skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is certainly one aspect I am interested in HNs opinion on. Of course we won't be able to magically solve that issue, but I wanted to see what the current state of affairs is. As someone alludes to above, there are implications on even trying to police it vs respond to abuse comments. Just trying to see what the best step forward is.
Show HN: A Dashboard for External Monitors
Your rent difference gives you a bit of slack..
What's wrong? Of you split your identity, you get an extra page.
Rolling software is better achieved with better backwards compatibility than it is with constantly breaking API changes.

When you have constantly breaking API changes, and then someone has an essential plugin that's unmaintained, then they're a lot more likely to stay with your old, buggy, insecure base package, rather than finding someone who knows how to update their plugin (remember, most users aren't programmers, and most have installed plugins for a reason).

What you do is try to minimize the API surface that plugins have so it's easy to maintain backwards compatibility, and minimize the impact that older plugins can have by keeping them reasonably well isolated.
That is a very contained risk I am willing to take for what amounts to a hobby side project. I am just trying to see what I would need to do to cover my bases and ensure I don't enter into a zone of unbounded legal risk (or at least prevent it to the best of my ability).
Only if I am unhappy with the frontpage and think I need to influence the article order. But I am looking quite often in the "ask" section, even so one visit a weeks is probably enough to stay updated in that section.
Thanks for the advice. What type of lawyer do you recommend for this? Any references available?
[Other]News reader app for ownCloud.

Edit: http://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/News?content=15843...
How is it "robbing" Buffett of his success to accurately describe the conditions of his success? When he writes about his own biography, it's along similar lines; he doesn't try to portray himself as a poor kid who pulled himself up by his bootstraps with nobody's help.
I use Feedly, but I really dislike it. I, almost overnight, transitioned from reading blogs for most of my content, to using HackerNews and Reddit for most reading. I might check my Feedly account once every week or two as opposed to multiple times a day with Reader. The things I liked about Reader, that it was minimal but what it did (find RSS feeds given a URL, catalogue what I have read, fetch new posts, and be reasonable on a mobile device) it did very well, are just not present in Feedly.
What about two columns? One for popular and another one that peeks the top 10 new ones and keeps updating.
This probably isn't going to be one of those rallies that only look big if photographed properly. Some of these organizations know how to bring motivated people, and there seems to be a pretty broad group from left to right on the political spectrum.
People should stop hating on Path
On Reddit, and I think on 4Chan too, they consider(ed) looking at "new" every now and then part of your duty.

The only time I remember to do it is when I or someone I know is submitting something and I want to see how it's doing on "New", but in that instance I try to look at everything else in the top 30 of "New" at least.
Ads are not personal data. Google sells impressions, not details. FB too.
Your supermarket sells your data to randkme aggregator companies.

Google and FB hoard personal data.
wow, how do you keep up? how do you filter the noise?
Dating app looking for a co-founder
Hi, my name is Julian, i'm from Switzerland and i'm looking for a co founder interested in discussing how a dating app could be cool and loved by the customer and eventually build it. I already have a lot of ideas about how to create an innovative and fast growing user base app. I studied UX and marketing, would be great having a conversation with a developer.
IT Contractor left homeless after being framed by cop sues Washington state
Feedly right now--the Android UI is solid, and I kind of think other apps should adopt the "card stack" pattern.

But goread tempts me, and I particularly like how the look and keyboard shortcuts are very no-nonsense and Reader-y.
Yep, the NSA is grabbing your address book, contact lists too
selfoss http://selfoss.aditu.de/
Well, I don't. I think it would be sooo much better for HN if the FP had 2 columns: 1 column for top news, 1 for 'newest'. Then everyone gets to read it (for a very short amount of time).
But both of those cities have their metropolitan areas measured in tens of millions of people, versus SF in the single millions. SF has the rates of a city ten times its size because its population density is so constrained.
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"new" is such a horrible name. I used to think it mean "create a new post". Please change it to "latest". Even the actually link is called "newest". Don't ever save 3 extra characters.

And add "hottest" instead of having people to click on "Hacker News".

EDIT

More suggestions from me.

"threads" show my comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=yeukhon

I never actually used this button. I always click on my profile and then find my comments and my submission.

That name is so horrible. Make it "my comments"

whereas "comments" show newcomment, not mine.

ask, jobs, submit. can we just group them differently? and create a filter somethere?

Even 1990s websites could do their nav right. (home, contact, about me, etc)

This is a genuine criticism.
You nailed it actually. Yeah, you can delve deeper, but the bottom line is one of basic supply and demand.

As the world continues to output more (i.e. increased production), the same Bitcoin will be competing for more goods (or, it can be said that more goods are competing for the same Bitcoin).

So Bitcoin's value can be said to increase accordingly. In other words, deflation.

