skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As they say in Samoa, fai fai le mu (: Relax. Sites evolve and change. Small towns get bigger. Eventually you become an old man who yells at neighborhood kids for walking on the lawn. Before you get to that stage, enjoy the fact that these systems evolve, and for every one that gets too big for your own personal tastes, there are a multitude of smaller ones. And then there are even your network of actual friends. Take it easy (:
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Well, not quite so--they did decide to offer him stock conditional upon him joining. While I don't agree with not coughing up a cash bonus, he is making a point about their culture, and that is always a dicey thing to fiddle with. And he isn't really in startup mode.
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Maybe he is concerned about the relative popularity of HN in Kyrgyzstan?
This might be clever for them but I hate seeing these dimmed items, dimmed != ignored.
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I planned to go into more detail in JavaScript since it's probably the most widely used prototype based language. But the article was getting long so I left the brief mention and maybe revisit it later to compare how the limitations of only one immutable prototype slot affect usage. It's one of the reasons I left doing the examples 'as an exercise for the reader' to see how other people approach the examples given before I gave my approach.
I'd hate to see your power & network bill :)

But I think that once you have enough customers the cost of 'crawling' goes down for every new customer you sign up because you only need to crawl a page once and you can sell the crawled result to many customers. Or do I misread your model and is every page crawled over and over again for every user ?
Almost every website. Justin.tv actually has its peaks on the weekend - its traffic looks inverted compared to most websites.
Ask HN: A gaming idea
So I've been mulling this idea for a little bit.

It's based on the popularity of distributed endeavours like Folding@Home and so forth.

Running a distributed effort to generate some data I could sell is never going to fly for volunteers :P so I was thinking of other ways to "pay" people for it.

The unique idea I came up with was this; produce a free MMO game (probably not a 3D game). Then instead of charging a monthly fee include our distributed system in the game. When people are playing the game it generates some data (designed not to hog the CPU ofc) and sends it back - this "pays" for their play time.

The extension could be to get them to generate data when not playing the game and this could add up to give them "in game" credit for items and VIP treatment.

If I get the balance right (i.e. just creating some data but not affecting their computer use) do you think it would go down well? (obviously the game would have to be attractive - but i have ideas :D)
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I did something like this a couple of years ago with a blog toolkit. Basically you signed up, added some javascript, and then we could come into the client during page load and provide all kinds of interactive stuff on top of your blog page.

Back then we just loaded JSON in javascript from a foreign server. I'd be surprised if that loophole was closed because if you can't load JS from a foreign server lots of stuff is not going to work anymore (like Google analytics)
I only have one so my wife and son can watch shows. Watching TV on the computer is too hard for laypeople/2 year olds.

However, my son watches many of his favorite videos (Dora, etc) on the computer.

BTW, the largest screen in the house in on my computer.
I really don't get what it means to "sort" the text. Can you describe that further?

Aside from that question, what you describe sounds a bit like the online service SpinSpotter (which I think is a good idea, but severely underused).
That's what I meant with the 'friendly relationship', the owner of the page has to place a tag. But what I was getting at was on any page, regardless of tags, simply by embedding the page in a frame and then accessing the content of the foreign frame. That is - alas - no longer possible because it causes security issues.
Nice. I love the particularly relevant blurb at the bottom:

"Whether you’re a designer, photographer, or any kind of creative pro who deals with visual material, you face the daunting task of getting your colors just right. [...] Learn how you can make the most of your Mac to maximize the effectiveness of your colors."
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that seems wrong to me

Wait, what?

I spend significant effort and money on content creation. Decisions as to what content to produce next are often driven by user suggestions or analytics data -- i.e. "Oh, it looks like a lot of people are searching for baby shower bingo cards, I guess I should write some baby shower bingo cards, because then more people will find my site and this will make me money."

So people get the content they want and I get money... tell me where we're going wrong here, again? Would it be somehow cleaner if, rather than using evidence as to what my customers enjoy, I just put my finger to the wind and guessed? I did that for a while -- I'm not a terrible guesser but why should I watch 80% of my content budget produce pages that are grossly less effective than my average?
The old idea was to "rank" something. You voted up or down to indicate -- beats me -- you liked it, you wanted other people to see it, you like the person, you're in a good mood. Whatever.

Instead of a single dimension, my idea is that internet content consists of two things: keywords and emotional impact on the reader. So you tag the content, giving it semantic value, and then click on various indicators showing how it affected you emotionally.

So now I can provide you with associated material that is relevant and can predicatively adapt to your moods, i.e. responses.

