skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some notes:

"Here are the 5 most recently updated of your applications."

How about, "Your 5 most recently updated applications:"

I couldn't see anything to do with the applications, they're all just listed as "Not started".

"We're taking the headache out of the apartment rental applications."

The "out of the" should be "out of".

Should have calendar field for dates.

Pages keep timing out, news.y effect? Attachment uploading failed to be maintained across an error with another part of the form.

No indication of whether emails are going to applicants, no way to change from accepted to rejected or vice versa once you press that link. Not sure if you sent anything to the mailinator address I signed up with, but couldn't see anything there.

It really could do with pictures. Lease terms (e.g. renewal length, price).

If you're taking people's SSN numbers, I guess you would want to do that over SSL. Give an alternative for people too nervous to do that.

Maybe put a flow diagram of how it works on the front page. A privacy policy would probably be a good idea too.

No way to cancel an application after it's been accepted? No way to communicate with the broker through the site?

It looks like it has potential, but I think could do with a bit more design and iteration. What's going to attract people to the site?

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Edit: more...

Do you really want to make those URLs case sensitive? When I get the case wrong I get a list of all brokers, but if I try to select any apart from Joe I get an error saying I can only select Joe. Why the error? Why show the others if I can't select them? The combos don't seem to be linked up.

As an unlogged in user why can't I view the properties that are available?

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Good luck

Edit: more on why email through the site:

I think you either want to explicitly encourage people to use email to ask questions, or have a communication mechanism built in. The main advantage of having a communication mechanism built in would be that you can keep track of all the communication about a particular property in one place. It also makes your site more sticky, as there's something to do other than clicking "accept" or "reject". Even just adding notes to the "reject" would be helpful. I think it naturally leads into keeping communication around the seed of the conversation, which is the lease.

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After all, you're trying to add value here, if you're just directing people to sort it out over email then make it clear what the benefits of using your site are beyond it just being a directory of brokers and properties.
I'd like to read more about relationships and dating for entrepreneurs. i find it frustrating to explain what I do to women I meet, and even more frustrating when they don't "get" that, yes, just because it's 3am doesn't mean I'm not at work.
This is awesome. Thanks! Since you're apparently out roaming the digital wilds, how would you suggest finding someone to help me design a product I want to prototype? The idea is pretty well baked, and I have some general product outlines, but need a designer to realize next phase.
In his lectures on physics, volume 1, Feynman explains differential calculus in like 5 pages. It's really good.
Eventbrite is hiring. http://www.eventbrite.com/jobs

This place is amazing -- great product, awesome team, really cool engineering + challenges (mobile, fraud/analytics, box office (hardware!), et al) and we all have a ton of fun. In Soma right by CalTrain w/ all the perks: 6 meals a week + endless snacks, gym + transportation reimbursement, great insurance, you'll still have a life, etc.

We'll sell $200M+ in tickets this year and we just raised another $20M in funding. This is a great time to jump on board.
Cool, but Ctrl-N (move down) doesn't work (it opens a new page).
If someone sent me 500 interesting and engaging emails every day, I wouldn't have any time to get real work done.
Chrome 7.0.517.41 on a Mac. I got a score of 9135 (I stopped when it exceeded 9000).

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8486/screenshot20101102at...

Method: Get the ball to hit a paddle on the top or bottom. It seems the code that deals with paddle collisions only imagines horizontal collisions, so, every frame (or whatever unit of time it uses), it registers a collision and reverses its horizontal direction. This is the "sticks to the paddle, vibrates, and travels up the paddle" behavior you describe. Move the paddle up and down to follow the ball's vertical movement, so it doesn't fall off. You rack up a lot of collisions very quickly like this.

This works much better on the left side, for whatever reason. I've succeeded twice in getting the ball to vibrate on the paddle while moving slow enough vertically that I can follow it and prevent it falling off. I haven't managed to do it on the right side; I have gotten it to vibrate, but only for a short time before it gets flung away.

Also, sometimes the ball vibrates on the top or bottom surface for a little while (fraction of a second). This has happened only on the left side so far.
You should read John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty". It makes all my arguments for free political speech for me and in a much more elegant manner.

It is self-evident that if you limit the amount of money that people can spend on advertising their political views that niche candidates and less popular ideas will be hurt the most. Unions can compel donations from their millions of members, your Clintons, Obamas, and McCains of the world get the full support and advertising of the major parties. But offbeat candidates will have their speech capped by McCain-Feingold, unless they are personally rich (Ross Perot).

We had many outside projects (independent advertisements and the like) that couldn't get cash because so many of us had donated our max amount to the campaign (even though few of us were personally rich). There's something weird about being an American and not being allowed to support a candidate because it is against the law. I would much rather have a rough and tumble, wide-open contest in the finest democratic tradition than Democrats and Republicans writing laws about who is allowed to speak.

