skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt Digg (the company) would bother. They are having more than enough trouble keeping their own ship afloat.

EDIT: then again, I wasn't aware of this: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/kevin-rose-yahoo-contacted-...
I found the statement made by the other side insightful: http://www.girl-geeks.co.uk/statement/Girl%20Geeks%20Stateme... [pdf]

"Just for the record, I have personally sacrificed personal savings and a full time salary for the last few years for this cause Girl Geeks. I certainly did not do any of this for self-promotion or gain and believe in supporting those who need it 100%."

She done a pretty good job of promoting herself in the response.
I've explored various "virtual internships" but was told by every formal internship program that they required a physical office space with full time, on site, supervision.
Sounds pretty awesome Travis - good luck with the project!
As another HN user pointed out, aesthetically it looks great. On that topic, how do you find such talented graphical artists? I've looked at various ads for graphical artists but their quality - compared to the typical YC startup - is mediocre to put it simply. Isn't there a site for the really skilled artists to offer their services?
Downvotes ftw?
The Apple stores (in Canada, at least) have the ability to email receipts to the email address associated with your credit card instead of printing one. By the time I walk out the door my phone buzzes with a copy of my receipt coming into my inbox. I absolutely love this - it also helps that I don't have to save my receipts for warranties since I can instead just run a search for them.

I hope more stores catch onto this model.
Congratulations, you've invented the slippery slope.
Tell HN: Google navigation bar links to your profile
It seems that Google has moved an extra step towards '+1'. They are now showing a 'Profile' link on every page in the dropdown under your name. And there's a new tab on your profile for your PicasaWeb albums.
To save RiderOfGiraffes a few moments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2313351
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Thanks mayank! Sounds like I could do better job with the copy on the home page as you are the second on bringing this up.
On the pricing page, the standard package is darker than the others. Shouldn't this be the most prominent?

See here: https://www.shopify.com/services/signup
An earthquake in Japan: When the earth wobbled
What's with the weird all-caps words in the title? Especially since the linked post also has all-caps words in the title, but different ones than the HN submission.
do you have a stable internet connection? cannot figger out whats exactly the problem. it is working fine with chrome here!
Oh, right, just saw it.
GNOME creator respects proprietary software, can't wait for iPad 2
Freezing temperature is important in daily life. It means roads are very slippery, extra caution when driving. Your house may need certain adjustments when it starts to freeze (careful with those pipes!). Etc. Freezing matters.
The point I'm trying to make is that I don't have a strategy and neither do I want to have a strategy.

Yes, I'm vulnerable. Yes, it exposes all of my flaws, but at least what you see is what you get. At least, when I have a relationship I know it's genuine and based on a solid foundation instead of grounded to pretense under the garb of strategy.

I just don't want to make it complicated as some relationships I deal with anyway. It took me a while to learn this, but it was worth the effort and the pain.

What you just saw was what you got.

Take care.
Thanks a lot for compliment sgt!
It is one man show so I am doing pretty much everything.
I think Dribbble and Forrst and great communities where lots of talented designers hang out. Check them out!
This is what blew my mind when I actually understood what IB was doing in a class. It just made so much sense.
I like the idea of electronic receipts. If you weren't bothered about wasting paper you could print the code on the paper receipt; otherwise, you'd need a dedicated device to transmit the QR code.

I wonder how big the QR code needs to be in order to encode all the information on the receipt; those thermal receipt printers aren't that great. How about an app that uses the phone camera to scan the entire receipt, then reads the text? That way you don't need any dedicated equipment at all.

I've always liked how the Apple store sends me a receipt to my email address. However, I'm not sure I'd like to give my email address to every coffee shop just so they could mail me a PDF.
no worries ;)
I don't know if this is appropriate here, but the Red Cross donation site has been down for awhile (at least, for me). I took the liberty of setting up a WePay group for donations:

https://www.wepay.com/donate/78062

Not sure how to get the word out, but you've gotta start somewhere. :)
that would be great.

