skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that depends on the quality of the parent, and the values (and/or critical-thinking ability) of the parent(s) in question.
How come you killed it? I'm guessing it's because it was tough to monetize?
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Browsers (when hinted with <label for="id">) already do this. Mousing over the label will highlight the check-box identically to mousing over the check-box. Clicking the label clicks the box. While I haven't seen the label changing more than once or twice, I see people clicking the labels frequently enough to realize it's expected when it highlights the field.

Am I missing something? Or is this just about the ubiquitous lack of label-for?

edit: I despise the hand-cursor on anything but an action field (like a link). If it doesn't redirect my browser or open a popup, I don't want a hand. Ever.
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Please, Fredrik Johansson, can you add some more "Duct Tape Architect" stories? It is a brilliant format, of the sensible, logical everyman developer with whom we can all identify, being shown up by those familiar with the intimate details of a specific situation. Love it, it is the universal monomyth of the hero-developer.
What? I know Ivy League graduates that can't pass state issue driving tests. I've read articles about computer scientists that can't configure a thermostat. Badly designed marginal tasks are not an accurate measure of person's performance.
Haha the general feedback from our users is that there is too much whitespace. =(
New Logo Changes Everything:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/corporations-new-logo-chang...
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How would you know if the kids learned anything unless you test them? Would you get on an airplane where the pilot did not take any licensing tests, and all you know is he showed up for flight school?
What, the app or google wave?
The maternity leave was ridiculously long. So not so much 2x salary, but they worked 1/2 time.
You should get used to this attitude, too -- even though 37 Signals's founders and advice are highly overrated, there are a lot of people who idolize it and take criticism of the group pretty personally. There is a really weird dynamic going on with that, it's hard for me to understand.
I'm in. I've been building so many features that this should help me actually push it out the door.

I like the idea of one paying customer!
It's true that you cannot mass replicate a system that depends on exceptional people.

It's sort of like vast quantities of high quality goods were not produced until people figured out how to produce such without requiring highly skilled craftsmen.
As much as Facebook does.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1770444
Awesome goal. Starting small is definitely the way to do it. I just went through that same process and now the Android app is making me a little bit of side income. Good luck!
Clockspot.com

Jason, the founder, was profitable within 10 months of building the product (he spent money on adwords). Was running it all by himself for nearly 3 years and is now building out a bigger team to get to the next level. That's when he hired me :)
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Not being a resident of Libya has nothing to do with it - why are they selling them to non-Libyans in US DOLLARS? They want international trade!

It's not like non-Libyan ly domain owners are being all naughty and sneaking in and grabbing these domains when they shouldn't.
Perl. From the look of this thread, I guess everyone else has moved on?
And the idea is to not waste a coworker's time when a rubber duck would actually suffice.
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Almost a year ago IBM announced they were going to cover Health Care for employees at 100%.

Press Release source: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28728.wss
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@adamc - I understand you want to do everything you can do encourage your daughters education and I'm sure that will serve her well. I'm my experience, however, I had more to do with my own motivation in school than my parents. I tried harder when scores mattered. Throughout elementary school, I spent most of my school time day-dreaming and most of my time outside of class blowing off homework. I could deal with being scolded by parents and teachers. My parents cared how I did in school, but I didn't.

When grades started to matter in middle and high school, my competitive side came out. I decided I was going to get better grades than most because that would lead to a future with more options. I also cared more because my peers cared more and I was socially self-conscious. When I started trying harder, I started learning more and became genuinely interested in subject matter. My grades lead to me getting into a good college where students were far more motivated on average than my high school. That ended up being where I met my best friends and eventual startup co-founder.

Did my best learning experiences come from studying for tests? No, they came less structured classes and from my own programming projects during and after college. However, I do feel that grades and standardized tests lit a fire under my booty to try harder and eventually led to me meeting more motivated people.
I feel so timid. Posting on Hacker News for the first time. I'm working on a new project, so it would be great to accept this challenge and join a pseudo-team of App-launchers. Count me in.
I wrote that right before leaving for work, so I hadn't spent any time thinking about the problem.

Coming back, I see that I really don't need to be very efficient for any of these problems, which I honestly find a little disappointing.
I'm in, will post details on what we are launching on the group.
Those brilliant Chinese and Indian grad students are cream skimmed off the top — there's not just millions of merely good students in universities in their home countries, but also two billion mediocre students doing manual labor.
Writing code for 2 & 3 would probably take more than solving it with pen&paper, for me at least. I wrote code for #1 because it was practically 3 lines..

