skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there an aging mechanism whereby the application can automatically ignore posts that are n-days old, or with less than n-number of "like" hits?

Reason I ask is that I've just started using greeder. I tend to also get ovsessive-compulsive about making sure everything's read and ticked, so i can definitely see this as becomming a problem.
Safari Books reconsider feature choices after user feedback.
No, he has issues with Randall's desperate nice guy affectations -- the obnoxious "ladies, I sure do love cunnilingus" vibe.
#000fff is blue (with a hint of green) in css notation.
How much of a risk is it to not follow a career that you don't like (he's says he wasn't passionate about football in his comments)? I'd say that was the appropriate decision, not risky.

"5. Put in every dime I owned into Less Everything so Steve and I could change our piece of the internet."

OK, maybe, but answer the following questions and then we can ascertain the amount of risk taken:

1. approximately how much money?

2. how old were you?

3. did you have a mortgage

4. were you married at the time

5. did you have children?

I applaud his success, but we’re not really talking “Sell your parent’s farm for a 1 in a million chance” level of risk here, are we?
Blackberry's an enterprise product. It's still one of the most reliable workplace phones you can get. iPhone's trying to compete with it, but I think BB's still got the lead.

Android's got nothing unique to it beyond its being open source. It's basically a better Windows Mobile.
Canucks only.
Great rule! "I will now discuss the implications of the foo build structure" is lethally boring.

There is however one exception: http://consc.net/misc/moser.html
now THAT is a cool competition
http://jsonlint.com is better
Ask HN: Anyone else had funding spam from Plug and Play?
I've just got an unsolicited email from Nickolas Turner at the Plug and Play Tech Center, offering to help me find funding. It doesn't even use my name so it's obvious spam, which maddens me since it's preying on starving entrepreneurs' optimism.

I want to know if I'm being too hot-headed and they're actually a reputable organization with some questionable email marketing, or if they're black-hearted rogues? Anyone here had any good or bad experiences with them you can share?
I think main reason sliders aren't used is that users find it too troublesome, hence up/down and 5 stars are mainly used. I remember from my pys class that a 7 point rating system is best. But the 5 stars' simplicity and ubiquity probably trumps the benefits gained by a 7 point system. I think the best compromised is a 5 star UI implemented as 6 points by allowing 0 point assignments.
What fascinated about this article is that there's a whole other world out there of geeks/programmers/hackers beyond our English speaking world doing their own things and sharing their own ideas.
The E-Ink guys had a decent business in train station information displays. They would replace the old 'flip' and led style displays with cooler running e-ink.
Language reflects cultural views, not the other way around. (Note how master and mistress were gendered but equivalent terms, and how many similar divergences occur, as with sir and madam.) Using "sir" in English can serve some of the same respectful roles as an usted in Spanish, but there are many other things as well.

Sapir-Whorf is a long discussed issue [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity] and John McWhorter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter] is well versed in the background.
I'm a huge fan of those guys. Even though I may never move my data out of Google, at least I know I always have the option.
And in the same sense, your great-grandmother lives on in you. I'm not sure what you're getting at, especially because the Vatican has had an imperceptible effect on Spanish, Portuguese, et al.
The cross-discipline design imperative
Cool concept and a really nice implementation.

I would love to see some more information on the listed packages though
PageRank-like measures would be helpful for this purpose: http://peterrohde.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/pagerank-in-acade...
I HATED having unread items in GReader, but didn't have the time to read them. I finally forced myself to tier everything.

One folder with a maximum of 10 feeds that were un-missable for me. A second folder with a maximum of 20 feeds that were important, but not as critical (or with a lower signal-to-noise ratio) as the first one. And so on...

The results?

I'm still seeing and reading everything important (since it's in my top folder)

As I have time I can clear more and more stuff through each successive tier of folders.

When I feel like I need a little serendipity, I just click "All Items" and just see what's new, whether it's from a top-tier folder or bottom-tier folder.

I'm back to loving GReader and RSS now... :)
How would that work, without access to server logs? There's no way for a 3rd party to track every request. One note: Alexa is getting better: "On April 16, 2008 many users reported dramatic shifts in their Alexa rankings. Alexa confirmed this later in the day with an announcement that they had released the new Alexa ranking system, claiming that they now take into account more data sources "beyond Alexa Toolbar users" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet]
Feeback on my new site, please...
IIRC 64-bit isn't just about memory size. x86_64 is a chance to use things like SSE for floating point rather than x87. The older floating point units are still on the processors, but in a depreciated fashion (Windows/Linux ABI don't use them). You can use SSE for floating point on a 32-bit system if you compile all of your apps yourself (ala Gentoo), but then the resulting binaries are not 'x86-compatible' because every x86 processor is not guaranteed to have SSE support.

