skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking about it, my mom is actually extremely savvy.

One of the first people on Amazon (the free swag and shipping era), one of the first people using Google (got an email response from Sergei when she complained about an inappropriate search result), doesn't like Facebook, is into blogs, podcasts and web radio. So she probably doesn't click through the ads displayed on HuffPo unless it is something that she wants (in fact, I think she uses Adblock).

That said, she is fiercely loyal to companies that she sees as supporting her ideals. So if she does need something, and a product that has that functionality advertises on one of her media... she will get that product over another (perhaps better known or cheaper) product.

This actually contradicts the implication of my above post; that my mom reads it, therefore it must appeal to the masses.
The truth is, my mom likes it, and she is an excellent market indicator.
This is kind of frustrating. Been waiting patiently for registration and now that its open Ive been unable to complete the form successfully due to timeouts/503s etc. And now Im hearing its sold out as well? I hope that maybe a non-web registration channel is opened to take sign ups that the site wasnt able to accomodate.
Thanks for your interest in Google I/O, but ... is now sold out.
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While most people disagrees but my experience was different. I used to work with a US firm years ago and my hourly rate was $12 however our company charged $80 to $120/hr to our clients. This is how offshore companies operates...
Well, maybe ESR is free... =)
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I might be more interested in signing up for a beta if I knew what the site did. Presumably something to do with hashtags, but that's about all I could figure out.
also, student option seems to be gone already for 'attendee type'
The BBC has a very permissive attitude to it's IP back catalogue as long as it isn't stuff they're currently trying to sell. See http://www.youtube.com/user/trippynet - this has been there for years, untouched. There are many other examples, try this for spoken word radio comedy: http://www.temples.me.uk/harry/read.php

This is the advantage of being a taxpayer-funded player in the media business, they simply do not have to care about monetizing their content if they don't feel like it. It is already paid for before it's made. They have been operating an unofficial policy of allowing pirates to act as a distribution network for years. This will probably change when they launch the paid iPlayer overseas.

It is also the reason why murdoch and by extension the murdoch press attack the BBC constantly. They see it as unfair, and it is, but it isn't about being fair to the murdoch empire. It's about getting a good deal on good TV for the british people.
If that's the case, then this really blows.

I've been waiting since they announced the dates for io2011 last year. I booked the week off work, I purchased tickets to get there, and sat here this morning ready to purchase my $450 ticket. 503 every fucking minute. GOOGLE FIX YOUR SHIT. Sorry, i'm raging right now.
This guy should work on ending their practice of storing passwords in plain text.
Speaking of chrome, I wish you wouldn't resize my entire browser window when I open your image link in a new tab.

On a separate note, I hate the Windows phone examples he gave. My phone is a communication device - I expect that no matter what I'm doing in the OS, the clock, battery indicator, and my connection status ought to be visible.
I'm getting the "sold out" message to although their twitter feed doesn't really reflect that; I'm hoping it's just a glitch with their service.
I don't believe this was OT, the poster made it clear how it related to the article; that the BBC has an obligation to their funders (the British taxpayers.)
I really like this idea so I was going to give you an up vote, but I guess you don't care? Haha
very cool. for those interested, a similar plugin is jquery quicksand http://razorjack.net/quicksand
They could also pull a Windows 7, which has the underlying version number 6.1, and decouple the real version number from the marketing version number: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/200...
Thanks for the info.
1 is a great idea and I'll definitely incorporate it.
2. I need to learn more about sparsebundles, the default mac file enumerator trips up on certain files.
3. Weird, no idea about that.
4. The empty space between should be ~/Movies/ but I just realized I don't actually verify if the user has that folder, I just assume they do. I'll add that to the 1.1 before it gets uploaded to Apple.

Thank you very much for the feedback.
complete bs. i expect a lot more from google.
Show HN: Comfortable Mexican Sofa - CMS for your Rails 3 apps.
URL: https://github.com/twg/comfortable-mexican-sofa

A CMS created by one of the developers in The Working Group, the company that I work for. Will be happy to pass along any questions or comments you guys may have, and hopefully have him answer some questions himself too!
Aside (but from the article): Were "Java applets" ever actually the "'big thing' on the Internet"? I've been interwebbing since '93 and I can remember Java applets every being prevalent.
It seems like so many of the other articles about 37 signals go roughly "37S wrote this blog post that proves that they listen to no one other than themselves and are in the process of shooting themselves in the foot," so in that sense, it is worthwhile to HN to see that do have people who are listening to customers / drawing inference from data / &c.
Clickable: https://github.com/twg/comfortable-mexican-sofa
i read this entire book outloud to my girlfriend in college. we loved it.
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Ask HN: Does YC have a "lowest age limit"?
Does YC have a "lowest age limit"? If so, where does the boundary stand? What age is the youngest YC founder to date?

