skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"At the same time, this is not an addiction. I cringe when writers compare their craft to addiction. A heroin addict shuffles out onto the street to satisfy dependency, perhaps with a glimmer of future pleasure, but he does not feel the obligation I do. "

Actually, you're both feeling compulsion, not obligation. You don't owe anyone else anything. It's all for yourself, just like the drug addict.

Lately, I've also started to jot down my ideas so I don't lose them. I also feel a bit of compulsion to get some 'work' done, instead of relaxing.

The difference is that I realized that I -need- downtime to function effectively. I don't feel guilty about playing video games because I know that if I just worked all the time, I'd burn out.

I'd love to have the time to do everything in my head. But since I can't have it, I just keep doing what I can, when I can, and don't feel like I'm going wrong when I relax.
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Doesn't matter if it was done before if you do i "right" (for some new function of right or a competitive edge in market-finding.)
Looks nice, how long has this been in development for?
For now, we can assume that HTML5 video = h.264, since that's what the iDevices play.
Ask HN: Anyone have questions about real estate investing?
I look at buying real estate like starting a business. You have costs, revenue, customers (tenants), suppliers, contractors, etc just like in any business.

A year out of college (2010) I bought a rental property with a good friend/ investment partner and I want to write an article sharing my experience.

If you have any specific questions ask them here and I'd be happy to address them in the article.
I would ask him for a list of his previous investments so you can contact them and ask them how he was to work with.

That's the most telling aspect, everything else can be a lie... but find out how the people that have actually worked with him feel.
As a friend of mine says - marketing and good UX is like laying grass out for the goats. It must be easily reachable and in digestible chunks.

1) Mock-ups. Supposed to be mocked upon. Take a good page design you like, import it into Photoshop (or w/e) and start boxing the important elements. A lot of well designed sites are on the 960px width bandwagon (even Apple's homepage + most YC startups). Short answer - look up Blueprint CSS framework and 960px grids on Noupe.com

2) Mockingbird is awesome! Just worry about the creative flow first, then put it on a grid.

3) Like a special effect or design on a site, google "jquery site-name effect-name" will usually net some good plugins. Learn and repeat. Don't know what effect-name is? Firebug it :-)

I am by no means a true designer, but I feel that the only thing stopping you/me/anyone is the labeling. When you feel that happening, just think of Iron Man, he designs the whole stack ;-)
I've been finding ActiveInbox (http://www.activeinboxhq.com/) pretty useful as a way of keeping things organized within gmail. It also is agnostic to google tasks, although I hope they add some more integration there soon. I think the free version is definitely worth it, and I just upgraded to see if the scheduling component is worthwhile.
"Our final tally included only video that can be delivered within HTML5’s “video” tag. In the vast majority of cases, this means videos were encoded in H.264."

This is misleading because many providers use H.264 but don't have solutions for HTML5 video. Hulu for example uses a H.264 but uses a streaming server with drm protection on the stream that can only be played within the Flash player.
Yeah, that was ~ 1 decade ago. I'm fully aware that you could have a modern web experience with Microsoft way back 10 years ago. But 10 years ago isn't today. Today is today, and Microsoft no longer provides a modern web experience.

AJAX isn't modern anymore. Don't you see that the AJAX innovation was a game changer, but that the game has moved on since then?
Which institutional need did you satisfy?
Disclaimer - This is a second hand advice. There is a big chance of it being really bad.

From what I have heard from veterans in the industries, the gist comes down to this

"If your project does not make enough money, no one would care. If your project is a break through, you would be able to afford legal assistantship to keep the vultures away. (see Facebook)"

Again, I am not sure if this is how it works in real.
I would definitely be interested, but I'm not sure what I want. I also suspect that what I want wouldn't be what other people would want, and I suspect that most people would want it very, very personalised.

I'll be interested to see what others think, and if there's some demand then I'll write up my thoughts for you.
No, it's just an artifact of the text in the job descriptions, jobs that happened to phrase it without "Microsoft" happened to pay 1% more -- surprising they're that close, really. It's not like you can buy Microsoft Sharepoint developers and relabel them as Sharepoint developers for a profit.
"Those ever-so-overwhelmingly celebrated visionaries at 37signals should consider why people use email in the first place, and then possibly take a step back and chill out."

I've had to use Basecamp lately because of a client, and it is an exercise in frustration. Basecamp uses E-mail that isn't E-mail.

I get E-mail that my E-mail client says it's sent to me from manager@someco.com, but it's really not. I have to look carefully to see that a reply is not going to go back to that address, but to Basecamp instead. And I have to format my reply in a special way do that it can be machine parsed at the other end. Compulsory top-posting :(.

