skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's certainly a lot to be said for seeing email as your platform to improve upon rather than your competitor, and remembering that the luddites who prefer it to sexy Ajax GUIs quite possibly include a lot of the senior management who sign off enterprise apps.
As a data point, I recently saw one of these with my girlfriend who is not super technical but not out of the loop either. The concept of rescuing us from our mobile screens resonated with her, but she was almost mad at the end to discover it wasn't a commercial for something involving real human interaction, but rather yet-another-mobile-screen-device. I wonder if they will end up angering both sides of the douchebags who spend all day looking at their phones debate.
Well there's different kinds of lists. A list could be a bunch of bullet points and <= 3 sentences each, or a narrow list of 3-5 where a lot is covered in each.

The latter can be extremely informative and provide a good starting point for someone. The former is filler.
This is US-only data; bit of a shame when the domain is earthweb.com.
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I hope Microsoft keeps doing exactly what they're doing. Microsoft's bad reputation is very much deserved. The web, and the world, is going to be a lot better off without this company.

Windows, MS Office, and Internet Explorer are examples of what happens when Microsoft wins markets. They let their products languish, make no improvements whatsoever in decade, while repainting the exterior and reselling it over and over again. Consumers have wised up, businesses are just slower to recognize when they're getting the raw end of a deal.
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Digg is just a couple of years ahead.

Lets see where Twitter is in 2 years.
> No. Everybody gets less sleep and for small babies there's a serious risk of death.

I've heard this but I don't buy it. People have been sleeping this way for millions of years. Normally I believe parents are plenty in tune with their baby's presence not to roll over on them. If you're a heavy drinker then yeah you should probably go sleep on the couch. But as a parent you often have to make choices with conflicting information. If you want the best of both worlds get a co-sleeper.
That is the fundamental and sad misunderstanding of this ad.

People don't fiddle with their phones while walking because the phones are hard to use. They fiddle because the phone is fun and addicting.

There's no desire for a phone that lets you get in and out quickly. On the contrary. If they could come up with a phone that lets you be online all the time without walking into things, they'd have a huge winner.
Offer HN: I will build you a marketing campaign to get more traffic
I've learned so much from this community, I thought I would give back too.
I've spent the past three years doing affiliate marketing, buying traffic on pretty much every paid traffic source out there and driving it to various products.

I will help you properly architect, target, build, and scale a marketing campaign on paid search, adwords, Facebook, or media buys. Or I can help you optimize an existing campaign you are already running. I know a lot of tricks about specific traffic sources- I would welcome the opportunity to apply them for the benefit of a fellow HN member's startup.

My email is in my profile- I look forward to hearing from you.
Not really.

As stated in the original post, I'm prefectly fine with people censoring their personal details as well as employer details. If you believe that a CV can furnish you with enough info to steal peoples identity then pay a job site $100 and you will get instant access to tens of thousands of CV's.
It's a simple trade-off or risk management. In the case of cars we accept the risk in exchange for our lifestyle (going to work, go to buy food etc) so this is an acceptable trade-off for most people (I like to reduce the driving risk by grouping errands, walking when I can etc).

In the case of sleeping with a baby you are taking a risk but for what reward? "cultural thing"? not having to sit up in bed and reach to the crib? this risk/reward ratio is horrible and cannot be compared with the one for cars.
Microsoft's "answer" to Facebook so far looks to me like they're trying to integrate with it, wherever they can make it make sense --- the most prominent sign of which was the recent Bing "social search" announcement. (This on top of their earlier investment and advertising deal.)

Unfortunately for them, it's been less of a splash than they were hoping for. Weekend before last, I heard the author of "The Facebook Effect" (good book, BTW) say that Facebook had had three major announcements in the two weeks before that: Skype integration, the new groups machinery, and some third thing he couldn't remember. The third thing he couldn't remember was Bing social search.
Why netflix's recommendations are more interesting than amazon's
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Thanks. I already did for all the ones I could find contact info for.
You are correct in that it's not all of Microsoft that is dying, but Microsoft is losing in many markets. It's dropped below 5% in the global smartphone market, and many leading companies have shied away from Windows 7 on tablets. The mobile market is what's booming and Microsoft has no dog in the hunt. Compare the stock price increases over 10 years of the leaders in mobile to Microsoft:
- Apple up 2000%
- Google up almost 400% (6 years: they went public late 2004)
- Microsoft down almost 20%.

Yes, Microsoft owns the business market and will for the foreseeable future, although other companies, such as Apple, are making inroads, growing 57% this year (this only equates to a total 3-odd% but it is still an impact - Remember when Firefox was only 2%?)

