skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just planning out my feature minimal ser forsomething just like this. Why email though? What if you want all people from your company to have a basic card format? Are you planning comany controls? Good luck.
Uh oh, another case of internet justice about to come down the wifi?
That's a pretty ungoogleable name. "e business card" might be hard to optimize for.
Do not accept the friend request. It will only legitimize part of his claim (that he is a friend of the creator).
I think a chrome extension to block all HN links about Tim Ferriss is in order, but leaves the HN comments (which are the actual interesting bits).

While I am genuinely impressed and shocked at his ability to self-promote, the content is ALWAYS a waste of time. Meta-lessons about self promotion and marketing are interesting...wish I could extract those without actually reading the content as when TF speaks, I just seem to get more and more angry.

Asking a genuine question: What is a good hack to get over the feeling that self-promotion is slimy? Not that I want to go all out like TF, but it would be interesting to have it in ones bag of tricks that you can turn to when needed.
Very cool!

I thought of the exact same idea about 3 years ago. I didn't pursue it due to other circumstances (i.e. being far too busy), so I'm glad to see someone is taking it forward. I wish you the best of luck. The quality of the service and not to mention your website looks stunning. And that's what it takes to really make it!
I for one, though do not use Chrome (I use Safari) myself, have put Chrome on every PC I help set up, until yesterday. Sorry, Google. I just like the fact that I can put up videos I shot with my camera on my website without transcoding and my friends would view them just fine from their browsers and phones. I don't know which side is more open - and therefore more right - in this controversy, but in addition to openness, I support industrial collaboration. And more importantly, video codecs are used beyond just web. How about looking further and see the frustration that the non-web video people would have because of this action.
How To use Google AdWords to prototype and test a book title
Ask HN: Review my startup, CampaignBar
This is my minimum viable product, CampaignBar: http://campaignbar.com

I wrote this after getting tired of maintaining an Excel spreadsheet of which sites I wanted to contact and their current contact status. There are two parts to it: a Firefox toolbar where you can save or ignore sites (along with their contact information); and a web front-end to the data.

The site supports multiple users, so if you outsource website marketing you can set your guys loose and they won't be able to duplicate the sites they've found. Currently, any users you add can only use the toolbar - they have no access to the admin area.

When I have some more time, I want to add the ability to change the status of sites, as well as let you add different types of user accounts, and add in some useful statistics as well.

I'd love to know what you think about the functionality of the site, whether it's obvious what it does, and if you give it a try how everything works for you :)

Thanks,
Tom.
Perhaps not a forced swim test, but having a human swim in place (or tread water) for as long as they can. In a swimming pool, with people around to rescue them if they stop swimming and start drowning, and being removed as soon as they give up by ... I don't know, going over and grabbing the edge of the pool? Or making some unambiguous hand gesture, or yelling a safe word, or whatever. I'm not entirely sure how valid the results from this would be, but there's also controversy over forced swim tests with rats and mice, so it would probably be just as accurate.
Clickable: http://campaignbar.com
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This runs the other way for me, suggesting that Ferris at least made a good faith effort to get supporting data. No-one is claiming the data is wrong here. It's the "fitness evaluation expert" who is refusing to confirm or even retest the guy. And her scorn about "commercial purposes" rings particularly hollow given she is taking salary from a publicly-funded university.

Reminds me of the time I paid a US university hospital for various STD tests for visa purposes, and then the hospital refused to give me the resulting paperwork citing patient confidentiality. Totally ridiculous.
T-Mobile internals confirm Samsung is holding the Android update hostage
I was going to go back and edit it once it no longer made sense, but the edit time had expired at that point.
I'm using Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu, and the 'Try it Out' and 'Register' buttons are overlapped and the whole page is awkwardly clustered into the left half of my screen. Sorry to start you off with a bug report, your product solves a very real problem.
I don't think it's mean to be useful; just male nerds bonding over their (presumed) shared sexuality.
I did not wake up this morning expecting to see programming language slashfic on HN (or at all, actually).

Forgot about rule 34 then?
Can you PLEASE verify username before submit. 4 or 5 submits and re-entering captcha each time to get one that worked!
The following paper may be of interest, it takes this idea considerably further:

"Specifically, we demonstrate a technique for automatically producing English Shellcode, transforming arbitrary shell- code into a representation that is superficially similar to English prose."

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~sam/ccs243-mason.pdf
If you fail as an entrepreneur, your debts are wiped. Either because the investors pay them back or you declare bankruptcy. There is no escape from student loans, even if you declare bankruptcy you are still required to pay them back.

