skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiya,
It shouldn't do that it should redirect to the Projects tab when you add a Project. I've tested this and it works for me, so I'm trying to work out how you've done it. What page were you on before, and what had you done prior to clicking the add project button? Thanks.
Yeah the subtle message here is that everybody and their brother is writing a kanban, Scrum, or agile tool.

I think that's a good thing, though. The market will sort out winners from losers. Also it means that people are very passionate about having a tool.
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Well, it's a huge subject, but a couple of good starting points on the neuroscience angle are the works of B. Alan Wallace ("Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge", for example) or Mathieu Ricard ("The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet", for example).

If, however, you are looking for a more general introduction to Buddhism (and Buddhist psychology) from a rationalist perspective, I'd recommend Stephen Batchelor's "Buddhism Without Beliefs."
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Yeah... I dont buy, it being a bug.
Ask HN: What startup website has the best front/home page?
Can anybody nominate startup websites that has a frontpage thats very effectively designed?
I'm not a fan of this projection. Africa and Greenland are both horribly distorted in shape, and it makes it look like the best way to fly from Canada to Norway is to head east, rather than north.

I say get rid of all flat maps-of-the-world from schools and replace them with spherical maps.

(Edit: I just just meant maps of the world. Flat maps of single countries where distortion is minimal can stay.)
Oddly enough, the best feature in Froyo for me has been the ability to update all applications with only a single button press, rather than having to go through each one individually. Being able to elect to have some applications auto-update is just gravy on top.

It used to be I'd have to spend on average 2 minutes every day just updating applications.
Nice. Readability does that too - http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
I'd be interested to know how they're going to stop it, for people who've gotten their own phones.
The video shouldn't be on a lightbox. Never. OK, don't put it as SWF player from the beginning, but once I click that play button, I expect to see the video playing RIGHT THERE where it is, ASAP. I would never imagine to see a sudden lightbox appears in the middle of the page after a click.

I don't see the point in that UX decision, I'd really like to know why.
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So you have a new client and you’ve been assigned the case of producing a killer design for them. Something that only you have been entrusted with… The big opportunity comes…You sit down with them or converse through email and the only thing you can come up with is “What are you looking for?” What? Really? Is that best thing you can come up with…?
I agree... It seems pretty evident that the media attention of the past few weeks has been largely artificial. "Self promoters" are right on the mark.

You can see it in the arguments that are being made, primarily it boils down to this: Facebook has too much data on people, and that's scary.

But that's not new, FB, and all social networking sites have been collecting intimate information on users since the beginning of web2.0, the 'new' issue is supposed to be the default privacy settings. Being techies, if we are concerned about privacy, we can easily turn it off. Does it really matter that much to you that other people are sharing their information?

I'm as envious as anyone of Facebook's success. But there'll be better, more profitable battles to fight.
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I've found it more reliable to turn off the plugin service, as I had a couple of flash blobs sneak through on-demand.
Reminded me of the houndeyes from Half-Life, with an extra leg
Or readability. Or fonts. Or design aesthetic.
I can't stand iBooks.

And page numbers? What archaic nonsense is that? This must be the only guy who lamented the loss of "Side" demarcation when tapes gave way to CDs.
I've not used it "specifically" for testing, but have let people use a site and record via screenflow. I wasn't being terribly scientific about it at the time tho. :)
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>> ... with no possibility of redemption ...

> As long as this only applies to stories, there
> is a very easy chance of redemption: Make a good
> comment.

True. However ...

According to PG, in his opinion it's the quality of the comments that's mostly causing the site to decline. From that point of view the suggestion doesn't really help.

There are multiple problems, perhaps there should be multiple solutions/tweaks/features to attack them. Karma is well-known to be a blunt and faulty instrument, and making loads of minor tweaks to that single instrument in the hope of fixing all the problems might be the wrong way to go.

Enculturating newbies is part of the problem - it's no longer happening. Using crowd-sourcing for assessment of quality is thereby being harmed, because people are just upvoting, and submitting, things they like and that make them smile. We want new users with new comments, new interests and new submissions, but the site needs to retain its focus, otherwise it will become another "submit this 'cos it's cute" site.

Crowd-sourcing is needed to help the site scale. Newbies are needed to keep the site fresh. Old hands are needed to keep the site focussed.

What seems to me to be missing is a feedback mechanism for people to learn why their submission/comments are less valued on this site specifically, and ways to concentrate that judgement in the hands of those whose judgement matches what PG wants.

I have ideas, although they are all rather baroque, and I'm sure many others here have ideas as well. In all liklihood they won't be implemented, because PG doesn't have the time to evaluate them all sufficiently. Again, what's needed is for those with the vision that matches PG's to find an easily implemented, transparent, appropriate, fair and "good enough" solution.