As you can see, x86-64 isn't just about memory size.
Assuming pretty cache-optimal code and 1.5GHz ops with no superscalar gains, that's over 25 million operations per record.

Most PC video games, for example, expect a refresh rate somewhere between 30Hz and 60Hz. 60Hz gives you 17ms for an entire frame, in which it's doing an incredible amount of work: drawing a whole scene, updating the world, running physics, etc. etc.

I think you have too low expectations. Modern hardware is very, very fast.
Why I'm Leaving Twitter and Returning to Blogging
IIRC AMD64 does support x87, but Window/Linux have chosen to 'standardize' on SSE. In this respect x86-64 is a 'version' of x86 where all processors are guaranteed to have SSE and not need x87.
"That woman was sexy...Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won't screw you, don't do it for them. http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays/status/4811790555
Getting it out of your system - A Case study on Over-Designing your solution
What problem are you trying to solve by creating this site?
Nice! I really need to look into Chef. I used to work with their CEO and he has some really good ideas on reliability and maintainability of systems.

Don't forget to check out his O'Reilly Radar Blog - http://radar.oreilly.com/jesse/
Guys pitching PG in Palo Alto - How'd it go?
I saw you from my office window in front of sprout cafe. You were standing next to my bike. How'd the pitch go?

nom4m
5. The functionality of the docs hasn't kept up with Clojure.

6. Debugging facilities also have not kept up with the state of
Clojure.

These two are the first thing I check before trying to use any programming language.
Yes, clearly. The Office: bad. XKCD: good. It's all so clear to me now.
I've just read 15 pages and I wanted to come back and say it's pretty darn good so far. The writing is succinct and interesting.

The whole thing is 81 pages. You could read it in an afternoon.
Hey - I wanted to add a bit about my post to have my new site Digidorm.com critiqued by the Ycombinator community.
I'm a brand spanking new start up - went live a little over 4 weeks ago.
I spent 3 years working at Arizona State University, did my masters in social media marketing, and then consulted for a while with universities around the country.
I realized that ALL universities want social media, but for copious reasons cannot accomplish a coherent presence (lack of resources, silo-ed workflow environments, high turn over, et cetera).
So I created one core social media site for EVERY university on the planet that I could find.
I'd like to have feedback about the function of the site mostly - is it intuitive? does it add value as a core social media presence for higher education? Yes, it's light on content, but I just went live - does the site somehow communicate its intended values? would you use a site like this?
Wow this is possibly the worst job posting I have ever read.
I like your cool retro logo.

First impressions:

- It just looks like a blog, and I didn't immediately get it.

- Seems to be a group-blog-per-university (isn't that market stitched up by facebook?)

- I looked around, still going "huh?" and clicked on your intro video, watched it for 30-40 seconds of cartooning, and I still didn't get it.
They has as well have called this "facebook vs. twitter".

For the former, start a group, and build awareness. Direct the money to a cause. Use the iphone app to post and get updates.

For twitter, post to and follow a hashtag. At least 50% of your human labor will need to be dedicated to filtering spam if the tag starts to trend.

Definitely search on either to get random people on board
http://www.facebook.com/search/?init=srp&sfxp=&q=red...
MonitoringForge.org Launched
MonitoringForge is designed to appeal to IT administrators who want to compare and understand the differences between various open source monitoring tools and plugins available today, facilitating the selection of open source monitoring software over proprietary offerings.
Wonderful infographics on all sorts of stuff, with comments.
it's rather harder to visualize a mind 10^50 ops/sec large bothering to do so

How about a more Leibnizian idea of the Creator having designed into the primordial energy event all of the consequences of existence - some slight fluctuation or variation being ultimately responsible for this internet post ... is that a valid activity for your concept of a mystical supermind. Or consider that the realist approach to many worlds is true - is the awareness of every subatomic interaction in every one of an infinite array of possible worlds, is that enough processing for you? How about if that mystical being is responsible for an infinite number of such worlds?

You have a very large concept of the infinite aleph-0^^^...^^aleph-0 (I doubt you can verily comprehend those numbers though) or whatever but some numerological mystics would say those concepts are discovered from ideas embedded in the created order or inherited from a prime movers creative mind.

Your view of mysticism is narrow.
No he didn't. I saw him writing the slides as other presenters were speaking.

(Not that I'm criticizing him. Some of my best projects in school were written the day they were due.)
That is a great point.. imagine a prof issuing grades that way. I'd love to see someone with a 100-point system do some A/B testing to see how much recommendations degrade with a 5-point system.
Probably the best way to win is to deploy a couple dozen red balloons of your own...
First, its supposed to give students/parents/advisors/alumni - the REAL people - who have to navigate a universities multiple obstacles/administrative hurdles the power to publish about what is really going on. Essentially, it is meant to take the 100% share of the authority to project the universities reputation away from the marketing dept and distribute it more evenly amongst non-employees who have lots of information to share.

