skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a community problem; if you subscribe to a Tumblr blog (tumblelog, microblog, etc.) like you would with any other blog, this wouldn't be a problem.

It's a Tumblr problem for Tumblr users.

Many people - not necessarily you - tend to forget that Tumblr is (also) a blogging platform when used outside of the - atrocious - Dashboard.

You wouldn't say the same about Blogger or Wordpress, for instance; at least it doesn't look like crap in Tumblr.

Tumblr has definitely created a trend and affected the blogscape with its laudable ease with which you can publish content online, and it certainly has its pros and cons. Most of the cons only exist if you focus on them.
Not to mention that the dashboard takes literally minutes to load (though it only seems to affect some users, including). They have never fixed it after multiple people have reported this.
Genuine question: Why shouldn't a founder be putting aside savings? Does savings include any accumulation of money, or just liquid cash and allows for retirement planning? I understand that the founder is being paid with venture capital, but what is supposed to happen if, even against the founder's every desires, the business goes bust, the founder is no longer able to work for some reason, or a myriad of unintentional-yet-plausible reasons why the founder might no longer be drawing that salary?

Granted, this comes from the perspective of a person whose entire life's income can be documented on a series of W2 forms, so I beg your indulgence of my ignorance.
Hacked Videogames By Religious Fanatics Featured In NYC Gallery
Google's Instant Search Could Boost Ad Prices And Revenue
Running Processes
I've got the same 28.5" waist size, but I've got it even worse as my ideal inseam is 35"!

You're absolutely right about not actually wearing them at your waist — most of my good pants measure 2" bigger than the nominal size and are worn 2" lower.

I'm usually lucky if I can get a 28x34, and that's generally only from high-end fashion places that sell only one length and expect almost all of their customers to to hem them (sometimes they come unhemmed and 35-37" long). The recent trend for rolled cuffs has been kind to me.

There is another option though: wear lower-rise women's pants as capris or hemmed way back into shorts. The sizing goes all over the place though, I have some from Size 1 to Size 5 that all fit nearly the same, even from the same brand.
no 'target=' user preference so that external links could show up in another tab/window if so desired

I have always seen a default option to open links in the same window as a small but definite signal that a site is more geared towards technical people who know how to open a new tab/window if and when they want one.

I'm so used to mouse gesturing a line up across a link to open it in a new window, I often confuse myself when I'm using a browser without this capability.
We've been quiet in the press but hard at work. The three biggest things on our plate right now are 1) growing as fast as we can 2) integrating Facebook Places and doing interesting things with the data (eg, what places around me do my friends go to) and 3) figuring out this new real-time sales model (http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/02/virgin-america-rides-loopt-...).
When isn't downtime annoying? I'll manage and live a happy life as soon as they replace the weird 404.

I wouldn't be surprised that the general uptime isn't great, but it's not that often that Tumblr is available an entire day.
The results would likely have to be significantly different.

Google and others have studied the response time -vs- user stickiness issue extensively, and it's good stuff to read - users don't even know what they want.

Example (paraphrased) - the majority of users will say "I would rather see 20 results on the page than 10" - but actual A/B testing shows that the users shown only the 10 results (faster, less information to process) are overwhelmingly more likely to continue using the service.

What people think they want when asked is very often not what really happens in practice.

So if a search engine is giving you results you hate - response time is obviously meaningless - but otherwise, it's everything.
Are we talking about opinions here?

Sorry, that was the point. We could talk about opinions, sure. But all major search contenders do significant user research into how people will react to much less significant changes than Instant Search. This change had its but user-tested and dogfooded for quite some time.
Not all ideas are good ideas. Just like python-ideas threads that crop up, not everything belongs in the framework, and some things are better off elsewhere.
That's what I get for reading in the morning.
The article points out many of the problems of the greek economy, like:

* The inflated public sector

* The power of the unions over the government

* The corruption in certain areas of the public sector (e.g. hospitals)

* The loose observance of laws

But it mischaracterizes several important points, as it is commons with articles that describe such complicated issues after a minimal exposure of the journalist to the situation:

* Tax evasion does not hurt the real economy. Especially not in a country like Greece where the public sector is so inefficient. It might be unfair for some but it doesn't really hurt the economy. In some cases it enables smart and motivated entrepreneurs to start their businesses.

* Most public sector workers are not corrupted but they are part of the problem simply because of the fact that they work in the public sector. Think of DMV x1000.

* The majority of Greeks are against the unions and would like to see the public sector shrink.
Only the ones that won't switch to a log-performance data structure when it's causing them trouble.
As someone who went through the tortuous education system in Taiwan, where the culture of cram schools also existed, and standardized testing was king, I would not wish it upon anyone. In fact, I think cram schools are one of the worst ideas ever conceived in education.

