skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have always been at war with E̶a̶s̶t̶a̶s̶i̶a̶ Eurasia.
I think if I use it for a week I'll be hooked. Some sort of game mechanism to get people to use it for that initial crucial time frame might be helpful.
SmartQ - visualize your workflow
smartQ is an online Kanban board
That's one common approach (and a good step-by-step for it) but I'd argue in favor of the opposite: Find a need or something that a market is ready to pay for and build that. This approach gives you a more certain market to sell to as well as people (potential customers) ready to give you feature and design ideas.
It's so obvious, that they probably tried it and simply decided that it doesn't look good/clear/consistent enough.
I can see where you're coming from and at least partly agree, but I feel the need to call you out on this one. A few of your own submissions from the past month or so:

Current alert: Airport security remains relevant (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1849017)

Mike Rowe celebrates dirty jobs (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1756098)

Richard Wiseman's favorite optical illusions (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1729036)

Overall, your own submissions don't look all that much different from the current /newest page as hacker relevancy goes.
Sustainable competitive advantage is that we don't incur the costs of bandwidth or storage. Videos are stored on any other site on the Internet. Another advantage involves some API possibilities.

Traction is people creating lists. Yes, the ycombinator list got 3000 uniques a day. But ANYBODY can create a very particular list of videos that draws that many uniques or more. More traffic equals more traction.

I have invested a year of work into this project. Self-funding is my development time and hosting costs.

I don't have much in previous projects worth showing off.

Why do I need a co-founder?
Andrew I love you. I sent you an email a few months ago asking if you could get more videos about the mobile space and you have totally come through. I've seen a hearty amount of mobile interviews this month. Thanks.
Alas, my understanding of this point is entirely folkloric. Self-experimentation, and working on improving real interactive systems, agrees with it. Please update if you find anything more comprehensive.
http://adlaiff6.github.com/

Old data, but it runs on a (young, but) flexible sh emulation, and by messing with the virtual filesystem you can get it to do whatever you want (try readlink, for example). Grab code from github.com/adlaiff6/jsh and github.com/adlaiff6/readline.js.

Doesn't work on firefox for me right now, don't remember why, I haven't touched the code in a long time.
That's a remarkably terrible way to implement a terminal.
The practice is almost as old as life itself. In Ancient Egypt, after their death, unpopular Pharoh's names were chiseled out of the hieroglyphs.
Surely it's aimed at technical people, able to understand technical language?
You can play them all here: http://www.accardi-by-the-sea.org/Infocom/Online/ - Java, but nonetheless... Great games!
Awesome. WorkFly almost mimics how I currently organize my things to do. Eschewing fancy stuff, I simply make a long indented list and cross things out as they get done. Having that capability in a browser based application is neat.

Now I do like long lists, but could I have the capability to make multiple lists? I don't want to put my personal to-do's on the same list as my work to-do.
WikiTorrents doesn't really have much to do with bittorrent. It's an evolving idea.

The idea is simple: if you can come up with a good, unique, specific list of videos, then you can translate that easy into lots of traffic. Traffic = traction = money.
I like how pseudonymity works: you go by one or more pseudonyms, on various web sites. It lets you have multiple identities, and figuring out which identities are the same person is non-trivial. It's an easy hack. You can post your erotic furry artwork under one identity, use another professionally, another with your friends, and everything will be more or less okay.

Alternately, maybe people will get used to lack of privacy, and acknowledge that everyone has more than one group of acquaintances, and that information on the web is permanent even if people themselves change. You'll know this is happening when someone finds naked pictures of a female teacher on the Internet and she doesn't get fired. I'm not holding my breath, though.
FTC's first Chief Technologist: DRM basher Ed Felten
Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds
A Swiss security company called Objectif Sécurité has created a cracking technology that uses rainbow tables on SSD drives. Apparently it is the hard drive access time and not the processor speed that slows down cracking. Using SSD drives can make cracking faster, but just how fast?
http://jqapi.com has a better search feature than api.jquery.com (handy when you're looking for functions like each() and is())
http://thcnet.net/zork/index.php
When I started 39 (my company) I was outsourcing my iPhone development via Elance to a firm in Ukraine. We got some good simple apps out and made some money. But quickly they weren't reliable; they fit your job in a pipeline with other jobs, so you can't just tell them "today just stop whatever you are doing and work on this important stuff". Also you need to be very lucky with the people you hire.
FWIW, I have the myConvert iPhone app and am very pleased with it. I've looked at the free unit conversion that go by, but haven't found one that shows multiple conversions on a single screen like myConvert does.
What cities should be chosen for the Alcatel-Lucent/Gluecon Hackathon Tour?
Right - but I think what Thiel should do when explaining his fellowship is qualify it. "Drop out of college ...and, oh yeah, make sure your some superstar, prodigy, and/or really lucky because in the past those were the qualities that kick started the billionaire stars of today."

