skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awesome. Yeah, I've been thinking along pretty similar lines.

4chan is basically a "paging channel" or "advertisement channel": anybody can post, which means it can't provide reliable delivery (any message can be swamped by spam) or archival, but that's the only way to establish communication between people who don't have a pre-existing relationship (either directly or through their social network).

Poisoning/controversy is inherent in human-readable, non-centrally allocated, shared namespaces. (See Zooko's triangle.) It's not always a problem — Google shows that your suggested approach of using a trust network to choose among the candidate versions can work pretty well — but in the cases where it is a problem, you can reduce the magnitude of the problem by using self-certifying names (like SHA1 sums), unshared namespaces (like petnames), or centrally-allocated names (like DNS). Nick Szabo's "Secure Property Titles" proposal is the only plausible alternative I've seen. (I don't know enough about social dynamics to predict whether it would work as he predicts.)

One of the advantages of hash-addressed data (data named with a self-certifying name that consists of a secure hash of its contents) is that it can be replicated to many peers without any particular concern for integrity or timeliness. (And in Freenet and BitTorrent, it is.) So it might be good to use hash-addressed data for as much of the system as possible. Localhost only stores filenames in directory nodes, then uses Kademlia to look up the .torrent infohashes associated with various versions of the filename; it would be good to often provide durable links consisting of the infohash itself.

The other thing I think is needed is a way to publish a mutable resource that only you can update. Such a resource can have a self-certifying (but non-human-readable) name consisting of the hash of your public key, possibly an ID number, and a timestamp.

Localhost, for those who are wondering what we're talking about: http://p2p.cs.mu.oz.au/software/Localhost/thesis.pdf
I'm a fast driver, and one thing I will never understand are those who will do anything and everything to box in a fast driver, or to prevent them from cutting into a lane and taking off. I see fast drivers as excited molecules, looking to escape. What often happens when a fast driver is being blocked is they'll switch lanes back and forth, looking for their escape, creating this wave of hesitation, causing this big low speed anchor to form.

Someone driving fast won't suddenly stop the speeding after being blocked. Just let them go!
I think it's only counter-intuitive because it doesn't yet exist as a common programming paradigm. Once it does the error message should be no more confusing than average--harder to find than null exception, but easier than inspecting a core dump.
I have a company working on my behalf to bring my innovative idea to the stores. Can you help me?
Chipotle locations are corporate owned; it is not a franchise.

"Of the nearly 700 stores, only eight are franchises, and the outlook is not good for more franchises being sold."

Source: http://www.businessfranchiseworld.com/chipotle-franchise/
The differences:

* zsh has a ton of interactive chrome built-in, and a lot of it is on by default.
This leads to some incompatibility with bash for scripting purposes
the contextual completion stuff is infuriating when it's overly restrictive

* A pure bourne shell (like dash) by nature doesn't support bashisms
like $() as an alternative to ``
On almost all gnu systems /bin/sh is a link to bash
which checks $0 and operates in sh mode
Unfortunately bash's sh mode is completely broken
it allows most bash-specific syntax
so almost a lot of Linux users's #!/bin/sh scripts really need bash

The takeaway is that you should give up and use bash, or write your own shell if you're an asshole (I have done this).
i think its interesting that i used to drive like this site describes for the exact reasons it talks about. and now i don't/can't. the difference? i moved to atlanta.

rush hour drivers here operate under a greedy algorithm. they see an opening that will allow them to speed up or gain extra distance immediately, and they'll take it, for no other reason than to be going faster right now, to be farther down the road right now.

and that includes eating up my buffer zone, forcing me to break/stop, killing my flow optimization.
There are even laws on the books specifying the left lane as the "passing lane". There seems to be a recent trend in making these more strict, so I wonder what effect they're having. This guy seems to have an up-to-date catalogue (green indicates more strict):

http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
Why boycotting Whole Foods is Stupid
I think curriculum's are too segregated. Let's get brains from mathematical sciences, engineering, biochemistry and biology (etc) together, and have them come up with their own interesting project.
A silly convention in my opinion. Children only need to be reared because the parents often times do not live by their own principles and ethics (nobody is perfect, I do understand this, I mean it in the majority of life experiences).

Children learn by example - punishment, guilt, anything on the end of the stick that trains the child into feeling bad and conforming to someone else's wishes is archaic and stagnates social evolution.

On that same note though, free will is free will - I just focus on my beliefs, principles, and do my best to live by them no matter what in the hopes that I either meet someone that is living theirs more than mine, or I inspire someone to live by theirs. Whether that be an adult or child doesn't particularly matter.
The Beauty of Disconnection
Is that an assumption or something you've tried?