All it does is created socially retarded (in the non-derogatory way) children unable to deal with anything that doesn't come out of a textbook, with no discernible life skills whatsoever.

I've spent years unlearning things from that stage of my life, and I'm still not done. Every day I'm learning social norms and life knowledge that I honestly should have found out at age 12, not age 24. When you send kids to a public school for 8 hours, then spend the next 6 hours not interacting with people, and instead cramming for their next exam so they won't be hopelessly left behind, you're creating a massive social problem for later. When your children's only free time in a day is spent wolfing down packed dinner while the taxicab speeds from one cram class to another, you are doing yourself and your children a grave disservice.

There is a fundamental difference between school and education, one would be wise not to confuse the two.

More schooling is an absolutely ass backwards solution to our educational problems. The solution is better education, not slapping de facto mandatory private schools on top and making our kids work more hours than an EA employee.
No doubt, the Rails community has issues, although on the whole, it seems to me larger, more dynamic, and open. I saw the django issues as coming from the fact that it was tightly held for a specific purpose for a specific company for a long time.

People were generally really nice in the community. Some of it may also be the more introverted characters attracted to python.

Also, I have lots of friends who are django fans and I hope that django improves on all these fronts. The character of a community is both hard to quantify and hard to change.

The rails community has grown so fast and been so open that it doesn't even seem to have a specific character, which is something I quite like about it.
"One stat that was particularly interesting, from a Stanford researcher whose name I forget, was that replacing the worst 6-10% of teachers would put us on the same proficiency level as Finland."

Us = "the teachers" or "the US school system"? If the latter, are we allowed to import the Finnish parents?

Bad teachers hang on for reasons other than union contracts. The private schools and the charters typically don't pay as well. Maybe it isn't so easy to replace a French/chemistry/history teacher, or maybe you have to do so in the last three weeks before school starts. If you get a stinker then, perhaps in a private school you can fix this after a year, but then you'll have shot a dozen or more kids' introduction to French or chemistry.
You're assuming they were solving a different problem.
Have you switched to a new search engine? If not, it's more likely (statistically) that you will stay with google longer because of this new feature - it's now faster and easier to mine through search data. Agreed it doesn't solve the search-spam problem - but nobody claimed it did.
a) no...results didn't load automatically. Now as you type you see the results right away.

b) no they don't..,A = natural long tail search, where the person starts off with a long tail string. B = the recurring searches trying to find something
This is the part of the last 5% of polish that can be so important to intermediate super users, because they need everything to be in order before they settle and keep using the platform.

When you reach a point when you don't feel that they are perfecting the problem - and have the passion - and just tweaking the back-end, you start to lose hope and consider the alternatives. It doesn't feel like someone who still want to fix a problem and create something that they themselves would love.

This applies to many of my experiences, some of which were Disqus and Forrst.
If you think less of me because my website has only been out for 3 days and has issues, then you are being hypocritical.

I know what I am talking about too. I have worked on small sites upto ones with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank. I realise they have scaling issues but let's be fair: Twitter had less of a problem.

So you are saying it's well put together? I have made plenty of examples on how it fails and on its serious lack of stability. I have heard many a person say they has issues.

If they had behaved with grace at all throughout my dealings with them, maybe I would be more sympathetic. Remember, politeness is free and there is no scalability issues with that one.

Its not about which celebrity, it's about there're being serious cries from me and many other tumblrs about the issues and all they do is roll out new features and faff about.

As much as you want to call me a hack you have to admit one of the worst things to do to a codebase that has issues is add yet more features before you stabalize what you have.
Morality, altruism, idealism, etc.

I do not believe in altruism as a proper virtue. One can cause damage trying to help people. Intention is not good enough.

I also believed that humans are intrinsically self-interested even if human beings couldn't exist without other human beings. No man is an island but every man is an individual worthy of respect and dignity.
Don’t Give me Rework Refusal
Over the last few weeks I’ve seen a few comments regarding rework. One of those comments was Julie Booth’s (@uxsuccess) comment on Twitter regarding rework,

“Do not fear rework!!”

That kicked me off with a response of,

“Do not fear rework!! /via @uxsuccess so true, plz plz don’t cower before rework!!! . Listen to @uxsuccess!“

Then just recently I stumbled onto a book I’ve been meaning to read called Rework. This book is written by the crew at 37signals. This company is best known for SaaS Offerings Basecamp, Highrise, Campfire, and Backpack. All of them created with high quality, solid UX (User eXperience), probably great code quality, maintainability, and the list of goodness goes on. In addition, the other thing that 37signals is widely known for is their efforts around Ruby on Rails (created by DHH @dhh).
At least for Muslims, there is an obvious flaw since Islam forbids dating. So people that self-identified as "very serious" are pretty much by-definition not that. And since it is, among all the practices of Muslims, one that is popularly known and probably even overemphasized (relative to other practices), a large population of those that self-identified as "somewhat serious" are probably guilty of being a bit generous with themselves.