I often get messages that refer to "the attached image". But it's never attached. The image lives at the other end of some link. Often that link takes me to a page that then gives me the real download link.

All these intermediary steps just makes stuff take longer while breaking the mental model of how something (E-mail) works.

If the goal is to capture all of the messages exchanged among project members, and E-mail gets involved (as it inevitably will), then you're better off letting E-mail be E-mail and working with it instead of trying to supplant it.
Very cool - I wish I had someone to do this back when I was applying!
I spread your idea because...
Actually, I'm doing this thing where I'm offering hackers around 5-10 hours of design work per week (plus additional direction help and the like) for a percentage of the company. Normally around 1-5%, depending on a bunch of things including valuation.

I think it's a great deal. If I get 3% of your company, and my design help increases the value of your company by 10% (that's ridicolously easy, too!) you've already made a net profit out of the deal.

What do you think?
Well said. There are better "self-service" marketplaces for TV, where the media sellers have organized, but the online landscape is too fragmented. It would be inane for an agency to train someone up in "Twitter buying", so instead there are people trained in "media planning" (usually specialized in TV, Print, or Digital) who then coordinate with specialists at individual vendors (Twitter, Facebook, Google, other networks).

Ad agencies add value to their clients through strategy, creative, planning, and experience in execution. The actual serving of ads is largely a pass along expense, and therefore ripe territory for smart technology companies.
Thanks, that sounds very useful. I'll send you an email in a minute.
This I think is a delusional myth. I fully expect MS has some of the best web devs out there. But even if MS has 100 of the top 500 web devs, there are still 400 web devs thta don't work at MS. And there are a million+ web devs after that. While you might argue that more innovation per capita, comes from the top web devs, it's still likely that the next innovation will come from someone you've never heard of.

This is why most people in the tech field at the top of the game aren't afraid of their past-rivals, but more afraid of the guy in the garage they've never heard of. Odds are more likely that this is where the big innovation is going to come from.
In both .webm and .mp4, the index is/can be at the beginning of the file, so you don't have to wait until video loads.

Also, since HTTP 1.1 we have byte ranges, so in combination of above point, you can freely seek with HTTP-streamed videos.
Plus the whole subset of "yes we support HTML5 video tags so it should work on your iPad/iPhone but we are banned from showing video on mobile devices so too bad." For instance, any music video on YouTube.
If a software company doesn't build its own software, then there are other, larger problems here.

(Yes, websites are software).
Oh my God I need this. Contacted.
Photos: Home > Profile > Photos (hello!!!) > Create new album > Select photos to upload. Has been more or less like that ever since I remember.

Privacy is a different thing, it was once quite easy but everyone was crying that there's "too many options", so they made some mess with it.
Yea, this is what I posted to his blog:

"This just seems like you are being creepy, a jerk or self-entitled. I appreciate getting out of your comfort zone in an effort towards self-improvement, but I wonder if you could push yourself to do so in a way that also contributes to society."
People tells me that twitter guys are smart but it doesn't seems that way. They changed whole architecture again and again but there are still downs time by time. But that is another case. Anyway, with that point of view it might be required to collect some experience and ideas together to brought more stable product. But i'm sorry to say that if it is what they are thinking.. they are in the wrong way.
These surveys are usually spurious, because they don't state what questions were asked and who constitutes "the public". It's possible to get whatever results you want either by cherry picking the kind of people you ask, or by framing the questions in a way which is biased towards certain responses.

I bet if they asked a question such as "do you believe that the president should have the right to prevent you and everyone you know from using Facebook, Twitter and Gmail for an unspecified period of time?" the support level would be rather minimal.

If it was framed as "do you believe that the president should be able to temporarily suspend internet services to protect vital national security interests in an emergency?" probably the majority would be in favour. Protecting things in an emergency sounds like a good thing, it's vague enough so that it doesn't sound like something which would apply to you personally, and if it's only temporary then who cares?

These days many people who would not be classed as archetypal "nerds" are highly addicted to internet use, and in the past I've seen people having something close to a panic attack if they can't access their emails for half an hour.
Call Me Senator (sorry if this is political, it's just so funny)
This is a nice list on why ideas get viral from the point of view of the one who propagate it. As often things get more sense when you look at them from the point of view of a single person.
Thanks for the help.