It's cool stuff, but basically it boils down to a souped-up version of PageRank-like concepts.

I have a screen shot of a UI prototype but have to catch a plane right now. Glad to put it up if anybody would like to see it.
Hmm, it'd be interesting if news.yc had a gauge on the top-right where we could indicate our feeling for the relative level of quality on the site on a given day. I donno if it'd be worth anything in QC terms, but it'd be one really interesting dataset to look at when compiled.
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check out ShiftSpace [http://www.shiftspace.org]

super cool project for enabling an internet-wide dialogue/communication/modification-layer
Can't you just drop a JS link into the page on load from a plug-in? I think that would work.
It depends. If your focus is 'media/entertainment' you actually go up in the weekend.
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does a TV not connected to any way to receive a broadcast count as a working television? I have this 30" Samsung LCD TV that's connected to a Mac Mini running Vista Media Center which I'm using to watch stuff I got from online sources.

The tuner in the TV is never used and actually would not work as it's not connected to any source.
I like chocolate ice cream so I can tell you that I like chocolate ice cream at every single opportunity. Obviously. Not because chocolate ice cream tastes good -- that couldn't possibly be it.

What percentage of firefox users like to tell you at every single opportunity they don't use IE?
And the Kindle for various prices. Not sure how beautiful it looks as I haven't purchased it yet.
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Flickr, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports, sometimes I check out Buzz or the news section. I do not, however, have an email account with them and all the times I've seen the search engine, the results haven't been very good.
Yes, but he has something to back it up.
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Naval gazing
If they're using BizSpark like the article claims, wouldn't it be free?
You can't prove there aren't more dimensions. After all you could be hiding them in your garage with your invisible dragon or you could of rolled them up in a Calabi-Yau manifold.

Time is a unidirectional so it's considered to be a different kind of dimension than the spacial (bidirectional) dimensions.
Yes it works (that is what I did too), but the user-agent is:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090701 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5 GTB5

I don't care and don't mind waiting for the meta-package to point to 3.5, but maybe some do.
You already have that gauge, all you need to do is not upvote links... I think that works pretty good, if you post a bunch of links and they get 0 traction then that's an excellent indicator you're on the wrong path.

The number of 'dead' links and the average points of the 'new' submissions together are a pretty good indicator of what the audience thinks of the current crop of submissions.
I'm no "hacking expert" but is hacking nowdays really just you guessing/stealing a person's password?
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No if you mean the Ubuntu updates for Firefox. The add-on updates will.
I love TV.  There, I said it...
Having spent a decade at MIT, I'd be happy to place somewhere in the middle of that pack.

And I'm building a better calendar.
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>>Under our current system, any insurer can refuse to cover you for any number of reasons, or assign calamitously high premiums to you.

If you can't afford insurance, then you rely on charity. To force lower insurance prices than their risk demands is subsidizing them.

Yes the oil, example isn't the best. How about getting the breaks fixed.
"StackOverflow probably has a 90% cache hit ratio (86% of visitors are from google that land on some question asked some days or months ago)."

For a fair analysis, you need to consider that people keep adding answers and comments to questions, specially if it is covering an interesting question or technology. (And what happens to the cache then?)
Yes, but that requires the installation of a plug-in and I wanted to avoid that kind of change.

The reason is that as soon as your project requires a plug in or a download the size of the 'universe' is only a fraction of what it would be otherwise.
I think the quality of Hacker News is sort of like Escher's "Ascending and Descending" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending_and_Descending).

People perpetually talk about how the quality is going down, when in reality it's not changing much at all.

I attribute it to the "honeymoon effect". New users are excited when they first find HN, but eventually the amazement wears off, even though the site hasn't changed.
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Yes, but I don't watch it that often. It's an old TV that was given to us by my partner's Nan, and as it still works we refuse to upgrade to one of those huge, new-fangled, power-hungry plasma jobbies. (Don't have sky/cable/whatever though.)

I keep it mostly for the Wii, although I find that I use that less and less at the moment.
Enough, as this article about Area Man demonstrates: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694
It's highly likely that many startup founders have installed these types of toolbars to boost their own startup's numbers. Because of sampling issues, one additional person coming to this site gets extrapolated out many times over.

Rampant themes in most groups:
1. It was better before.
2. Quality has declined.
3. New people do not respect the rules.