So it's quite different than what happens to entrepreneurs, they can fail and comeback several times, tabula rasa. Someone saddled with student debt is forced to live with that choice until they pay it off or they die.
Sadly true. As pleasant as brick-and-mortar retail bookstores can be (and I've never said this about a Barnes & Noble), their space constraints force their inventories toward lowest common denominator titles -- meaning NYT bestsellers, Oprah Winfrey selections, and self-help books. Internet retailers have the so-called long tail sewn up.

Another indicator of retail inventory shortcomings is the "special order" process. It's been several years since I've special ordered a book from a brick-and-mortar retailer, but it generally involved a two-week wait, and you were often requested to examine the book on the spot without leaving the cash register area. If the big bookstore chains have removed the friction from this process, I don't know about it.

In fact, it seems that Barnes & Noble and Borders have responded to Amazon's inventory advantage by actually gutting their selection further and dedicating more space to tchotchkes like Michael Bublé CDs and chocolate truffles. A shame.
Sounds to me like you are strongly affected by coffee. It can't be good to be so dependent on anything.

Maybe you should try giving it up more slowly in the future. Reduce in-take gradually.
I wonder if this will open a market for "update guaranteed" Android phones. It's sorely needed, in my opinion. While updating older phones might lower the value of newer ones, if a company promises (and delivers) timely updates to their phones, it lowers the other company's phones' values in comparison.
In 30 words or less, what does the site do? Does it solve a problem?
Video chart: Watch China’s fertility rate fall off a cliff.
Evolution of a dashboard design
You forgot:

Spencer Johnson, Who moved my VC?
I have very fond memories of that first store in Ann Arbor. Perhaps it is too bad that the Borders brothers sold and did not keep pushing their vision as they expanded.
No need to say sorry, thanks a lot for the feedback!
We haved tested the site on Firefox 3.6 for Mac, Chrome and Safari. Unfortunately there goes the cross-browser-madness again because it's different on all systems.

You can try it out without registering if the main input field works, it's got lazy registration :)
Ask HN: Review my startup http://apps.Facebook.com/socialgenie/splash.aspx
Social Genie (http://apps.facebook.com/socialgenie/splash.aspx) is a Facebook App that lets you create a wish and share it with your social graph. You friends can make contributions through PayPal.<p>Competitors: FundRazr
plus points: Let you track all of your friends wishes along with contributions made and comments.
Challenges: Making the PayPal community on facebook aware of the app. It is much easire for an existing PayPal user to create a wish than for a new user to create a PayPal account first before creating a wish.<p>Any feedback would be appreciated.<p>Thanks
Scientists create a kind of Red Blood Cell 2.0
How to build a mobile startup - no experience required
To be fair the boilerplate does catch the usual beginners mistakes: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4272816/using-dumper-not-...
I think the main reason is that he sells books about how to be successful, but his only success is in selling those books. It's a scam. And the 'advice' is ridiculous.

Most 'self help gurus' just prey on the stupid.
I for one welcome our new Helvetica overlords.
I make no qualitative judgement. I only state that the article says there is a plugin available and posit that it is an interesting development that Microsoft is putting resources into a competing browser.

The details of the implementation are interesting and concerning; however, your judgement of "people like me" is not germane, nor is it based upon any information in this context.
Much Thanks, especially from my eyes. PG's CSS coder needs to use something bigger than 10px!
That would be so much nicer if you were to use Zenburn for the dark color scheme. http://slinky.imukuppi.org/zenburn/
Has Sony Ericsson Learned Their Lesson
Moves off the site faster at the expense of not having an easy path back to the comments page. And unless you do a quick "description in the first post" I like the extra HN-tailored info that we get in the description, rather than a blind link to something.
It's not quite true that having a couple key players on the bench in the middle of the game does not have a direct affect on the game. There are a few key things at play; one, the non key players might thrive during the middle of the game because there is less pressure on them to perform so they might score more than they would at the end of the game. Two, the defense during the middle of the game is not as intense as near the end where the stakes are higher. Three, the clutch players will probably sore more during the last moments of the game where there is more pressure for the win because they have years of experience at the end and generally do not fear the clutch shots.
Your comment is insightful, and I agree with it generally.