Apple can do that because you can register an account online with Apple and they get your info (e-mail) by looking up your credit card?

A general solution would have to work with small businesses that don't have online services, which i assume being the majority out there.
Here's a pretty good overview of the various objects you mentioned: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa/...

Even if you just wrap your head around File's Owner, you're 80% of the way there. Essentially, what it boils down to is this: it's a proxy object that gets set when NSBundle's loadNibNamed:owner:options: is called (which is called behind-the-scenes by UIViewController, which is where you'll usually be interacting with nibs). So, in Interface Builder, you change the class of File's Owner to whatever class should be managing the nib and it will give you access to all of that class's IBOutlets.

Like you, I prefer to create a lot of my UI programatically. But in a lot of cases it's just so much more efficient (from a time management perspective) to lay everything out in Interface Builder.
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Application: http://forrst.com/i/hQP

Github: https://github.com/clyfe

Please!
Agreed; this is a great book. I read it years ago, and it still sticks with me (I read probably 100-200 books/year, so I'm saying that it was one of the more memorable out of the last several thousand).
I've got a script set up to scan my logs and temporarily ban clearly malicious IPs. It finds a few hundred new ones each day.
hey, thanks for your suggestion. we will discuss this issue!
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Scanning the receipt from paper wouldn't eliminate the receipt, which is the "problem"
Wow, those are pretty strong words. By what justification do you call AppleTV/MobileMe garbage? Clearly they serve a need for people or they wouldn't be doing so well.
Really?? Have you ever worked with companies like youtern? Internmatch? There are some cool options out there for virtual interns but just unclear if there is less value for both parties?
Here's an idea. Create a demo account so anyone can jump right in and experience the product first hand before having to sign up. Maybe make it so all recent changes get deleted every 24 hours or so to maintain a properly configured account (or even flush out all the user updates after their session expires).

With so many task management / project management apps on the market it's quite difficult to differentiate yourself and prove your value with just a snazzy looking homepage (it is a nice design, but so are the 100+ tools I've looked at).

Take a look at the way rule.fm does their tour (screenshots/videos). Very easy to get to those areas and
Smartphones were better than regular phones during this emergency. My android phone was useless for voice and SMS, but still had a data connection. So, my wife and I were able to send gmail back and forth to stay in touch.

Also, the landline data networks seemed to be up and stable, so Skype worked great. Something to remember next time you're in an emergency and need to get a call out.
Doitfuckingnow.com - email harvesting?
Several months back someone posted about doitfuckingnow.com here on news.yc.

I signed up, gave a throw-away email address (tjic_doitfindnow_com@...), and never heard of them again.

...until today, when I got spam sent to that address.

Has anyone else had this experience?
As opposed to one of the other comments, I really enjoyed the video. It focused on just showing how you use your product, not some buzzwords and dumbed down over-generalizations. The music to it adds a sort of zen like feeling to watch you go about setting up tasks etc that really hits home to what I assume are the core values behind your product.

If I had a need for a task management software I'd definitely look this up again.
Doing something from nothing is worth respect. I wouldn't say worship but anyway ...
The real question is why writers keep writing novels, which I engaged here: http://jseliger.com/2010/12/09/why-unpublished-novelists-kee... .

As for abandoning novels, I can only say that it took me four or five attempts at writing novels before I "finished" one, and even the first two I finished were terrible. It took until the novel after that to actually have something publishable, although adventures in agent land mean that it's still on my hard drive rather than bookstores.
The copy on the "Pricing and Plans" page has some typo and grammar issues.

I'd suggest:

---
Cancellation Policy
You are free to cancel any time, there are no long term contracts. We will even pack up all your data and send it to you.

Security
There is full SSL encryption on every account, even the free plan. All data is backed up hourly.

Plans
Pick a plan that fits your current needs. Upgrade or downgrade anytime.

Free Plan
Click here for our free plan. It comes with a single project and two users accounts.

