skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow... this is the absolute worst website I've ever seen. I love the spoken "WAIT!" sound they play for absolutely no reason. Yeah, that's the way to get conversions.

Please HNers, have higher standards when launching your own sites. There's many ways to make a quick buck online, but don't stoop to this level. Long term, I don't think its sustainable.
Why did you choose to divide the image into lines? Wouldn't one long line (or tall column) make the code a bit simpler?
Typical Facebook. Push out a major privacy flaw, then back-tread and play damage control.
I thought Firefox was supported through AdSense at least in part? The default home-page for a fresh install is a customized Google search. If you click on an ad after your search, Mozilla gets a cut.
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To be fair, Facebook isn't the only ad network filled with dodgy ads. Matt Cutts wouldn't have to look far to find other similar "scams".
Just FYI. This website has been in business for a couple of years now and makes good revenue.

As I said in my other comment, such websites may not look "pretty" but they hook their intended audience well.

I think there is a good lesson here. Don't design for yourself. Design for your users.
"It is NOT the charlatan 'philosophy' of mysticism, positivism, relativism, perspectivism, nihilism and altruism of Plato, Marx, Imannuel Kant, Kierkegaard, Hegel and so many others whose theories have tragically played out in human history ..."

To the author : you could learn a thing or too about structured thought and clear exposition from these people.
I too didn't understand the purpose...

Also: Are you supposed to be able to drag&drop pictures from other tabs to this tool? Didn't work for me, but "Chhose File..." worked fine.
Trust Matt Cutts to find this and comment on it. :)

I wonder if he would have said anything if it was the switching default search provider to Google.
They're not confined to a single tab for me. It seems like child tabs go in the parent process, for example, so I usually get 2-5 tabs crashing at once.

I also get more crashes with Chrome than I used to get with Firefox, but maybe I'm just opening more tabs.
If He Can Do It So Can You
There's plenty of space in the Brisbane river valley for more Dams. One was planned about 15 years back, the land was purchased and it was ready to go. One political group campaigned on having it scrapped so the land was sold off.

The largest Dam servicing Brisbane has a total capacity of 220% - that being 100% is the 'normal' water storage level, the rest is for flood mitigation. So the Dam can temporarily hold more than double its usual capacity. Elsewhere in this topic you'll see people discussing whether that flood mitigation capacity was used correctly, and only time and investigation will tell. I would assume any new Dams planned would also incorporate a flood mitigation feature, particularly after this last flood.

The population density outside of Brisbane drops very low, very quickly. It's nothing like the Netherlands. Australia has one of the lowest population densities in the world, whereas I think the Netherlands has one of the highest.
If growing, profitable companies in large markets raising capital means a bubble, may it grow ever more bubbly.

Two things:
1. Some people will profit in a bubble.
2. That things aren't as stupid as 1999 doesn't mean this isn't one.
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Quite a bit. Ben Huh is worth many millions, and that's from merchandizing and advertising, not raising capital. It's a very profitable business, considering it's just 3 year old 4chan memes, and a bunch of newer ones that are nowhere near funny.
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There's no good lesson here. I suspect you can scam people out of their money with all sorts of tactics. That doesn't mean its worth doing.
> 120m- (400ft-) tall mesh towers and a series of interconnected plastic bubbles that can be used to display images and data.

Ewwwww. Whatever it's used for at first, I bet that within a year of construction "images and data" will mean "advertisements, advertisements, and perhaps also more advertisements". Unless they're going to build this thing for the Olympics and then tear it down again, which seems rather a waste.

"I think that I shall never see / A billboard lovely as a tree. / Perhaps unless the billboards fall / I'll never see a tree at all." -- Ogden Nash. It's bad enough doing this to the trees. Let's leave the sun, moon, stars and (real) clouds out of it, please.
too bad the article is wrong... zugo has nothing to do with it. they just give you a binary and for each install you get money. the owner of the page that installs the toolbar is the bad guy.

saw that comment from "Guest"? bullseye!
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see the comment under the article.
ReST does support comments.
no. its the sort of tool i would use once or twice. I would only pay for a chrome app if it was something that provided value day in day out.
Do you want a turtle to call you on the phone and have a nice conversation
it only costs not much and also the turtle will pretend to be don cheadle for an extra dollar
I'm curious why you think it is a scam? Is it just the design?
Someone probably said that in 74 as well
I don't think that matters for his point: valuating business solely by the domain/number of views/visitors reeks eerily of the previous .com bubble.
Angry Birds stretches its wings and swoops in on the board game market
I signed up with some tweet backup service a while ago. Unfortunately I forgot which one it was :-(
I'm a user/dabbler of OSQA, and the project is very nice. However, IMO there are several things holding the project back from greater community involvement:

1) the lack of an official GIT backed repo.
2) the current state of tickets (who's working on what, and how) is very messy. Its managed through Jira, and its just hard to see where things stand.
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When your mother has spiders in her womb you have a right to be scared.
Seems really weird that facebook would allow this type of ad. I know, "money is money", however with too many scammy advertisements, eventually people will lose trust in all ads and the overall click through rates will drop. You would think Facebook would want to have some controls over this to avoid devaluing their main source of revenue.
I believe people here know better, but that should be the advice to anyone who uses Facebook.
Sounds like he's using the mystery method of sales.
strange effect, must look into it ... but it looks awesome
i think that was the joke.
Mechanism design is a big topic in microeconomics which covers auction design: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_design

There are a lot ways to generate higher prices. You could look into Intermediate Microeconomics by Hal Varian (chef economist at Google). It is pretty easy to understand
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It has never been a problem in the past.
"... What do you think? Would “developer-driven culture” work at your company? ..."

Hasn't everyone read, "Microsoft Secrets" ~ http://www.amazon.com/MICROSOFT-SECRETS-Powerful-Software-Te...

...because what the author describes is pretty much the MS dev process (cf CH4 Defining products and development processes). Reading JOS, "How to be a program manager" also shows how MS PM's worked in conjunction with developers ~ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/03/09.html MS sure knows/knew a thing or two about organising large groups of people to produce software & output product in a corporate setting.
Six weeks with a standing desk (and why they’re overhyped)
1 company, $1 billion+ of VC investment, 0 products, 0 revenue
I had it as one tall column originally, but it turns out that one particular browser (Firefox, I think it was) refuses to render 44200px-high images.
But for only $29/month you can. How much is your time worth? If the service saves you even an hour per month, surely it is worth it.
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Diskstore and a new b-tree implementation
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Well, one critic I usually hear about singlularity subjects is that "you can't upload your mind into a computer because the emotional/soul/bla aspects of a human being could never be emulated"... which is obviously religious. Yes, it's very very hard but certainly no reason to call it impossible.
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"I'm shocked! Shocked! To find out that drive by downloading is going on in here!"

I guess he was finished finding all the spam on Google so he decided to help FB and Bing out. What nice guys over at Google.

"Interestingly, Google itself was the fifth-biggest advertiser for the same period, as it was looking to market its Chrome web browser."

Perhaps when he's done with that he can let his bosses know that unless you're careful when you install Chrome it sets itself as your default browser.
Internet 'kill switch' could cause chaos, OECD report warns
Tried critsend.com -- the service threw up random errors and didn't really work well for us. In the end, went with SendGrid. Though if you are sending <500 emails a day, using Gmail SMTP servers is the best option.
Actual article is at http://personal.lse.ac.uk/KANAZAWA/pdfs/I2011.pdf.

They used two populations with different measurements of attractiveness and of intelligence, and analysed them separately.

In the first population they got results that suggest on the order of 11-14 IQ points per standard deviation in attractiveness.

In the second, 2 IQ points per standard deviation.

The first population was of children in the UK. Their measure of "attractiveness": the children were assessed at ages 7 and 11, by their teachers, as one of "attractive", "unattractive", "underfed or undernourished", "abnormal feature", and "scruffy or slovenly & dirty". I kid you not. You may, if your own intelligence happens to be reasonable, be able to think of one or two problems with assessing "attractiveness" in this way when you're looking for correlations with intelligence.

(One more detail: attractiveness was treated as a binary variable in Kanazawa's study, with a child being reckoned "attractive" if put into the "attractive" category both at age 7 and at age 11. More than 60% of children were reckoned "attractive" by this criterion. Draw your own conclusions.)

The second population was of US high school pupils. They were reassessed about 7-8 years later, at age 18-28. (How were any of them 28 at that point? I don't know.)