You seem to want to outlaw outside advertisements because they don't meet your standards for quality. Cool man, cool. I just want you to consider how that position fits within the American liberal tradition.

>" If you can't find 1000 people to support you, you shouldn't be in politics. "

That sounds like an incumbent protection act to me.

We had a few hundred thousand supporters, ended up getting a few million votes! Even found a loophole in McCain-Feingold and set up one venture as a for-profit enterprise (you ever see the "Hillary 2008" t-shirts at airports? Same loophole).

We did okay, considering. But man, I just want my freedom back.
i love the concept, great beta release. the design is simple and clean.

Couple suggestions about usability:
1) Tenant landing pages - make sure they know what's going on, it has to be idiot proof. perhaps simplify the process and tell them you'll be notified by email if the landlord has questions or approves. they are typically going to be one time users, whereas the landlords need a dashboard.

2) when tenant fills out application let them know which fields are mandatory (different landlords may have different requirements, perhaps that should be customize-able).

3) there was a display bug after i submitted my application as a tenant

4) when you reject an application perhaps you should allow the landlord to submit a reason. also, landlord may want to ask prospective tenant questions. allow them to communicate somehow or submit additional materials.
And yet, if those parents read that comment, they wouldn't have an overnight change of heart.
logic and reason and empathy. What use is of logic and reasoning if he turns out to be Hilter (or a female version...)
Elliptic curve cryptography can get away with less bits in the keys than RSA at the moment. We do a better job of breaking RSA than elliptic curves. I don't know about Diffie-Hellman, which is based on discrete logarithms.
Surely if its in common use and is well known, then there's plenty of evidence of prior work? That would make it unenforceable surely?
In which case Colgate have just spent a smallish chunk of money on publishing how to make a powder that makes teeth cleaner. Funny, but not especially "...another example of companies trying to use patent laws to lock up widely known knowledge.."
It may be just me but I despise the layout of the pictures. Sure it's fine when you use your keyboard to navigate but for using a mouse it sucks. There also seems to be a problem when on the second image, the previous image doesn't show up on the left side making it impossible to navigate back with a mouse.

I can't find a way to delete images even though the FAQs mention it.

Layout seems fine/same on Chrome 7, Firefox 3.6.6 on Win7

(general rant about web galleries)

It seems to me that every gallery currently used on websites sucks. Except one: http://boston.com/bigpicture/. I'd really love a Big Picture like layout of pictures. When possible same width for all pictures. Let me middle-click on them to open the full version in a new tab (instead of those stupid modal overlays) and scroll the gallery with my mouse like every site on the web. Added j/k or arrow key navigation is a plus.

Edit: Well it's two. http://imgur.com has it right too.
I started posting less when the karma ratio became a big deal. But you can still pick up a point or two here and there by making encouraging comments to people far down a thread. This does add value to the community, but it's not a big shot-in-the-arm like a popular submission or a relevant "first post". They do, however, add up.
Our idea is to build a trust-able eco-system for everyone to unlock and consume content in way which will benefit everyone.
CPALead doesnt have a central login system for users and doesn't make sure if content is delivered and if ip changes th user cannot consume content he already paid for where as we are trying to change this by having a central system for end user to access to unlocked objects they paid for thought the web and giving ability to the developers to bill their users who consume their premium content on a one-time or monthly basis.
If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile
A significant number of applicants seem to have overlooked this part of the application instructions:

1. Please put your email address in the email field of your profile.

If you applied this cycle, please do that, or we'll have no way to notify you later today.
My takeaway was more along the lines of "Don't worry so much about optimizing his learning path just yet. Love him and care for him and everything will work itself out.

We all want what's best for our children. Unfortunately, this frequently turns into crazy helicopter parenting and a hyperfocus on academics, sports, and activities.

I love my son and I want him to be the best he can be, but I'm more than willing to trade a few of his future IQ points
to never ever let him wonder if he's loved for himself, or just his accomplishments.
No, this is completely wrong. This is suggesting that having fewer people reading your newspaper is not a bad thing, when it is exactly the opposite. You want more people to read your newspaper, and there is a indirect cost to losing those readers.

One of the main things you are losing is influence, all those readers have gone to another paper to get their news.

