skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've up-mud both of you, but for some reason you appear to have been down-mud again. No idea if it's real, or just some effect of the voting system, but thanks for your comments. It's interesting to get examples to compare, and the name of the singularity. This is one reason why this is a cool place to participate.

EDIT: Someone down-mud this comment, no doubt because they think it's meta-discussion, or doesn't add value, or whatever. I don't care. I'm still going to thank people for doing good things.
Down voting is an official active punishment that is meant to discourage. Down voting is a form of punishment. Ignoring is not a form of punishment. It's passive.

What you describe may be mistaken as an active form of punishment, but you're essentially up voting the non racists, not down voting the racists. You aren't punishing the racists for their behavior so much as you are showing support for the other side.

You rally more anti-racists, but they still have the right to do what they were doing, and even up the numbers on their side too.

That is what I would like to see here. I want to see people pushing support to what they believe, not punishing those that disagree. So let's say there is a hypothetical racial argument here. One guy is racist, the other guy is not. Your example is analogous to everyone up voting the non racist as a form of protest.
am i the only one still using xterm with its default "fixed" font in black-on-white?
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meh? click on up/down vote button -> GET/POST -> displays a comments page with recounted votes at the location of your comment

you still need to reload to see other people's votes even with today's fancy ajax voting!
So, pretty much you force people to make comments you will by taking away points.

"reinforcing groupthink"

Do you speak for one group when on HN or do you speak for yourself? If you speak for a group could you please detail which group that is and at which point you were assigned the right to take actions in its name?
Maybe that's the reason. Or is it that the modern academic job scene pushes people to be big fish in small ponds rather than medium-sized fish in bigger ponds?
Ask HN: What is the going rate for developing an iPhone app?
I was wondering if anyone here had any guidance on the current market for developing iPhone apps. Any links, market research, or anecdotal evidence would be appreciated.
to me, the point at which someone is willing to invest the effort to do this is the point at which you're popular enough to be able to shut down voting without logging in, but you're absolutely right, this is a vulnerability.
yeah i've heard this, i thought it was finnish, but maybe it's the same language? i'm not planning on doing much PR in norway :-)
I'm surprised there hasn't been any software based artists mentioned yet.

How about (I'll add examples of specific work so you won't have to search it out):

Cory Arcangel http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made/SuperMarioMov...

Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningpost.html (see video gallery)

RSG http://r-s-g.org/carnivore/

GRL http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76

There's many more. If you're interested in this kind of art there are festivals too:

Bay area: http://01sj.org/

Europe : http://www.aec.at/index_en.php

Various location : http://www.isea-web.org/eng/index.html
polldaddy and sodahead both allow voting without logins. i think it's a probability game. yes, occasionally you get someone going overboard to cheat, but you make up for it in non-annoyed one time spontaneous voters.
Michael Parkes pieces in a few rooms of my house.
"Living" On The Cheap As A Zombie
Given the amount of money to be made doing this stuff, it was inevitable that other good smart phones would arise. Props to google for realizing that its the OS that really makes a phone, not the hardware. Obviously, the Droid is a nice piece of hardware, but any other Andriod 2.0 phone will be very close to the same.

I wish Nokia would get their shit together and really make a good OS.
Yeah, because education is so effective.
Shrug

The site isn't for you.
This was posted some time ago, and the comments there are interesting:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662105

I said in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662151 :

More and more, producers of programs are hiding the
details, making it easier for people to just get on
with things and solve their problems, without having
to worry about the details of how it happens, and the
machinery underneath.

Then others, no doubt technical people, go and interview
the users in order to show just how ignorant they all are.

Did I get that right?

If you want to make computers and services easy to use,
you don't want people to be able to answer these questions.
You want people to find your service, use it, and remain
completely unaware of the technology.

So while it's true that you are not average, the ignorance these people are showing is exactly the ignorance being given to them, forced on them, by makers of programs. And said makers are proud of that - their programs are "easy to use" and "intuitive."

Don't laugh and deride people for becoming exactly what you make them become. Be proud that you've done your job so well that they don't know what a browser is.

Why should they know? Everything is "intuitive."
OK fair enough. But bad programming by browser makers has nothing to do with the markup used for web-pages, which is what you were praising with BH's homepage. Quirks mode also has nothing to do with markup and everything to do with browser makers' failure to implement w3c css standards. And wasn't the DOM developed to accommodate demands for client side scripting such as javascript.