If it was really meant as a programming challenge, it should feature problems which are worth writing code for.
Meanwhile, bit.ly closes a $10M Series B round. Remind me again, what happens when someone creates a bit.ly URL that redirects to an adult site?
I've been thinking about this for at least 2 years.

Please:

1. Make it real time. Ie Quora-ish.
2. Create an environment in which I share with only a small set of users. This is because I would be scared that my "tweets" about my work could be tracked by someone who wants to figure out the direction I'm taking on a paritcular solution. This is strategic info I'd rather not give up.
Also groups larger than 10 lose their cohesion/importance. (eg: the 300 people on your fcebook page).
3. Basically stick to tactics that are being implemented without giving up the strategy. I think that way people could learn from each other but still not give up their overall goal.
4. Some way to pledge a goal under a time frame shared by everyone would be useful. (Like this novemeber launch idea).
5. Competing teams of 10 might be another idea. That would up the ante a little more.
Yahoo likely has the money/stock, but is GroupOn really worth it? They have the buzz, but J'aime Ohn (winner of Techcrunch Disrupt) had a great point in not supporting companies based on "destroying other businesses".

Groupon has the buzz and deals coming in. But their track record for satisfied "business customers" is spotty. As the reputation for spotty deals / lack of returns grows, the less likely Groupon (and related) are to find deals. It is a finite market.

That said, given it is a "finite market", with (in my uneducated view point) little upside, I can wholly see Yahoo entering a big deal. They haven't done much recently that makes sense, so over paying for Groupon would totally support that model.

I'm neither a groupon customer, nor do I play one on TV (nor do I use Yahoo regularly).
"I really spent probably well over 50% of my time recruiting"
I definitely prefer the teddy bear -- a bugbear is so much cooler than a bugduck.
Why kinda? :)
(Full disclosure - I work there)
Clockspot.com - but I'm bias cause I work here :)
that's an oddly shaped military plane..
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They have $4 billion in current assets, so could go all cash on a buyout. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=yhoo
I stared at the screenshot trying to figure out what was special for a moment before I "got it".

UX enhancement that subtle...just made me smile. The subtle hint that the label is clickable using the hover is truly a nice touch.
Cash and Short term investments stood at 2.75B as of June 30, as the article says their market cap is 19.5B. I would guess it wouldn't be an all cash purchase but likely a combination of cash and stock.
Thank you! Any tips or resources you recommend for getting started?
Skip the first few pages to get to the details. Original PDF is here:

http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/secur...
Why would Google care about fragmentation so long as apps in every version can display ads? I don't really see the author's point.
$400 is really NOT a lot in a decent city in China, e.g. Shanghai, Beijing,　Guangzhou etc. It can just barely cover your basic living expense, e.g. housing, travel, food etc ( if you are not living with your parents)

Disclaimer: I live in Hong Kong and have a number of coworkers and friends in China.
Why not ask for the rightmost palindrome, then? Just to make it a tiny bit more complex (not that it's very hard to iterate backwards)?
oh whoops nice catch thx
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Good discussion back at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1658161
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More appropriately, Hitler has a Kevin Bacon number of two
Disclaimer: I am a young german.

Apparently yes, jewish associations and/or Israel remind us all the time about it. The only other thing about Jews I know are the terrible crimes they do in Palestine. But obviously that's not what they shout from the rooftops.
> At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

There may be some backing argument that would change my mind entirely, but this seems like crazy agenda-before-the-horse thinking.
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Have you obtained perfect scores on all those tests? Perfect scores on the SAT

http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-perce...

are still rather rare.
It wasn't necessarily difficult to monetize (mostly via ads for Microstock imagery sites). But it was quite difficult to scale the technology. I made great progress optimizing the crawler and search tech but eventually lost interest.

Google and Flickr also added Creative Commons image search options eventually.
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Cyber threats forecast for 2011 released
An update: Eric Brewer, who originally posited the CAP theorem, endorses this article: http://twitter.com/eric_brewer/status/26819094612
My serifed underscore?
Actually, I've been thinking about ways to improve education.

Many of them are already out there for those motivated to seek them. With MIT's stuff online, you can learn from them for free. A lot of more basic stuff is also out there if you know how to look for it.

But there are a lot of teachers out there who have their education budgets spent on crazy toys and scoreboards that don't do the kids a whole lot of good. Educational software is a mixed bag, though I have fond memories of Number Munchers. I don't know if that led me to learning as much math as I did, but it sure didn't hurt.