Nevertheless an interesting experiment, we will see how long the times keeps this up.
Excellent deck. Brevity is definitely key. However, the first thing that came to my mind after finishing the post was: what about competitors? You seem to mention server utilization in reference to a competitor at the bottom right of slide #1, but nowhere else do I see any mention of competition. If I were considering investing, I'd want this information up front, and might even think something was amiss without it. Has this not been the case in your experience?
We have raised over $6M and while YC helped us and we are extremely appreciative, the hard work we put into CarWoo! and our determination to build a huge company was the key to our success.

raising venture capital != success. Not for a scalable, repeatable business anyways.
not a coder, but a businessman. it was the night i opened the doors of my retail store for the first time and 25 people walked in and started playing cards and buying stuff from me. i knew in that moment that there was no way I'd ever go back to working for anyone else again.
Along with offers we are adding mobile,prepaid and other various types of payment options which we believe will make it flexible for users to pay for the premium content.
Ask HN: Any good tips for writing/sending surveys?
I'm writing a survey that I plan to send out to ~10,000 people in the next few days. They are all members of www.lenguajero.com and many of them are quite active on the site. While we get a lot of feedback via email we have never sent a survey to our members, and I'm a little unsure how to proceed.

The goal of the survey is to find out three things: 1. How useful is our website/how active are you on the site? 2. What features would you like to see added/improved. 3. Are there any features (existent or non-existent) that you would pay to use?

Does anyone have any suggestions for how to write a survey like this (i.e. how should the above questions be asked, and what other questions should be included in the survey), or can anyone recommend some good reading material about sending surveys?

Also, I'm not sure how relevant this is, but half our members are native English speakers and the other half are native Spanish speakers. Each member will receive the survey in his/her native language.

Thanks HN!
We'll tell people this evening.
So why haven't you started building it?
If you're on OS X, bortherbard's fork of gitx might work if you're looking for a graphical option:

http://github.com/brotherbard/gitx/downloads

I don't actually use it to commit because I have a screwy commit flow, but I'd expect it to work for a basic commit cycle.
on behalf of everyone in the chat room who is incessantly asking, when should we expect notification (either way). people are consumed by this question and meaningful business/coding discussion has ceased.
Me too. My wife is not tech-savvy at all, which is great because it forces me to talk to her as a regular person about my startup.
Anonymous Sharing Project Cements USB Drives Into Random New York City Walls
The problem is I need an emacs/vim/TextMate style editor for the iPad usable in the airplane. I really wish TextMate would become available on iOS.
Hasn't the "golden ratio makes everything beautiful and has been used in every work of art forever!" myth been debunked numerous times?

Hell, the Twitter example isn't even right. On my screen, I'm seeing a ratio of ~1.13.
"Really? I think that is one of its strongest points. being able to switch branches by just going 'git checkout <branch>' and immediately having the entire file structure switched out to what's 'contained' in the new branch was a big win for me.
Git also alerts you when you've made changes and are switching branches, so you can commit or stash your changes to the branch you were on and not mix it up with the new branch, unless thats what you really want to do."

Cheap branching is a fantastic feature - that all the open DVCS tools have.

Git focuses on the ability of developers to edit their revision history and provide lovely linear histories (hence the existence of stash, rebase, et al). Git as a tool and as a community encourages one to do so - but the result can be that your local repo and my local repo can no longer be synchronized. Furthermore, it's easy to create a commit of inconsistent code - since you can commit file changes in separate commits.

Ultimately git simplifies the work of project maintainers at the expense of day-to-day development, which isn't surprising given it's source, but I think it's a bad trade.
Scary stuff, but this is from 2006 and not all of these things are still true in all places. (States like CA require access to all software used on machines, for example.)

That said, these comparisons between voting machines and ATMs or slot machines are always a bit unfair. Slot machines and ATMs carefully log and track every action that every user does on them. In a voting machine, it must be impossible to tie a vote to a specific person. This is makes it a much trickier problem to solve.
learning basic economics, applying the ideas of opportunity cost to myself, and understanding my own valuation system and feeding it back into my decision making process. It's pretty methodical, but not stalling on decisions or opportunities helps keep the momentum going.
I meant our success in getting to the funding milestone. We are very well aware that we are at the beginning, not the end.
This...it really doesn't look that bad.
Poolboy - Start pooling any Erlang gen_server
ask questions that give you answers to specific questions! dont ask how useful it is - ask what the most useful feature is. etc
Many keys appear to be trapped in the browser making it impossible to use on Mac Safari. It would be cool if someone worked on a fully-fledged environment, worked out all the issues, and somehow integrated it with an existing infrastructure like Amazon S3 or packaged and distributed a client with a sandbox server side.
last time we got our email 6 hours from now.
Poor bastards in NSW... they've had the same corrupt Labor government for what, fourteen years now? The tragedy is that the opposition don't have to be much better to win, they just have to not fuck a goat on live TV.
Yeah - same here... Aren't lurkers users too?! I feel separate but equal.
I switched to Debian from Ubuntu (where I got my start in Linux) because I no longer felt like I needed the UI or install to hold my hand and wanted to be able to build up my own system from a minimal install. I chose Debian simply because my Ubuntu experience had made me very familiar with aptitude, and I wanted to stick with something popular so my chances of successfully Googling for help were higher.