So two of the things you cite as contributing to bloat have nothing to do with page design, and without the third (the DOM) we'd give up a lot of client-side scripting functionality, which is exactly the functionality I am arguing isn't worth giving up.
Real Estate and Rentals now in Google Maps
Sure, but at some level you're going to have to limit on IP, which means that people behind proxies or NAT are going to (unfairly) not have their votes counted.
As much as someone could type that, someone could also downvote because they were thinking that.
They seem to scrape a lot of rental sites, not including Craigslist.
From Warren's own words, if you are looking at the price of an asset from day to day, you aren't an investor - you are a speculator, and a speculator generally shouldn't be interested in his company as his investment philosophy is completely at odds with theirs. Obviously this statement applies just as much to the person referred to in the comment you replied to as to your comment.
I think he means the effect is undesired because we're trying to get rid of "stupid" comments but in practice such a system gives way to abuse.
From the article: "Sure enough, the best invited talk was Michael
Kiessling's talk that used the ancient technology of overhead
projector, and it would have been even better if he only used the
blackboard, and it would have been better still if he didn't use
anything, just told us a story."

Exactly this. The fact that all of the mathematicians I've been around
to date (except for one, but he's a ham, so he doesn't really count in
this statistic since he already counts as a hacker :) have treated their
overall field more like a science than an art has really disenchanted me
from it. Yes, mathematics is regarded as the queen of all sciences, but
I don't really buy entirely into that. It has applications there, and
that's probably as far as it goes as far as science is concerned. (Disclaimer: I studied applied
mathematics at a small state university at the undergraduate level.)

Math is beautiful not because it is full of intricate logical machinery
and full of useful computational tools and full of pretty pictures;
rather, math is beautiful because the intricate logical machinery can
take different forms (how many different proofs of the FTIC are there?
Pythagoras' theorem?) and because it's an imaginary world inside one's
head where there are arbitrary -- even infinite -- dimensions and
fungible axioms.

The point of these meetings is to inform (and even pique the interest of) your colleagues. If they have
no idea what's going on and don't even understand the fundamental
notions, what's the point? You're wasting your time, keystrokes,
breath, and energy, not to mention the money provided to you by some
grants.
In addition, Buffet likes consumer monopolies -- brands people recognize with a product or service. GEICO and Dairy Queen, Orange Julius, The Pampered Chef -- all recognizable brands and ones people don't associate with BH. This is a good thing. To make Berkshire Hathaway the center of attention dilutes a consumer monopoly.

When holding companies take it on as a strategy, it's a flash in the pan. Yum! Brands' (KFC, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver's) Kentucky Derby sponsorship is a great example.

I'm not going to Pizza Hut to be Yum!'s patron. I'm going there for pizza and I don't like Domino's.

Likewise, I'm not going to Dairy Queen because I like Berkshire Hathaway.

Berkshire Hathaway has no business building a consumer brand. And yet Berkshire's consumer brand is Warren Buffet.
Now you just gotta wait for google adsense to subsidize snail mail.
I think it's actually natural for people to feel offended, because down voting is an active engagement.

There are actually 3 choices. Ignore, up vote, and down vote. Down vote is taking the time and effort to click and purposely bury something. If it was unliked it would have probably simply been ignored. I seriously doubt most people read through each title and only either down vote or up vote. Most would probably be ignored, with the particularly hated ones being more likely down voted.
It's Mr Tompkins!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Tompkins
It influences a sorting algorithm that shapes the way people read...

What gives you the right to decide how a thread should or shouldn't be displayed for others? Aren't you valuing your opinion too much?

When I personally down-vote, it's because I think you're wrong

You can simply make your point in a reply, or maybe make use of silence.

or negative value (spam, noise, etc)

There is a FLAG link for all comments.

it really has nothing to do with your worth as a person

Comments reflect the way the poster thinks. You will not find anything more personal to us than the way we think.

or any desire to hurt you

But you do.
Another solution would be to offer the ability to sort comments strictly by karma.
I'm not a libertarian, but your point stands - it wasn't her philosophy that bothered me, it's the book and how poorly it is written. To use an example from the book I mentioned, The Name of the Rose has long sections where people argue over obscure religious matters (such as whether or not God has a sense of humour). As an atheist, if I reacted to books simply on the basis of my beliefs, I'd hate it, since what's more pointless than reading dialogue about a non-existent entity?

But I found it fascinating, because it's well done, well-written, and intellectually rigorous.

That said, the quality of her writing did impact my opinion of her philosophy. I was open-minded about Rand and her ideas until I started reading Atlas Shrugged, at which point I decided that if her writing was that poor, I really didn't see how I could embrace her ideas, especially since so many of her supporters seem to think it's a really fine novel.
Another Envy Code R fan here.
It's just quality control.

For some reason people value karma. The possibility of a down vote makes you think twice about posting rubbish.

From that perspective the system is working as intended :)
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Light travels "as fast as it can." If light travelled slowly, then, by the momentum equation of special relativity, we'd still ramp our energy limits long before we saw this sort of stuff. In fact, if things took so much more energy to move about, macro-scale creatures such as ourselves would probably not have developed.

