skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, we're wrestling with the best way to handle this right now.

On one hand, retweeting and repeating tweets is a perfectly acceptable -- and standard -- way of "voting" via Twitter, and we want to respect and appreciate that.

On the other hand, apps that send out links to their app liberally should probably be punished.

There's obviously a balance to be found somewhere in the middle. Our model of weighting scores based on users and their friends/followers counts helps out somewhat -- most people who are 'popular' Twitter users are less likely to spam their followers.

A couple ideas we've had -- and we'd certainly love any feedback -- are:

1) Anytime we see multiple tweets following the same pattern, discount everyone but the first by some weight (say, 50%). This will keep them relevant, but dampen their impact.

2) Keep a list of API clients which are known to be in-app clients, such as MGTwitterEngine, and either discount their weight or remove them entirely.
Longer conversations. A comment thread trailing out to the end of the page kills conversations.

How to do this effectively is a largely unsolved problem. Blogs, forums, aggregators, etc each have their own strengths and weaknesses.
Round Stickers Are Astonishing Products
How to rank user generated content
Google Friend Connect, now more personalized
my comment from tc:

This makes absolutely no sense. He was literally the face of microsoft to the startup community. He's done a hell of a great job at it. Layoffs are sad, but they're usually reserved for people you can let go of. Don Dodge was NOT one of those people. He was actually the opposite: someone that microsoft needed to make sure they never let go. I'm pretty shocked.
> He wasted all that time, apparently.

Not the most tactful thing to say about a friend who has just been laid off.
Because it is?

Let's be honest - everyone is out there chasing Office for features and functionality. That they've pulled it off with Javascript and a web browser is insanely impressive, but nonetheless, they are all imitating the old-timers in a 20 year old product space.
Personally, I use Flixster, but there are indeed many apps that can interact with Netflix. Apparently Netflix also publishes an API to do precisely this, so the apps (hopefully) aren't doing any funky web-scraping in the background.
Is the U.S. Killing Its Innovation Machine?
Infrastructure, for most businesses, is a vanishingly small percentage of the total costs of doing business. Hell, I sell infrastructure, and at 750 customers, my infrastructure costs are still less than I'd pay for my time if I was paying myself market rate.

But you do have a good point, that you do need to weigh the cost of a few hours downtime every now and again with the cost of putting yourself in a position where you can avoid such downtime, because yes, sometimes avoiding the downtime is more costly than just taking the hit.

I think at a minimum, though, you need to have off-site backups, and the ability to restore to a new provider if your first provider has a HyperVM level disaster that kills all your data and all the backups at that provider.
Hulu Shaking Things Up
I meant if a line was crossed. I don't think we've crossed any line. We've come close, but the people still hold power.
busts out the par-tay hats and #include <beer.h> beer glasses!!

Happy Birthday!! :)
You mean an aggregator? That's an idea which can support at least two big players in any segment (Reddit/Digg, Yahoo News/Google News). Good luck.
The TechCrunch post will help him in his job search. In fact, companies will come to him.
Props to you good sir for getting concrete numbers.

While 4 million isn't a lot considering how much they made during those years, it certainly shouldn't surprise anyone. Plus, that's the money that went on the books - not the all expenses paid vacations and under the table proverbial hand jobs.

Some would say that lobbying is necessary for the government to know what its people needs - but then again they listen to the LOBBYISTS and not the people who write senators letters. Flawed argument. What a concept.
Well, $.30 / GB / Month, to be precise. The "storage over time"-part is just very hard to communicate in a single sentence. Hence the javascript calculator. Give them a small box where they can tack in GB's and number of days and see for themselves.

Just avoid confronting your potential customer with terms he has never heard. "Don't make me think" applies here.
The Roku setup/viewing experience shocks me by how good it is. $99 for this device is a steal.
http://blog.laptopmag.com/first-look-olpc-xo-generation-20 -- looks familiar? Thought so.
Everyone can agree that Apple participates in some anti-competitive behavior, but that isn't an antitrust violation unless they are using their monopoly in a -market- to push out competitors in another. Apple doesn't have anywhere near a monopoly in the mobile space.
If someone happens to be having a similar meeting around Christmastime, I'll be interested. I'd love to meet the hacker folk from my hometown (in Atlanta these days).
Let's see if this marketing works...
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Well, the recession may be an indirect reason why i'm going for a PhD instead of "working for real".
We didn't LOSE anything. There's a very real possibility that if Aaron ends up turning Intuit around, he could take the helm and start driving some really great, innovative products.
Plumber vs. programmer: a face-off over an online directory
His new(?) contact email is Gmail .... ouch.
Sadly, someone will make it, it'll become wildly popular, then it will sell to SGN or Zynga for more than most people make over 20 years.
I guess it really just depends on what motivates you. Grades never motivated me, and I never felt like my academic peers and I were "like-minded", so school ended up feeling more like an impediment to my education than an enlightening experience.