The NY Daily News story says:

> The study indicated attractive men have IQs that are 13.6 points above the average, while beautiful women are 11.4 points higher than average.

which is simply rubbish: those figures are from the first population only (and the second gives much, much weaker results), they concern children of age 7 or 11 and not "men" or "women", and they're really measuring all kinds of things other than attractiveness.
Zugo can certainly take some flack for having a toolbar without an uninstaller, and an FAQ URL that doesn't work. When something becomes purposely difficult to uninstall for end-users it crosses over into malware territory.
Facebook U-turns on phone and address data sharing
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But something changed somewhere. Scrolling used to be a smooth experience. The entire use of NT was exciting and not cloggy. Now it is hell scrolling and very cloggy and even autocomplete of IDs is a torment. What did you guys do over there to the code?
Yeah, imagine hard drive capacity growth being delayed by a few years. But, at least we wouldn't have had to deal with the Deskstar click of death.
"Toward developing new products"... which would be killed because someone else patented something remotely related to them.

I don't imagine playing a game at that level and not use patents so I don't blame IBM.
Who does the real censorship for China?
the drop event of google chrome seems not to support "other tab drop" currently, only drag & drop from the desktop, don't know whats the reason behind it .... difficult to word this in a way so that it does not confuse "not technical experiences" users ... drag'n'drop != drag'n'drop ... thats a difficult sales argument
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I especially love the comment regarding the USPTO as "efficient." As if there is any metric measurable by an outside source that can distinguish between "efficient" and "just grant the damn things."
Yes, I know that. You are taking it too literally, that one little bit. I was simply listing a bunch of updates that techs always ask about having been updated.
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Any numbers or sources?
> Pet rocks, after all, are also cute.

Huh? Not even in the same league with cats... Heck, not even in 10 leagues below cats...
Really? I've come across loads of people who have had the disappearing email problem with hotmail (including myself on a couple of systems), but this is the first time I've heared of anyone having it with Gmail.
UI comments:

- Separate the primary call-to-action from everything else. On your homepage, the bright orange call-to-action is competing for attention. Perhaps things can be rearranged such that the primary call-to-action is in the direct reading path of the user. Also, I strongly recommend de-emphasizing/gray-scaling other links/logos (for example, the green link, "Check out the Sunnytrail dashboard", is the first action I saw).

- Play up the video a bit more. Make the video placeholder smaller, then place it where the "green hills" are now (the hills take up too much space, for very little value added).

- Tighten up your "tag line". What are the revenue metrics? Be specific and concise when presenting the purpose/value of your product. A useful formula: 3-7 (basically, keep it short) words to grab the user, then one supporting sentence below.

I think messaging will be your best advantage here. If you can communicate clearly and concisely exactly what you are doing and how you make it EASY to do, then you may find yourself better off.

PS: to be honest, I actually don't know what I can do with these metrics. I need to be sold.
Yes, and I do sympathize. This stuff isn't like a light switch that you turn on and have the room all lit up despite whatever changes have been made to the backend with the transmission lines and generators, etc. But sometimes we want it to act that way.
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Do you guys also feel like the Github folks always deliver geratly designed web pages?
Emm, he says "There are a lot of reasons to believe we're in another startup bubble [period]" in GENERAL, not that ICHC specifically is an example of that.

In fact, he implies, ICHC is NOT an example of that, since it is profitable.
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Is that a matter of pride or a matter of shame?
The early indicators that I'm seeing from iOS app developers suggests otherwise. "Best Christmas Ever" is not an uncommon descriptor, suggesting major iPod touch purchases, plus.

I know at work we've been seeing a lot more formerly Windows-only households adding Macs this past quarter.
I've recently consulted on a Xero API gig and trust me their API and contributed code is totally awesome, too.
If I might be allowed to plug my own solutions, I wrote a set of plugins for Mantis Bug Tracker that gives it excellent integration with Github:

http://leetcode.net/projects/mantisbt
This is awesome stuff, esp. in regards to epigenetics.

wiki: "In biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of inherited changes in phenotype (appearance) or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence, hence the name epi- (Greek: επί- over, above) -genetics. These changes may remain through cell divisions for the remainder of the cell's life and may also last for multiple generations. However, there is no change in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism;[1] instead, non-genetic factors cause the organism's genes to behave (or "express themselves") differently.[2]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics

A further round of study would be exposure to a spider of female crickets and male crickets before pregnancy, and another would be to see if there are any lasting changes passed in successive generations.
HTML5 Gets an Official Logo from W3C
Or maybe even create an API to pull the services, appointments times, and schedule the appointment.
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So funny to see Zugo around...

They've had offered us to bundle their 'nice' toolbar inside the VLC installer so that every install of VLC would have install this thing...

