skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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People really like to attack Chris Anderson and his lightweight business-IT theories. I don't really understand why.

My best guess is that he's a pretty good self-promoter, and as with Apple, people who can't promote themselves can get into the spotlight by attacking someone who is already there.
Except on Wall Street.
Pretty much just the other's people have mentioned. Maybe it would be alright to include a one or two line signature now to help differentiate everyone and to promote their work.
I was referring to the past two years or so that I've been seeing it as "recent". It may not be internet recent, but I still consider that fairly recent in terms of music.

As far as it goes, I dislike MySpace because it is an excused for a half-assed web designer to slap something together and call it a "Band Site". I've seen a few MySpace pages that blew me away, and that really showed how good of a platform it could be. Those were, by far, the exception though, so every time I see a MySpace band page, I think "Wow, these guys are only willing to put this much work into their online presence?" Sure, my idea of a "good" site is rather skewed, but a lot of band sites are downright dreadful, and there really isn't an excuse for it.
Sharp turns? In commercial aviation?
RFC 2468 - I remember IANA
The ranking changes you just made completely eliminated whatever mental model of thread dynamics I had left. It's not clear that you understand the degree to which you're playing with fire here.

A 'good but late' comment won't be seen by anyone anyway, due to your front page ranking algorithm that prevents even the most active threads from spending long enough on the front pages.
Yep. I have a bunch of domains with Godaddy; what are the good alternatives? (This is the sort of thing that's really hard to google for)
> There's a nice documentary "My Brilliant Brain" that shows how people can get extraordinarily skilled by (surprise surprise) making an extraordinary effort).

There is also something called the g-factor that is a measure of intelligence. A significant amount of research shows that the basis for the g-factor is innate (i.e. due to genetics). It also turns out that this has to do with the physiology of the brain.

A good starting point for papers on this subject is Haier et al. You can find some of his papers at :

http://www.pediatrics.uci.edu/faculty/neurology/haier/haier....
http://web.mac.com/rjhaier/iWeb/Haier/Welcome.html

It is somewhat shocking that intelligence may be an innate factor. This is a fairly controversial topic (even without bringing gender or race into the conversation). But have you thought about the repercussions if intelligence is proven to be innate? A good example would be to classify people with a low intelligence as disabled (with the employment equity and disability aid that comes along with it).
I think it was MIDIfied, but more importantly he's also having a dig at the fact that 'her' article on copyright was copypasta from a Techdirt article without attribution to the original author, Michael Masnick. He then goes on to complain that labels assert cover versions (like this very track) infringe, when their poster girl of the moment is plagiarizing writers herself.

Not only do I like his argument on copyright, I think it's also best deconstruction of the pop music business I've heard in a long, long time.
If you are pirating music then you are cheating the artist. And if you enjoy the song why steal it? I mean you can probably buy it off iTunes for 99 cents to a $1.29

It depends whether you think the ends justify the means.

Since the iTunes Music Store started up, I've run a clean ship, but back in the Napster days I got into some bands I would never have got into if I had to buy their CD. I've then gone to gigs of some of these bands, recommended their music to others, and, ultimately, they got more money from my actions than if I had to pay to buy their album (which I wouldn't have bothered with).

Markets are complicated. It can't be proven that Lily Allen would have any more money now if piracy were non-existent (or vice versa, admittedly). I think the power effect of social markets comes into play - it makes more sense for her to have significantly more fans making her less cash per capita than to have a smaller fanbase that doesn't engage in piracy.

Either way, I know I've gotten into bands (and then given those bands money in some way directly or indirectly) via unconventional means before. If those avenues hadn't been available (and now I just use Spotify - no need for piracy!) I'd probably have stuck to the 10 or so bands I like and given more money to them instead.
jacquesm has been pretty on the ball lately. rokhayakebe seems like a good guy. paul (Buchheit) offers a lot of karma per word. Initally, I liked PG's style of writing: really good style for business plans.
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I'm not quite sure what the article is getting at - people on both sides of the issue agree that there are serious problems with the way health care is currently delivered in the US, and (for the most part) they agree on what those problems are. The disagreement comes, of course, with how the sides suggest fixing them.

I also don't buy the implied comparison with how "open" and organized the airline industry is. Sure, Expedia/Orbitz gives you decent visibility and aggregation of providers, but there's still a whole deeper level of ticket availabilities, pricing structures, and routing plans that are only available when you talk to someone who's job it is to know the system (a travel agent), and who you pay a commission to in order to get the best deal/service.

If you think travel agents are dead in the face of the Internet, it means one of two things - you don't go anywhere complex, or you haven't found a good one.
I suspect it'd still be a tough sell for aircraft manufacturers - especially for long range flights. I do 14-16 hour flights frequently and although I might not be seated next to a window knowing that they're there is sort of nice when I get up to stretch legs. Otherwise you're asking people get into basically a cave for that period of time which might be claustrophobic to even those who don't normally get claustrophobic.