I do get your point regarding the application. Do you want me to send you my SOP ? or do you want me to provide my profile(similar to a CV) and you review it ?
Been using it internally for a few months. Turning it into a public web app took a few days, as it was built from the get-go for multiple users and secure independent storages, etc.
Ask HN: My consulting company needs help with website content.  where do I go?
I'm partners in a small web-based application consulting firm and we have a couple major challenges when it comes to public communication. I don't have a massive budget, but I'd like to hire somebody to help.<p>Challenge #1: All of our best work is under NDA, because it deals with proprietary information and processes, working on private data, in a heavily regulated industry.<p>The first step we took to offset this is to find small clients who don't demand ultra-tight NDAs. This is starting to provide a few opportunities, but they're clustered in and around e-commerce.<p>The second step we've taken is to do some weekend projects, where we own all the IP, creating small applications that each have something uniquely difficult about their implementation. Nothing huge, but little things that show we can do more than submit forms and select from tables.<p>Challenge #2: We're simply terrible writing content for our website.<p>We understand the theory of the communication strategy, but we're simply not good at execution on this front. We try, we try, and we try some more, and it always sucks.<p>As such, I find myself wishing that there was somebody who understands the different sorts of niches that firms operate in, to whom I could pay a modest fee, who would then interview me about what we've done, and help write effective, professional content for a simple site.<p>Does anybody know where I could find such help?
That's so bad. So so bad :P

EDIT: "So bad" is a typical British response to someone who has told a joke that is somewhat tenuous yet amusing. As was maximilianburke's joke, IMO. I thought it was good to explain that since I got voted down for what's essentially a compliment where I come from! :D
having water poured down your throat.

If you're referring to waterboarding, the water goes in your nose and sinuses, not your throat. And the amount of water used is very small.

The aim is not to drown the person. It is to trigger the drowning reflex. Which happens very fast when you are unable to move.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LPubUCJv58 for a demonstration of how exactly it is done and what it looks like.
It definitely sounds like you are doing something wrong. Rails really wants you to do things it's way. You don't have to, rails, especially version 3, is only generated html and routes to functions. It just generates a lot of stuff for you. If you want to work outside of the provided functionality it's just going to be harder.

In fact the application I'm using at work right now uses ExtJS for views and half of the data is retrieved through manual queries. Rails is not designed to do this but it can work, if you are willing to put in the effort to work around missing functionality.

I do not recommend using rails as a hammer, it's a very bad hammer. It's a chainsaw with diamond teeth and a 50 hp gas-powered engine. If you have a lot of wood to chop through, it's amazing. If you need to pound in a few nails, it's a little awkward. :)
What an incredible offering. Not all of us have Ivy League applications as readily available as our CVs and startup web pages. After you have reviewed a few applications, would it be possible to summarize some of your findings and advice in this thread?
Show HW: UseSSL.org - shame list for unencrypted private info
How big is it? Put it online somewhere and tell us where.
Previously submitted, dozens of comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1638492

Topic discussed many, many times:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/language+shape?sort=by_date

I also cross-reference other submissions here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1814973
So to paralyze America my legions of terrorist followers no longer have to simultaneously attack 1000s of independent failsafe and redundant network switches at ISPs all over the country - I just have to post a "death to the president" message on facebook and a three-letter-agency will do it for me!
In 2010, Sales of Electric Vehicles will be less than 8% of the global market
Chrome hasn't hit the market, but plenty of us have used it extensively.

If Chrome's target market is the secondary web browsing machine then its competition is iPad, and eventually Windows tablets (running on Oak Trail). I think it may do decently, but it's not a real PC compete.

Regarding Office apps, opening in Office Live is fine if your competition is iPad. Although Office Live is missing a lot of features, at least today, to make it a real Office replacement.
I did not hire you because of your online reputation
I would've liked to see more meat, but a good little quick read.

Summary:

- I'm a non-technical but savvy founder.

- Advice to younger crowd: start creating, start sharing.

- Being a startup outside an area with angel investors is hard; utilize HN and other startup web presences in those cases.

- I'm still young and have plenty in mind.

- I don't have outside hobbies, I enjoy my work.
Here it is, the Back to the Mac keynote video if you missed it
Top 5 PC alternatives to the Macbook Air
I telecommute and put my own $ figure out what it's worth to me. When I first started I thought the salary was fair for what I thought telecommuting was worth. Recently I've been talking to my supervisor about a raise because now I feel I'm underpaid (and the article just proves along with my other research).

The company also cut my bonus to a why bother number and raised my insurance costs. I love working at home, but there comes a point where I can't justify leaving so much money on the table in prime earning years.
...Programming ninja...

I'm not sure whom this is meant to appeal to.
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Sure. But the big attraction to me is a) it's simple to keep a to-do list and b) I live inside of Emacs anyway.
The way I see it if you're thinking it, others looking at my C.V will too. I agree with every point you make and will make the changes accordingly.