I think the author meant "what if light travelled at only a fraction of the speed it physically could?" which is a much more ridiculous question, but with even more interesting implications, especially if you don't also scale down the speed of gravitational transmission et all to match.
It depends who you market it to. Seems to me like it would be a great tool for a designer. How do you plan on implementing server side scripts? Hopefully you wouldn't take it as far as needing to install a web server for your editor.

Overall, it's a good idea, but it needs to be done right, or else people will just keep using notepad or eclipse or whathaveyou. You'll need a good plugin engine, preferably one that accepts standard plugins from other editors, as this will further encourage people to use your product. Good luck!
I agree.

Fafi! is the best!! [http://www.fafi.net/images/images.html]

Miss Van is a huge inspiration to me as well. [http://images.google.com/images?q=miss+van]
I would go as far as to say that we need generalists who will take the time to chronicle and revive works from the past to make them relevant again.

Better still, we need the mathematics community at large to become more accustomed to seeing papers published in journals that do this so that a larger contingent can be made aware that these papers/ideas/theorems/corollaries/lemmata/definitions/people/pictures/etc. exist.

Note also that this doesn't necessarily preclude anyone in mathematics from adopting a specialization. In my eyes, the younger mathematician is in the same place as the startup founder: in the position to take a big risk and do something that sounds like a stupid idea (e.g., avoid publishing results anywhere but freely and openly on the WWW; see also: Daniel Bernstein) in order to have it pay off (e.g., earn tenure).
Thanks Miles and Prakash for the pointer to Markenomics.

I pointed some of my friends in banking that way and it seems to be circulating with some of the Wall St. crowd, although they tend to be more viewers than engagers.
Jeff Soto is in my top 5

http://images.google.com/images?q=jeff+soto
ShiftSpace is free software, it's not a startup. It's 90% JavaScript, 10% Python, and we use CouchDB as the backend. ShiftSpace can be run as a plugin (FireFox), or you can install ShiftSpace on your domain so that you expose annotation features to site visitors.

In fact, that's exactly what we did when MoMA (http://moma.org) hired us as client. The social bar at the bottom of the MoMA website is the same code that we use in the plugin.

If you're interested in contributing come join the fray here: http://github.com/ShiftSpace/shiftspace
They are also getting into the mortgage game, it looks like. See this screenshot: http://twitpic.com/nrfws (or is that old news).

Lots of money in everything having to do with real estate. Commissions are too high, at least in high-cost areas. The industry is ripe for disruption. It has been fighting against it ever since the Internet took flight. Even been accused of collusion, black balling, and other tactics to maintain the standard 6% commission. Same thing that Wall Street did. A company or agent breaks ranks and competes on price and they are shunned.
Because the informationally-equivalent action of upvoting every comment other than yours is not only tedious, but leaves you without the ability to upvote any other comment on its own merit.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkshire...
Google getting in on the mortgage game...
Nokia has had a great OS for years, but the Maemo engineers haven't been allowed to put a radio in their devices until the N900. Now they can.
Or is that old news? Certainly a lot of money in that industry. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage-backed_security: "There is about $14.6 trillion in total U.S. mortgage debt outstanding."
Edward Hopper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks
If I could just get 1% of that market, I'd be set for life! ;-)
More likely than SEOs, bloggers are probably looking for any new hint of an as-of-yet publically-invisible service, so they can be the one to start the rumor.
Yes, that's what I'm saying about the filtering, is that it serves to hide trolling comments. That doesn't necessarily mean that it reduces the number of trolls, as suggested by the parent.
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Not sure what I am supposed to learn from that.
Maybe just as well. On the Mac version it seizes the cursor so you can't get to the menu bar and won't quit with Command-Q despite flashing the menu to say "Yeah, I know you want out. Piss on you.

If the UI is that impolite on the machine known as the "fairy princess of user interface", then on Linux it would probably leave smelly food in your fridge and reorder your DVD collection.
I've always been a fan of the works of Joan Miro and El Greco.

I also have a painting by J. Stancin that I like a lot. He's not a very well-known artist, though, so I haven't seen too many of his other paintings.
Check out http://www.pinglater.com for calling yourself on a certain date, too :)

Note: I developed this iPhone app
Wondering if I should have waited since it has android 2.0 - I bought the cliq from motorola and it shipped with 1.5 (cupcake), without a published plan for updates.

Very nice device, sturdy, but too much of the social sw had to be removed :)
I think a critique that could try to control against expanded knowledge/specialization would be to try to look at the big problems in the field. Is specialization helping people tackle them with their deep knowledge or avoid them to work on things that are irrelevant?
this is a great point. status does tend toward zero sum, and so people will always simulate it by seeking out goods that approximate zero sum.
What do you think 'mud' is short for?
But that is exactly how my next-line key behaves, my cursor is always exactly where it should be. It's not like your tabs/spaces vary in width from line to line it is just that an uppercase W is wider than a lowercase i.
Why not introduce a cost to both upvote and downvote of 1 karma point?
I'm wondering if this is one of those situations where people are expected to take responsibility for these duties but aren't given the power or recognition to do so.