Sure, a college education is overpriced and, at times, overrated. But, I hope these young people come in fully aware that failure stings and when you're heading in that trajectory - even temporarily in any thing or venture - a lot of choices you made do not look too bright.
"The Government's immigration cap should not affect inter-company transfers for global firms, David Cameron said today."

That's a really good example. He's defending a policy of the current PM and Cabinet. Of course this has been passed by the parliament - that's how the Westminster system works. If parliament stops passing the policies of the cabinet then the government falls.

"The Government" refers to the Prime Minster and his/her Cabinet. It is supported by other parliamentary members of the ruling parties.

Colloquial usage of the phrase "the government" to refer to the civil service, and to ministries etc (eg, "I work in government" or "you'll need government approval to build that there") is common. As soon as politics is involved, though "The Government" refers to those who actually hold power.
Nope
People don't have time for your ideas. They have their own to worry about. Instead they keep asking you about it - that kind inspires me :P
and it happens to be the comment before this one :D
Using genetic algorithms to train a Mario AI
Tell that to twitter, instagram, or even youtube.

A website where people can only type 140 characters at a time in a little box? Forget it.

A mobile app that lets you take one picture and post it online? Been done already.

A video sharing site that may never be legimately profitable? No way.
I feel like I should move to states. Will be very productive during day time over there :P
Thanks Reddit, because now I know that a sydharb is a unit of measurement equivalent to 200,000 Olympic swimming pools. Or the volume of the Sydney Harbor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measur...
From Monty's presentation about MariaDB, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL1l9Puh0sk I got the impression that MariaDB is the primary open MySQL fork, with Percona merging their patches and becoming a downstream of MariaDB. Did MariaDB and Percona have a falling out in recent months?
Reducing variability is one of the main goals of the classic quality engineering.

See Deming's work on statistical process control used in wartime production during WWII: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

I'm glad Facebook is following this old school engineering tradition
Did he say that some where else? I can honestly say I may have been more likely to open it up and check out the site because it's a YC company, but I am 'giving it a chance' because I don't have anything else that does this except scrap paper and issue queues and I liked how you can change what the root node is and the clever use of breadcrumbs.
Passionate? Sure, but also interested in the mindset behind the arguments. I've seen it multiple times, but nobody can quite articulate exactly what it is that convinces them that, say, global warming is a hoax, or that vaccines are dangerous.

It shouldn't do, but it also annoys me that people like lzw get voted up for saying basically nothing - it's either personal attacks or the same tired old cliches. Trying to keep things on topic instead gets interpreted as "refusing to answer the questions".

One question! That's all that I'm asking, and it might give some real insight into the opposing viewpoint, or spark some real discussion, but nobody's taken it up so far, which is sad.
If you're too busy to spend the time to read the docs to figure out if its useful for yourself. How will you ever find the time to learn the system and implement it into your work processes?
Why would anyone using a demo page be under the illusion that they would be able to save their data? To wit: It's a demo page.

I agree with the above sentiment that not offering a means of trying the product out before registering is a blocker for many, many people( myself included ).
I already go outside. Stop assuming that you know anything about be just because I'm part of the 'Hacker News crowd.'
Here's a link to the e-book they wrote and mentioned in the interview: http://www.freetheapps.com/create-iphone-apps/

It makes sense that they seemed somewhat reserved at certain points of the interview, they don't want to give away too much and make their e-book less useful.
Regarding the outsourcing thing, it's clear that even they aren't getting high quality. I'm checking out their Convert Units app, for instance, and the drum scrolling and selection is totally broken, although it works just enough to still function.

It's interesting, however, that the poor quality apparently isn't stopping people from using it. Part of it might be that people don't expect much out of a free app, so if it's broken they just deal with it.
I'll admit that perhaps my experience is not typical and certainly does not disprove the 75% number, but I'd still like to know how they came up with the figure
Hey Gmail, 1994 Called, It Wants Its Dial-Up Level Performance Back
These guys struck me more like frat boys than SW Devs. They both said they are SW Eng but they totally shied away from going into any details about that. They didn't know any of their stats. Andrew had to walk them through their profitability numbers, wtf?
I'm wondering how much you can eventually charge for a service like this, especially considering it would be fairly easy for competitors to replicate and undercut you.
Yes, I agree (and I've upvoted you) that my posts have started to decline in the same way as others have. Or at least, had started to decline. It was recognising that decline that made me write what I did, and I've started to change the things I submit.