There are certainly problems with learning on your own, not the least of which is maintaining the drive to push through the icky parts. But in the absence of external motivational structures, you can give your self-discipline a workout. I'm not a particularly disciplined person, but I can still commit to doing 1 hour of math a day. I guess I think of it like my daily mental exercise. It's hard to develop this habit though, and if you can't, school's not a bad option.

One of the other problems with learning math on your own is not having anyone to ask questions. To help with this, I've actively tried to make friends (of sorts) with math professors at a nearby school. I get lunch with one every once in a while, and we talk about sports and life and math. This can kinda substitute for the community of like-minded people that school provides.

All this goes to say is that you have to be aware of how you learn and how you get motivated. If you are externally driven, and don't mind learning at a pace you did not establish, school will be useful to you. If you don't grok extrinsic motivation, school's rough and you should learn on your own.
But it was the wrong solution and the technical merits must trump other concerns.

Your post is very long, but I'm curious to hear why universal binaries are the wrong solution?

On the Mac, it's the cornerstone of their transparent multi-architecture support.

Apple (and previously NeXT) inarguably demonstrated its value and ease-of-use over the past 20 years. Producing x86-32, x86-64, armv6, armv7, and PPC binaries all from the same source code -- and having them work the first time -- is incredibly simple on Mac OS X.

NeXTSTEP (the OS) ran on 68k, x86, PA-RISC, and Sparc processors, and it was equally easy to build software that ran on those machines.
There's a similar concept in PhD programs when they make you present a timeline for future research. Every grad student knows that over the course of 2-5 years things will break, experiments will fail, people get discouraged, interests change, money runs out, whatever...but for the sake of completeness and forethought, they require you to detail future milestones. This stage of planning proves to people that you are committed to what you are doing and are in it for the long haul.
The reason I have never tried Zoho is because I can't believe anyone could create that many awesome apps, which leads me to believe they are all mediocre and just checking another box on the "how many apps can we build list".

I don't know if this is true, but its the reason I still haven't spent the time to try them.
The Subversion project is joining the Apache Software Foundation
And don't forget http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5oGaZIKYvo .

Why Ballmer is still employed at any Fortune 500 company, much less running one, is a problem worthy of serious academic study.
Unlikely if you don't have a direct pipeline into the white house and federal reserve.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Wall-Street-speed-dial-gets-ap...
Maryland Voters Test New Cryptographic Voting System
looks like a good marketing idea initially, but people trust microsoft and may take its word over some internet company with a funny name...
His anecdote at the end reminds me of the fire alarms at my college dorm. My freshman year the dorms had been renovated and the new fire alarms had been set to be far too sensitive. For the first three weeks after we moved in the fire alarms went off at least once every two days. It got to the point that they started being called the "everything's okay alarms" and people would just ignore them as best they could when they went off. Thanks to those fire alarms, our emergency plan for a real fire in the dorms was to have someone run through all the hallways shouting "There's actually a fire this time!!!" Sometimes overly secure systems are worse than no security at all.
I don't know what your previous (1) has to do with this (1) ;) But I agree. I think elblanco agrees with you also, only he/she managed to give a reason. I've reread this thread a few times and still can't figure out why you two seem to be disagreeing over agreeing on this.

(2) Apple closed the loop on this when they killed off their clone market. Done right, hardware sales can bring in more money than pure software sales. Allow me to be contrary on one point. "and there is nothing in law or standard business principle that allows us to dictate to Apple how they package their products". Supply and demand would seem to dictate that you should supply what the consumers demand. Apple's done an effective job at controlling/predicting/creating what their consumers demand (for example, I didn't even think about a mult-touch mouse before, now I'm drooling in anticipation of getting one). But they seem to have gone a bit off-kilter here w/r to ultra-small notebooks. The 13" Macbook is huge compared to the 10" netbooks I see at Costco. If it weren't for their ridiculous battery life, I could see trading in my Macbook for a netbook since that's a hugely compelling feature for me.
and then Mikes Twitter Stream says this..
http://twitter.com/arrington/statuses/5428864969
@Arrington well, based on an email i just got, @dondodge may have a new dream job by end of day :-)
Thanks for that - I'll definitely give that book a look.