Stop being so paranoid. Or if you can't stop, start a new outpost for hacker-like discussion somewhere else on the web. Only invite good people. When the rest of us realize that this place has gone to hell, we can come join you. :-)

"Oh, my God, they found me, I don't know how, but they found me. Run for it Marty!" - Dr. Emmett Brown
This isn't "what your customers like" it's "what will draw in a bunch of people who may or may not be interested in your content".

Your customers/readers are people who already enjoy what you do and tailoring it to them is, as you suggest, just an issue of selecting between multiple things you already wanted to write. But creating your comment in a way that draws in people who may have no interest in your content doesn't seem right to me. It seems like an act of deception in that you aren't enhancing the content you're creating but trying to make it look like something else.

In other words, if Techcrunch was a site that wrote about porn I'd have no problem with them using SEO to make sure they appear higher on searches for porn. But this article suggests they put the word "porn" into their articles to register higher even though that isn't the topic they write on and that bugs me.
I have a couple of ideas for you, to potentially make it more feasible / faster to implement.

Two problems:

1) A lot of these sites that you refer to are small and the chance of multiple users of a FF plugin going to that site might be unlikely.

2) Unless you have a lot of experience with FF plugins, it sounds like a lot of work for something you may just want to experiment with.

So,

1) Make it a destination site, with a simple bookmarklet for grabbing the text and adding questions, etc. It takes 2 minutes to make a bookmarklet that can grab text and will work with more browsers than FF.

2) This way, you also expose neat questions/ideas that are ripe for discussion, from a series of small sites that might otherwise go undiscovered.

I understand it's not quite the same, but for a small project, proof of concept, it's a day or two of coding instead of a huge commitment, and it works well even if you have a tiny number of users.
I can confirm that, I own a computer games-focused site and our peak is on the weekend, too, with Sunday being the busiest day.
Blatant blog spam. At least 2 of the 3 original links have already been posted here.
Yep, that's me. I have a tv and watch it about four times a year. We host a superbowl party, and usually there are three other events that we end up catching, such as an election or inauguration.

And if it isn't Lost, it is West Wing or (yikes) Nip and Tuck.
That's correct. They get three years of production licenses, even for SQL Server Enterprise Edition.
I don't mind what you do - nor do I think the parent does - but techchrunch is not a porn site, and it is not a blog about porn, when they write about porn it annoys those who come there to read tech news.
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Exactly. I've heard many "graphics professionals" who buy a new MacBook Pro to replace an old one and blame the 6-bit panel for poor colour reproduction. It's not the fact that the panel is 6-bit. They came from a 6-bit panel, although most were under the impression it was 8-bit. The fact is just that Apple is using cheaper displays. It's a crappy 6-bit panel, not the fact that it's specifically a 6-bit panel that's the problem. After all, they didn't complain with the old 6-bit panel they were using.

It's funny to hear some of these guys talk about how they buy the MacBook Pro over the MacBook because of the 6-bit vs 8-bit panel when all of those laptops have only ever had 6-bit panels in them. The Pro just happens to use a better quality panel, that's all. But it's still 6-bit.
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I have the same situation on my blog. I get consistent hits from people looking for porn because I've mentioned porn a couple of times. I've been sorely tempted to serve special ads just for them...
HN: I just started my own company, any recommended task management software?
Hey guys,

I just started my own company, and I'm curious to know what you guys would recommend for project/task management software. I'd like for it to be simple and elegant, and actually work. I've used basecamp and bugzilla before; I simply don't like basecamp for many reasons, and bugzilla is awesome but too complicated and ugly.
I'm currently reading this book as well. I recommend it if your into running.
No i mean the firefox updates!
But that was the whole point of the post!
The OS is no longer the platform - the browser is.
We both seem to agree on the need for an open interoperability layer - we just don't seem to agree on where it should go :-)
One immediate difference that comes to mind is that the internet is a two-way medium, whereas television is a one-way medium.

That doesn't mean that any given part of the internet will be better, but it does mean that the internet has the potential to be far better.
Sounds good. Don't forget that having the idea is the easy bit, the hard bit is the execution.
Sentimental nonsense. Bluntly - who cares what some random interviewee from 40 years ago thinks about the progress of society? You might as well just ask anyone at all.

Furthermore, as far as I know, no Canadian has ever been to the moon. And now no-one at all can go to the moon, so the question's moot anyway, making the search even more useless.
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If you're interested in doing this:

1. Google "POSE Running". The site has lots of information and drills for changing your form to accommodate a mid-foot strike.

2. Consider transitioning by using racing flats instead of immediately going to barefoot/Vibrams. Or get both and run in the flats but do all your walking around in the Vibrams. This will allow you to gradually strengthen your feet, ankles, and calves.