Maybe having submissions costing karma will work. I merely offered an aspect that needs to be considered.
Nice. Did you just recreate the Readability algorithm or are you trying your own approach?
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Yup, that was the basis of my code. With some modifications, I basically ported the javascript to C#.
Hiya,
Well the video needs to enlarge so that's the only reason why really - so people can see the video more clearly. However the call to action has grown quite a lot in recent updates to the home page so it could be part of the home page now as it turns out. Be keen to get other people's opinion on this.
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I'm tempted to point out that we evolved emotions for a reason. They're basically sugar methods for typically socially beneficial reactions.

Too much rejection of emotions may at best lead one to be a Buddha, or perhaps just dull, or maybe even worst, a sociopath.
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In large part I ported over Readability. Although It's not exactly the same since I'm doing some additional processing. I started it on Friday and had it finished up yesterday so it's still pretty rough, but working pretty well.

You can try more here: http://toadjaw.com/article
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This really puts FONC in perspective.
I wish I could hear the original audio. The transcripts look like they were done by a non-computer expert and then edited to fix up the terminology inaccuracies, but there are still missing and odd bits.
Just to be clear, Buddhism is not about the elimination of emotions. It's about recognizing that feelings are not real things, to believe and rely on, or to be afraid of.
For anyone wondering what a 'Kanban' board is or wanting to know how it can be used - I suggest viewing this cool slideshow:

http://www.slideshare.net/marcusoftnet/kanbanboards

Really opens the mind on how to use one. I showed this to our development team today and one of them said 'Surely you could just make this into a computer program?'.

The reason I think this doesn't work as well as a computer program (and take this as feedback to your project), is as following:

- Having a physical board on a wall is visible to the team, all of the time. A computer system has to be checked, it has to be opened or at least brought to the front of your windows to think 'What am I supposed to be doing? What is there to be done'. Having a real physical board in your office allows you to easily get distracted and get back on track.

- The other advantage of this, is that it is seen by everyone in every department. I've worked in places where support teams use one internal system and development use another and despite being linked are often only viewed internally in department. Although this works fine, by having a physical Kanban board on your wall, it is visible by everyone in your company all the time! Everyone will know what people in their department and outside will be up to ... this helps manage work load for people and stops people having to constantly ask 'what's happening with A or B?'. It also stops people ignoring difficult tasks, or urgent bugs - as everyone knows it's there and needs to be done asap.

- Having a real board that you stick post it notes on is quite a fun task to do. Especially looking at the added fun from the slides (e.g. little character people and cartoons).

- Having a real hand drawn board is flexible, you can change the way you use it depending on how your company is run / departments are set up.

However,

There are many disadvantages of having a hand drawn one which a computerised one would improve. The key and biggest off the top of my mind is integrating with existing source control / project management solutions.

e.g. TFS has a work item number. If you have a hand drawn board with a post it note with the TFS number in the corner, you'd still have to look up what that item is in TFS. Where as in a computerised system you can easily access that information perhaps from clicking the work item.

However, all this said, I still think you've made a good start and have a nice product. Your best bet would be to approach different real development teams early and see how they would use it and what pain / gains can be made.

- Visibility and fun are key deal breakers here. If something is a chore, boring or painful - then people won't want to do it. Make it fun and they'll happily do it and it adds motivation to the team moral!
Agreed, the page numbers complaint is bogus. The kindle doesn't even have page numbers to mess up because "pages" don't make sense when you can navigate to any line and change the font size. The last thing you want is to be stuck with an old limitation when the paradigm changes.
You consider it spam when your friends tell you about something they liked? Okay. I think most people, however, talk about almost nothing else with their friends.
Whilst I agree regarding globes as obviously the best representation, the point of this projection is not to facilitate navigation, but to show how insignificant in area North America and Western Europe really are in comparison to the vast swaths of South America, Africa, and Asia.
The Mercator projection is useful to navigators on high seas, but nowadays, that's just irrelevant. De-zoom and look at the size of Groenland or Antarctica to see :)
I'm sorry, I couldn't find them. I would have posted them as a comment if I had. I spent over an hour looking for them earlier today, chances are I've been looking in all the wrong places and they're out there somewhere.

Maybe someone else could give it a shot?
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In the tech world there was of course Sergey and that little pet project of his (and Larry's) at Stanford we came to know as Google. Then there was Max and his partners- unfurling the behemoth of PayPal and then Slide...
Pretty cool. The back button doesn't do much.
To be fair it doesn't look like flow has sub-tasks, custom kanban lanes, or attachments.. all of which AgileZen does have.