Any info would be really helpful, thanks!
Customer feedback is essential in the online world. Poplytics helps you collect feedback on your project. It works like kissinsights without the the annoying pop-up panel and pricing. It is free for now using the access code: samxbeta.

Pls give me feedback.
It's not about holding the information, it's about serving it. The BBC makes a whole lot of websites, for when they mention stuff in dramas (Think Bad Wolf in first series of Doctor Who). They will hold all the information they ever made, offline, just like all the TV they can keep, they do.

What they should do is make sure the Internet Archive has it all. And then stop hosting it, stop paying for the domains.

These websites are only mentioned in dramas, they are pretty much useless after a few weeks. If you're watching first series Dr Who and want to see the sites, you can live with using the Internet Archive (Wayback machine).
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The enemy here is an abuse of skeuomorphic[1] design principles. The Reason and iBook examples are the most blatant abuses of this technique.

Buttons are a good example of skeuomorphic done right. In real life, if something's supposed to be turned, I expect it to be a knob. If something's going to be pulled, I expect there to be a handle. Since you're expected to click or tap buttons, it they should obviously look like buttons.

I think that Apple's decision to continue buttonizing touch UI was probably wise in the beginning, but seeing Windows Phone 7's all flat everything approach feels really fresh. Why don't they chrome up their touchable objects? Because its a _touch screen_ and the only thing you can POSSIBLY do is _touch_ them. The context is I took out my device to do something with it, I expect to be touching things.

So while buttons may still need to be buttons on the desktop, I'm happy to see chrome fade away in touch UIs.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
Sounds good. However I don't have enough karma to change it..

Maybe hide karma option would be better? At the moment, my screen is quite bright [1], and I can easily see the score of your screenshot.

[1] Usually, I have brighntess set significantly lower than almost of all my friends, but for some reasons I've increased it - so I think on average person's screen the score would be visible too.
Confirmed, Chrome on Windows Vista.

Excellent application by the way-- if you can fix this, and it's easy to implement, I'd make this my suggested preference over PDF for companies with newsletters etc, doubly so if you can get a metrics engine tied in so we can see what's interesting to the user.
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More discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189121
The are and they aren't. General updates still take 15 days to review. The only fastracking is if they reject it for an easily fixable problem. I'm submitting 1.1 at the end of today depending on any extra bug reports that come in that I'm not aware of.
Looks Good! Was looking for a competitor a while back. Signed up. wld give you feedback!
I hate to make such a banal comment, but when I see things like this I cannot wait to redesign my website and use this ultra-cool technologies. After programming for 25 years I am grateful to this plugin and the developer(s) for the excitement that playing with the demo just gave me. Buried under all those years of coding standards this rekindled some of the feelings from the kid in me that would eagerly look forward to the next issue of E.T.I. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics_Today_International....
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$37 is a joke

Indeed. It's such a frictionless purchase that he'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
A pretty decently-sized chunk of the dev team reads HN, I think it was only a matter of time. :)
Technically no, but IANAL and pg & co might say x age is too young, finish school, we are not Peter Thiel, etc.

Youngest founder to date is Gross from Greplin (last winter YC cycle I believe).
It never ceases to amaze me how often technical people in general and computer programmers in particular read this book and can't see the point, which is that your values can't be deduced by logic.
Do you happen to know what process they use to verify an address?
Counterexample: I doubt the current implementation of pagerank+additions at Google is all that simple.
The plan is most certainly to make Gecko updates on a 3-month cycle. That means new features, bugfixes, etc.
Warning: Torrent for leaked emails is 4.7 GB.
I think you're misreading that: 37Signals own products are developed with extensive use of Campfire/Basecamp, and while watching that conversation their own workers will say things like "I wonder if customers who pay us more money are less likely to send in support requests", and this is a question answerable with data, so yay for the data guy.
Ten more tables for worthy startups at the LAUNCH Conference 
giving away another ten startup tables for pure startups (think little or no funding) who are:

a) looking for angel funding
and/or
b) looking for press
and/or
c) looking for partners and team members

These tables retail for $1,500... so, the total value of this is $15,000 (in addition to the 10 we selected on the now dead HN thread for 10 tables!).

good luck!
That's a lot of hard work to substitute for the 'strikethru' tag :)
I don't think you're reading the book very well, to be honest. I'm a bit of a Nietzsche fan and I think you'll find that he praises the Jews in various parts of the book.

He despised anti-semitism as well as the formative groups that led to national socialism.

To focus on one example he made like that is very bad form.

His commentary on the brutality of societies relatively to how secure they feel was particularly brilliant. Applicable today especially when you contrast European democratic socialism and their criminal justice systems versus the US and other parts of the world.