At the end of the day, of course, correlation does not imply causation. If either religious people get their panties in a bunch and overly-defensive or irreligious people start gloating, both are simply demonstrating that their dogma is overriding their intelligence.
Even for fast typists - speed and response time affects your perception of the site subconsciously. The faster and more realtime it seems the more you are going to like it, even if you aren't sure why, or don't even think about it. You may not even realize why if asked why you like it better - but the statistics and studies are there and are solid - so this is likely a very good move on google's part.
Your data is hardly trapped.

You can export any or all of your posts as xml using the Tumblr api (http://tumblr.com/api) and your browser. eg
http://we-heart-sci-fi.tumblr.com/api/read

There are any number of scripts/gists/pasties around the web that will give a simple script to download your posts.
Having created a tumblr account for a mini blog of quotes from our office (http://hodgeoffice.tumblr.com) it frustrates me that I have to change the URL to tumblr.com to post anything on it, theres no dashboard button on the subdomain even when Tumblr knows I'm logged in... unless I'm missing something
very nice read on fund raising
>The poor are not getting poorer, the rich are just getting richer faster.

It's also worth noting that "the rich," "the poor," "the uninsured," etc., are not constant groups over time.
Just speculating, but they might end up painting themselves into a corner this way, by prematurely committing to JVM specs that don't support the final language spec.
The whole reposting while keeping attribution has been tidied up a lot this week: http://staff.tumblr.com/post/1059624418/content-attribution
> having read this, the guy sounds like a hack

If you do a little Googling you'll quickly find out that Zach is quite the accomplished developer.

http://workingwithrails.com/person/7805-zach-inglis

"Ranking: #46 out of 17943 people"
I agree that this is good news.
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing your insights. Love to hear about your customer acquisition story as well
He's saying that if you consider the race results as a control of sorts, and you operate under the assumption that there is nothing inherent in race that would create the results shown, it is obvious that the variable being measured is not well controlled, and there is plenty of noise in the results.
A bit over the top.

Looking from Tumblr's perspective, yes over 4 years any company is bound to make technical mistakes. Should you sum them up in a blog post and say they suck? Probably not.

I am sure the documented mistakes over the years have been resolved and fixed. It's understandable that this person is frustrated--Tumblr probably should do a better job serving it's power users who remain loyal and helped create the community it has.
Perhaps those numbers mean that programming has finally become a true engineering discipline :).
Design for Conversion - Checkout Page Redesign
When you can still live with it enough not to point it out. But the point has been brought.
Does it target a particular market segment (age or interest)?

Facebook CPM ads are cheap and have pretty reasonable targeting options. You can get a few 100K impressions for well under $100
Yes - an unfunny comment would have been "Arachnophobia: It is inappropriate to include a huge picture of a tarantula on a page about fear of spiders."

The phrasing, minor as the changes are, is what makes it humorous.
BlackBerry WebKit, or how I encountered a browser tester’s worst nightmare
from: http://ycombinator.com/faq.html

"Is Y Combinator an incubator? -- No. The defining quality of incubators seems to be that companies work out of the investor's space. We think that's a bad idea; it makes founders feel like employees."

In addition, the term 'incubator' has been around for a while and is an easily understood concept (esp to the lay person). Things like YC et. al. are not incubators as such but there hasn't been any particular term that has caught on outside the tech crowd. 'Seed Accelerator' is the term I usually use but even then it requires more exposition than 'incubator'. Given the difference is relatively minor (office space vs sort-yourself-out), I can see why people still use 'incubator'.
I saw that as a feature, not a bug - a subtle wink to the subjectiveness of historiography in general, and recongition that even this effort is not without flaws.
People will always be willing to join new social networks in search of exclusivity. Facebook might always occupy the number one spot, but this is a large market.

Diaspora is appealing to me because it's appealing to many of my geeky friends.
I strongly disagree that it's boring and doesn't do anyone any favors. There are all sorts of domain-specific metadata that could serve as a platform for other services. For example, Creative Commons licenses parse RDFa in referring documents to render copy-paste attribution information (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/RDFa#CC_Deeds_using_RDFa_and...).

