8 would have in the US if it didn't have the happy-and-totally-not-accidental property of working exactly like ASCII for the language American programmers and legacy systems/documents care about.)

Sidenote: I was working on a translation of features of a particular software package today and had to think a little of how to explain mojibake, and why you'd want a servlet container that can detect and correct it, to an American audience. (It's when some program between the user and the server's application layer applies a heuristic incorrectly and results in one or the other getting complete gibberish.) The problem is every bit as fun to deal with as a developer and a user as you would expect it to be.
...to try to remove an artificial restriction on applicants who would appreciate the wages they can profitably offer.
More than 50% of marriages end in divorce. Back in the day my grandparents stayed married even though my grandpa was at sea for 3 years. It seems like you're likely to get divorced even if you don't work that hard. Or stay together in even less ideal circumstances.

The other thing is that this guy talks about his startups, but they weren't his startups. They were someone else's startups. He only founded the last one. If you work 100 hours a week for someone else and are not bringing in a million plus per year, your wife is going to think you are a chump, because you are.
Well, Sorry if i'm hurting someone's beliefs with my question. I'm still interested to know about other people's opinion on that question.

I found some interesting stuff on this page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience#Character...
Well said. As an example, their latest headline is complaining that the one of the Pre development wikis that was about tethering the Pre was forced to shut down. They are trashing the dev's for not getting involved in a big, ugly legal battle which they will eventually lose.

This has been a standard cat-and-mouse game in the industry for many years. Apple shuts down sites that deal with hackintoshes, MSFT shuts down sites that talk about modding the 360. Nobody likes that kind of crippling of hardware, but its not news. Usually, that development happens anyway, its just moved underground somewhere.

Anyway, the TC folks see some sort of value in reporting that the devs are weak in some way for caving in to big, expensive lawyers. It seems like when its anything involving the Pre, they trash it and the people around it like Hannity does to Obama.
> only 73% of U.S. households have Internet access

We have no reason to believe that cost is a factor here. I strongly suspect that many of the computer-less households contain an expensive TV set and a cable feed.
Four good ideas ! you could have added another point to this ideal list :
5.Number of open bugs in production environment
So then you fall back to the location beacon in the device. you go to schoolbook.google.com/patio11 and there a worm trail of where it's been for the last 24-48 hours. Oh look, it is at Sidney's house.
Not emacs, but I dropped TextMate for Vim, and was very, very happy to do so. The stagnated development, the closed source and lack of portability, the annoying bugs etc. made it an easy choice.
When the "Oops! The site name can only contain alphanumeric characters and dashes." error appears (I tried "x" as the site name), "You can change all the content below once you create your webpage" is half in the white box and and half in the black border of the box.
Link Fail
How long until "/b/ jobs"?
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Fifteen Clasic PC Design Mistakes
Right, but the limited direct democracy they have does not seem to make better decisions than the legislature: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/06/myth_of_the_rat_...
It looks like a re-brand of http://startuply.com/ and probably uses their backend. (Firebug says they're IIS, too)
And hunch.com is down... Bad thing on big press day.
This is mostly because authors can't resist the urge to also do something "interesting" in addition to "just" syntax highlighting. imenu support for example. (imenu is "tags without a tags table" for one file.)

If you look at cperl-mode, for example, syntax highlighting and indentation support is only a small part of its line count. The rest is things like auto-documentation of core features, including 100s of lines of documentation strings for Perl core functions.