And they proposed a very high value for each install...
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It sounds very poignant but the real question is what proportion of time spent on Facebook is just playing casual games? If most people are still spending their time posting photos, messaging, commenting, then Facebook does create a lot of value.
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=kettlebell+swing,+kettlebell,...
noticed Gollum supports Pod ~ http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html as a markup language. Didn't know that ruby supported a perl interface so I had a poke around wondering how and via gollum found this in github markup tree ~ https://github.com/github/markup/blob/master/lib/github/mark...

# pod2html is nice enough to generate a
# full-on HTML document for us,
# so we return the favor by ripping out the good parts.
# Any block passed to `command` will be handed
# the command's STDOUT for post processing.
command("/usr/bin/env perl -MPod::Simple::HTML -e Pod::Simple::HTML::go", /pod/) do |rendered|
if rendered =~ /<!-- start doc -->\s*(.+)\s*<!-- end doc -->/mi
$1
end
end
It is finally out. I guess we will be living with that for some time. I do not mean to be grumpy but something with a bit more curves would be more appealing or representative of the new design era.
- Wearable computers

I suspect they are going there.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/18/tiktok-and-lunatik-ipod-n...
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Ahem, accessibility.
Ok, that was much easier than installing Mediawiki!

sudo gem install gollum rdiscount # gollum + markdown support
cd mywiki
git init
gollum

and you're rolling.
Update: That word million doesn't seem right, in order for this company to be the third largest advertiser on Facebook, that's got to be a typo. It's possible that AdAge mistyped
this, that's the simplest explanation. I've asked the reporter for clarification and apologize for not getting it prior. Thanks as always to our eagle eyed commenters.

They are noting in the comments that 1.75 million ad impressions would probably only cost the advertiser a few hundred dollars, which would make it difficult for that to be the third largest advertiser considering advertising brought in a $1.86billion. I don't know anything about the cost of advertising, but do those numbers seem right?
It's a step in the right direction. It's definitely not ideal but 150K is better than 300K.
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Why Steve Jobs won't return to Apple
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I don't know why, but it puts a smile on my face. I guess, the logo shows some confidence previously unassociated with boring standard bodies.
I've just used PostMarkApp on a site, I love their interface, all works great but they only allow 'transactional' emails, which I guess is like 'click here to activate your account', whereas my site was sending out alerts to people (kind of like facebook does, but not as often), which they didn't seem to like too much.

Does sendgrid allow this? I've signed up to SocketLabs which seems to do it but haven't been able to get SMTP sending working correctly yet, haven't spent much time on it though.

For the record, the amount of hassles I've had with SMTP servers these services are very handy, especially for logs etc like postmark has
Maybe it reminds you of Moses from South Park?

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=moses+south+park
> * Added an invokedynamic instruction for faster execution of dynamic languages on the JVM

IMHO, this is worth the upgrade. I only hope it doesn't come with a Larry Ellison action-figure...
iOS market share only growing by 2%? that subjectively feels wrong, and based only on iPhone growth (and it feels too small for that). In June '10, Jobs would have reported on iOS 3-based sales for iPhone, iPod touch, and merely 3 months of U.S. iPad device count.

Fast forward 7 months and you've got iOS 4 devices and iPads worldwide, spurring different sorts of sales at what feel to me like slightly higher price points (I pay a bit more for iPad or Universal apps than iPhone-only apps).
The biggest reasons to do a startup in Canada are SRED claims, , depressed wages (in Vancouver), and enforceable non-competes.

People say Vancouver is the best place to live, but I'd rather live elsewhere, Portland or SF come to mind.
Good question. The motives for various brands will likely be different.

I had Dove in mind specific because it seemed like a good fit. Take a look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U. It summarizes Doves message in a nutshell I think. They might be interested in your thing because it helps position their brand in front of their key audience (which I suspect are young women and your quantcast data shows a major of your audience were also young women) in a way that supports their message without the repulsiveness of commercials or banner ads.

In addition, the social media managers of these brands would love the opportunity to increase engagement with their audience. On a personal level for the managers, it would give them specific metrics they could reference when talking about how their social media efforts are going. On a company-wide level, the more deeply they connect with their customers, the more products they'll sell.

If you did go down the road of talking to brands, I'd position your product as similar to the OldSpice man campaign but a different tact.
Reminds me of Transformers
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The icon for "Device Access" looks very similar to an apple. Does a square apple mean anything? :)
"I've got a feeling that Steve Jobs isn't going to return to Apple. "

Then change the title of your article to "Why Steve Jobs Might Not Return to Apple"
If you happen to be studying at the Aalto University in Helsinki...
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Just saw it last night. Hopefully, it will be fun.