skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Web) Search is about more than just the answer
Source of the term 'dickhead'
Much geographically, or in terms of population? There's a lot of green spots out there where there aren't many people.
right, but this makes his case winnable. before, he was doomed...
I think it has everything to do with people checking if is a picture of them passed out drunk, looking stupid, or just a bad picture.
looks like you're accessing a mirror.
The &lt;nsfw&gt; Element
wget http://xkcd.com
Weak or not I still appreciate the fact that a company of this size can still maintain a sense of humor.
Yeah, it's long overdue for a redesign. Made a couple changes that should make it a bit more readable. Sorry about that.
That's a good list, but when I saw that the crunchpad joke was rated the highest, that rating idea felt like an april fool prank.
Check your AUP but you could run Folding@Home on there.
Confirmed in Problogger.net: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1231885 ;)
haha, that's brilliant :D
Introducing QC2 - the Quantum Compute Cloud
It's not an April 1st joke is it? This is really sad :-(
Http://www.olshoe.com/puma-men-shoes-p-15071.html
Y Permutator - Putting Startup Investing Back On Its Feet
These guys are trying to give Y Combinator some serious competition. Perhaps too serious?
Hmmmmm, very nice concept. Have you thought about how you are going to deal with scalability and monetising issues?
Linspire has stopped existing for quite some time now.
Http://www.olshoe.com/puma-men-shoes-p-15070.html
Don't Look Now, But There's A Massive Roll-up Going On In Social Gaming
Free Online Book for the Boost C++ Libraries
I think that if I can learn to make nice graphics, anybody can. It's largely just a few Photoshop filters and techniques. My wife is a graphic design major and she is impressed by my UI graphics, even though I could never hope to draw a simple picture of some natural object.

Code still matters a lot when it comes to UIs, though. Motion and interactivity are just as important as the static images found in attractive UIs. For instance, Convert's magnifying-glass effect and Tweetie 2's (now widespread) pull-to-refresh idiom are neat tricks not possible with Photoshop skills alone.
GMail vowel outage
The last paragraph seems to indicate that it was written ironically.
OK, a credit card form is a feature that is very, very rarely used. The features that people will use frequently are still more important.

If 5% of users have to lie and put California in as their state and 90210 as their zip...well, it's not the worst compromise in the world.
What's the monetization strategy??
This looks like a potential solution to YC's handheld development RFS.

You can get a lot done in scheme by defining some continuations and passing control around between them. The leaf-logic is small(er) compared to making decisions about who gets control next. Most of what you wind up typing is parens (which this approach mitagates) and function-name labels (which a pointing interface would obviate).

You'd do large-scale navigation with adaptive zoom (similar to the "shape" feature PLT already implements), and maybe add a heuristic search...
They are I guess. And that's why it's still up there.
Yet another reason why the CA system is inherently untrustworthy and something like this should be adopted instead: https://secure.grepular.com/DNSSEC_Will_Kill_Commercial_CAs
1.07 times the velocity of an unladen swallow, at warp 9.11, 0.31e+43 Planck times
I'm going to get both of them in one shot:

The hard thing about scaling a service like this is the social graph, AKA. when users have a lot of followers. So I'm going to use the freemium model and let users follow 10 or 20 people for free, and then start charging.

That way I'll start making money at the same time I have scaling problems.
Didn't go far enough. They should've changed the branding on all inside pages too.
Remembering Dersu Uzala, Siberian Entrepreneur
It occurred to me recently that when you find yourself around folks that take great care to cultivate the particular ecosystem in which they dwell, the environment is always uplifting and enriching. A recent venture event I attended of this kind brought to mind that great character, Dersu Uzala, who Kurosawa immortalized in one of my favorite films of the same name. So as to set the stage for my main point, I’ll recall now one of the early scenes from memory, so forgive me if I omit some details.
Getting people that don't want the email (and won't click) to turn off the emails entirely helps keep the CTR high :)
Hm, no idea, but I find that very hard to believe. I suspect digital transmission of information is almost impossible without error correction. IANAEE, though (I am not an electronics engineer).
Ask HN: Are you working on an iPad application?
Are you either working on a new iPad application or working on an iPad version of your existing app?