I think the biggest difference though is that AgileZen has a very polished and nice looking UI and flow definitely needs some work in that department. You can't underestimate how important that is with an application I am going to be using all day.
Because if you don't know what you're building, you aren't really following a process at all, you're just experimenting randomly and hoping something good happens. Personally, I advocate relying on thinking things through and solving real problems rather than trusting to blind luck that you will somehow wind up solving a problem that someone has and will pay you to fix. YMMV.
I think the iPhone is a better reading device than the ipad. It's smaller, easier to hold in various positions on the bed or slouching. For pure reading I see no advantage in the iPad's size.

IMO, read on the iPhone or a similarly sized device.
After reading through the source code changes between 2.3.6 and 2.3.7 (http://github.com/rails/rails/compare/v2.3.6...v2.3.7) it looks like someone forgot to prevent the closing form and fieldset tags in helpers from getting escaped. The developers also removed some deprecated code and related tests. Some of the comments on the change are not encouraging. It looks like this was pushed out into the wild a little too quickly.
OK, I misread you.

That said, I tested both OO an FP, and my current opinion is that thinking more mathematically (in terms of sets, mappings…), almost always yields smaller designs, which are almost always more flexible and more efficient.

> By the way, "sets, mappings, graphs, combinators" is a pretty strange definition for a set. The element descriptions are vague and some of them seem unrelated to the others. That may be mathematically correct, but it doesn't make for a great argument.

I don't understand you here. Derefr didn't make any mathematical statement. He didn't described the concepts, he named them. The four items he mentioned are related. And why should they, anyway? The way I see it, Derefr just made a statement, not an argument.
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Yeah, I was a bit surprised too. I would have loved to have been part of the research team.
It's great but I wouldn't sign up - at least right away - because the homepage doesn't really says what it does best and why it's a better product.

Maybe I just don't desperately need yet another online project management tool... Sell it better!
The reasons he states is why Miller (EPSG 54003) is a better projection. Not really a significant increase in complexity either.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MillerCylindricalProjection.htm...
If people go huh? When they arrive to your page you probably should get a proper designer.
As a future word of advice - never visit any Indian news site without ensuring AdBlock/NoScript/Flashblock enablement first.
I stopped reading Unscientific Americans in the '80s, when e.g. they published a series of anti-BMD articles where the list of "beyond the foreseeable state of the art" required developments kept dropping as they were accomplished (in one notable example, you and I could have built an "impossible" battery system out of car batteries in a few hours...).

However, this was published in New Scientist, although after some investigation I note that it isn't officially a magazine for practitioners, contrary to the impression I've gotten from individual on-line articles I've looked at.
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Hollywood is built on lies. All these lies only serve to make the world a more interesting.
App::perlbrew (think rvm, but for Perl)
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Of course. The real question is, where does it work? (And why?)

Personally, I don't know.
looks interesting, I will try using this instead of my crappy google docs system of todos for a while and see how it works out for me.
> I might just be getting old, but I'm positive a professor and I broke the Java hash function wide open in college using this method, yet my 15 minute attempt to replicate this result gives me an image which looks like a good hash function would result in: white noise.

Is it possible Java has updated the string hashing function since you've done this?
The term "open" is starting to suffer the same fate as the term "organic." Soon, your local well-intentioned hacker won't be able to call their software open, because they can't afford to do the federal filing or get the USDS inspection.
Nice article, I, too, hadn't noticed the change in scale just by panning around.

The Google LatLong blog (http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/) is packed with information related to Google Maps, and the maps API Google Group also is.

There's lots of talk about the Mercator projection on the list, tradeoffs, pros, cons, etc. So there really was no need to read the obfuscated code. Also, I'm not sure if "ease of implementation" was really what had them choose this projection, so it wouldn't hurt to dig around a little bit more before saying stuff like that, I think.

Still, pretty good stuff for people that want to know a bit more about how Google Maps work.
The problem is, OOP as Alan Kay envisioned it isn't widely refered to any more. Now, we all talk about OOP as if Java started it.
A sincere question, why is the onus on microsoft to make sure its .net stuff runs on "one of Google's new fangled hand-held devices"?

Also, how is "They continue to attack, with legal action or threats, any open source that competes with any of their core products." any different from what other companies do ? How do you think google would react if some one was to brand and name a search engine similar to theirs ? What about Red-Hat ? If I was to take their distro and start selling it as Red-Hat Enhanced Pro Super Cool version what you think their response would be.

The way I see it, its easy for companies like google to beat the open drum because it does not hurt their core business, microsoft however sees direct impact on revenue.
If you're happy with your current PM software I guess then no sales pitch in the world could convince you to move over to our software. However, for those that are hungry for a "simple online project management app" - this will be music to their ears hopefully. But I take your points on board.