I do note that you've gone back over four weeks to get some of those specific examples. I think the balance still shows a strong preponderance of technical items.

And it's for that same reason that, apart from addressing the two immediate questions here, I won't contribute to this thread any further.
> Worse, it won't be as easily segregatable because to
> the browser it will be no different than the rest of
> the web application.

My hosts file begs to differ.
Five new GMail themes
Dude, stop by the HN DC meetups will ya? People are gouging their eyes out looking for startup marketers. Email is in my profile if you want me to pass your contacts around.
How does app-store SEO work? I sell some apps on the app store, but I've never tried to market them (and have pretty anemic sales as a result).

Does SEO tend to be black hat (hire people to rate it?) or ad-driven?
First thing first you should know (you probably know this already):
Web-Designer != UI Designer or UX Designer

Once you know that, you can be looking for correct person.
Finding one, not sure. Referrers? An app you love? Ask them to refer a designer?
Or Hire Me!

How do you make sure the person is right? Ask them about their design process. If you feel that it will bring clarity to project then jump in.
I'll tangle this a bit further that all the users I know(a small population that I can number about 12) use some edition of Pages and a handful even still use Appleworks occasionally even though they are on OSX 10.6
That was one of our goals when we started fairsoftware (now foundrs.com), but US regulations prevented us from going all the way. I think we were pretty good at bypassing a lot of SEC regulations (we invented a concept of "virtual shares"), but cash for shares was off-limits. And we had some pretty good lawyers to help us out.
Well for the most part I agree, and like all other sites HN has attracted an audience different from its initial core users. This happens to all communities as I see it. No way to prevent it, just ask Digg. I think a good idea would be for HN to start sub HN's similar to sub Reddits, but for the most part I find I spend less time here. A good community started by Gabe Weinberg and Hiten Shah, http://techstartu.ps/ , more like early HN.
Electrical brain zap 'boosts maths ability'
I wondered the same thing. Can anyone tell if that really was an Apple III or a clone or a coincidence? (I tried pausing in various places but it's inconclusive.)
Am I somehow immune from Flash on Mac being a complete hog? Sure, it uses a decent chunk of CPU, but I rarely if ever get my CPU pegged and fans ramped up as everyone seems to claim.
Unfortunately, your belief in this regard is the exact opposite of what investors tend to suggest when asked how they can be reached. Investors want a genuine introduction from a single trusted source like a portfolio CEO or another investor that they have done deals with.

The good news is that entrepreneurs typically really like helping out other entrepreneurs with advice and connections when they can. But, entrepreneurs also tend to very, very busy running their startups. So, leaving it up to someone else to take the initiative in order to secure the outcome you want may not be the best course of action.
The Oil Painting
I agree that the focus should be on viewport sizes [1], not resolutions. A user's resolution is irrelevant if their browser isn't maximized or if they keep a panel open (e.g., bookmarks).

[1] http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/
doesn't work with vimperator on ff
It seems to work like TaskPaper but in a browser, and with less flexibility being TaskPaper more similar to a simple text editor.
There are sites that addresses this by creating completely independent social networks for separate interests. This seems to actually work for certain sensitive topics (look up "FetLife" for an example).
Listen Patrick, maybe you're upset that you were rejected and that's why your lashing out. I don't know. I was rejected from YC last summer; in hindsight, the idea we had was garbage and we deluded ourselves into buying our own hype.

You've bought into your own hype. I've been to your site, I have no idea what it does or why its useful. It looks like a bunch of wikipedia scraped articles thrown together. It doesn't solve any problems or make life easier or fun for anyone.

Don't try to cite examples like Twitter or Youtube, they are freak chances and you CANNOT simply replicate patterns to success. So humbly, and as politely as I can say, I suggest you wake up and stop bullshitting yourself. Stop whining, step away from the computer, and either change your project or kill it.
If the goal is to remove/control Flashes consumption of resources - aka the original post - then my suggestion stands.

We are talking about Flash - not ads per se.
This sounds a bit too good to be true. How many ad impressions add up to $80,000 in a month? What is that in user hours per month for 12 or so apps?

I'd be fascinated to see the financial statements, I bet we never will
they probably outsourced the entire interview
"Slippery Slope". I think that everything not biased specifically towards hackers (or entrepreneurs) should be flagged. Probably I'm more aggressive and militant about that than most people, but that's OK too - I'm not unaccustomed to being an outlier, and if mine is the only voice then it won't make any difference.