* Went from being able to work on a computer unbearably 35 hours a week to 70+ virtually pain free (when I worked for a YC startup)

That's definitely encouraging. At the moment I can manage about 40 hours a week. Any more than that (like I'm doing at the moment) and the pain comes back :(
Yeah, I just signed in with my google account and got right in. Agreed on the clutter however.
I think the point was directed at Microsoft.
"we're not seeing any inclination that Zoho or Google or Zimbra or any other of those offering fake Office capabilities can replace [Microsoft Office]"

Sounds more like a generic trash talk on everything non-MS Office, than a purposeful marketing move.
starting a new country is in a completely different category.

i'd agree with "gross abuses" since this is a treaty being crafted in secret, with special "access" given to certain interested parties... basically the government isn't working for the good of the people, but for the good of a few large companies and the detriment of the people.

these are the people that thought the CD would destroy their business. then they thought the DVD would destroy their business. these are the people that want you to pay every single time you watch a movie that you own. they fill the airwaves with Creed and Linkin Park. they don't understand technology in the least. fire probably scares them. and they will be the ones "updating" our copyright law.
Ask HN: Refocusing our Family-focused Startup for Business Users?
Ramamia is our startup that helps families keep in touch with each other and store their memories. We've been using Ramamia with our team for a bit now and have had a few other companies inquire about it.

It's simpler and easier way to just share information with your team as a startup. Sure, there are other companies out there, but we find this a lot easier than Sharepoint or something like SocialCast/Yammer.

We'd certainly pay for the product as a startup and think others would. We would price somewhere around $9.99 per month for about 10 users a month with a good amount of storage (not sure on a number, but you would not have to worry about there not being enough).

Sign up for our service and let us know what you think. Should we stick with the family consumer market or refocus to the business app market? Business users pay, we know them better being entrepreneurs, and families are hard to monetize with a paid product (we don't want to do ad supported).

I talked to Jason Fried after Startup School and he talked about how it was hard to sell to the consumer market, so they switched their Backpack app over to a team sharing thing. We can do both, too—as in, keep Ramamia and create an app for business users based off of Ramamia.

http://staging.ramamia.com

Thanks!
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After seeing the link, I wanted to run here and say how awesome of a marketing idea this was. But then I read your comment and it got me thinking...

Within this little tech circle, I think it is great. Take something big, bad MS said; twist it, make it 2.0 and bam! Instant marketing...

However, what happens when someone else sees this website. It is going to entice them to try Zoho? I don't think so; if anything it will make them want to run far away and probably to MS.

I think they should have sat on this idea for a little longer and maybe cooler heads would have prevailed. I am very interested to see how this works for them!
Wow, first time ever I got down to zero...
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Github redesigns its profile pages
When I tried switching the mouse to my left hand I just started getting pain in my left hand too! I found switching to a trackball mouse has helped a lot, as has using an ergonomic keyboard without a number pad on the right hand side. I use one of these at work: http://www.goldtouch.com/p-65-goldtouch-adjustable-keyboard-...
Old media meets click fraud. How radio have still not got their act together.
I'm pretty sure Don Dodge will do just fine looking for a new job, regardless of what TechCrunch posts.
unknowns are just the nature of the business, if everything was known, then there won't be any risk and everyone will pounce on it. I completely agree with the author that best thing entrepreneurs can do to help their cause is to be honest.
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Don has been nothing but helpful to Frogmetrics. Whatever he does next, we know he'll be great. We wish him well.

What was Microsoft thinking?
What a moron, MS that is
Unlikely. Michael spoke before a small group of people less than a month ago, when I asked about CrunchPad. He said that it's coming along and that "Atom sucks." So, he's probably waiting for Chrome OS running on the new ARM processor (Cortex A9?) He mentioned that he has sunk $1M+ TC money in the project.

I'd love a bookpad that has two screens that fold together like a book. One screen is LCD that can serve as keyboard/(multi)touchpad/video screen and the other e-ink screen for reading books.
"Conklin's missive raises an interesting point: Do businesses (or individuals for that matter) have any control over what's published or said about them on third-party directory sites? And do businesses have control over the phone numbers being represented to the public?"

Yes, when its a material misrepresentation of the facts. Putting up a false phone number for a company is not only unethical, its fraudulent. To me, the element that makes the deceitful nature of their actions clear is that they didn't contact the business owner first.
Let's say I need 100 grey colored bricks, for example. Where can one order lego pieces on a per-piece basis?
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I think techies got it wrong this time.
A quick Google search told me that the transition is not complete. GNU tools have options for si/iec prefixes compliance (http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Block...) but the debate is still open elsewhere.
I really like this type of innovation, but I don't understand this defense against "vote buying." Can't the vote purchaser require the voter to take a picture of the completed ballot with their camera? That's a pretty easy way to verify if they followed through on their vote. I do like all of the other transparency issues and checking your voting results online though.
Seems to break in 1024px though: http://uggedal.com/github.1024.fail.png
In this video there is an even better close up of his books at 1:09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaE4EvM-UF4&feature=playe...
Digg Trending: Does This Belong on the Front Page?
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Being "drawn" to something is not the same as finding it useful or helpful. Certainly having the video as background is "captivating", but that means the foreground is basically useless: it's difficult to see, difficult to pay attention to, and difficult to use. The background gives you an idea of what the band is all about, and let's you watch them. But if that's the point, why have the foreground at all? Just show a video.