On the other hand, I literally worked for a company called Book People, and let me tell you, you don't necessarily want "book people" running a business.
Ah, wasn't seeing any ads (disabled AdBlock, and I still don't).
LOOLL! such a laugh!! Tnx
I for one can't wait for the George Lucas-David Fincher production about how one J. Binks "allegedly" stole that guys idea.
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales: App stores a clear and present danger
The article links on the right are scrolling down too fast. A couple of times by the time I read the headline, and was ready to click, the article was gone. I didn't see an obvious way either to go back to something that just went way.

You could add a freeze button, or a scrollbar to see more history.
This is a pretty poor rebuttal to what was actually a fairly well written (like it's opinion or not) article by Ars. Ars fairly clearly delineated the difference between "open standards" and "open/free to use" and this one mixes them up continuously

This statement "Indeed, most sites offer different bandwidth options and video sizes. They are already converting the video!" shows a pretty clear lack of understanding on how most site's encoding processes work (you generally encode once at different bitrates, not once at one and others as you need them)
Also posted 8 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2069672), 7 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073845), around seven hours ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2099369) and a bit over an hour ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2100038). All of those posts are dead, for some reason, along with most of the recent comments by "fluin," the account which posted them (except for the one seven hours ago, which was posted by "MoForce," the user posting this thread). Times are, of course, relative to when I'm posting this.
So Your iPhone Exploded? don't take it out in winter.
All these years later, I still get nightmares in which I'm stuck in King's Quest III and trying to walk that damned narrow path around the mountain.
When Borders came to Singapore, it became the bookstore with probably the best selection of books in stock. It easily became my favorite place to browse and buy books. Two recent incidents stood out which made me realized that Borders was in trouble before I became aware about all the news of it really being in trouble.

They replaced their information counter with a computerized system that failed miserably in helping me locate a book I wanted. The book in question was Carlos Ruiz Zafón's 'The Angel's Game'. My friend had shared about the book over dinner and some of us had decided to get a copy. We went down, searched for it using the computerized system, was informed that the book was available (at least that's what the system seem to be saying). It could not be found anywhere on the shelves (where the system said it was supposed to be); more importantly, none of the staff could help us. In short, the new information counter was useless.

In the early days, the information counter was run by people who knew and loved books. The proof of that was:
1. They could always help locate the book physically.
2. If the book wasn't in stock, they would also be spot on in recommending a similar book that would interest me. It was the second point that got me buying a couple of extra books.

The lost of knowledgeable counter staff in hindsight was indicative of a culture shift in Borders from that of being a place where people passionate about books gathered to a place where shit got sold and it just so happened to be books.

The second incident was noticing that valuable store space was being used to sell toys and kitchenware. Yes, kitchenware in a bookstore.

In the end, I got 'The Angel's Game' and Carlos Ruiz Zafon's 'The Shadow of The Wind' at a local store http://www.booksactually.com/. I recommend this store to anyone who love books and is in Singapore. Clear showcase of how domain knowledge and intimate customer relations can help a local institution compete against the scale and supposedly lower prices of steam rolling multinational companies.
'Most common programming paradigm' it might be, but people's exposure to it will vary by domain.

Would you say that someone who has been coding embedded systems for 30 years in assembly and minimalist C is a bad programmer just because they've never done OO? Despite the fact that for what they're doing it might be a bad choice, and they've specialised into an area that is vastly different from what you might expect as the norm?
Visualizing Google's 100GB bigram data
I wouldn't even care to write to him in the first place. Whatever he claims, no one listens.
I would explain a bit better what it does and that it's targeted to advertisers and not publishers.

Maybe I'm retarded, but to me, it's not too clear that what it does is "helps you to track communication with webmasters to put ad campaigns on their sites".

Also, why don't you create a bookmarklet which shows a small popup (like instapaper or pinboard.in) for non firefox users and people who don't like installing bars? Shouldn't take much effort and it will lower a bit the barrier of entry.
Report this incident to Facebook along with the note for friend request and move on.
Nice to see some worthwhile work being done here - I'll be sure to keep my eyes out for your upcoming services!
> Your email probably can't provide answers every hour, but a vibrant support community will.

Perhaps, but if you have a service aimed at a relatively small number of high-value customers rather than trying to reach millions each paying peanuts, how likely is it that you will be able to develop such a support community?
Every time he learns something is awkward or unattractive, he adds it to his meaning of the word "dork." Then he notices that "dork" is an effective cue for everything he has learned about awkwardness and unattractiveness, and he concludes that everything he has learned is implicit in the shared meaning of the word "dork." Actually it's just part of his meaning of the word, so his use of the word communicates a lot less than he thinks it does.