And yet all you can extract out of his writing is that you believe he was some kind of provocateur?

This makes me genuinely sad. I'd expect a deeper and more thorough reading of my favorite author and philosopher out of HN.

I hope you'll review Genealogy or consider reading Beyond Good & Evil.
The editorial hinted at an answer...

"The American wealthy benefit greatly from the country’s legal system and business transparency, not to mention its armed forces."

I guess you'd agree or disagree to the extent that you believe the US military, government, and courts are required to maintain a safe, stable world where trade can take place unabated enough to allow the rise of a global elite. It's not just the US, of course - you could also ask if the haven of Monaco could survive without the military strength of nearby european powers.
Wow, that is spectacularly obnoxious. Apparently I forgot to disable that in firefox after I updated to windows 7...
Same here. Loved the idea though!
I sincerely hope everything turns out ok buddy. Take care, and remember, your health should always be your top priority.
Have you tried using the tags in LessAccounting? They should allow you to do exactly what you want.
I have ~/Movies, but it is empty! Maybe that is part of the issue.
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"There are more android handsets than iphones nowadays."

Do you have source for that?
I should have clarified; the first computer I used was a Tandy 1000 (8088 / 4.7MHz). This is the first one where I got to go to the computer store with my parents and "help them" decide :)

(Incidentally, I started crying when the computer salesman dude said we would have to wait until Monday to get the computer. It was Saturday.)
>adolescent

Pointing out the hypocrisy and self-consuming nature of the greater moral system underlying western religion is scarcely adolescent and even in his day that took a good deal of courage to speak out like that.

He was provocative, but not for its own sake.
Previous discussion on HN concerning the same slides (minus the guys comments): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2106553

tldr: start small, don't set bullshit goals, it acually is hard. much harder than you think
First of all, you'll notice that I said "when I got to the bit about," not "This is my final view of Nietzsche."

Secondly, I didn't say that it was "all [I] can extract out of his writing," either.
I agree, chromeless is nice. But I love Reason. I really enjoy being able to immediately introspect into the signal path, something which can be much more vague in other music apps. Ordering, layering, and combining effects are common practices in sound engineering/recording/performing to achieve different sounds. Being able to explicitly define the path in the chrome is actually quite handy.

Chrome can be a good thing. Really.
I finally got through and registered. I got the "sold out" message but kept on refreshing; it finally let me register. I wouldn't give up hope
They're living exactly as nature intended them to. Aren't animals best off in their natural environments? You obviously don't know how 'contact' works out. They would likely become alcoholic slum-dwellers, but hey, they have TV!

Your attitude is the same as China's regarding Tibet.
"Save Tibet!"
"Why?"
"The Chinese are destroying their culture and way of life by modernizing them! Forcing them to go to school, learn Chinese and math and business and stuff, to get jobs..."

Oh wait...
Well, that's sort of the point.

psedo-qq/ Quality is that which is good, but if you try to put your finger on it, it sort of squishes out and you end up with empty platitudes and tautologies. / (my apologies, it's been 10 years since I've read it, and my copy isn't here)

He goes into it in the class, teaching it but refusing to define it, and one level higher, does it with the book.
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The RMS approach is a good point, and the OP's argument may have been served up as "worse-case scenarios," but notwithstanding the logic in the article, I'm pretty sure it's a consensus rule-of-thumb that employees generally cost 2x their nominal wage (benes, taxes, etc).
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I think the more common reaction is the other way around. The book was revelatory when I read it (as a young teen), but when I returned to it years later, after studying philosophy, I was surprised by how shallow it really was.

I think that books like this are life-changing if and only if they connect with you at the right time. Put another way, the number of life-changing books one reads tapers off quite quickly after, say, 30.
Wouldn't you have to be 18 to enter into a contract with YC?
Okay thanks. If you don't mind me asking, what age do you believe x to be?
The registration form was still live when I just clicked on it.
People tend to extract and reference what stuck with them most about a particular work unless they're a scholar in the material.

The accusations of anti-semitism against Nietzsche are rampant and my attempts to play whack-a-mole with them really have nothing to do with your inability to couch your statements.

If you don't want that kind of response in future, clarify yourself. I have enough work to do that I shouldn't have to keep adding a N.B. to half-baked readings of core western philosophy.
Also, the upvote is a good way to bookmark something to read later (ie. upvote => saved stories). That has to account for some of it.
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Erm, there's another difference too: atheletes and celebrities do not have their money tied to power; bankers do. When was the last time celebrities and atheletes tried to get their friends into positions of power?
Hi ecaron,

I lead the add-ons team at Mozilla. Add-on compatibility was definitely a big consideration in our plans to switch to a faster release cycle, and we're working on proposing some changes to the way it works. As you mention, the current way of doing things won't work 4 times a year.