Another issue might be the amount of sea sickness you might encounter given that at least having a horizon line that people can focus on helps. On the other hand... on a 14-16 hour flight if I save 50% or in the case of this like 20% to have windows versus not having windows even when not seated next to one, I might suck it up.

As a frequent traveller, I much prefer to get an aisle seat anyway.
The solution to that is to make the vote scores logarithmic.

Removing information helps nobody.
I don't think a lot of it is a matter of being pro-filesharing or anti. It's about recognizing the changing market.

Culture has shifted. Once people marveled at how they could listen to a recording of a singer so it was just like having them perform in their own house! They placed a large value on that. They were happy to pay to buy the latest album.

As things have moved on, people just place far less value on being able to have the ability to listen to particular songs on demand, and expect it to either be free, or nearly free.

After all, selling musical recordings is a pretty recent fad. It's not like some age old industry is being killed here.

In some ways it's similar to the ringtone fad. In the late 90s ringtones were massive and people were willing to pay a few pounds for each ringtone. Few years later and people aren't prepared to do that anymore.

It seems like the new model will just be 'Give away recorded music to promote live shows'.
Have had no problems with namecheap, dotdnr was good too but they upped their price by 5 bucks (not much but makes you wonder if they would do it again).
there was this thread a while ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=777298
I don't think I've ever misspelled ls as sl (though I've done ls- alf and derivations plenty of times). Now that I've installed this, though, I intend to do it often.
I've always thought that checkout speeds are negatively correlated with the amount of register localization. By de-localizing the registers, one could map a redistribution that makes the distance from each shopping section equidistant. This would effectively eliminate the need for "express" lines.

This can't be a novel suggestion, so why has it not been implemented? It shocks, to think that major companies would sacrifice efficiency so as to not disturb a consumer's sense of familiarity.
yeah. no sharp turns or sharp pitch ups (see other poster's concern about engines not getting enough air) for this bird. fine by me for an airliner.

How would windows add drag I don't get? Actually you can be a lot more creative with windows on this thing.
Maybe the issue is just the absoluteness of the scores. Behind the scenes, unbounded numbers are fine, but when presented to users they cause a tendency for gaming. I propose a follow-up experiment:

1) Keep the absolute scores secret

2) Continue graying out down-voted comments

3) Do not show any numeric indicator for conversations with less than N comments (I'd experiment with N near 10)

4) When the number of comments is greater than the threshold, show which percentile the comment is in for the set of positive comment scores in that thread.

This way, when you look at a comment you don't think "Does this guy deserve more points?", instead you think "Is this comment better than 75% of the other comments here?"

I think this would improve voting AND increase the value of that voting: people would have the right frame of mind when voting and the UI will present an easier value to determine how worthwhile it is to keep reading.
> It is completely the opposite to some Western ideals to ensure that everyone gets the same (bad) education.

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.

> What is incredibly interesting to note is that Russia and several eastern bloc countries perform better than the USA in math (school age – according to OECD TIMMS test).

This is not what made the great Russian mathematicians though. You don't get feynmanns and turings by locking up kids to solve monotonous puzzles.

> In all fairness, the USSR did produce quite a few excellent physicists. Per capita it probably outranks the USA for Nobel Prize winners in Physics.

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

There were plenty of great Soviet physicists and champions in other sciences, but bear in mind that at least half of them were product of pre-Soviet, imperial school system.
On the one hand, I completely agree with the scientific merit of your suggestion.

On the other hand, showing different HNs to different people doesn't exactly strike me as community-building behavior. I think it would make the site feel even more like Temple Grandin's barnyard, with us in the role of the cows. Will my species behave better if we design the floor like this? Will that tweak to the algorithm prevent us from starting fights among ourselves? Oh, no, a gathering of more than twelve people -- we'd better build a robot to break those up.
I understand the pun. It still breaks the analogy.
Mapreduce, Mapreuse, Maprecycle!

Not bad.
So you like both aisle and window? Well, on this thing I guess you may get both, unlike on conventional designs!
I don't like that idea. Part of what makes Hacker News great is the forced absence of comment self-promotion/signatures and a extremely high focus on what's being said rather than who says it.

Anecdotally, if I find myself particularly interested in what someone says I'll visit their profile to learn more about them.
The icing on the cake: You are actually the same guy! Check out ComputerGuru's profile:

about: Founder and director of NeoSmart Technologies (http://neosmart.net/)
a non-profit software development and research organization.
Specialization in high-performance webapps and OS kernel design.