Anyone here actually have an app included in the iPad launch?
I don't understand why you are offended by the original article. It didn't seem offensive to me - he was describing a general frustration which may or may not be valuable feedback to you.
Not quite sure yet, but neither is Twitter and it doesn't seem to stop them. The about page addresses the subject briefly: http://twittewittewit.com/about.php
That's actually kind of what I was trying to say. Having people put in fake data to satisfy a validator isn't the worst problem in the world. There are probably much better things to be spending your time on.

And, yeah, in general, CC validation is a complete farce. Depending on how a vendor has set up their payment gateway, sometimes you don't even need a correct CVV or expiration date, much less a correct address...
Unorthodox Optimization
When will they realise that the scale of the project in itself is enough to kill projects like this.
Casting SPELS with Clojure
YC finally bested by Y-Permutator
I went ahead and purchased the Pro version this morning. Really nice and works great. I didn't like how you couldn't indent tasks on the iPhone web version, but GeeTasks does it. :)
This is a lot like a logic editor I once built for a web app. It was definitely Lisp-inspired (although the back-end was Lua), and thanks to jQuery I had it working pretty quickly with drag-and-drop and everything. It was color-coded and everything.
Blizzard Introduces: EPEEN For World of Warcraft
No offense was taken in the reading and writing of these two articles. Just trying (and apparently failing) to humorously point out that if most of my users are based in the US, then I probably have bigger problems to solve than a Polish guy having to pick a state at random.
"Can you hear me now?"
Love it!

But I would be afraid that somebody will figure out how to make a 13 character only twitter clone. This is a race that you can not win. Sooner or later some genius will make a service that allows you to broadcast nothing at all. Probably this service would even be free!1!.. killing all the other services in no time.
I've been playing with an S-expression editor using the iPhone's table view controls. It works pretty well, but it doesn't have zooming to navigate, just hierarchical navigation... but the higher levels give a summary of each child expression.
I ordered mine on the 24th, so I hope significantly sooner! :P
Nice. I love how open you are about your plans. Thanks so much for sharing all this with us. Do you have a blog?

Oh by the way, shouldn't you charge for being followed rather than following?

Will you give me a free premium account if I write an ebook about your app?
Haahahhaha, awesome one mixmax.
I'm a fan of your well timed launch :)
Is it work in progress? It seems very thin because most of what the book is covering is in Boost documentation. I only checked out the on-line (HTML) version. Nevertheless, I do think Boost can use a new book.
That's a very good point. But the scalability issues are easier to adress when you approach zero characters.
The commitment theory would have predicted the outcome.

When you give your email before downloading the software, you commit yourself "more" to the software, increasing the odds of buying it later.

In other words, you will get less downloads but you increase conversion which is what matters.

Read: The Psychology of Commitment by C.A. Kiesler

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique
Rationally, I should be very happy that Spirit made it as long as it did, and say, what a fine piece of engineering. But ever since http://xkcd.com/695/ every time I think of Spirit, I get very sad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Downer
Damn phone, small keys big thumbs. I shall make amends for this terrible down voting accident post haste (can't seem to fix it).
No credit check unsecured loans
I call Googles April Fools Joke
Hmmm... I disagree. But feel free to not click on any of them.
very funny.
Sure, I'll give a free premium account to anyone on HN that asks. I have a blog over at http://www.maximise.dk/blog but it's boring and there are definitely no posts that are only 14 characters.
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IPad shipping internationally end of April
Google's Japanese drumset-keyboard
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I don't see anything in there about not wasting everybody's time!
Rejections (by which I mean - "we are not putting this on our store") are an imaginary issue. They are so few and far between that you'd be hard pressed to find a developer who had had an app rejected. Also in my experience the "app store gatekeepers" have been far from capricious and in fact rather sensible. And unlike less than a year ago, now Apple are proactive in communicating with developers - detailed information what issues they've found (including things like screenshots and even suggestions how the issue can be solved), follow up ID, contact information (including phone) of a person that can answer any further questions you might have, etc.