I agree with you that to say "Microsoft is dying overall" is overplaying it, but to not see that Microsoft is missing it in many other arenas that may eventually impact their business line is equally incorrect.
I've just spend half a day today trying to upgrade my rails 2.x app to Rails 3. I think I am going to give up on it, as it is breaking things everywhere. The UJS is the main problem, as I have tons of AJAX things going on, and quite a few things that are not really done the 'rails way' (I was learning as I developed this App).

I guess this app is destined to stay at Rails 2 and I will just start a new one for Rails 3, once I get a good enough idea!
I think I'd swap the first and second paragraphs. That way, it makes more sense after "What happened?!", and reassures people ASAP so they won't lose interest / be confused before they find out what happened.
I am a little wary of the offer HN: to a certain degree;

I took up one of the offers for some proofing etc... and upon sending some info to the HN anon -- was informed that they could not help on my project as they are building something very similar.

So, if you have information/ideas that might be the slightest bit sensitive -- I would recommend you think about it closely before sending your information to random anons.
I thought it would be simpler to just have users (let's call them vendors to distinguish from customers) manually track their redeemed coupons by entering their active coupon codes in the site. The original intent was for brick and mortars (traditionally old fashioned when it comes to these things) to have some help with basic marketing ROI.

Of course to expand the functionality to websites, there would have to be an automatic way for the coupons to be 'redeemed'. The basic flow I have so far is:

1. User creates new coupon (give it a name and description)

1a. App generates unique code for coupon and stores the coupon information in a database

1b. (external to app) User uses coupon code to create coupons to be distributed through whatever channels are appropriate (mailings, website, emails, etc.)

2. User received coupon from customer and manually records a redemption (based on the unique code)

2a. App records redemption count to DB

3. App displays statistics of coupon redemption (how many, when, maybe other attributes)
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Great idea and offer -- thanks for putting this forward, KoZeN. I sent my CV over, but I figure I'll throw it up here too; more feedback is always a Good Thing (TM). http://daeken.github.com/CV.html http://daeken.github.com/CV.pdf

I recently rewrote it from scratch, as my previous CV was simply thrown together when applying for a random job. When I decided to put myself on the job market seriously, I figured I'd go ahead and spiff it up a bit.
Teenager jailed for refusing to hand over computer password
People mostly don't wait in line anymore - they buy tickets through a website. The tickets aren't there, because the scalpers pre-bought them. Now people need to waste time looking for scalpers to buy tickets from, and pay lots more money to support the scummy business set up by the scalpers. If the scalpers weren't there, _everybody_ would be better off except the scalpers. That's why they're parasites.

All the talk about "optimal distribution" is laughable. Nobody's saying that the system without domains squatters is optimal or pessimal, that's not the point. The point is, you add no value to anyone except yourself, you create nothing of value, and you hinder people who want to actually do something worthwhile with the domains. If the domain squatters weren't there, _everybody_ would be better off except the domain squatters. This includes users, who wouldn't be annoyed by the horrible parked-domain ads and would find what they're looking for, if not by organic traffic, then through ads on search engines or real topical sites that actually add value. Again, it's very simple: if the domain squatters weren't there, _everybody_ would be better off except the domain squatters. That's why they're parasites.
I think that RDL is giving valid and valuable advice. Generally speaking WA and TX has no income tax for personal and businesses, but the gross receipts is almost always going to hurt more than the average income tax because of the huge tax base.

For example, if your selling ads and your only making a margin of 30 to 10 percent. The base of your gross receipts is going to include the full amount and not just your cut of the profit.

Texas is known for having some of the worst gross receipts taxes. Michigan GRT and BRT as well as the Ohio CAT are horrible. So beware of those pitfalls.

But, again I think you should definitely head RDLs advice!
You're probably mostly right, but I don't think a porn site is likely to advertise adoption of HTML5, so you might try looking at the mobile sites they serve up to see what tech they're using.

I suspect MeFeedia doesn't index porn sites, but I went ahead and asked in the comments.
We put our daughter's crib in our room, which I think helped tremendously in getting her to sleep through the night.

When she started climbing out of her crib we put a foam mattress on the floor and let her sleep on that (which we moved to her bedroom). This also helped with comforting her at night when she woke up, as we would lie down next to her. Gradually she stopped waking up at night, and if she did, she would go back to sleep by herself.

IMO, getting your baby to sleep through the night and going to bed without too much fuss pays off. I'm no child psychologist, but I think by assuring them that you're there whenever they need you, they become more secure when you're not around. Being able to have a full night's rest is imperative to functioning well the next day.

Once you have children, you tend to start strategizing your sleep schedule.
I'm a big fan of good recipe sites and this one looks like a great idea with the ability to vote and especially to view recipes by foodie.

Some comments

* I'm not sure if the word 'foodie' is well known

* I agree with the comment of the default fridge item - it's too busy

* There are not enough recipies / foodies per page because the icons are so big. On a big screen they are a little overwhelming.