Now, whether this is a bad thing is subject to debate. Here's an article that discusses this, specifically WRT deflation not being a bad thing with Bitcoin:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/12/23/fear-not-d...
Having spent ~30 years "implementing things" (ranging from accounting systems to large-scale control systems to tiny microcontroller projects) I must say that I have found Forth superb for this purpose. It does take a little practice at first, but as I have also had the privilege of teaching a few thousand newbie Forthers I have found that they can become incredibly productive in a matter of days.
As a civilization, we went from "grow what you eat" to "buy what you eat." Today, every member of our society specializes in something and collectively, we cover the overall needs of the society. This transformation took place a long time ago for our civilization and the same transformation is now taking place in technology.

My company, TrueVault (https://www.truevault.com) is definitely betting on this trend by specializing in being the data backend for healthcare apps, sites and devices.
Wait for the Nexus 5. Rumor is that it will be announced tomorrow.
You laugh at them, but they actually have a product out and it's good enough that you plan to steal features/ideas rather than work out your own from scratch?
People like foods with emotional memory or that taste good. Many delicious foods make you sick. (Trick or treat!)
Feedly - and I read less RSS than ever.
It's been a relief, as I used to treat Reeder as another inbox that needed clearing.
Usually when I'm procrastinating really hard, i.e. I already read everything interesting on the main page twice and still fill the need to avoid work for a bit longer.
A relevant side note: is there any good way to get RSS feeds on a Kindle Paperwhite?
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feedly... i've actually gotten used to it.
There would still be clear votes on each link - making it easier to discern what others found valuable.
Other: Rawdog (http://offog.org/code/rawdog/). Very bare-bones: you edit a textual config file and run it periodically from cron, and it gives you a (repeatedly updated) static HTML page with the contents of your feeds merged into chronological order. It doesn't live in the cloud; if you run rawdog on a server at home that isn't visible from the outside (as I do), then you have no way to read your aggregated feeds when you're away from home.

But it's simple, it works, and (with a tiny bit of CSS and Javascript tweakery in its templates) it presents things in exactly the way I want them, which no other RSS-reading tool I've seen does. (One page with everything inline, rather than a list of feeds that I have to select one by one: I want my feed aggregator to actually aggregate my feeds. This enables the simplest possible reading process[1]: start at the top and read or skim until reaching something you've seen already, then stop. The only nontrivial change I've made is adding little toggles to collapse and expand whole feeds or individual entries.)

[1] I should in good conscience admit that this breaks down in the presence of feeds whose timestamps are b0rked, which are unfortunately not that rare. This doesn't in practice require a big deviation from the simple process in the previous paragraph.

And I like having it live on my local server, not in the cloud. What feeds I choose to read are no business of, say, Google's, and the whole cloud thing is overrated. Get off my lawn!
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[Other] Akregator http://userbase.kde.org/Akregator
Suing for breaking ToS is always an option, if the company isn't already bankrupt by that point. Definitely something important to consider.

I have to think you're just being contrarian, because as far as I can tell this idea is a joke at best. In other words, "good luck with that," and not important at all.

I'm not being butthurt, I could not find a single case of anything close to this "important consideration" succeeding. The only possible angle I can come up with is a DMCA action, but as far as the CFAA, contract law, or anything that has any precedent behind it, I'd guess the victim is shit out of luck, and for DMCA to succeed you'd have to forge some heavy tools to establish some IP control over the data that was leaked/shared. IANAL.

tl;dr: once you give data to a business, they can do whatever they want with it.
I continue to be amazed that Bazqux has gotten little to no press recognition. The UI is clean, simple, and an excellent match for the Google Reader UI, and it offers several different list view options (of which headline list is the only one _I_ need, but at least the options are there for those who are so interested. There's an API, and it's picking up some device app support (I use News+ on Android).

The one potential downside is the need to pay a subscription fee after 30 days, but given my heavy dependency on RSS, and what happened to the free Google Reader, $10-$30 a year is a trivial and well-deserved expense.
The headline says China state press.
I still don't think this comports with the net neutrality rules, which focus on network management at a user/protocol level. Commercial/non-commercial is a business distinction -- which is exactly what net neutrality was meant to stop (e.g. Comcast throttling BitTorrent).

Google Fiber shouldn't care a whit if my server is commercial or non-commercial (what does that even mean?) If my usage hurts the network, then GF can throttle my connection in some way that is disclosed as a policy and which is considered reasonable.

This is a half-assed compromise and it's not in line with either the spirit or the clear language of net neutrality.