In short, if you are reasonable (e.g. not trying to sneak in a porn app or an app that obviously violates Apple's terms) you are practically guaranteed that you'll get your app in the store. And if you are not reasonable being big or close to Apple will likely not help you much.

(By the way, I cannot come up with a single case in which ngmoco might seem to have bypassed the approval process. Do they have a tits app in the store or something?)
The definition of an "April Fools" post could be tricky. I posted the latest at the dailywtf.com ( http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-APDB-The-Worlds-F... ) - is it an April Fools or a clever parody of some of the "No SQL" rants around?
You can't get great status updates in 13 characters!
Do you support location information, too?
I agree, but lets instead add a label for the April Fools items.

I suggest [AF] for things that are certainly April Fools, and [AF?] for items that the submitter isn't certain about.

But I do find it a bit irritating not knowing exactly what I'm about to look at.
best to avoid, perhaps, but even if you do throw them a resume, they won't interview you because you don't have the skill set. so, doesn't matter too much in the end.
For the most part I agree, few take the effort to do something actually funny/impressive.

So far the only ones I've seen this year that impressed me are Google Annotation Galery, Youtube, xkcd, and fourwalls from attalasoft
there are a few neat ones, like street view 3d.
I do commercial iPhone (and now iPad) development for a living.

You can make immersive beautiful apps. But you have to go about it the right way.

Apple only approves working code. This means you have to get iterative in the correct way to 1> Lessen your chance of late rejection and 2> Ensure you have approval the entire way.

If you're making an app, make a simple version of it first. Submit it for approval, after approval or rejection, fix those problems it has, then resubmit. Iterate this. Only when you've got a pretty much done project, buy the art, add it in, then resubmit.

There are apple development liaisons who you can develop a relationship with, but honestly, they'll call you even if you don't have one when they think your app is in the "sweet spot" of "rejected by approvable with just a little tweak". The relationship is pretty much only useful to "get" their mindset faster, it doesn't really get more things approved.

Is there a risk they'll end up rejecting you wholesale? Yup. But it's pretty reasonable to get a feel for what areas are verboten, and which areas are largely in the clear. Stay in the latter, and you're usually far far from fearing rejection.
Thanks. I really hate it when HN wastes my time.
Google Acquires the Internal Revenue Service
http://localhost

(Seriously, this is probably going to be the crappiest day for signal to noise ratio on HN. Time to get some work done.)
funny, I didn't see anything that would log attempted commands. I was expecting a comic displaying a graph aggregating attempted commands, perhaps relating to a failed relationship of his.
The Blog of Burgher Jon Quarterly Update 2010 Q1
That reminds me: I'd like to purchase a SSL certificate for my domain please. The domain is gmail.com and to prove that it's mine, please send the confirmation to xxxx@gmail.com

Thanks in advance!

In the end though, most phishing attacks still use non-secured connections or they purchase one of these domain validation only certificates for evildomain.org and then use the usual tricks like paypal.com.evildomain.org or whatever.

This would even work with EV certificates, helping the phishers to gain that green address bar said to be unachievable for them.

SSL only proves identity. It can't say anything about malicious intents.
There's also the problem of availability of unique status updates, the lower your character count the fewer unique status updates there will be. If you launch a service with only 1 character there will only be 25 possible status updates.

People want to be unique, but they're also lazy, so it's a compromise between the two. I think 14 characters strikes the balance.
I Topeka'ed April Fools
TO honor your request, I will not upvote this story.
Previously submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982249
I could see this coming a mile a way.. Are April Fools stories something so unbearable for one day a year? I think a number of people find these things interesting, creative, and possibly even funny.. Not sure if the fact don't enjoy them constitutes policy.
After 6 months of suggestions to one of my clients, they retroactively decided to flat out forbid 2 party phone call recording apps from the store.