Standardized metadata can serve as a platform for other services, not just functionality in a browser. And the common sentiment that "we should use this because it might be better in the future" is a hurdle most standards go through at some point.
It's in the top right corner: http://cl.ly/2Ivj
1. You should look up the definition of hypocritical.
2. I have never used the service and I have said so. That doesn't mean your many of your arguments still aren't based on foundationless assumption and ad-hominem internet rage. If you're going to call a service out on back-end specifics and hard numbers, you'd better be prepared to cite those, or get called out on it yourself.

If there's anything I've learned in a career of cleaning up other people's apparent development messes, it's that making assumptions about a codebase without having seen it is one of the big mistakes a developer can make. You (nor I, nor anyone but the owners) have no idea what sort of problems their codebase is designed to surmount, what kind of hardware they have to make do with, or the codebase's evolutionary history, or really anything about their back-end. Making those kinds of assumptions shows a sort of narrow "I know what I'm talking about enough to assume" mindset that makes me, a person unfamiliar with Tumblr, wary of the article as a whole.
The survivor bias is the most important point here. Many, many, business books fail on this important misunderstanding.

I went to a military school where we had monthly mandatory lectures by inspirational and successful people. In hindsight, the most startling thing about all of them was that they had nothing in common that you could point to and say, "that's what made them a success." If they did, it wasn't something that many other unsuccessful people didn't also have.

There were a few who admitted that their success was mostly due to other people and luck. Now that I'm older, this rings more true than anything else.

That's not to say that you shouldn't work hard, start your project, and do all the things you think you should to succeed. But realize, despite your best efforts, it just might not work out.
There are interesting ties to game theory here. You might see it as a variant of the Prisoner's Dilemma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_dilemma).

On the other hand, you might argue that it's simply a coordination problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_game).

In any case, it's somewhat shortsighted to look for immediate, personal benefits. Of course you need to look at the payoffs for implementing a spec, but I think it's wrong not to take longer-term possibilities into account.
Quick side note since I am at work: In 2007 the Spanish Government ruled by law the clothing sizes for women aged 12+, as an attempt to stop anorexia and other eating disorders. They detected a trend among some high profile clothing companies to artificially 'shrink' the sizes of dresses and jeans, imposing an artificially skinny 'average body shape'

The Ministry sampled several thousand of women
( http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article12... ) as an effort to find some average body shape and standardize clothing sizes.

I don't know is that affected the spread of eating disorders in the country somehow. I don't live in Spain any longer and this is nothing I usually talk about with my friends from the other side of the Atlantic. I know that Americans are usually opposed to government intervention, but I consider that a central 'authority' has some value in setting standards in measuring units. (A mile is a mile, in California, Colorado, Liberia or Burma)
Some good stuff but lost me with the indenting. It is easy enough to just scan up and down to see related definitions. Indenting like that makes it harder and is illogical. They aren't embedded styles within styles and tidy-like tools you'd use to clean up formatting wouldn't respect that identation.
There's one small piece of history that I consider very relevant in any discussion of CL and prostitution. CL did not always have an erotic services or adult services section. They initially had normal personal ads (m4w, m4m, w4m, w4w, casual encounters, friendship and missed connections IIRC), but the professionals were flooding those categories with sex for pay. Craigslist didn't create the sections to attract prostitutes, it created those categories to keep the ads out of the other sections.
The comments on that post are deplorable.

oh boy Firefox are in trouble. Where are they going to find their USP from?

Uh hello? Chrome got a subpar copy of a Firefox innovation and you're saying Firefox is in trouble because of it?

heh in the video the user is using windows!

Self-explanatory.
A great start! I remember using quirksmode matrices for compatibility years ago on several occasions. What a great resource for the community.
This is my first blog post about web security, and hopefully the first of many. I'd love to hear feedback and I'm happy to answer questions. One of the concerns I had with this post was that it is highly technical, but I feel the issue is extremely important since so many sites are vulnerable to these kinds of issues.
YC is an investor in startups. the best term for describing us would be investors. the reason this label feels strange is because we do so much more for startups than what investors have typically done. as competition for investing in the best startups continues to grow, i find it hard to believe this will still be the case five years from now. people will look back and wonder how anyone was able to invest in good startups without doing (some but not all) the kinds of things we do for them.
Communism does often work well in small, close-knit groups, and I would certainly hope that the founders of a startup living on VC money would fall into that category.
An egg (fried, over easy) and well, I don't know what to call this: a piece of whole wheat bread, grilled on one side, then spread a light layer of ranch dressing on the soft side, sprinkle generously with nutritional yeast, and then apply a thin layer of Frank's buffalo sauce on top of that. I know it sounds disgusting, but trust me, it's f'ing delicious. I'm salivating now just thinking about it.