3. Start on grass with short distances, focusing on form.
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It isn't absolutely necessary, but having an attorney send the letter will amplify the force of your demands. Also, as mentioned below, if you decide to contact them yourselves, you may unknowingly produce evidence that can later be used against you, or you may lose your head and make a threat you shouldn't make.

It shouldn't take an attorney more than one billable hour. Having an attorney send the letter may save you money, if you consider how long it would take you to research and write, depending on at what rate you value your time.

One thing, and you probably already know this, when you say "ask them to change their direction," don't expect to succeed in keeping them from competing with you. They have a right to express the idea that you are expressing, they just have to write their own copy and markup to legally do so.
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Most people heard about the Loch Ness but few people know the history of the area, its fort and abbey that once stood on the shores of Loch Ness. And few people know that today it is possible to rent newly redecorated luxury holiday apartments there.
Not all that's involved. Sometimes "hacking" involves creative pranks.

For example, one prank I pulled (which was admittedly pretty basic and silly) was a creative redirection using .htaccess for a certain someone's fixed IP address who used to lurk a site I ran last year. This person had an extreme distaste for me, because of the existence of the site and she would publicly slander me for something I never did at every available chance.

So I decided to have a little fun with her.

I set up a page with her (publicly available) photo with large text headline saying that she had been hacked, which the redirection went too.

Total time to setup - less than 3 minutes.

Having her write me a lengthy email me telling me that she was going to call the police (in Australia) and have me arrested was pretty interesting. I never responded.

I think I would be freaked out too if the next time I visited someone's blog (which I was hypothetically consistently leaving trolling/nasty comments on) there would be my picture there, exclaiming how I'd been hacked.

Sometimes the illusion of having "hacked" someone is just as satisfying as the real thing, without the messy potential of jail-time.
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What percentage of people who don't own a TV, like to tell you at every single opportunity that they don't own a TV.

Probably not that high of a percentage. However, one is more likely to notice the people who don't own a TV and are vocal about it.
The report itself is here: http://www.priv.gc.ca/cf-dc/2009/2009_008_0716_e.cfm
Might sound like a smart ass remark but if he can't tell by looking at the displays in person whether they're 8-bit or 6-bit, then I can see why 99% of laptops on the market use 6-bit panels. I fully understand that when you compare them side-by-side you can see the difference. But I remember looking into which LCD panels were actually 8-bit and I could count the number of laptops (2 years ago) which were using these panels on one hand.
Stock in a company that isn't public and has no plans to IPO is literally worthless. Joel could have given him ONE HUNDRED BILLION shares if he'd wanted to. Well, almost worthless: it's worth exactly as much as one sheet of paper. Or half a sheet, since now you can only write on one side of it!

At least the t-shirt you could wear for yardwork or in the gym...
As does Safari (inc iPhone) via HTML5 video tags.
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The lack of a citation in the article bothered me (just mentions "[a] new report by researchers at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley"). So I searched for the "magic" 347,590,389 number. It seems to be this Oct. 2008 paper by Kanich et al.:

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ckanich/papers/spamalytics.pdf

I also found a good summary (mentioning BBC reports ...) here:

http://blog.mailchannels.com/2008/11/is-spamming-more-profit...

Amusingly, this submission's linked article, datelined (2009) July 15, is from a site with a "realtime IT news" banner ...
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Unsecured loans. They are quite new I think. Bit like pawnbrokers but faster. I needed some cash so I applied. They sent me a secure bag the day I applied - I sent in some jewellery bits - single earrings and some old gold bracelets - and they paid cash to my bank the day they recieved it.. two weeks later I repaid the money and they returned my jewellery the next day. Painless, fast.. worked for me.
I am in no way confused. The three color components of an LCD pixel are not in the same spatial location. Look closely and you will find three rectangular areas, one for each color. The only colors you can make without combining elements are at the 2^6 or 2^8 variants of red, green, and blue. I subtract two because (ok, I am confused, I only subtracted one before) because the blacks are all the same.
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Wonder if you could do it via js insertion in something like adsense? Probably not that particular product, but most pages get JS from all sorts of places. Lots of opportunities to piggy-back.
Overlays. The Web needs to be completely redesigned because HTML markup fucks up overlays and it's difficult to have commenting/annotation, etc. with it.
The differences in screen quality between the 13" and 15" MacBook Pro are not because of 6-bit vs 8-bit panels. All MacBook Pros ever made have only used 6-bit panels. The 15" just uses a higher quality 6-bit panel.