Any marketing advice for how to word my text on the home page would be appreciated.
If you'll indulge me in some nostalgia, quite some time ago I wrote a similar Apache Commons (it was Jakarta Commons at the time) library called "functor", essential trying to solve the problem of functions-as-first-class-objects-are-missing-in-Java (but without resorting to byte code manipulation or anything fancy like that; I may not have been clever enough for that). This was just prior to the introduction of generics into the core language, if memory serves.

So for example, Pratik's first example (iterate through a Collection of Strings and return the elements starting with "inv") would be written like:

List<String> list = Arrays.asList("invalid1", " invalid2");
return new FilteredIterator(list.iterator(),new UnaryFunctor() { boolean test(String str) { return str.startsWith("inv"); });

although as a practical matter most users would have predefined constant functions, predicates, and helpers, so the second line would read more like:

return F.filter(list.iterator(),F.startsWith("inv"));

(Yes, Java is verbose.)

It's actually a pretty well tested (100% coverage) and documented library that I used on a number of personal and work projects. but never bothered to push it out of the commons "sandbox". You can find it at http://commons.apache.org/sandbox/functor/. The examples (http://commons.apache.org/sandbox/functor/examples.html) are kind of fun. We were experimenting with a test-first, pseudo-literate programming documentation style.
Actually, open source just means open source. The source is available, can be modified, and can be redistributed. Opensource.org even lists the MS-PL ans MS-RL licenses as open source.

Free software (as in beer), is a whole different matter entirely. Microsoft has only claimed to be releasing free software when that is indeed the case.

As a developer for the Windows platform, I've never been mislead or under any illusions that anything is free. In fact, understanding the licensing and pricing was critical before making the decision to develop on the platform.

Do I still appreciate that the source for ASP.Net MVC is available? Definitely. I even ran a fork of it for a time.
how do you define success?

I'd say even "breaking even + $30K/yr" does not apply to 90% of websites/web businesses.
What if submissions actually did start at 0, costing submitters 1 karma to submit?

I'd prefer if submissions stayed at 1 but still "cost" you karma, in order to get the benefits you suggest. Rather than just 1 point, however, I'd suggest some sort of log-based calculation (so ppl with higher karma are provided with the same disincentive).

That said, it appears - to me - that pg likes to keep the system as simple as possible and to only add new features when they're expected to resolve a significant problem. I don't see this idea as more than a "nice to have."
The objection of the article is to people claiming something is "open" when it's not. Open implies working with products from more than one vendor.

So there's nothing wrong with Microsoft's behaviour, apart from how they're describing what they're doing. A lovely example is their Office Open XML formats, which only work with Microsoft products because the specification includes things like "Behaves like Microsoft Word 97".
flow does support custom lanes. Subtasks are not supported on purpose. They limit the effectiveness of Work In Progress (WIP) limits and reduce visibility. For my take on subtasks, please refer to http://flow.io/finding-the-right-task-size-in-kanban.html

Could you tell me which areas of flow's UI needs work?
I've been occasionally tethering on Sprint (with PDANet) for almost 3 years and haven't been "caught" yet. I try to VPN so it isn't completely trivial to see that my traffic is from a tethered laptop. But I'd be ok paying $30/month for tethering if I had to. I just wasn't ok with $60/month.
this and heat are the main issues, not shrinking the transistors AFAIK.
You can mark the video with chapters, and you could structure that someway, on your own of course.

Firstly I disagreed your comment, but now I see it's a really poor usability testing tool. From the 4 "new" features they highlight there is just one that is fundamental to the problem they want to solve.

Heatmap is a must-have, task analysis support should be high on their priorities (they announce it, but I can't see it anywhere).
no opportunity cost WRT a normal career path :)
Supposedly computers are "born Muslims" because they only understand 0s and 1s, and Islam says that there is no (0) god but Allah (1). I think this is intended as a joke, but it seems like the sort of joke that only a Muslim could be amused by. (Constructing parallel jokes for other religions is left as an exercise for the reader.)
I think we are in violent agreement, although I think your GC benchmark is still "cheating". ;-)
Space in a comment thread is also a scarce resource, or rather readers' attention is. I would find HN a much less pleasant place to be if (say) every comment thread had exactly its present content plus an equal amount of dross.

So if scarcity on the home page justifies karma for stories, I think scarcity of reader attention justifies it for comments.

(No, voting doesn't make the threads shorter, but it does make it easier to identify comments that are more likely to be interesting and to skip ones that are likely to be rubbish.)
> With lots of variations in object structure things can be horrible - witness designs that have more tables than most tables have rows.

This is the problem document databases are designed to solve. :)
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