(Full Disclosure: I wrote the Wired article that set off this storm.)
If you want something lightweight I'd go with the approach @jashkenas mentioned. But also might want to checkout:

https://github.com/PaulUithol/Backbone-relational
Even though you might have to host it yourself (or email me, i can setup a temporary account on mine for you to test with), I've found I like TinyTiny RSS's UI. It doesn't try to get in my way with my reading, and replicates the way that I had been using google reader with liferea fairly well. I don't have any complaints about it (other than it loading a little slow sometimes).
I have never made this mistake - probably because I clicked through there a long time ago...
Upon reading what you have said I can clearly see why someone would come to that conclusion...
Looked at some online polls, seems like 50% say once a day, 30% every other day and 20% something else.
At somepoint, instead of just trying to get more secure through encryption, I'd love to see some folks try and find a way to just clog their systems by increasing the amount of background noise / data.

Kinda like when you're in a large company, and someone does a mass e-mail by mistake to a whole hidden distribution list... and then someone else replies telling them to take them off this d-list, etc, etc, and next thing you know the company turns off the e-mail until they sort it out.

Or maybe when loading your desired webpage, an extension pulls in 10 other random text-intensive pages at the same time in background tabs...

Obviously I'm not operating on the level that it'll actually work, but that Doctorow book had some fun concepts in it.
This is exactly what I've been looking for. I almost got to the point of building something like it for myself.
Agreed. A few years ago SOA = a bunch XML-defined web services with ill-conceived and complex grammars + J2EE "enterprise" stuff and unusual return formats.

The maturity of REST has resulted in simpler return types, more mature and easier-to-use serialization libraries, and explicit, English documentation to define interfaces (for the most part). It's a welcome change.
The big GSM write-up – how to capture, analyze and crack GSM
I am dubious that Matz started with lisp rather than smalltalk.

I'm not dubious. Before writing Ruby, Matz had been a Lisp programmer. But he wasn't a Smalltalk programmer.

Conceptually, it makes sense that he would have started with something conceptually like Scheme, then layered things on top.
"Can you name a single other service or product in the world that include such restrictions, and "up to X" quantity?"

Sure. Semitrucks pay greater highway tolls (and are subject to greater usage scruitiny e.g. weighing stations) than light vehicle traffic.
Short summary: nothing.
Why link to this Forbes article when it adds zero value to the original article? (which isn't long either)

The author of the Forbes piece literally writes an exact replica of the original article and doesn't teach us anything new. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it gets me every time.

http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/jail-visit-t...
Wow. I didn't know "new" was a thing--I assumed it meant "new post".
[Other] TT-RSS. I'm open to alternatives because the UI is very clunky, but I like that it is self-hosted and that I can sync my tt-rss installation with a feed reader app on Linux (Liferea) and iOS (Reeder via Fever API emulation, and tiny Reader)
Have you actually seen some of the posts in /new ? I don't think some of the links actually deserve even the accidental exposure to traffic.
Does not square completely with the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act[1]. Note the part of the wikipedia article that mentions types of insurance not covered by the act, where I guess this could apply.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrimi...
Achieving Meteor-Easy Facebook login with Angular
Unfortunately, I'm not willing to give up battery life and admin for a UI feature.
I'd go with this if I had to pick one. But having it in a new page is essentially that, right?
John Ratey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ratey), the professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who wrote Driven to Distration, recently published a book called Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (http://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-B...).

Spark details how high-intensity cardio (like sprints or interval training) put your brain chemicals in balance in part by generating BDNF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-derived_neurotrophic_fact...), which as Ratey describes, it's like "Miracle-gro" for the brain.

Last year my stress levels were getting out of control from working too much. At the time I was running at least two miles every day so it's not like I wasn't exercising. But then one day I changed from running a couple miles to running 50-yard sprints, as fast and as hard as I could push myself. The first day I only ran four sprints, but I felt euphoric the rest of the day -- the best I had felt in years. So I tried it again a couple days later, and sure enough it worked again -- I felt amazing.

So then I had to find out why this worked -- why a few sprints were so much more effective than running several miles. I started Googling and eventually found Ratey's book -- it explains the entire biochemical process of what's going on and why sprinting works.

It's an eye-opening read. Each chapter covers how high-intensity cardio affects things like stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD. I have ADHD but haven't taken anything for it in years (since I was in college), and I can attest that sprints not only fixed by stress levels, but my ADHD symptoms were almost non existent.

Here's a key point that Ratey makes throughout the book that completely changed my perspective on things -- he says that instead of thinking of exercise as something you should do to look good and build a healthy body, you should instead think of exercise as the key to building a healthy brain:
"We all know that exercise makes us feel better, but most of us have no idea why. We assume it’s because we’re burning off stress or reducing muscle tension or boosting endorphins, and we leave it at that. But the real reason we feel so good when we get our blood pumping is that it makes the brain function at its best" (http://www.sparkinglife.org).