The "art of fud", indeed.
So you think it's bad because you feel guilty about your past piracy? I don't - the only music I've ever downloaded is stuff I've already bought on vinyl or CD, in some cases multiple times, and lost via lending/ moving house/ abandoned storage etc., or which is unavailable due to being out of print. And have you ever tried taking a crackly LP, snapped tape or delaminated CD back to the store for replacement? Unless you just purchased it, of course not. Library maintenance is (rightly) the user's problem.

It helps that I don't listen to much top 40 stuff, obviously. But as a one-time DJ with a music budget of $500/month, and one with a self-imposed prior ownership test for what I download, thumbs down to your complaints.
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A lot of the large domain owners use Moniker or Fabulous for their domains. They both have good prices and good support. Plus they don't lead you through a mine field of extras just to buy a domain.

I personally have had good luck with Moniker. They also have a great API.
I don't have esc bound to caps-lock so its a reach!
Also, shower shorter. 5 minutes is way more than enough.
PG, 'cos he's PG.

tdavis, because he was memorable on IRC.

patio11, because Jesus that guy posts like an inferno.

jrockway, who I think I've argued with more than anybody save amichail, who I also recognize.

edw519, because duh.

Probably some other people.
When moniker was acquired by oversee.net I was pretty skeptical, but they've been really good about it and so far no glitches because of the takeover.

As long as Monte is in the drivers seat there I'm pretty sure things will be working fine. His attention to detail and the fantastic customer service there are the reason why moniker became that big so fast.
FYI, the phrase originates from the difficulty and danger of carrying out certain adjustments on a sailing ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_the_Devil_and_the_Deep_... - it's not about having the Devil to pay, but what you risk if you don't get the job of adjusting your 'sails' done.
A boycott would only work if there were a concerted effort behind to spread the word as far as possible.

The recent Whole Foods boycott was a good example of how to do it - organizers used the forums section of the Whole Foods website to get the word out and Whole Foods didn't prevent it.

A couple of people changing hosts on HN is not going to amount to a hill of beans and would most likely just inconvenience those people since Godaddy is the cheapest option available (if you use their frequent coupon codes).
It's the PG microblog.
This is blogspam, here is the actual link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL9-esIM2CY
> Surely being able to read the code makes it easy to maintain....

I've never written code intended for complete novices to maintain. I don't care if people who have never programmed in the language before can maintain code written in the language without learning the language. I think that's an effective way to ruin your code and your project and any long-term plans you have around the project.

I care deeply about maintainability and learnability, but I care not one whit if someone who's never programmed in Perl can look at real-world Perl code and suss out exactly what it does and why based on... guesswork? Intuition? Experience with languages that are not Perl?
Can't wait to try this with my JFK commemorative keyboard.
gaborcselle and wheels are also founders.
These guys aren't the only ones working on this. Here's a couple of links to some interesting concepts Boeing is exploring:

2006 article, with more detail: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/200...

2009 article, newer but with less detail: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/runway-girl/2009/03/pic-bo...

The Boeing low-noise concept seems to already incorporate the same basic ideas: engines on top, to deflect noise away from the ground, and redesigned wings (presumably for a steeper final approach).
Yes but now it looks like that the "Napster experience" might have a comeback, this time a legal one. As you have mentionned, we have Spotify now in Europe (http://www.spotify.com) which offers unlimited streaming (even from your iPhone) for £10 a month, which is the price of a CD and in the US market there is Grooveshark (http://listen.grooveshark.com/) offering a similar service. Since you play a flat fee, you can experiment and listen to music you wouldn't buy otherwise.

Spotify is partially owned by big record labels such as Sony BMG (5.8%), Universal Music (4.8%), Warner Music (3.8%) and EMI (1.9%), altogether 16.3%.
Well, my CD money spending went from ~3/year to a good ~20 for each of the years during OiNK's Pink Palace times (fantastic music filesharing site). Now it is at ~1/year because I do got fed up by the music mafia and rather look for genuinely free music (Creative Commons etc).
One thing that came up was giving a positive bias to usernames you recognize for their previous insightful comments

Interesting question.

I have a great deal of respect for many people here (too many to mention), but oddly, I don't think that has much influence on how I feel about new posts. Every thread is fresh and every day we start over. So no matter how insightful you've been in the past, you just gotta keep doing it. I suppose that's the way it should be.
I completely ignore names other than pg, a personal friend or two, and names on my confirmation-biased list of obnoxious karma whores. I don't make a mental note of "X must be a smart character" when I upvote X's comments.
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If I remember correctly, Stallman also launched a war against Tcl some time ago. But I never really understood why he did it.

Any hint ?
> How much Perl code "in the wild" uses those best practices?

Not enough.