Right now, a lot of money is wasted on new versions of textbooks. Most of the underlying material hasn't changed and isn't really going to, except for the meddling of various government types who want to add or delete things they disagree with from the curriculum. Most of the publishers have been around for ages. I have to think there's some opportunity for someone to automate certain kinds of tests.

For example, simple math tests could more easily be randomized and each student could have their own set of problems (no more photocopies with kids cheating off the guy next to them). Word problems can be autogenerated. Stuff like that.

Unfortunately, most of my knowledge comes second-hand. My mother was a teacher, but she's dead now, so whatever I know about the problems they face has probably gotten out of date. But I have a feeling that education money, especially their tech budgets, getting spent on things that do little good is something that probably hasn't changed. I have to think that there are still quite a few things that could be improved.
It's all good. This is the internet after all. But for me, a simple acknowledgement goes a long way. Cheers.
AOL is $2.68B with $2.5B in revenue

Yahoo should buy them, at least AOL have a new purpose that investors believe in.

Yahoo's recent acquisition attempts seem very disparate with no real overall goal (Yelp, Foursquare, etc.) or mission.
I tried it in both Safari and Google Chrome on OS X and it says it isn't available for my platform. A bit of a letdown.
There was recent post on HN that said 50% of Groupon customers would not repeat. That's not a $2B company.
What is the open web?
I haven't seen the movie and I haven't read nearly as much on education as you have, but if this is an issue you are passionate about, you shouldn't accuse Bill Gates of "white supremacy". That marks you as a crackpot and makes people much less likely to take you seriously.
Disagree. Hover effects should generally be avoided, as there's no hover state in a touch-based UI.

Some people suggest using select elements instead of checkboxes and two-option radios. Forget the source, but at least one study concluded that users preferred selects. As always, take with a grain of salt and test for yourself.
This is a sad thing Google. :(
I can't imagine there's anything that will fix MySpace.

MySpace is proof that if you allow users to copy-paste in arbitrary CSS, they will use it to rebuild GeoCities.
Completely agree. So many cancel buttons are just clutter.
This is my primary reason for running adblock. I can't tell you how many clients have e-mailed me saying 'My site is down!' or 'My site takes a few minutes to load', even though the site loads in about a second in Safari. When I switch over to my (un-extended) Firefox install, I suddenly see the problem - literally dozens of Javascripts, image requests, tracking pixels, and other junk.

It's ridiculous. At one company we had a client who spent the last year contracting us to add widgets and pixels and add-ons and buttons and everything, until suddenly they found out that Google would be factoring in page load times into their search results. Suddenly it was a rock and a hard place - do they keep adding content without any proof of its value? But that would hurt their search rankings - but but but, it adds value! It encourages engagement!

It's ridiculous. They didn't even have any metrics showing that any of the stuff they were adding was helping, or even being used. Likewise with the search widgets. People are told that these things will 'drive user engagement' and 'encourage social interaction', so they throw it in and assume that it's made their site better.
You're making some very strong comments against KIPP, which I think (after watching a documentary on it) puts you directly at odds with the KIPP administrators who have years of data and research to back up their work.

You say they're missing long term data - how else do would they acquire the relevant data without actually implementing the schools? It's not a huge scam, it's an experiment in lifting up the bottom of our society. And it seems to be working.

I don't care if it's pulled out of some guy's ass, as long as it works and validated.
Outsourced giveaways. Basically a blogger/podcaster/company pays me a fee to give something away for them (a book, an iPad etc) and I handle all the backend stuff like contest rules, entries, selecting a winner, contacting and shipping the prize. Eventually the site could match up companies who want to give stuff away for free with people who want to run a contest/giveaway (for a fee of course)
I gave up on this idea because you'd need massive lawyer involvement as game/contest rules are different everywhere and not well understood. You would probably need a lawyer co-founder to make this work.
Your timing is impeccable. I've just recently started a project, and I think a nice, public goal (and deadline) will help keep me motivated. I've only written one half-workable program before (a python script to check if a number was prime or not), so this will be a learning experience more than anything else.

I've started work on a program that will let a business generate and track coupon codes for their promotions. Eventually I will port it to a web app and make it accessible online... only I don't know how to do that yet. I should get back to work!