In the book's introduction he goes on to say, "Building muscles and conditioning the heart and lungs are essentially side effects. I often tell my patients that the point of exercise is to build and condition the brain."

In fact the brain exercise routine he recommends is similar to a weight workout routine, in that you have to push yourself hard one day, and then take a day off to let your brain recover, just like in weight training. Another key is when you sprint, always put everything you have into it. Run as fast and as hard as you can so you are constantly pushing your body and your brain past their limitations -- this is the key to growth.

Reposted from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5323019
I do. And often I find links that I wouldn't find if I expect them to appear on the homepage. Sometimes there are good things - at least for me.
I was lucky enough to see a presentation at a pharmaceutical company. Essentially, it was a pitch for us asking them for information. The idea is that a bunch of their customers have answered a ton of questions, in addition to the gene-chip data they have. Then, they can also opt-in (it was a pretty high percentage that do) to answer additional questions as part of further study. This would be a very valuable recruiting tool for clinical trials, as it could greatly reduce the lead time on recruitment by just offering customers within a certain distance of participating centers who are known to have or be susceptible to a disease or condition. It's not that the gene data is considered perfect, but that they also have a huge database of additional questionnaire type data that can be leveraged.
Have you nailed down:
1. A product market fit?
2. Accessibility channels?
3. Monetization strategy?
4. Competitive Advantage?

UX & marketing are pieces of the puzzle but not the whole pie. If you have all the pieces ready above then I think you are ready to engage a developer /co-founder.

In my experience with dating (speeddate.com) it is a lucrative business but a very shady one depending on what line of the fence you sit on. Approach with care.

Cheers.
Hahah. Funny argument. Inflation is killing your economy, rather, because it encourages spending and frenetic consumption, this depleting the banks of the well needed savings that will be used for investment by private companies. Yeah, inflation works "so well", right.
It's a reprint article from some obscure content mill. And it goes downhill from there.

If Samsung somehow screwed up their relationship with Google and lost the ability to ship Google's proprietary app suite (Maps, GMail, etc.) with Android, huge amounts of revenue would evaporate, and heads would roll.

Samsung will experiment with Tizen and will be pleased if it flourishes. Samsung also flirted with Windows Phone and it didn't flourish. However, at this point, Samsung would throw Tizen under the bus in a nanosecond if it would benefit their Android business to do so.
I just kind of assumed it would be worse than a fiber link. Most wireless networks suffer from poor latency, but I could see where a dedicated point-to-point network could be better optimized for latency when compared to something like WiFi.
Newsblur, and I hate it. I'll be canceling my account soon; I can't believe how slow it is.
Twitter Engineer makes $10 Million
I was primarily meaning the crypto primitives. (see http://valerieaurora.org/hash.html for a neat chart of past and present hash functions and their lifetimes.)

Migrating over to "bitcoin-B" or some other variant would be possible, but I would imagine it would be unavoidably chaotic if both currencies stay fully decentralized throughout the process, regardless of whether the primitives break outright or over time.
I agree with this. The profit for 23AndMe comes on the backend, not from the kits.
28 Halloween Ideas to Make Your Social Media Rock
I always associated 'ask' with where you submit questions - not where you see them. [edit] perhaps 'questions' wold be more appropriate?

edit: Whilst we're at it how about some slight changes for mobile? The amount of times i accidentially tap a users name instead of a link has to be at least half the time.
"and it is clearly possible to be passionate about a socially destructive idea"
Guys I can see alot of people use feedly but with complaints - if you want something better then original greader have a look on inoreader - seriously, I'm using it and I wouldn't switch back to greader from it.
Zookal starts "world first" delivery-by-drone service in Sydney
There is a lot of great stuff posted that never hits the front page.
Shopify: Crowdsource Your Company's Bonuses
I read the "new" page because that's where the some of the best stuff on the net flies under the radar.

Not everything good gets upvoted and not everything upvoted is good.
Human are curious animals. But we forget things too. I have probably clicked through all the buttons. But if the name doesn't make sense to me, and I have only used it maybe once (out of boredom or random habit), I probably won't remember it. Hence I probably won't recall using that button. And when I click on my profile and see "submission,comments" I make a habit of going there to find my comments and submissions. Because that route is semantically correct. Under your profile, that got to be my stuff.
Wow. I had no idea until now that "Threads" just showed my comments. I was doing the same as you, going to my profile and clicking from there!
This article is more than a little hyperbolic. The "perform like a porn star" deck was the "only time someone reacted to the fact that women are generally treated differently in the Rails / Ruby world"? Really?

It seems to me that there's generally about one very high profile incident every other month or so involving sexism within the developer (generally specifically web-dev, and primarily RoR) community.

The fact that so many high-profile incidents exist is a sign that there's plenty of work to be done, but a lack of attention is hardly the problem.