He was flat out rejected. After being suggested to put in-app purchasing in his app.

I'd say "App store reviewers are tired, cranky, varied from one another, pissed off when people dump crap on them, and unwilling to go out on a limb when in doubt", and that accounts for 90% of all the rejections and behavior we see from them.
The word "hack" comes from the tradition of elaborate practical jokes at MIT. I can't think of anything more hacker-like than April Fools stories.
Updating Mobile Apps on Android - not so easy like iPhone
dear hn: please don't ask the rest of us to not submit stories that you personally don't enjoy.

just don't read them.

regards,
the reasonable people
The friggin' Jawas have made it to Mars and picked it up. http://bit.ly/cERGcp
You are telling other people to not vote for things they like, just because you don't like them. THAT is not the HN way.
I don't buy it.

I already have way too many ideas for apps which aren't lush-graphics-heavy that are still very attractive and functional, as well as breaking new ground.

Besides, the graphics work doesn't have to be full-time on someone's part. Yes, good graphics work is expensive, but it's generally only part-time, compared to the developer's time, if the app is more than eye candy.

So there's plenty of room for the indie.

On the other hand, the $30 bar Apple has set for pro apps like iWork is pretty low ($10 each). I'm hoping that serious indie apps will be able to sell in the $10-15-25 range. But only time will tell.

At least we know it'll be a different equation from the iPhone market.

And, I think PG is fundamentally right: only people who spend time working on the iPad are going to spot the emerging opportunities. It's really a new platform where the possibilities are very hazy, if promising.
Not yet unfortunately - launch early and launch often.
There's no Tokeka Voice or Tmail... but it makes for a good April fools joke on the more gullible web users
What you want to do? Reach on HN news and kill the hackers' fun and mash up the plan for wealth and power.[non-sequitur]

But seriously, I think everybody gets it's april fools; tomorrow they will be back to their old ways.
I meant Topeka
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Dramatic Discovery of Interpretive Compression Algorithm
While surprising, I think GitHub's announcement today fails to meet that criteria.
The way to think of it is like so:

Most of your users are based in the US because those not in the US can't get in to use your service. =)
Microsoft Fails the Office XML Standards Test
I was JUST wishing there were some April Fools posts on the front page. Hopefully some are floating around somewhere
Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest
sounds like someone got pranked this morning :/
guest@xkcd:/$ whoami
You are Richard Stallman.
guest@xkcd:/$ who
Who are you?
guest@xkcd:/$ cat
You're a kitty!
Missed opportunity to announce RCS support, or a Gopher browser interface. Bah!
Kernel.org funny April fools joke
An SEO Potpourri....
They tend to have a list of addresses that the certificate can be sent to, eg:

postmaster@domain
webmaster@domain
ssladmin@domain

If you can get access to ssladmin@gmail.com, then you can probably register an SSL cert for gmail.com.
Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?
I think we need to get a single source for all today's pratical jokes that are getting submitter to Hacker News. I thought we could use this post as a forum of sort. This will also allow for people to upvote their favorites and we can get a running tally of the best-of-the-best.

Thank you.
Oh please. This is the way social news sites work. People upvote stuff they think is interesting.
In a word, "am
Indeed it does. It definitely did not last night when I replied.
We could look at this in a different way. I created a new Ask HN to allow for people to link to their favorite April Fools joke. This should help control the April Fools joke submissions and still allow people to express their joy of being fooled.

Link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1234653
The HN headline makes this sound like a permanent failure. Reading the article reveals a much less dire situation (a power-saving hibernation has begun).
It was working earlier but now I'm getting a "Fail Guppy".
Youtube's textp. If you haven't seen it yet somehow, many of the videos where you normally pick the resolution of the video now has a textp option, kinda hoping they keep it past april 1st.
"Submitting April Fools stories is just not the Hacker News Way." I'll respectfully disagree.
Warning: when you do this you get funny looks from your wife and crumbs everywhere (not to mention having to make sure to get bagels that are not pre-cut). And when you are done you want a bagel, but it wont fit in the toaster...
First I couldn't click to the info page from the posterous blog, so I clicked on the store. The store's logo wouldn't link me to a product page, then I got an insecure connection warning at the regular site because I forgot to ditch the https.

