skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved all 60+ of my domains over to namecheap.com after GoDaddy pulled the rug out from under Fydor. See http://www.nodaddy.com for the details and other alternate registrars.
I think the majority of godaddy domain purchasers are first time buyers or small businesses that do not know of other domain companies (especially considering godaddy's large advertisement investment).
Autonet an autonomous internet
I don't think it's clear what the red dot means.
The issue with removing scores is I can't speed read only the "good" comments. Can you make the top n% of comments stand out somehow I wonder?
Better but in no way perfect. The problem is that the dots don't convey enough information to accurately skim a thread for good comments. In a thread with more than 200 comments a binary value simply isn't enough.

The problem could of course be solved by showing the points...
It should probably be scaled to the number of comments in the thread, or to the average score in the thread. Any static threshold will be easier to hit in the threads with higher traffic, and too many threads with a red dot adds to the noise.

The other side of that is that threads with very little traffic don't need as much meta-information, but there's an in-between.
See, but this is very much the problem. Records provided an unequal distribution of wealth amongst performing artists before the internet. Why pay to listen to an up-and-coming classical artist when an exquisite recording of Chopin's work all ready exists?

Now, the internet has magnified this even further. An incredibly narrow band of artists are currently being compensated in any way (live performance, merch, cds), and this trend appears to be continuing. In general, the life of a performing musician pretty much sucks. Take a blog post by David Byrne I found on here awhile ago http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2009/08/080809-edinburgh-so-ho... . He's working pretty damn hard, and he's famous!

I'm not saying that file sharing is inherently wrong, I'm just saying deep down, we know there's a system that will rise out of this that will undoubtedly be regulated. I'd rather be having that discussion, than saying 'oh, I wouldn't have paid for that'
spotify

I dont think much more needs to be done if spotify keep up what they are doing so far.
You can convert the electrical energy to other forms of energy though and store it that way. In following the link that nkurz gave the Andasol solar power station was mentioned which apparently will store excess thermal energy in liquid salt allowing electricity generation into the night. Pumped storage hydroelectricity is another, more established, method of storage.

I don't envisage huge vats of molten salt meeting our energy needs throughout the night but I suspect that energy storage will continue to have a part to play in meeting our energy needs in the future. It seems to be relatively expensive but then so is long distance transfer.
pg and nickb are the only ones that I can remember that I recognize without taking a look at other posts.
What do the grey dots mean?
What do the grey dots mean? <Later>Hm. Grey dots vanished. This is better. I also saw a black dot. What about those?</Later>

And I really don't like the red dot. It doesn't fit into the flow of the layout and it distracts me from the content.
Your point may be valid, but I find it amusing that you're essentially saying: "I know filesharing is awful because I do it so much."
> School education is not a good predictor of future performance. I would venture to say that above some (fairly modest) threshold of quality, the difference in schooling is irrelevant.

I beg to differ. School performance in mathematics and science directly impacts on the careers of people. A good example is engineering – it is pretty difficult for someone to study engineering without a good and solid mathematical foundation.

> Of course it doesn't. Even the UK is way ahead of USSR on that metric.

The UK and the USA is per capita twice to three times as rich as Russia/USSR. Britain also has the advantage of drawing out all of the brains out of the Commonwealth. A large percentage of American PhDs came from Europe (either Jews who fled or Germans who came afterwards). A lot of them were not educated in the USA.

I would venture that the Soviet Union/Russia’s scientific accomplishments is pretty spectacular for when all is taken into account.
Whilst at the same time being a really good example of how to asses the energy choices facing your own country or region.
Interesting observation regarding avatars, I was planning to include them in a current project... but having less recognizable user accounts might help with getting users to focus on the content.
some shocking stories in there, I knew it was bad, I've had a pretty bad experience myself with godaddy long ago, but nothing to compare with what these guys report.

Makes network solutions look like a professional outfit.
I've had a couple people come up in one of my classes that I recognized the names from HN. Any of you who have talked at Def-Con/Black Hat/similar conferences, you've probably come up in some classes, and its weird to have that happen with someone you've talked to.
Thanks! Our new version is even nicer :) You can go to preview.grooveshark.com to check it out.

To answer your question, yes, we will always have a search-and-discover interface because that is where our real value comes from.

As far as critical mass is concerned, we are doubling about every 2-3 months with absolutely no marketing or PR (which is why you don't hear about us on TechCrunch very often). We've got a lot of work ahead of us in terms of scaling to meet demand, but so far we're handling it well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Spot_(Treasure_Island)
I think HN has always been an experiment. Playing with fire sounds almost like a compliment then.
Perhaps this is just me, but doesn't red seem counter-intuitive for a positive score? I think we're conditioned to think red is bad and green is good.