Consider this, though: how much Perl code "in the wild" is the result of programming novices who learned just enough Perl to do a job without actually having to learn how to program or how to write Perl code well or how to write maintainable code?

I suspect that it's far more than you might think.

If that's true, then the complaint is that Perl is too easy to write.
Same here. But I think that is the idea - to let the comments speak for themselves and let the comments sink or swim on their own merits.
Someone came up to me at a London startup event and said they recognized my name from hacker news. Made my night.
Perhaps if/when the hidden-scores experiment concludes, PG can try a hidden-usernames experiment. Namely:

For each submission's threads, a user would be assigned a new temporary (but stable) handle. Only later -- a few days, or when the article has dropped out of the top ~60 -- would these revert to the permanent names.

Variants: let a submitter opt a submission's threads into this system -- perhaps permanently for that item, or for the period of initial discussion/rating. Or, let a member in good standing adopt such a 'mask' for the duration of one item's discussion.
Ok, comments over a threshold (currently 5) now have a red dot prepended to them. Is that better?
From the threads I'm looking up, it seems that he just disliked the language? :S
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If file sharing does directly contribute to lost revenue then that revenue wasn't ever (or is no longer) deserved. I pay for music, but only when I think it's really warranted. Artists have to prove to me that what I'm buying is worth paying for -- before file sharing there was no way to do that. Sure, artists release singles, but you don't buy CDs by the song.

There are a select few people who have proven to me time and again that they produce high-quality music worthy of my money (and, in my opinion, worth far more than I pay). Notably, I will buy anything done by the likes of Steven Wilson, Trent Reznor, Jenny Lewis, and MJK. It doesn't matter if it's a new group or a solo album. It doesn't matter if I haven't heard a single song. Some bands like Dredg are guaranteed buys -- again, even if I haven't heard a single song.

I know the artist doesn't get very much of album sales, especially digital ones, so I will buy directly from them (FLAC helps, too) where possible. Music -- popular music, anyway -- has been commoditized and watered down to the point that it really isn't worth buying. I "pirated" the latest Pearl Jam album because I was reasonably sure it was going to be a disaster (apart from the one catchy single) and I was vindicated in that notion. If I had bought it, where would I return my MP3s to?

I have never believed music isn't worth paying for. I don't even know how I would live without the ability to listen to music nearly constantly. I am very cognizant when I'm without it for even a day. This viewpoint wasn't cultivated by manufactured, commodity sound. It was born from the work of amazingly talented individuals who have the ability to take words and sound and shape them into something that has more meaning than either could achieve alone. How isn't that worth paying for... when it transcends?
The problem there is not so much the people that would make such bids, but the people that would accept such bids.
Considering how much NASA has actually accomplished in the last several decades, that is probably the kiss of death for any actual plane.
>In what POSSIBLE WAY does this "benefit" everyone? There are too few big competitors in search already.

I don't understand this space well enough to have a meaningful opinion, but I think some people feel that the only way Google will have any competition is if Microsoft and Yahoo team up. If that's true, I guess it could be a good thing.
Some guy says something obnoxious.

In this case we basically only have one source for the statement. I don't remember seeing anyone else aside from the OSNews guy mentioning that statement.

Some other blogger tried to get a transcript of the Q&A that Stallman was giving but the FSF apparently doesn't keep transcripts of Q&As (they probably didn't record video :/)
That is a really good point. I want to go international, but there are two problems. One, I don't have a great data source. My data source is extremely limiting. Two, I am the only person, and I only write English.

Also I am at version 1, I am listening to all the feedback I get and I will continue to iterate to make a better site.
for me, the comment i'm replying to shows a red dot, just to the right of the up/down arrows. i've seen a couple of other comments with such a dot. anybody know what it means?
If the 'couple of people' on HN are anywhere near on average compared to the few that I know personally then it will have a huge effect.
I signed up for Grooveshark a while back, but I've really been trying it today and I'm loving it.

Bonus points for having a song that my $15/mo subscription service doesn't!
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> As things have moved on, people just place far less value on being able to have the ability to listen to particular songs on demand, and expect it to either be free, or nearly free.

That's fine. I don't think anyone wants to deny consumers their right to decide the amount they want to buy for. What people disagree on is whether you should then get it, if you're not willing to pay the price for it.

> After all, selling musical recordings is a pretty recent fad. It's not like some age old industry is being killed here.

That isn't relevant, of course. Age doesn't say anything about the quality of an industry. Some very old industries have died (deservedly), while very young industries are thriving deservedly.

> In some ways it's similar to the ringtone fad. In the late 90s ringtones were massive and people were willing to pay a few pounds for each ringtone. Few years later and people aren't prepared to do that anymore.

Wow, the UK must be way ahead of the rest of Europe! :-) It's still a big fad here. Not a few pounds, but about a euro or so...