>Over time, the aggregated actions and values of an institution’s faculty establish and define the institution’s values. Rather than being mere "information delivery systems," as some contemporary observers of higher education seem to think, faculty provide the soul, spirit, character and ethical texture of an institution.
Don't get me wrong, I love Consolas, but having all of the letters be the same width doesn't make sometthing more readable. When was the last time you saw a book or newspaper in Courier New?

When I started my non-monospaced experiment 2 years ago, I, thought I might have trouble differentiating between 0O1Il, etc. but that has never been a problem in practice.
The Lost Decade: Why Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates.
Last month Microsoft rolled out Windows 7 and opened the first of a chain of new retail stores. As usual with such announcements, there's been loads of hoopla and ginned-up excitement. But mostly people are just relieved. Windows 7 replaces Vista, one of the most disastrous tech products ever. It also caps the end of a decade in which Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, stepped aside, and the company lost its edge.
Downvoting has two aspects: reducing the visibility of a post and discouraging the poster from making similar posts in the future. This can be used maliciously (though to limited effect) against viewpoints you merely disagree with. But it does have a legitimate use as well, when harmful or unhelpfully disruptive information is posted.

A few examples to clarify these guidelines:

Spam and inappropriate material (this isn't 4chan).

Advice that is well known to be wrong and/or is very likely to be harmful if followed, such as advising someone to embed raw SQL query strings in web application parameters or to exclusively use javascript for client side input sanitation (both of which would open up anyone to huge security vulnerabilities).

Unnecessary or unfunny jokes (live by the sword, die by the sword, jokes rarely improve discussion).

Completely off-topic material.
beauty and pain are in the eye of the beholder...
> I downvote because I have been personally offended by something that has been said. Most often I have been offended by the sin of bad taste.

> I suffer in the same way as I do when I witness incredibly stupid people on television, or very bad music, or indeed when I find myself buttonholed into a painfully tedious conversation with someone who is similarly lacking in good taste, be it social, intellectual, aesthetic or otherwise. I suffer and therefore I downvote, in an attempt to exorcise my pain.

Are you for real? I guess I should downvote you for deeply offending me by needing to get over yourself.

But I won't, because I agree with the OP.
I like too many to list them all (my username might indicate I view a lot of art). However, I can single out Carl Spitzweg as my endless source of inspiration, serenity and just pure awesome since his art correlates to my taste almost exactly.
I use terminus for code everywhere.
Why did this get down-voted? It makes a good point, & one that is well known among followers of Buffet's trading philosophy; namely the bit about Berkshire investing in consumer monopolies or well-known brands. Buffet took this philosophy from Graham, the author of the Intelligent Investor.
"TOR, or just changing Proxies would still work" it's worth noting that from TOR, you are hitting their site from some exit node - which may very well repeat
I use Megazoomer: http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html
I've heard the last person to know all of mathematics to be Pascal (d. 1662), Euler (d. 1783), Poincare (d. 1912), or Hilbert (d. 1943). Most of the internet seems to believe that it was Poincare.

See ref to "the last universalist" in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincare

The Wikipedia reference comes from a book called Men of Mathematics by Eric Temple Bell, I believe.
From the keyboard of pg:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.

It only becomes abuse when people resort to karma bombing: downvoting a lot of comments by one user without reading them in order to subtract maximum karma. Fortunately we now have several levels of software to protect against that.
Of course, if someone who would look foolish if he had made a certain statement would vehemently deny making it (or just forget it). Bill's refutation is not proof that he never made the comment.
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I was an early adopter, I pre-ordered a G1 and have had it for about a year now. I really love hardware keyboards, so +1 for the G1 and for the Moto Droid. However, the article talks about a bit of lag here and there, which is quite irritating, probably the thing I hate most about android phones. Though, I do feel like the G1 was a competitor to the iPhone off the bat because it could do everything the iphone did, just a little slower =/

The iPhone is very well done, without lag from what I can tell. I suppose that's easier to do though when you make the hardware and software in the same place.

For now, I say the iPhone is still the best phone out there, but only because of the stuttering issues that Android phones seem to have. In a year or so, phone hardware will catch up with the Android platform and will run smooth as silk.
I really tried to use proportional fonts for coding, but the kicker for me was selecting text with the mouse (or trackpad). I find it easier to position the pointer when all the letters are the same width. "i"s and "l"s are especially tricky to select accurately with a proportional font.