Could this dot be changed to green? Also, could you put an alt or label on that dot with something like "over 5 votes" or some other descriptive text? A bit more accessible.
Time to End Major League Baseball's Antitrust Exemption
Hehe, I've had great fun with this before: http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~br0kend/sl.mp4
Awesome! Thats the plan. E-mail me if you'd like a shirt. :)
Ask PG: what are these little d●ts about? 
I'm seeing things like '● by username 1 hour ago | link' on somebunall comments. Some dots are red. Does HN have measles? Would it like a glass of water?
I've suggested making usernames invisible unless you mouse-over a field. That way you can still see a name if you mean to, but you're mainly judging by content.

Making some kind of temporary "masks" is too much PIA IMHO.
I think many big time operators / hosting providers use them too because of the price, their inbound transfers are actually sold at a loss (when you take into account all the fees they have to pay).

Most other registrars that do larger volumes will sell you at about $1 over their cost.
Jython 2.5.1 Final is out
The gray dots were something to turn red.
The dot adds visual noise (just as the redundant "by").

It might be worthwhile to try and map the color code onto the arrows. Red up arrow instead of red dot could serve both as highlight and as "stop, don't click me".
I can't find that MacKay is "off by a factor of 5", as I can't see the that the calculation "wallflower" mentions is actually in the book. It seems to be "wallflowers" calculation.

However, this is what the book encourages. To learn how to make your own calculations and understand the numbers bandied about in the media about energy and energy systems.
Secret History of Silicon Valley - Steve Blank Video
Off topic, but you can test recognition a lot easier. Show a huge list of randomly generated names with real ones mixed in and measure galvanic skin response.

MRI would be hugely expensive and probably totally inconclusive really.
Someone recognized me at one of the NY YC meetups, based on writing / talking style.
I like the existence of the windows - which I can still sort of see on the aisles but hate sitting at the window because of the need to step over people to get to either the washrooms or the overhead compartment. It's especially important on those long overseas flights...
yeah, same for me - not putting too much attention into posters name.

but it seems there are groups of people here that know and hang out with each other and act as a herd on the site - upvoting their own and downvoting any outsider.
Video

http://www.lumalin.com/lumalin_films/last_lecture.php
As psychological effects go, it is rather questionable whether it is possible to 'ignore names'. This question does not concern a fully conscious process. Once you've noticed a name (and it's hard not to), all kinds of things go click inside your head. You cannot undo the associations that were made; the mere fact that you attempt to 'ignore' names already indicates that there is something to ignore.

The unavoidable state of mind with which I will read a comment from 'cperciva' or 'tptacek' (whom I recognize, along with pg, edw512, jacquesm and a few others) is: 'this is likely to be a comment from a security point of view and I'm likely to consider it a high quality answer'. I don't understand in what way that would pose a problem, unless you suppose that causes one to immediately lose the capacity to critically evaluate the content of the comment and conclude 'hmmm, a disappointing comment'. I think that risk is larger when I would assume that I could ignore the name and would hence be influenced by subconscious processes whose existence I tried to deny.
About a year and a half ago, kirubakaran and I met at the door of a yc event and decided to put our hacker news names on our name tags. I had already been posting for about a year by then. People I didn't recognize walked up to me saying things like, "I like the way you handle third normal form," "I can't believe you still code to ie6," and "Your object code is my source code." A night this hacker will never forget.
Hacker Book Club
What's actual accomplishment for you? Winning a manned race to the moon and building first reusable space plane?

There's enormous amount of research being done there that's not as visible, but significantly more important. NASA won't be building planes anyway.

What's also nice about this is that it's mostly open source.

Just take it and build your own startup on top of it!
So, now we know if a comment is at 0 or lower, and if a comment is at 5 or higher... Wouldn't it be easier and more consistent at that point to just show the score?

Although I guess I never saw the karma thing as a huge problem to begin with, so I suppose I'm a bad person to opine about this.
I originally found the video via this blog, which I'm subscribed to in Google Reader. I'd much rather reward the bloke who made me aware of it with a few hits than link to some anonymous Youtube page stuffed with inane comments. Both pages contain the video, and it doesn't affect the view numbers on that, so what's the actual problem here?

It's not my blog and I'm pretty sure the bloke running it isn't raking in the cash from piles of adverts, so it's hardly spam...
You got mad at him for making an impersonal remark

I think Are you saying that you're too lazy to read what people are saying and form your own opinions? is a rather personal remark. A psychologizing one at that. Pot, meet kettle.
The SAI concept looks a lot like some of the Boeing Sonic Cruiser concepts from a few years back, like this one: http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w238/Christopher_Cvel/114...

The SAI and early cruiser concepts both have winglets, but the later cruiser concepts have raked wingtips, like the 767-400: http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_17/wingti...