If it's the former, he addresses that concern on his site.
How is the tech scene in general in Jordan? Mostly we hear about the Israeli tech scene, so I'd be interested in hearing more. Amman is one of my favorite cities, I'm always looking for an excuse to go :D
While I find letting the 'cheaters' in grates too hard on my soul I alway try to practice driving at the average speed and avoiding using the brake. If for no other reason than to avoid wear on the car (in the UK most cars are still manual and so each start is a tiny bit more wear on the clutch as well as the brakes).
> So craigslist has been successful in spite of its design.

How about some supporting evidence?

Better yet, how about some evidence for your belief that certain changes would make it more successful?

Of course, such evidence should include some indication of how we're measuring "success".
> Nor does it mean that because they're there they're somehow more creative than people who didn't have those opportunities and couldn't get there.

The original question was why "rich people are so uncreative?". With reference to the subset of high income earners, I'm not saying that they would be more or less creative than others in those positions who had better opportunities. I am however saying that the nature of their jobs - as high income earners - suggests that they need to provide something relatively unique as a function of their job that reflects value on average at least equal to their income (unless you're saying that most have somehow lucked into "high income" and on average the people who pay them are irrational/stupid). Again this isn't to say that someone else in that position couldn't be more or less creative - it is however to say that the nature of their job based on the attribute of high income requires more creativity.

I never said that being creative was the only path to wealth - however, innovation does require creativity and innovation is how wealth is created where rule of law exists. Wealth is a reflection that society appreciates a given idea/innovation. I'd even argue that seeing arbitrage also requires a certain level of creativity though as noted, I would concede that inheritance does not. Nor would I restrict it to the self made rich people as the reality is even those born into wealth would need to exercise a certain level of creativity to maintain/grow it
(even if others might be more effective at doing so).
Unfortunately, the primary source material is behind a paywall, so I can't reference it directly.

Personally, I have a negative gut reaction to guilting kids into doing what you want. I think it is a technique that is manipulative and not in a good way. Let me use the litmus test of parenting techniques: would you let someone else use that technique on your child? I would be uncomfortable if someone guilted my child into doing something against her better instincts.

I can't help noting that guilt is used here to set up a negative association with a past misdeed. It is possible to do that with a variety of other unpleasant-to-the-child techniques, such as time outs, confiscating privileges etc.

Also, their longtitudinal survey went up to about 5 years of age. This is a time where kids still haven't completely internalised the reasons for good behaviour (eg. social harmony) hence the need for more Pavlovian techniques. It's not clear to me that this scales to, for example, teenagers.

Finally, there could be some giant selection effect here: kids who feel guilt are probably more socially sensitive than other kids, and so are more likely to behave in a way that does not cause waves.

Difficult to say without reference to the primary material. Man, journal paywalls suck.
Disqus is so nice. Best part is the reactions that you also get with twitter comments, facebook comments, etc. Since people dont' comment as much on blogs but still talk about the links on twitter it helps you pull that content right in. JS-Kit may be better now, I used it a while ago but Disqus is just very useful.
Review HN: Feedback Army
I thought I'd try out feedback army on my new marketing website. To ensure that what I'd written was in line with what users understood it as.

For $10 you get 10 people to anonymously browse your site.

You give it a URL, and you can ask the users upto six questions, the default questions are pretty great. Along the lines of "what is the site about? how does it work? how do you get it?" etc.

I expected them to give one liners - but holy cow, I got entire paragraphs. They left comments on blog posts, they clicked and interacted with every element.

I guess the "negatives" to this is you can't guarantee quality testers - do I know if they even checked my site?" I used clicktale to track where they clicked, and you can even reject reviews that are nonsense.

I've only got 8/10 "reviews" so far, and they're really excellent. I'll be doing it again before we post it on Hacker News :)

http://feedbackarmy.com

I'm not affiliated in anyway... maybe this was the startup I inspired, thinking about it, I'll have to check Hacker News archives, I just thought you guys would appreciate this service.

too lazy to read: for $10 you get 10 users to beta test your site, and they answer your questions about your site.
CenterNetworks - Why I Love Atlanta
How many prevented ?
Make Photoshop Faster
400 years of astronomy
Are artists poor, or is it that "artists" are poor?
I thought he looked like an organized crime thug in court on a murder charge.
I say we make programming languages where you don't have to program.

Seriously, though, if they aren't in the tech world...they are just waiting to be overtaken by us....agriculture? could use better tech.... medicine? could use better tech.... massage therapy? we could add a muscle scanner...

Maybe a place for non-webapp-oriented tech businesses, like biotech and such, would make for a good HN spin-off...or maybe we just need more of those here...