* The grey / black main colour on the interface doesn't seem appetizing. Might be worthwhile experimenting with a few colours?

* I love the layout of the ingredients - very easy to read.

* I get question mark characters instead of the degree symbol.

* I see on the Homemade Chocolate Goodness Part 1 that there is a comment (which I assume is you) to allow ingredients to be listed in sections - I think this is a very important feature because it makes complicated recipes easier to read

* You have some escaping going on for user with profile 38 in the panel opposite the picture. See "At the end of the day"

* Perhaps give foodies the ability to not show the preparation column in the ingredients list as not very many of them use it - or else if there are no entries then don't render that column.

* The tags (main tag list) are difficult to read because they are alphabetical horizontally and not vertically

* Would be great to be able to search recipes by preparation time

I really like this site - definitely going to sign up and browse further! If I find anything else I'll comment again :)
Are you seriously wondering why people aren't flocking to your new link shortening service? Could you possibly have picked a more crowded niche with less demand from real users and less potential for profit?

If you're going to build something, throw it live, and hope people find it, you're going to need to make sure it's something people will actually be looking for. There are lots of things like that. There are actually only a few that aren't, and unfortunately you've picked the biggest one.
This is a great post. I can't stand it when people criticize others for the (sometimes unusual) interests they have, when the most interesting thing they do themselves is exercise or watch TV.
“It’s better to beg forgiveness than ask permission”

-Grace Hopper
You know what I love about HN? Any community gets stuck on stupid memes. We get stuck on "let me give you free help".
The logical critic in you will assume I'm offering to do this in order to generate leads or recruits and to counter-act that, I have no problem with you removing your personal details and even censoring company names.

If one single member of this website comes back to this page and complains that I abused this oportunity for my own personal gain then I will officially hold my hands up and accept the title as 'Worlds Biggest Idiot'. If you click my username you can clearly find my full name as well as the name of the company I work for. A quick google search with that info will furnish you with the address of the office I work from along with my direct line number.

Considering the fact that my career would be at stake, do you honestly believe I would abuse peoples trust like that?
What is so great about HTML5 and JS for me, the user? That you can get my location? That you can have video (just like Flash, except slower)? Or is it that you can store stuff on my machine?
HTML5 is one more step in the direction of web pages pretending to be applications.

Reading about "the web" on HN is like reading the story of Icarus. HN'ers are so enchanted by web apps that they forget they can only fly on the web thanks to native software. They would like to replace everything with a browser.
I remember http://www.razume.com/ being a useful (and free) service back in 2008, where many professional recruiters would give visual feedback and good advice. Not sure what it is like now (seems more crowd-sourced), but maybe be worth a try.
You're arguing technical merits, not user benefits. It's the 'set once' part that's the trick. It's really, really fucking hard to get someone to set something new one time, even if it is a good bit better.

Personally, I wouldn't start using a new tool for the benefit of the web in general when there's an immediate benefit to me for using a competing product. There's got to be a user benefit besides improving the web.
Agreed, did I read somewhere that you were contemplating offering a wireframe version as well?
Show HN: Review my startup: shrtn.co - Affiliate based URL shortener
Hi!

Been working on a new startup called shrtn.co, and think it's at a stage to show HN. It's basically a URL shortener which adds affiliate links onto the end of URL's, then shares any revenue generated by those links with the original sharer.

You guys are the first ones to see this, and we're fully aware that it's far from finished. It currently only 'works' with Amazon.com/.co.uk, and the feature set is fairly basic too, but we were eager to get it out there to get some feedback from HN :)

Would be great to hear what you think about the concept, application, as well as any future developments that you believe would be beneficial.

On a semi-related note, we're also looking for an awesome PHP (the site was built in CodeIgniter) developer who's interested in working with us in exchange for company shares. I developed the site myself, but don't really rate myself as the greatest developer in the world. There is also a never ending (almost literally) amount of work to be done to hook the app up with other site's affiliate schemes. So if you're interested in working with a couple of ambitious geeks on a (very) early stage startup, are friendly, and are awesome at what you do, then we'd love to hear from you (my email address is in my profile.)

URL: http://shrtn.co

Thanks HN!
> The concept of rescuing us from our mobile screens resonated with her, but she was almost mad at the end to discover it wasn't a commercial for something involving real human interaction

Dentyne got this right.
He mentioned he's fine with people removing their contact information from them
Why hasn't anyone built a 3rd party controller that talks via bluetooth to any android/iOS device? Make a few games and license the API and phone specific cradle-to-controller grips.

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Hey Dan,
I would definitely recommend reading these sources for getting a comprehensive understanding about general design principals and core ideas:

The Gestalt Principles
The guiding theory in understanding how the human brain process images and visual data.
http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/process/gest...