P.S. One thing I would really like to find is a hacker mentoring group or program. Is there anything like this for green hackers like myself?
My goal is to finish log cleaning and release my key-value store.
I'm fairly sure this refers to the use of 3D printing to refine the design, and even prototypes to temporarily give to people who donated $50 before the final production has run. It's not so clearly defined in the article, but I believe that the two points it tries to make are that without

1- 3D printing, (production with "atoms") and

2- social fundraising

such business are unlikely be as easy to start. They would require access to substantially more funds and manufacturing equipment.

Edit: They try to tie the social fundraising in to the "atoms" theme by referencing electrons, but it falls a bit flat.
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Humans did this to other humans
Completely useless 20/20 hindsight. ENISA's emerging cyber threats document, for example, which circulated 3-4 years ago iirc had pointed out targeted attacks on physical infrastructure (wink, wink) as a possibility, as well as other issues which were disclosed in this and last year's BlackHat and DEFCON conferences.
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There was a huge chart of the history of programming languages at my university. It showed which ones influenced others, and I'd look at it often. Oddly enough I didn't pay much attention to Python at the time focusing on all the lines coming into and out of Java. I've since discovered Python and really wish I could see that chart again. While this is very different it gave me a piece of that magic again. Thank you for posting this. :-)
See also Turing's Teddy. http://blog.jgc.org/2010/05/talking-to-porgy.html
May I please suggest that your question fundamentally mistakes the journey. Programming is applied thinking--it is not about the tools. Maybe you already know how to think in ways useful to programming, or maybe you don't. Either way, nine months out of a lifetime is not much.

If you already know how to program, then nine months might be a decent timeframe for adding a new tool (or two) to your toolbelt. If you do not already know how to program, then nine months will be just enough to make you dangerous.
Honest question: is your opinion that the 29% is composed of automated bots who were blocked by the CAPTCHA before, or is it composed of people who just don't like CAPTCHAs?
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I wish I had a tool like that. No I just had an intuition to check this time. I've probably been guilty of downvoting newbies myself without checking.
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Like others, this is my first post. I'm in.
My favorites are designers who think the Clear Form button should be to the left of the Submit button. I mean, bad enough to have the opportunity to wipe out everything I just typed, but why make it that easy?
Yawn. Jakob Nielsen scooped you by ten years.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000416.html
Thanks for the suggestion idoh. Just booked and created a landing page @ AppsToWin.com. Please share do your comments and advice.
Well, styled maps in the Google Maps API have actually been available since around May.

I'm not sure what you mean by your second point, the Maps API has very flexible overlay and projection capabilities.
This is an interesting change to the GMaps infrastructure. In the past, all map tiles were pre-rendered, but now it looks like they are being generated dynamically. Anyone got any inside info as to what lead to that change?
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No, 4.

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Last 9 hours update: Decided which idea to launch, booked the domain and designed a landing page @ http://www.AppsToWin.com . Will add the invite sign up tomorrow. :-) Please share your comments.
http://pastebin.com/wBrkKEyk ... this is still running :)
Same for Linux.
> The software needs to be tied to the hardware because the carriers are completely incompetent at software

AFAIK, the real reason is that there is no standardized design for phones, whereas most desktop/laptop/servers look basically the same to the OS.
Mine was a predictive road traffic alert service in India. Wanted to use cell phone data along with congestion prediction to send SMS alerts about traffic jams.

We (me and a couple of guys and profs from academic research bodies) started work on it - I spoke to some of the biggest VCs. I was told by all of them that people in India dont care about traffic - so it is not a problem worth funding.

In retrospective, I should have stuck with it a bit more, but it was not a low-cost startup idea (most of the money would have been spent on Ph.D salaries) and maybe also have co-founders who beleived in the idea more (mine didnt).

But I ended up doing a services startup, which is doing OK - 13 people now!
To visualize a modern 4k you'd probably have to strip off the UPX (or similar) executable packing and include symbolic names for all the external libraries they call. Otherwise, this approach could work pretty well. Having no external dependencies to speak of certainly makes old console games look tidy.
Holding all Jews accountable for the actions of Israel is almost as conscionable as holding you responsible for Hitler's actions, or holding me responsible for Bin Laden's. I.e. it's utter bullshit.
I was slightly confused by the graphic and though step 2 was the redesigned step 1. I thought it was clever to see what your friends are up to before you join.

Selecting hobbies and interests beforehand is good as well, since some people might not have social circles that use Twitter.

So I agree with the author in that if account creation was last, it would be the most interesting.
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As far as I know, tiles have always been rendered on the fly.
I'll be launching one product and releasing another project as open source during the month of Nov.