.: no sleep until the machines and we are one ! :.
yes, I am being sarcastic. And yes, it is true I don't really know what they bought (and many thanks to mahmud for expanding on this). My criticism is exactly of Yahoo's strategy. Is the "portal" space a business? How big, important, current is it? What about "news"? Is Yahoo! really strong there? Do they have an innovative product? Really? Do they? Finally, Yahoo! Mail was great. 10 years ago, it was great.
I changed my driving patterns after first reading this remarkable essay some years ago. Now I follow what I affectionately call the "zen of driving", to wit: leave a huge gap in front of me, drive at a constant speed where possible [1], avoid using the brakes except in case of emergency, and so on.

On long driving trips through mixed traffic, I have made several observations, some obvious and some surprising:

* Driving in congestion is no longer stressful. It just isn't. (Hence the "zen".)

* Dramatically improved fuel economy.

* It's possible to drive through even wildly erratic traffic (swinging from 100 km/h to 20 km/h) without ever touching the brakes. It becomes a kind of game. Manual transmission helps.

* Some other drivers seem to figure out what I'm doing, and they fall into place behind me at a reasonable distance. I've had people follow me for hundreds of kilometres this way.

* Even though you'd assume leaving a huge gap in front is an invitation for other motorists to cut ahead, they rarely do - especially in congestion. If they do, I just let them race up to the front of the gap and then fall back by a single car length to restore the same gap.

I absolutely swear by this driving method. It's easier on the car, easier on the heart, and even serves to create a bubble of calm around you in an otherwise turbulent flow of traffic.

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[1] Edit to qualify "drive at a constant speed". As I noted later, my speed ranges dramatically based on the congestion level - what remains more or less constant is the safe opening in front of me. Sorry for any confusion with my original choice of words.
Agreed. That doesn't dispute what I said, though.
It contained a Black Oil, an extraterrestrial virus that controls the host. I believe there were 2 FBI agents checking that ship out before it got hijacked.
I think that even a team of rock stars in a cubicle-free paradise are still beholden to whatever set of development priorities they are handed.
Do you not find the notion that humanity is full of ignoramuses "sad"?

Gaining advantage because the rest of the market is populated by idiots doesn't make it any less sad that everyone out there is an idiot.
Thanks for that info. Actually, I haven't even visited it. Just from what I've heard and considering that most tech. companies are situated there I assumed there must be atleast some dev. going on there. Any ideas where I should look at?
I just signed up for Disqus on Sunday using their old website for my blog comments. It was quite confusing, especially the sections that showed how to embed the comments on my own generic blog. I felt they were trying to do two different things using the same exact app (comments I've left on other sites and comments users have left on my site). As a result, I kept getting confused by features I did not much care for while setting up comments for my blog.

I just logged back in and am glad to see it is a significantly cleaner interface and that they have split the two products. Having made many sites that went from single page tools to full-blown apps, I can see how the interface slowly gets more and more crowded and confusing as we add more features. Every once in a while, developers/designers must take a step back, analyze what it is that we're trying to do, and make changes to not only simplify the product but also the message. Having just experienced the difference between what it was two days ago and what it is now, I can say that the Disqus team did a pretty good job.
Emergent network phenomenon is emergent.
People think this about 128 in Massachusetts, too, but generally what I observe is that people leave my "empty space" about as often as they enter it. I leave a big empty space for safety reasons, and also because I actually understand how inefficient constantly accelerating and braking is. I'm usually able to maintain it without too much trouble.

Whether or not it actually helps traffic, I couldn't say.
Cynical much? How about it's because we have bounded cognitive abilities, limited perceptive accuracy and slow reaction times?
In my experience these ideas work even if you're the only one following them.
You are being way too aggressive for no discernible reason.

Aside from that, I believe you left out the most important aspect of functional programming: correctness. If you take a pure language like Haskell you're going to have to jump through some hoops, but the point is to create a more correct program. The benefits of that are not going to be seen in a comparison of the final product.
The OneApp client is almost guaranteed to be a Java Mobile Edition application, because that's the only widespread software platform for feature phones.

It's fairly ironic that Microsoft's "Unlimited Potential" group develops Java software... But perhaps they've been tasked specifically to unleash their potential by overcoming the traditional Microsoft NIH / Embrace&Extend development paradigms.
Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one annoyed by the "7 degrees of hacker news" story stretch.
Think the Volt is greener than the Prius? Think again
Anyone ever tried TeraCopy? I think it's leagues ahead of the regular Windows file copy (it has pause and resume and error recovery).
Announcing Tonido OpenID - Truly Decentralized Identity Management
Looks like another app that iPhone can't participate in.
Another wildly successful example of "What We Can Learn From A Mess" can be found at Plenty of Fish, where they are doing the same thing in the online dating world.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...