Second - after years working with universities, specifically on technology, social media, and their intersections for broadcasting authentic messaging about the university - I realized that many universities wanted/needed this type of tool, but were lacking resources to build it and keep it coordinated.
So I built it for them...and for the students/parents/alumni.
Like many social media sites, Digidorm.com is meant to create a place where true stories about a service/products can be shared and learned from.
Do the Steve Blank price-boxing experiment. "How much would you use this if it were free? $50 / month? $1 million dollars?"

Your customers will tell you what they're willing to pay. If that number is below your operating costs, however, be prepared to either drastically change your model or move into another business.
A Theory of Scalability
[Ponoko] interlock
Switching Government Service Providers
> In all seriousness, "guides" for setting up Ubuntu are most likely unnecessary or superfluous; they'll just go into some random area of "customization" that 95% of users probably don't need or care about.

Guides that target a particular system are still useful (i.e. "How to install Ubuntu 9.10 on a Thinkpad x200") because they are guiding you through the stuff that doesn't work out of the box, even if they are minor issues. (Or hidden options to make something that 'works ok' or 'sorta works' into something that works well)
I mostly agree about XKCD. Though I did not find (http://achewood.com/index.php?date=09232002) very funny. I will never let my family down by programming in Java.
Not that I'm aware of.

They're doing some funky stuff with that Auto-sort and Magic options, but I don't think they do what you say.
I suspect under closer analysis ones scoring breaks down to be inconsistent - "in retrospect I like tea X better than Y but not as much as Z, but I rated Z lower than Y because I didn't like it as much as P which had a higher rating", if you follow.
The problem with this system is in the sorting. The list of "Highest Rated" teas is dominated by results where 1 person rated the tea 100.

Steepster should use a Bayesian average (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_average) so that the uncertainty of a small number of ratings is reflected in the sorting.
This is a great rule. I follow it in all my talks and in all my blog posts, as well. Meta talk is, frankly, rather boring and distracts from the primary focus of the talk/post. I find that when you intentionally attempt to steer away from being self-referential your writing becomes much more lucid and to the point. You're no longer dwelling on the process but driving home a singular point.

I do have one corollary, though: Anecdotes work great for talks and blog posts. Instead of talking about "when I was writing this post/presentation" talk about "there was this one time when this user did X" or "when I was working on this team Y happened." They're almost universally a crowd pleaser.
Language is a product of culture. A lot of things can be expressed in English – but it is not normal to do so. For an Israeli Jew Hebrew isn’t just “another language”. It never is – language is part of your inherently part of your cultural and personal identity. Your culture shapes language – not the other way around.

You can’t just anglicise and magically keep your culture and all other cultural influences out. I have seen this in my own group – with Anglicisation come American culture, norms and values. The dominant culture will always drive out other cultures.

You can perhaps argue that it is theoretically possible for a culture to remain during this process. But in practice it never happens. Another problem with culture is that due to democracy in a multi-cultural environment the dominant culture will always impose its values on a less dominant culture.
Hey Gstar - essentially, Digidorm is a tremendous blogging system. But members don't just comment - they create the content - kind of like Allvoices, which, along with Digg and Technorati, were models for the function of Digidorm.

The University List is HOPEFULLY the first clue to visitors that the site drills down to many individual universities.

"Hmmmm" on the video not communicating the sites intention. Perhaps you have some advice on how to amplify my efforts to communicate that?

And I think - professionally and personally - that FB has bascially become Twitter Jr. I don't think the groups satisfy the need of both the community members (students, faculty, parents, advisors) to be forthcoming about their real experiences (one big reason is anonymity, which Digidorm provides) and the universities to engage in well-archived citizen-journalism about the university.

Does that make sense? I'd enjoy answering any more queries/critiques.
And what do the neutral guys wear? Black hats?
From the rules.

Eligibility: The DARPA Network Challenge is open to individuals of all ages irrespective of nationality or residency.

Prizes: The winner must provide a U.S. taxpayer identification number (e.g. a social security number) to receive the cash prize.

So you can participate no matter who or where you are, but you can only win the prize if you live(d) in the US?
Oh and thanks for the logo compliment. I actually had the font custom created.
Given that the balloons are in the US, I'm not sure that's much of a restriction.
Somebody could have solved it fairly easy with all the data they supplied. Most, however, aren't going to want to waste their time doing so, unless of course they really want the job.

Personally I am thankful that Jeff decoded it for us who could do so but are too busy to do so. I'm curious but I don't have the time to decode it myself.

I'm sure that given the parameters: algorithm name, password, and results, it is a fairly trivial puzzle to break, just time consuming.
They probably said that just for lolz.

Disgusted headshake....
Somewhat interesting theory, but the article cites examples of extremely high suicide rates in nations such as the russian federation / ukraine, not exactly places known for their surfeit of androgynous men?