Regular users would be seriously lost in this proceess.

Hope that helps.
A more proactive and reasonable approach could be to submit this:

"Ask HN: Please submit all April Fools stories to this thread"
Ask HN: Please don't vote up stories I wouldn't vote up.
HN is clearly going downhill. A year ago there were no front-page stories I was uninterested in. Or if there were I don't remember them. Today I see several front-page stories that don't interest me! If people will just be considerate and only vote up stories that I like, we can save this site from its otherwise inevitable downfall. TIA!
It's not that they can't, it's that there's a little more friction for them to.

(Speaking of my websites, we've actually done the i18n necessary to make it usable from anywhere, but only after we knew we had that international demand.)
Parkinson's Patients Who Can't Walk Can Cycle
Perhaps this post itself is in fact an April Fools story?
It actually has less to do with the vendor, and more to do with the acquiring banks. I hate banks with a passion.

One time had a customer on the line with us asking why he no longer had access. We explained because he had chargedback the transaction. No, no he did not, he assured us.

We called the bank, and found out that he had asked for a chargeback, but it was for another transaction he had problems with, and wanted it corrected. So here we are, my customer service rep, the customer, and the bank on a 3-way call, and the customer is telling the bank to undo the chargeback and give us the money back, and to chargeback the other transaction. And they wouldn't do it. Oh, they applied the chargeback to the other transaction, but the penalty was still applied to us.

The customer apologized to us later, and wanted to pay again, and was even willing to pay the chargeback fee. He simply paid again the normal price, and we swallowed the cost.

I hate banks.
It's always easy to upset an XML parser...
April Fools' stories are like lolcats. If you saw one of them for every fifty or so sites you visited they'd be kinda cute; if you see them ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE they're just really stupid spam. Also, most of them are a lot less funny than the originator believes; it's almost as if there were an annual blonde joke festival.

I think it would be nice if there was ONE aggregator without any April Fools' crap on it. If you want April Fools' stories you do know where to find them.
SUSE Linux runs on 6 of the world's top 10 supercomputers
Steve Blank: Airman Roachclip, Ashley P.
I think you are right on the money here.
Web Apps For Small Businesses
xkcd's command prompt for sure
My favorite so far is XKCDs Command Prompt. There are so many easter eggs to find, it is definitely a time killer!
I wonder if a crippled, totally brain-dead, but formally correct implementation is not Microsoft's way to discourage usage of a standard while adhering to it in order to get government business...

POSIX subsystem, anyone?
just don't read them

If only they came with labels. Unfortunately, the hallmark of a web-based April Fool story is that it comes clothed as a real story. They're deliberately crafted to sucker you in and convince you to read two to six paragraphs before you figure out that they're made of lies.

In other words, April Fool's Day is a linkbait competition. I think that's why it has worn out its welcome for so many people. Linkbait used to be more funny when it was rare. Now it's like celebrating Mosquito Day, or Spam Email Day.

Yours would be a reasonable suggestion if every April Fool story was submitted with a prominent label reading [APRIL FOOL]. But that would spoil the fun, wouldn't it? If there's anything less fun than an April Fool story, it's an inartful April Fool story.

Frankly I think Google raised the bar years ago when they announced Gmail on April 1. I no longer think an April Fool story is any good unless it (a) sounds like an obvious April Fool joke but (b) is 100% true.
The Amish and the iPod
Why the Amish are into the ipad and ipod.
Tum Milo Toh Sahi 2010
I can't think of too many things less hacker-like than "today we try very hard to be funny in a really formulaic way because that's what everybody else does".
Google Doodle today is awesome
I think this is an update to the same site, with a new topologically strange bagel. Not really a big improvement over the previously-submitted one, though.
hey how are you doing