I'd love to see how a floor-plan like this works in practice: http://www.aviationexplorer.com/pics/future_airliners6.jpg Seems like the airlines and airport authorities would need to come-up with some better queueing/loading processes.
From the viewpoint of a HN lurker:

-pg - Because he's PG

-edw517, mechanical_fish - Due to frequent sighting of their comments

-tokenadult - You'll always find him in threads that contain discussions about human intelligence/alternative education

-potatolicious - U.S. immigration discussions + Canada vs. USA issues

-markbao - Entrepreneur, 16 years old

-mahmud - A technology nomad (originally from the Washington DC Metro, now in Australia)

These are the ones I can recall from top of my head. I do recognize many other usernames, of course. Also, I would like to point out I have no inclination to upvote the individuals mentioned above. I think it's more about frequency, since most of them tend to partake in discussions that cover a wide range of topics.

Just because they're experts in one area doesn't mean I'll find their opinions insightful no matter what. Each posting/comment is taken into consideration.
Given the stuff that ends up in my spam buckets, I'd tend to expect that anything involving medication or health care is one of the "more valuable targets", at least from the set of things that have CAPTCHAs as a significant obstacle.
Here is an idea for a dating website 
At work I get to learn a little bit about a lot of industries and occasionally I get these great business ideas. Right now with my own startup I don't have time to start something else up but if anyone is interested feel free to take this idea and run with it!

Idea: Social Web Dating

Problem:
I've tried a lot of internet dating websites out there and one of the best is http://www.plentyoffish.com/ . It's free, I get the best responses from people here, and it works. The only problems I have with the site are sometimes the girls pictures are very mis-representative (the classic "myspace pictures") and its difficult to build common ground before a in person date, I don't know if we have any friends in common, interests, etc.

A really good company trying to change this is Thread.com one of the fbFund winners. They want to connect dating with your facebook profile so you an see your friend connections and introduce each other to potential dates, think match making.

My only problem with this site is its not explicit that the people on there are looking for a date and I'm not sure if I'm comfortable introducing someone looking for a date to my friends.

The Business idea:
So the idea is to create a site very similar to Plenty of Fish but to connect it to your facebook profile to populate all the information quickly and be able to see shared connections etc. But the catch is other users on the site won't be able to see your full profile until each person agrees. For example if I see a cute girl on the site I'll send her a message saying I would love to get to know her and ask if I can see her full facebook profile.

I already do this already, when I see someone on Plenty of Fish I want to get to know more I ask them to friend me on facebook. Then we can both see our shared connections and interests, chat on facebook, and if we both click we can go on a date.

The site would explicitly feature people looking for a date, unlike thread.com, and take advantage of all the social network features faecebook connect has to offer.

That’s the rough concept. If anyone is interested in taking this on I’d love to brainstorm with you about it and share more about the concept. Send me an email if your interested chris.r.mccann [at] gmail.com
The Internet has been indispensable in my quest to find up-and-coming artists! Many of the bands I've learned about have been introduced at random by Pandora. I've gone on to buy quite a few albums (and seen shows) thanks to that passive discovery process.

...we know there's a system that will rise out of this that will undoubtedly be regulated.

That sounds wonderful -- because we all know how much regulation fosters innovation! I'd rather never have that discussion. I guess I don't understand what you're advocating in general. Music has been an integral part of society since caveman days; just because record labels found a way to get fat by extorting consumers and artists alike doesn't mean people have some god-given right to be paid for their self-expression (but often times they deserve it.)
Timescapes Timelapse: Mountain Light
Downright impressive. I'm implementing the TCP/IP stack for my OS at the moment, and it's sitting at about 400 lines before TCP (ethernet, IP, DHCP, and ARP). Definitely going to see how I can improve it after this.
I trust both my own and the community's judgment. In general, I don't value one above the other. However, when they are at odds, that is an indication that I need to pay special attention, either because I am wrong, because many people are somehow wrong (which I think is quite relevant knowledge), because the situation isn't as clearcut as I may have thought, etc. In specific cases, I may come to value one judgment above the other, which does not necessarily mean dismissing the other judgment. These things are quite gray and I feel comment scores help in distinguishing the shades of gray.
If by "pot, meet kettle", you're mentioning how dcurtis responded to my remark with a personal psychologizing remark, then the expression makes sense; otherwise, I'm confused. I didn't get mad at what dcurtis said, so I don't know who's the pot and who's the kettle here.

"Are you saying that" is an opener that means, "How is it that you're viewing this, because I see it like this". I wasn't trying to be snide and put him down. I was letting him know that's how I was viewing the situation, and asking him his interpretation. It was also a teeny bit tongue-in-cheek, considering, again, he's currently spending a month of his life flying in planes.
This is precisely the problem. Without some idea of what earlier readers think of the comments it is much harder to skim.