Of course, this could be accounted for by something entirely different, such as life being simply very bad there, despite men behaving in manly ways. Men not behaving in manly ways may just be an indicator of societal happiness in general, rather than the single overriding indicator.

I'm off to play with my swords.
"From everything I've read about Clojure, it sounds a whole level less efficient."

Curious as to what you have read regarding clojure performance. I recall hearing Cliff Click giving it a thumbs up at a JVM language summit:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/click-fast-bytecodes-funn...

This may also be apropos:
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/cccf532ca04fcdf4?...
So, now you don't clean out your fridge?
It might be worth making those about/university/help links under your logo significantly bigger - I missed them on first view.

You don't get much attention time on the web, get in there -fast- .. a 10-15 second video is probably much more appropriate for an intro.
I agree. It looks kinda messy and confusing.
But that makes people a demo user, not a customer, before sign-up. From your site:

The downside is that you will not be able to return to where you left off later on and all the changes you made during this simple demo run will be eventually deleted.

A site like yours requires ID and security tokens to function once you've established those things then a user is effectively "signed up" already.
The problem with Achewood, and why it's never been a hit, is that you have to read from the first comic to really get into it. The humor is character-driven and very rich, and you don't get any of that without starting from the beginning. But in six panels it's making four or five jokes, which is pretty astounding.
That's hilarious :) YC asks applicants to describe a time they hacked something to their advantage.. wouldn't that be a great answer?
Explain those estimates, please. And do recall that not all programs are elegant.
Some people absorb info better when they view it, others when they hear it. Consider it pre-prepared closed captions and then perhaps it's OK?
Alternatives to Facebook Translations for crowd-sourcing internationalization?
To recap, a month ago, Facebook launched a new feature to let developers tap into their crowd-sourcing translation method: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/29/facebook-spreads-its-crowdsourced-translations-across-the-web-and-the-world/

It provides an API to upload strings, and then provides a UI for people with Facebook accounts to submit translations of your strings and vote up or down submitted translations, reddit style. You can appoint people as admins to choose the most promising translations, or you can just trust the community's votes.

This sounds great in theory, but there are a few problems. I don't want to go into too much detail, but to summarize:

- Facebook is extremely unresponsive to bugs and questions (admittedly, it's in beta).

- Facebook requires would-be translators to have had a Facebook account for a secret amount of time before they can translate. Many international people do not have an account.

- The Facebook UI is unsuitable for bulk translation.

So, are there any alternatives for crowd-sourcing translations, or is this one of those problems where every startup rolls their own solution?
Nice name, gutsy vision. I see this is for anyone associated with a school, to participate in a group blog. That's a big group of potential users. I drilled around a bit and notice you've put a lot of work writing copy, under the hood. There's an inherent chicken-and-egg problem with these social forum projects but with your social media skills I'm sure you could climb that mountain. My focus on the site itself would be to think about how to articulate message in a more obvious way up top.
New Twitter App Called Tweet Glide Gets You Free Traffic And More
I just downloaded this HOT new free Twitter desktop application called TweetGlide and have to say it‘s a must if your serious about using Twitter for business. Not only does it make using Twitter a lot more easier because you can easily manage all aspects of your account from one location...
Why open source election software doesn't matter
In the SF Bay Area, I lived on a sailboat for about 5 years. Living in a constricted space like that definitely takes some time to get used to, but I enjoyed the experience quite a bit. Sailboats are great if you want to break the habit of keeping a lot of possessions; I had my own rule that I would always be able to get the boat ready to sail within 30 minutes which meant that everything I owned always had to be either tied down or stored in a cabinet somewhere. Keeping a space that small clean was pretty easy.

I was a liveaboard in one of the marinas in So. San Francisco, so I did all my showering, etc. using the public facilities. One perk I gave myself was using cleaners for getting my clothes washed, which regardless of where you live, is pretty awesome.

I hadn't ever sailed prior to buying a boat but I spent 4-6 weeks taking group lessons and reading up on boats, and by the time I was done with my class, I had purchased a boat and was moving in. There is a lot to learn not only on how to sail but deciding what type and model to purchase.

The winters kind of sucked; it can be a little bumpy and really noisy when there is a storm, and walking 500 feet or so to the public bathrooms each morning in the rain isn't all that fun. The rest of the year was great though and I did spend quite a few years sailing around the bay on weekends.

Sailing is definitely a cool sport for hackers who like to know how things work and get optimal results. It's an interesting mix of science and history.

I'd definitely recommend it for a single person in high tech if they are so interested (unless they have a propensity to get seasick).
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Funny, I assumed it was a thinly veiled jab at Mark Pincus.

I didn't attend SUS09, but by the video clips, it seems he committed this very "presentation sin."
Maybe that applies only if the winner is American. I bet they changed the eligibility requirements after that was written..