> Example: What if it were lots of smaller screens running the top TED shows, like what they do but more video than static.

Sure, if the point of the TED site was to make people feel vaguely happy about TED. But when I go to the TED site, it's to watch a video so that I can understand the ideas the speaker is presenting, not to get my senses filled with some kind of aesthetic vibe of TED-ness. For me, at least, your suggestion would be highly counterproductive.
Just because the vast majority of computers are implemented in base 2 doesn't magically make it the one true way™. To suggest that 10^9 is not a nice number is just being willfully combative against your own human nature.
Great video. Wow, he's exactly like Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy. I wish he'd say "scramby eggs"
I thought of the Beatles.

"It was forty years ago today

that Sgt. Pepper taught a band to play..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_C...
i might be able to help you out.. would be coming in from cranberry as well. still trying to figure out if i can make it though. feel free to hit me up at [my HN username]@gmail.com
Microsoft has an incompetent board of directors way to friendly to the CEO.
Depending on the age of the kids, you can try it out pretty simply--while the kids are off at college / summer camp / whatever, rent an apartment for a few months.

On the "paying for it" side, it's a balance between your financial situation / tolerance for risk; you can either pay the extra fee, or you can rent out the house (check out AirBnB, Craigslist, etc).

On the "logistics" side, you will have a bunch of furniture, clothes, etc which don't fit in the apartment. You can either leave those in the house or put them in storage, whichever works better for you.

Try to not go back to the house while you're living in the apartment, though--have your mail forwarded, etc. And if you find there is a box of clothes / books / kitchen gadgets / whatever that you haven't unpacked at the end of your apartment time, consider getting rid of it.
I beg to differ, how can they TRULY measure the value of their service if they aren't tracking a highly relevant action such as phone calls?

Especially if they are supposed to be getting paid per call.
Navigating any of the Tivo on-demand menus seems painfully slow for me. Is this common?

I typically just give up. I really don't want to spend five minutes to see if maybe there's something I might like.
> How can we tell if it's accurate?

We can't, but the fact that they're keeping it secret strongly suggests to me that there's some very nasty stuff in it.

As I usually point out on these occasions, one way to stop these anti-freedom laws is to organise politically -- you can find your national Pirate Party at http://www.pp-international.net/

Don't let them take away our internet.
My browser tab (Google Chrome) froze up when trying to do a Copy and Paste of a Rectangle element. Other than that, it's a nice tool. Keep up the good work!
I have to say I really like all the wood.

But did I hear him right that he just dumps the water from the shower? That's not good. If you put the water in the sewer it gets recycled.

It's basically impossible to waste water from a shower if you are on a public sewer, since the next city downriver uses it. Also, never use a septic system, those are bad for the environment since they waste water.

Very cool house though.
Interview with Francisco Tolmasky of 280 North
MS Office is a copy-cat product, too.
Oh, come on. He is not planning on raising kids in a junkyard. How ridiculous can you get? He said he'd rather live in an abandoned house or junkyard or shack if he was a toddler. A toddler would rather eat lots of candy than lots of vegetables. Toddlers are not known for well-thought out plans.

I mean, seriously, do you really think that's what he wants? Or do you think it makes for a really good strawman to beat up?

But boy, I know I'd rather have been raised in a junkyard. I was raised in a prison with a television. I really wish I could get my childhood back.
A complementary movement is co-housing (http://www.cohousing.org/). Co-housing is about intentional community--a group of people get together and deliberately choose to live in smaller houses with a shared common space. This space might include a library, playroom, media center, kitchen / dining room (although each house has its own, and you aren't obligated to cook or eat with the community), or whatever else the community decides. Every co-housing group does something a bit different. One specific example is http://www.mosaic-commons.org/ (Full disclosure: I was involved in Mosaic for a couple of years until my divorce.)

It's a pretty cool concept and tends to attract the kind of people that hackers like (smart, interesting, iconoclastic).
And what, exactly, is wrong with buying more? Why shouldn't people consume?

I've never been much of a consumer, to be honest. Far too cheap for that! But I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me just why consumption is such a problem.
The free internet will only die if people are too lazy and apathetic to fight for it.

The Pirate Party already has two representatives in the European Parliament, and we've only been in existance since 2006. If we continue to fight, and if people who care abt these issues join us, we'll win. I fully expect that by 2020-2025, the Pirate Party's core beliefs will be the received wisdom throughout the developed world.
Considering the number of breweries founded or run by Roman Catholic religious orders, I can't think of a better purpose for a deconsecrated church.

On the other hand, upvoted for honesty in the face of certain derision.
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Even people in Venice have larger apartments than that...
Musician makes 26.3% of his net income from just 40 hard- core fans