Yes. It's like "we want the voting system for our own purposes. You schmucks can just read every comment under an article because your time is not as valuable to us as our desire to prevent mobbing"

I'm sure that's not the case, but that's the way the new system feels.
I wouldn't even read that as "Mono is the wrong approach", but as "you should not choose Mono or C# as the basis for a new free software project".
There is a much easier way to fight the MySpace angle: remember that if you can't at least see a woman's upper arm in any photo and you're on a free online dating site, you can assume that this is not due to an oversight.
> I also have no way of knowing when the MAJORITY of readers are disagreeing with me.

Why would that matter ? The majority isn't always right.

HN is not a popularity contest, but when you look at the comments that way it certainly starts to look like it.

Let's see what I can say that many people will agree with so I can be voted up ?

As unalone already remarked, now you have to make up your own mind about what you are reading, which is a huge improvement over the groupthink mentality. It forces you to think for yourself before casting your vote, it takes care of the huge feedback loop that was in HN before this change.

Even now, there is still some of that left, after all the sort order still tells you what the majority voted for, but that's subtle enough that it probably won't matter too much, and the new sorting algorithm seems to do a very good job of bringing the good stuff to the top.
In contrast to the content-void blog post, the description on Youtube contains a link to the mp3, the authors website and the lyrics.

Don't submit where you found something, submit what you found. If you consider your link important, just post it as a comment.
I see a lot of comments here that basically say the same thing: "don't change anything, I was used to the old situation, now I'm lost".

Give it a couple of days worth of trying before casting your 'vote' on the changes, it's a pretty disruptive change because it breaks the routine, but I really think this sort of experimenting is what will bring out the best in HN, if hackers are starting to be conservatives then we really are in trouble.

Give it the benefit of the doubt and an honest chance.
Is there no similar translation between the creative aspects of chess and mathematics?
Neat concept, but the title "The Last Lecture" reminded me of this: http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/. It's surely a coincidence, but an unfortunate one.

And if you haven't watched Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture", you should.
One suggestion: the point ranking could be merely probabilistic -- for each comment set its "page-sort" score by selecting a random number between 1 and the comment's score. (For negative comments, between 0 and their score?) Then sort the comments by their page-sort score. I've looked at this mostly on reddit, since their threads are much more popular than on HN, but finding late wheat in the chaff of low-voted comments can be a problem when threads get large.
I'm seeing dots for some comments instead of the score. It looks like gray dots for comments with a high score and red dots for comments with a very high score. Doesn't this defeat the purpose of the change to some extent?

Edit: Sorry, it looks like this was explained after I had loaded this page. Still, this seems like a partial reversal. Also, this story is at #16 on the front page and really should be at #1 considering the magnitude of the change.

Oh and just one more question: I'm seeing this comment at the top of the page. Is that just how it looks for me, or is it that way for everyone because of the new ranking algorithm?

Another edit: From PG's explanation, I thought the gray dots were all turned red, but I still see gray dots for some comments (including one with a negative score).
Where was it explained? I'm still searching.....
I take a lot longer to read a thread, but I think it is well worth it, even the downvoted comments sometimes contain really good stuff, and sometimes the downvotes are based on ambiguity or misunderstandings (or cultural gaps).

So if I pick a thread I read all of it, sometimes again at a later point in time (or via the 'threads' page).
I'm sure he's not a bad person but he is clearly intolerant of other peoples opinions when they are in conflict with his own. He also has a bad habit of going overboard in the way he vilifies people and technologies sometimes.
Ok. This is starting to congeal for me.

What the old system did was to provide a numeric indicator of other readers' emotive participation in the discussion. It wasn't a popularity contest (although it could be for some) and it wasn't an agree/disagree rank (although it could be for some)

These "bad" uses of the score caused the system to get out of whack as more and more people participated. The problem is, there are "good" uses of the score, which is to use it as a way to filter the site. After all, there are thousands of comments added per hour and it's crazy to think that I'm going to have time to read every single one. I need an indicator of those comments that seem to affect the most number of readers because that's where I want to add my limited amount of effort.

I am not on a treasure hunt for good comments. I am not here to please PG or the other readers. Some might be but I am not. I am not jumping onboard to upvote things already upvoted -- the sad fact is that I can't read everything, so some things will have to have higher priority than others. If you take away the numeric system, I'll find some other way to filter -- perhaps by comment author or by scanning the front page for buzzwords that interest me.

I, the user, have a need to skim. Now the system can either easily provide that for me, or I'll probably go somewhere else. I don't mean that as a threat or anything -- I'm sure nobody gives a hoot where I read on the net or not -- but as an indication of the type of reaction the general public is going to have.
Yeah, I use Spotify (and pay for it) and it kicks ass. Thing is, I can't see how it's viable for the record companies long term since I'm only paying £10 a month to save the more than £10 I'd spend usually..