My work's servers use Debian, and my home ISP runs an unmetered repository for it too.

I've tried Fedora in the past when I was still very much a newbie and found it intimidating. Given I know next to nothing about Red Hat derivatives of Linux it would probably pay to get familiar with them sometime over the next few months.
maybe because it's not a new threat and it's not their responsibility?
Prove it.

Wait, you can't - you can't even identify the "stupid" or "evil" voters except by circularly defining them as "people who voted for bad politicians". For that matter, you can't identify the "good" ones except for "the ones who voted for good politicians".
I could say it was when I was doing my work experience in College and stayed on an extra 2 hours to get my code to work. When it did work, I was extremely happy. I realised then that I should be doing more of this.
I'm curious, if you have a moment PG: how much does not doing something like that peeve you?

On the one hand, such detail-oriented mistakes aren't necessarily bad, especially in people who know how to notice when they miss them and it matters.

On the other hand, sometimes details can kill you: You show up 15 minutes late when it matters.

Does someone not including their e-mail ever push you from "go" to "no go" on an application? Why or why not?
Side note: While showing up and getting your name marked off on election day is compulsory in Australia, actually voting properly is not. It is perfectly OK (though frowned upon) to get your form and put it straight into the box, which is counted as an "informal" vote, the same as if you had written in the wrong space on the ballot form.

The recent election was a very close race between the two major parties, and also had one of the highest % of informal votes in recent history, which is some measure of the unhappiness of voters with the choices they were given.
This is a very thinly veiled ad for the company, but I gotta admit: the clothes are freaking awesome
Umm... the link IS WikiTorrents.org . I've been working on this project for a year. Check it out: http://wikitorrents.org/wiki/ycombinator_applicants
The URL:
For Japan to China:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
A voluntary system would not be viable precisely because of your caveat. It would likely not prevent any truly poorly informed from voting: at worst, some moderately-to-highly informed folks would make the wrong decision and abstain instead, further skewing representation.
Fork off: mass exodus from OOo as contributors join LibreOffice
I suspect that, by the time they check the profile for an email, they've committed enough to at least try and contact the guy some other way.
The nice thing about go is the handicap system. You can play mutually fun games when there is a very large skill difference. Western games like chess? Not so much.

Plus the simplicity of the rules is helpful for learning for younger players. The rule of thumb is that if they are old enough to not eat the pieces, they are old enough to try playing.
Will rejected applicants also receive emails?
Just thinking of all the ways to spend it! Let's see ... that's 8.5 million divided by 4 lawyers, leaves about $2 leftover for the remaining 20 million users.
Already submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1859530
I'm currently searching for a new car, so I thought I'll check out CarWoo.

Here are some issues I ran into:

1. Can we have photos of the different models next to the drop down list? and maybe a short summary of the differences? I know I want a MINI, but I didn't even know there are three different kinds, so obviously I don't know which one I want.

2. Same for trims. At least a link to the manufacturer site to help me figure this out.

3. Mention payments only after I entered all my details? This seems unfair!

4. I feel incredibly uncomfortable to pay for the privilege of you giving my details to dealers. Shouldn't they be paying you because you are sending them buyers?

5. Also, why should I pay upfront? What if I don't get a good deal out of this?

6. I tried to ask all this at the nice chat, but after typing my question and clicking "submit" my text just disappeared and I never got a reply. I'm using Chrome, btw.

7. So no, I'm not convinced, and I see no reason to spend time watching videos of happy customers. I'm not into testimonials anyway. How about some statistics? What's the expected dollar value of savings for the model I'm trying to buy?

I hope my comments are at least somewhat useful, and my apologies if the tone is snarky - I got upset at the non-working chat.
I went into barnes and noble one day and picked up the Pro Git book and sat in the cafe and read it for a few hours. After that I understood git fairly well and the things the OP said show that he hasn't put forth this minimal amount of effort. I don't think a few hours of study for a power tool is too much to ask, and I think it's reasonable to dismiss the arguments of someone who clearly hasn't put forth a sincere effort to understand it.

Also, the book is available for free online http://progit.org/book/
emailing you now, thanks
Call it what you like, but it's basically a line-based "framebuffer" in memory, and the display just happens to be reading from that memory every time it draws a line. IIRC you get something like 80 clock cycles to blit your pixels into that memory space before the next line gets drawn, but it's still acting as a framebuffer.
Mercurial is another feature rich DVCS. Joel Spolsky has done an excellent job of providing a similar beginner-friendly introduction at http://hginit.com. It's short, easy to understand, and pretty funny in places.
Garry Kasparov: The Last Revolutionary Technology Was The Apple II
The Times experience on the iPad is pretty good. That's the future - custom clients whose owners are comfortable making small payments on a whim.

(Full disclosure, I am a Times subscriber)