"Today, according to the research firm Hitwise, his creation is the largest dating website in the U.S. and quite possibly the world. Its traffic is four times that of the dating pioneer Match, which has annual revenue of $350 million and a staff that numbers in the hundreds. Until 2007, Frind had a staff of exactly zero. Today, he employs just three customer service workers, who check for spam and delete nude images from the Plenty of Fish website while Frind handles everything else."
That's an interesting idea. And, noting particularly your last sentence, it is one that is testable. Now if only someone would test it ....

(On a completely unrelated note, isn't Google's logo today lovely? I mean the "Galileo's telescope" logo, shown on 25 Aug 2009.)
There have been actual failures, and then there is this list, seemingly chosen at random. Wired would do well to separate those categories.
It would be 'weak' typing if Ruby ran an integer routine on a raw mantissa|significand value. Ruby is effectively doing type-checks on every operation, and that can never be 'weak'

What you're complaining about is that it has a numeric tower, but does not have anything like type-classes.
christ, how many converter apps do we need?

is this an example of a craze where its easier to build gorgeous UIs rather than spend time on "hard" stuff?
Excellent for initial usability testing.

The only gripe I have with crowd sourcing apps is the inability to distinguish those who write truthfully vs who lie (they might write legibly to get their response accepted, but the response is a lie). It's not a problem with this service, just a nasty side effect of the crowd sourcing and using people.
I am not sure there is a US TV news source that's better. And it's true the Daily Show is in fact not my primary news source. But the uniquely American obsession with neutrality is at best inane, and at worst an active aid to spin and lies. That's perfectly encapsulated by what I quoted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=784936
ah, this was the original "introducing feedback army!" thread (not by me, but I guess I'm inadvertently connected..) : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=785489
The context in which modeling systems in a way that corresponds to the real world makes sense is when you're writing a simulation of the real world. The Sims, say, or Knuth's elevator example. Historically this is where OO came from. It was only later (with Smalltalk, for which the term "OO" was invented) that it was used for more general programming.

My complaint wasn't that it was a rant. It was that it was a vacuous, boring rant.
Erm, Joel didn't write this; someone else on the FogBugz team did.
What I'm saying is the correlation between wealth and talent (creativity) is much weaker than the correlation between wealth and who you know or who your family is and what opportunities those connections got you. I don't believe rich people are more creative, they're just much better connected and able to apply what creativity they have than unconnected people.
Agree. Google +1. Apple -1.
Another wildly successful example of simplicity dominating an industry can be found at Plenty of Fish, where they are doing the same thing to the online dating world.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...

"Today, according to the research firm Hitwise, his creation is the largest dating website in the U.S. and quite possibly the world. Its traffic is four times that of the dating pioneer Match, which has annual revenue of $350 million and a staff that numbers in the hundreds. Until 2007, Frind had a staff of exactly zero. Today, he employs just three customer service workers, who check for spam and delete nude images from the Plenty of Fish website while Frind handles everything else."
I thought it was 6 degrees.

Anyway, this is an interesting story, I don't see why you'd oppose it. Most "hackers" I know are also into this kind of thing.
Yes in the long run, but it's one step removed from something more immediate like cutting cost or selling more. Immediate financial benefits Cutting cost in general sounds good, but I think it should be taken in context of everything else. Sometimes, business decisions are made without looking that one step ahead.

If St. Exupery is right at all about longing for the immenseness of the sea, I think just because you can profit max your customer, doesn't mean that you should. Especially if you inspire to something your customers can believe in, and if profit maximizing would take away from that belief.
It's from 25 years of experience. Noodle from Atlanta has a similar experience in the comments below.
In other words, yes -- you're saying I'm doing things in the wrong order, and I shouldn't care whether something's on HN before I decide whether I want to submit it, dammit.
Because HN is optimized for churn (constantly getting new stuff on the front page), and it only takes as a little as a single upvote to get something on the front page.
I would probably never use Pedant for a library that was never touched by other developers. Just like tests, Pedant can prevent others from breaking something (or at least bring attention to it). Ruby's implicit returns make this situation more apparent.
I too have a hard time lasting it out through an essay that seems very self-promotional. Many essayists whose work I used to look forward to reading (J. Spolsky, P. Graham, etc) seem to have become stuck in a rut of beating a particular set of drums. These drums seem to promote in some way, the business interests of the person writing.

To me this diminishes their credibility and puts me off their writing.

Strangely when I see Lessig doing this for his various causes it does not inspire the same reaction in me. Possibly this is because I don't think that Lessig is deliberately writing in a way that can lead directly to personal monetary profit, although he certainly could profit from his growing cachet due to his political activity.

Possibly I am just being cynical.
Don't know about this one... Most tech startups were started out by techies.

I'd say it could work for non-technical startups.