I think that simply raising the issue does nothing. It's creating a discussion - it's not, of itself, adding information. Some people can't see the difference or distinction, but I believe there is one. This item is closer to simply having a moan than it is to making a technical contribution.

If you think things are getting worse then make measurements, do some homework, create a case, and actually make a proposal, don't simply "raise the issue".

I realise my views are regarded as extreme in this matter, but my feeling is that more people with views closer to mine would mean that there wouldn't be the perceived decline, because all the non-hacker-oriented items would die quickly.

And in keeping with this point of view, I will also not contribute further to this discussion unless I think it adds significantly to the discussion. I doubt it will - my opinions aren't that worthy.
TLDR: With 500 million people using them, Facebook Credits could become a viable alternative currency to the dollar, yuan, etc. Especially if FB starts entering deals that allow FB currency to be used to purchase real world goods and services, say at Walmart, and/or deals that allow FB users to send each other 'moneygrams' or other payments worldwide using FB currency. Proof of concept has already happened with at least one popular virtual currency in China.

Lotta speculation, but very interesting to anyone interested in how money works, or international economics.
We (DreamHost) don't have mod_pagespeed support out quite yet, but the feature should be available to our customers by the end of the day today, as soon as I flip the switch to turn it on. :)
I don't know what to think about stories such as these to be honest.

My inner entrepreneur says "Wow, great job guys! I wish you every success".

My inner software developer winces, and fears, both professionally and personally, that the ever-growing number of such low-quality apps will eventually make it pointless for developers to invest in creating a ConvertBot or Instagram.

(FWIW I currently make $15k a month from sales of apps $1.99 or higher)
EU targets 'Net giants with "right to be forgotten" proposal
Our monthly gas bill has never exceeded $140. Split across the 5 of us, that's pretty affordable.

Edit: Perhaps I should also add that it stays below $40 for at least half the year.
> As for video, you're trading cpu power for gpu power when running flash vs quicktime, but I'm not sure the gpu will be any less of a drain on battery.

Except that using a cpu to emulate things gpu do natively requires far more power. A gpu is a specialized processor so the tradeoff isn't going to be 1 to 1.
That sounds like more than enough to keep him busy.
Maitre d's use Twitter, Google Images to track diners
My (hastily written) Tips About Designing for the Web
Share your tips too, here in the comments, or on the article itself.
How is it different from other torrent sites?
Time is not a resource you have in abundance, you have an unknown quantity of it, which is limited, and is constantly decreasing. It is very unique in this regard but should NEVER be regarded as abundant.
That only means that it will work if the user ignores stern warnings telling them the software is untrusted.
You aren't stupid, but probably haven't encountered a streamgraph[1] before. It's just a stacked area graph where X is time (it's even labeled at the top) and Y is frequency of calls (thickness, not from the origin). I think it's an excellent and informative graphic, personally.

[1] http://www.leebyron.com/else/streamgraph/
I used to pay $10/month for Backpack by 37s. I'd gladly pay that $10 for this.
I agree. $80,000 a month in mobile ads is a lot of impressions.
> The radiation exposure with Backscatter X-Ray's is really a non-issue.

Unfortunately that's not the case.

"David Brenner, the head of Columbia University’s Centre for Radiological Research, says the concentration on the skin – one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the body – means the radiation dose is actually 20 times higher than the official estimate."

The two issues are that 1) the energy is absorbed by the surface of the body instead of throughout the volume, so the effective dose to affected tissues is much higher, and 2) that the dose is received in seconds, instead of over a period of hours.

For a frequent traveler flying about once a week, ~100 departures per year, if scanned every time that adds a non-trivial 10-20 mrem.

And that's assuming that the cited dose is correct and not a significant under-estimate; where's the independent testing?

Here's a long post with numerous references regarding this general topic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1854787
Now I know its snake oil, this page has all the wording and techniques of a classic get rich quick scam.
I'd +1 this feature request. Although, I would rather not see these show up in-line but instead be a link for download.

Or possibly better yet, let me browse and attach things from DropBox.
The graph actually shows a separate item for "traffic signal conditions", which implies that "streetlights" are in fact different than traffic signals. (Look at the middle/upper-right; it's kind of hard to see).
Anyone know any articles from people that run ads in these kind of apps talking about returns? They don't seem like the kind of apps that would drive any high quality traffic. Interesting to see if it's just an advertising bubble where because it's new there is many companies trying it out pushing up prices or there is actually a sustainable business here for advertisers.
And caning!
http://www.secondmarket.com/

regulated like crazy. you can't promote the sale of a stock without it being publicly traded. secondmarket gets around this by first being regulated and second being a matching service and not an open market.