These changes will probably include automatic compatibility with certain major versions. We'll have more to share soon on the add-ons blog.
That is something I have tried, but no I don't have time for that. I catch a college bus with 1 and half hour ride (one way) at 8am and usually hack till 2am so I cannot just wake up at 6:30 to do some running even for half an hour. I come back at 6pm so that does not leave much room either.

Actually that is the whole problem, I don't have time for doing something offline.
As mentioned in the FAQ, there are 50 free API requests per month for every registered user. I updated the FAQ answer a little bit, but feel free to contact if anything remains unclear.
Kindle DX - 24cm diagonal $379

Noteslate - 33cm diagonal $99

I will buy one just for reading PDF. But like a few other commenters, I seriously doubt this is a real product though.
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These programs have been around for years. Spacemonger for Windows (http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/), Disk Inventory X for OS X (http://www.derlien.com/), and a particularly groovy one for Linux with a 3D treemap circa 2001 (http://fsv.sourceforge.net/screenshots/).
I didn't think of that. The age of majority over here in the UK is only 16, I never thought to check if the US age was higher.
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thanks. if you have specific questions about how VC works make sure to ping me. I'll cover on This Week in VC.
If it's that important, you probably shouldn't be trusting a third party at their word.
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Aha, I did not see that. Thanks for pointing out.

I liked and appreciate MenTaLguY's commentary anyways.
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Google algorithm updates don't appear to be filtering feeder sites ...?
We, MarketingProfs, are a major online publisher of how-to marketing information, and our content is highly scraped and/or pulled from our excerpt based RSS feeds. The feeder sites are outranking us in all searches for our content, and our content is often omitted from results as duplicate. The most recent Google Algorithm updates were made to address this type of problem, however, I have seen no changes to SERPs for our content. The top listings are all sites that scrape or post excerpts of our content. We used to be very well listed, but recent algorithm updates appear to have really impacted our rankings, or we've been penalized for something (wild guess). This is very similar to the problem experienced at StackOverflow, but they were able to resolve this by working with Matt Cutts to address. I've posted a couple times on Matts blog, in response to the recent algo update a couple weeks ago, but my comments are not being approved, "Awaiting moderation..".

For example, I commented: "It would be great if this algo change filtered out the sites copying content, but I have yet to see any changes to results. For example, this is a search for a specific line in one of our articles (http://goo.gl/2TP3a), however all the sites that have either pulled an excerpt from our feed, or scraped the content, dominate the results, and we are last result on page 2."

Almost all our content/pages have experienced this type of ranking drop, superseded by feeder sites with little to no original content, and I've been unable to identify the cause. In any case, I'm just putting this out here to see if anyone else has similar trouble. Thanks!
PJ -

Would you mind dropping me a line? I am very interested in the idea, and would like to contribute. My contact information is on my user page.
The whole reason the UAW is broke is that in the 60s the rich promised the workers future money they didn't have so that they could take more money out of the company. How exactly is that an example of the rich losing money?
Yes, and when you submit it the response message is that they're sold out. I wish they'd simply post a SOLD OUT page instead, to spare would-be attendees that little humiliation.
Hopeless: can you suggest a good windows viewer?
Dwarf Fortress. By far the most complex game I've ever played, and yet the interface was simple.

The dozen-items menu you see on screen is just a block of text telling you the hotkeys. Nothing to click, push or drag, no focus to worry about, you just pressed keys away.

And once you memorize enough of them, you can just hide the big block of text and go completely UI-free.

No wasted space, no button hunting or "I didn't know you could right-click". Just you, the game, and the keyboard to translate your thoughts.

I wish it was possible to implement this in every software.
I suspect Gawker isn't interested in being bought.
A lot might have happened since 2002. People with digital cameras take a lot of pictures, for example. YouTube is booming. Lot's of devices generate automatic data feeds, for example location tracking from mobile phones, clickstreams on the internet.

The number might still have been made up, but let's not forget that Schmidt might have some sources of information no available to the public, for example the server stats from Google and YouTube.
Chrome should be all about making an application interface more intuitive to users. A completely reductionist UI would be just having hotkeys, like vim, but that makes it a lot harder for a new user to get started. I think the key is to strike the right balance so that as users gain experience, the Chrome doesn't hold them back.
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I run Hackers and Founders, SV, and we're getting together with the organizers of the other HN/Startup meetups in the area (the New Tech's, Founder Dating, 106 miles, H&F SV, etc..), and one of the main topics of conversation is going to be how much meetup.com sucks for our groups.

H&F as well as SV NewTech are building their own software to try and fix these problems, but it's going to be a bit of a pain in the ass. Especially, since they don't let us have access to our email lists.