Web Typography
Great resource for understanding typography and especially for the web
http://webtypography.net/

A List Apart
I am sure you are already familiar with this awesome publication by the Happy Cog crew and other contributors. To me this covers most of the on screen design issues in today's world and it keeps on evolving which is awesome.
http://www.alistapart.com/

I Hope this help!
When you look at how apple has succeed, it's the way of the future. They didn't provide any new functionality that wasn't on mobile devices before. They just made it simple, it's the new paradigm, design is now more important than functionality.

I'm am not an apple fan, mind you, I am an Android dev who built a podcasting app - and most of the complaints I get are "I can't figure it out" and "why is it so complicated". It is overloaded with features and some appreciate it, but some don't.

The way I think of it, is that life is frustrating at times, and people will go to great lengths to avoid that feeling of frustration. Software might do a lot but if it not quick to use then its pretty well useless. In time gone by, how many man hours been wasted trying to find that elusive checkbox in windows to fix a certain small problem.

Simplicity is the most important thing, people want life to be simple - why can't it be simple !!! That's why apple is making billions.

There is always an element of randomness though. To some people a design (e.g. my podcasting app) will seem logical, but to others it will be a frustrating mess. I am happy to have a set of users who are fairly tech capable. but I do constantly receive a hail of abuse from the less capable who really want to use it, but cant figure it out. Some people actively resent the fact that I have made them feel stupid (Saying exactly "I am not stupid", had that exact phrase about 30 times I think).

Sometimes I think 3 interfaces to a product are necessary, "simple"(only basic stuff), "cool" (medium), and "super"(everything). Different people like different things.
The sites built for marketing Microsoft products are often outsourced. So the fact that the new Xbox website was broken in any regard is the fault of a poor marketing manager and not a poor Microsoft developer.
This is the same for benefits. Benefits programs can have their terms modified from year to year.

A company with a great benefits program (ex. paying full tuition on a degree) can drop it from one year to the next.

So if you have a budget that includes that degree being paid for, you might find yourself suddenly strapped for cash when you are footing the bill for the degree yourself.
Thanks for the feedback on http://recruiterbox.com ! Will take your comments in to consideration in our next update
I agree, international tax is constantly shift because the economy is shifting away from being isolated to individual citizens.

I'm not surprised that the Phillipines have the same tax rules as the united states since they were held by the US for so long.

But, I stand corrected. I should've been clearer and spoken less in general terms in my definition of how world wide income is taxed in the US.
Saying "HTML5 Video" is misleading. There is no video encoding format for HTML5 video in the html5 spec. I could be using Firefox, which supports html5 video, go to a site that has html5 video in h264 format, then I can't see it, despite me using a html5 browser and the video being a html5 video.
The actual source for this article is a document by Robert Half Technology (a staffing firm):

http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/FreeResources?rfmCandida...

Registration required. Would post to scribd, but the PDF is password protected. Reg-free download here:

http://drop.io/2011salaryguide/asset/rht-sg-2011-pdf
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Button should look like a button (have affordance). "isn't short" is not a good label — it's not a command (you isn't short URLs?).

If button gives click feedback and you can shorten in 1-2 seconds, then you might not need a progress bar.

Explain on the page, in something that can be read in 4 seconds, what is that any why should anybody use it (problems you solve that others don't).

Assume nobody reads the blog post.
I've heard good things theladders.com's resume service: http://resume.theladders.com/

I don't think it's cheap though.
This article is overblown at best. Microsoft's core operating system and office suites remain absolutely dominant even if competitors are rising.

While Nintendo Wii certainly moves more units than the xbox, the xbox remains a successful competitive system with interesting innovations that largely focused on a different segment than the Wii did. While Microsoft is way behind in the phone segment, it is a bit premature to declare Windows Phone 7 a failure in the consumer market.

What this is showing is not so much that Microsoft is dying but that because other competitors are rising it is no longer the absolutely dominating force it used to be. This in itself is significant, but a far cry from dying.
I don't know how young you are, but I'm guessing under 20.

There was a time when IBM was synonymous with computing. That gave way to Microsoft. During the late 80s and all of the 90s, Microsoft WAS the computer.
It certainly doesn't have the power of a modern supercomputer, but it surpasses everything on Wikipedia's supercomputer timeline until about halfway down (using the admittedly poor comparison of GHz - GFLOPS). From that point of view, I think "power of a supercomputer" is fairly reasonable.
Believe it or not, I did something similar to this a while back: http://bryanhelmig.com/notorious-b-i-g-crack-commandments-in... In fact, I think this sort of abstraction is a useful way to internalize all that "business advice" you read everywhere. I tried to twist them to make them work with otherwise best practice business advice, because honestly, how could one possibly straight out disagree with Biggie?

Either way, it is very cool to see someone come up with the same concept independently!