This phenomenon is responsible for most of the mystical BS surrounding traditional martial arts training, leadership training, any kind of training where people venerate inane or vague pronouncements because of the authority of the teacher. The teacher says cryptic things to you and makes you work your ass off, and eventually (through your hard work) you learn enough to figure out what he means by his vague aphorisms. Or maybe you don't, maybe you conceptualize things entirely differently, but it doesn't matter because his language is so vague you can attribute your meaning to his words.
Licorize does something similar.

I don't see anything new.

PS: I'm bitten by the type of services you note above, my "brain" is stored locally on my browser backed up by myself, I'm fine with what I have..
If the 500 000 visits / day number is true, Chatroulette still has pretty big user base. they can "restart" from there
"am very sowi"
I think we have a new meme here.
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In 30 words or less, what does the site do?
The site works in conjunction with a Firefox toolbar to save the details of websites you want to contact later on.

Does it solve a problem?
Absolutely, yes! There are plenty of people I know using an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of potential contacts and for their marketing campaigns.
Fair enough. Have any advice on improving my next post?
Great, just what Perl needs: more FUD about Perl. /sarcasm

There are different measures of greatness. Using exclusively the most modern Perl idioms is one measure. Another measure is getting shit done. Another is writing code that can be read by the average Perl programmer.

IMHO the second two of those are way more important than the first one [edit: note I did not claim that any of them are mutually exclusive]. The author of the blog post is pushing a good agenda (promoting modern Perl) but doing so with tactics that end up adding more harmful FUD to Perl's already shaky reputation.
I always enjoy spending time at borders for the coffee and the chance to browse books that I wouldn't think to pull up on Amazon. One thing that I that really annoys me is that sometimes I'm comfortable, I am deep in thought and then one of the workers is near by and their radio starts to crackle. Usually they are being asked to come to the front of the store or check the availability of an item. I know they need the radios to do their job but it really destroys the ambiance. After they go through all that trouble with the lighting and the decor to create a space where you can disappear into a book why don't they invest in some bluetooth headsets or something to communicate with their employees? I'm not sure if it is Borders but some stores also buzz messages over the PA systems and I think why??
you are right. speed is my main focus right now.

I am introducing sprites everywhere, and implementing a lot of optimization tricks.
I've got the feeling that this kid haven't fully realized what he's got on his hands, pity it'll be too late when he does.
I'm tired of the NoSQL buzz, and bring you SlouchDB
Book on Parallel Programming
Lieberman's bold solution to prevent the next Cablegate: role-based ACLs
Because if you dig into biographies of these self-promotional gurus, you'll see that they only succeeded in writing books about success. They are just frauds.
I have a serious book habit, and Borders used to be my go-to bookstore in the US. Or was it the Barnes and Noble. Well, you know, one with a B in it at any rate.

In over a decade of patronage, I cannot recall ever having a single successful conversation with a staff member (other than "These books, please.")

The bookstore receiving 50% of retail price for providing fungible copies of books, bitwise identical to those offered by all other bookstores, without even a scintilla of value-add, has struck me as something in urgent need of radical corrective capitalism.

By comparison, Amazon recommendations are routinely as good as my sister's, their customer service has been top-notch, their prices are cheaper, and the Kindle has transformed my experience with the medium and quintupled my consumption. I am in no danger of confusing Amazon with another shop that starts with A.
I see business cards as a marketing tool, not a way to share contact information, so my immediate response was 'not for me'.

The video addressed this concern ("compatible with real business cards") which is the sign of a well thought out marketing video.
Been out of school for a while, but based on the new hires coming through the door I wish they would spend some time on software process: how to use source code control (including branching and merging), how to approach designs in the context of a system with cooperating programs so that compatibility is maintained without big-bang releases of multiple programs, proper use of bug/feature request tracking systems, why it is important to have consistent coding styles, how to read and modify code that was written by others (and how to write your code to make it easy to modify), how to work with other programmers on a team. These are nuts and bolts issues of the practice of writing software, but everybody seems doomed to come out of school and make the same mistakes unless they start in an environment with a good remedial training program to fix these deficiencies.
Thanks, you've made me realise I really need to work on my wording :)

It's not targeted at advertisers per se. For example, I've been contacting bloggers about reviewing another web app that I run, and I've been finding it a real pain to keep track of the various websites. I know one guy who uses an Excel spreadsheet to track websites he's contacted about purchasing outright, and I think this could be useful for him as well.

So really - I guess I need to get some use cases on the site, right? :)