Thanks very much for your feedback!
My wife leads service projects for/with high school kids. They often list these service projects on their college applications.

How much does it matter if a student has planned or led a project versus just going along and working? Is there specific wording that might be more appealing, e.g. mission trip, service project, or work camp?
Just out of curiosity, what's left to discuss? The event already happened. I seriously doubt that even with AOL in charge TC would let it go if there were more news on that front. I think the simplest explanation is just that there simply isn't any news left to report.
Part A - I am on the side of completing as much UX up front as possible. Bad visual design is something that no one can ignore. I think that ideally before you even have done the "black-text-on-white-background" prototype you start with UX.

Part B - Steve Krug has a couple of simple concrete usability books. Other than links I have seen mentioned. http://ilovetypography.com/ learning good type will help a ton with design http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen is kind of the godfather of usability, some people love him, some hate him, either way you will learn something from this guy. Also, going through tons of websites and critiquing them by yourself or with peers, writing down everything that works well and doesn't work well, that you would change. Do little usability tests on your sites, even on sites that aren't yours with family or peers.

Part C - I don't know as much about startups. I do know that having a designer on hand is much nicer to work with than outsourced. Ultimately I think it would be like dealing with anyone else outsourced in terms of reliability.

Part D - I actually started as a designer, and IE 6 crushed my soul. I am still very interested in UX though. I think starting as a programmer, I would just try to recreate designs you think are appealing. I would also try to learn the grid system. Use CSS frameworks as training wheels that have a solid grid, and decent typography (eg. Blueprint). I started constraining myself to HTML and CSS, and I think you should too, leave Photoshop alone until you can make decent designs in just HTML and CSS. Then, when you are completely comfortable using the two, then look to PS to add details that you can't achieve otherwise. The big obstacle you will run into, is that you will feel like you aren't making as good of designs as designer X. Design in my opinion is much more personal and emotional than programming so don't let that get to you.

Good Luck!
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Thanks. This sounds like really good advice.
Ask HN: Review my Idiocy prevention without site-wide https
I've been reading a lot of hype about idiocy and how long it will take people to implement site-wide https. Unless I'm missing something, it's already possible to avoid hijacking on the internet by combining a few existing approaches, and enforcing sequential requests[1] for privileged actions:

The client and server establish a secure connection using https, authenticating via regular ID and password. The server provides the client with a regular session ID, and a new session_signature_key which the client will hold in memory and never send back to the server.

Each server response includes an unsigned random 64 bit challenge with each request between client and server. The client will sign this value with its session_signature_key, and return this signature in its next request. The server barks if the signature does not match expected the challenge response from the user.

The server would obviously have to keep the user / session_sig_key / last challenge map in mem, but it seems easy enough.

[1] parallel requests should be doable as well, but I'm still thinking about it.
I'll strike a somewhat contrarian view: having children doesn't really have to change who you are. You can still enjoy most of the things you enjoy, except you get to bring your children into it, and enjoy it on a new, cool level. We enjoy art & opera, so we take our kids to museums and concerts (we started taking our oldest at 3, our youngest is not ready for opera yet, but can do small concerts). We love linguistics, history, science, so we love sharing these things with our children (etymology is a particular hit with our 5-yr-old). Bonus point: if you're interested in cognitive psychology, you'll get the greatest kick out of observing your children's attempts at modeling the world & language. You like travel? Take your kids with you. Love to read? Share your favorites with kids. I remember how my father always used to re-tell us his favorite books (sci-fi stuff, jules verne, etc). We watch Daily Show each night with our kids (when we go to vote with them, they know stuff, it's wicked cool :) I still spend all my free time doing startups (yes, yes, there's lots less of it, but still). The first year+ was a bit hard (early years fall disproportionately hard on the women as milk-producing & comfort-giving machines, hah), and I must take lots of forced vacations (daycare closed, school closed, child is sick), but... What I'm trying to say, take it easy, and don't worry too much about it. For one, you can't really predict what'll happen anyway, you've got to live through it. As an old Arabic saying goes, "What can the horse tell you about the road he hasn't traveled?" :)
I agree with the rest of your point entirely.
Oracle comes off as the boy who cried wolf to me.

Even though in this case the boy may have seen a coyote.
I tried this quite a few years ago to watch geographically restricted video content - e.g. at Hulu - but gave up on it because the IP-ranges got blocked quite quickly. Is that not the case anymore?
Yes, absolutely! The beauty of targeted performance marketing is that you can know very quickly whether something is working or not without spending lots of money testing.