Upcoming Features
We are hard at work bringing you more useful and powerful features. File uploads, invoicing, and stats are coming soon.
---

IMO the pricing page by itself isn't very clear, I don't see right away what's meant by "Projects" (what's in it? why do I need them?), or how many users there are included in each plan. Maybe a pricing grid giving some more detail about each plan would be helpful.
The Red Cross site has been unavailable for some time, so I set up a WePay group to collect donations and help out. Not sure if HN is the right venue, but I can't just sit and do nothing.

All donations will go to the Red Cross.

Here's to hoping that we get more than my initial contribution...
I am interested in CMSs and am curious to know how a cms for newsrooms actually looks like? I am working on a Drupal implementation and believe Drupal to be so generic that it can accommodate to any cluster of workflows - but maybe you believe the overhead of generality is too much?

Maybe it would be more fruitful to invest that $975,000 in improving Drupal and/or creating a installation profile for newsrooms?
Really appreciate the nice comment travisglines! I am glad you like it.
There's two problems: wasting paper and having to manually enter the receipt into an expenses system. You don't have to solve both problems at once.
No, she had a BA in "Business Administration." I think the company was just having trouble hiring real programmers so any warm body having passing familiarity with their technology had to do.
1. Nobody here worships Patrick. We appreciate him. We admire him. Hell, we like him. But it's a long way from that to building altars.

2. Patrick is (absurdly) generous with his time and advice. He's a frequent commenter.

3. He knows what he's talking about. His advice is grounded in experience, and he is successful-- he has achieved much of what he has set out to do. The fact that his goals are different than Drew's are immaterial.

4. For what it's worth, Drew rocks, as well.
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Works in Apple Stores in the UK, as well, so I imagine it's worldwide.
Wow! How about this: Why don't you "worship" someone you look up to, and let me "worship" someone I look up to?

FWIW, I think he HAS built a real company (or two)! He represents something ACHIEVABLE for most of us "normal" people. I'm confident people connect with him for many reasons and surely this is one of them.

Aside from all that, maybe you should browse his contributions to HN. He GIVES quite a bit and offers quite a bit of "wisdom."
I've been using a combination of Pinboard and XMarks. Overall extremely happy so far - Pinboard manages about a thousand and has tags and one-click "read later" and offline searching and is my primary backup, and XMarks keeps my dozen browsers and 500 bookmarks in sync transparently (stable + beta + dev + sometimes nightly versions of a number of browsers).
I joined Pinboard.in a while back and love it.
I went online this morning at 8AM EST to look at the iPad 2 shipping time. It was 3-5 days, and I said "enh." Then I went back an hour later and it was up to 2-3 weeks. Depressing.

I wonder if Apple isn't a little miffed at the un-extraordinary pace of Verizon iPhone 4 sales and decided to do this to get people in line and on TV? Lame.

I was ready to pre-order a white iPad 2 on Apple.com five minutes after the keynote, but at the prospect of waiting a month or fighting people in stores for a chance to get a model and color I don't want, I not give them my money for a while.
Actually, I'm not sure if they cross-reference credit card numbers with itunes accounts or if its done through the credit card company; but I think this should be a service that credit card companies offer merchants... perhaps to help justify their massive merchant fees.
On Being an Early Startup Employee
Delicious idea.
hard implementation, mostly because (in)compatibility with existing hardware/software already in stores.

One way to minimize the compatibility issue with existing software, is create a (hardware) printer (generic), that print on screen, and generate the barcode so the user may scan.

i love the part of "integrate with an on-line personal finance".
there are also some legal issues.

bring it on!
You've never been fired, have you?
hmm, it is working fine with mac/ff here. what exactly doesn't work?
Thanks dertyp! Great suggestions. Will need to work on the copy as mentioned before.
Every town in Indiana above maybe 1500 people has tornado sirens. And we're not best known for our public spending.
yes, but i was wondering about the 1st one, which would have a large impact on the rain forests :)

As for #2, i'd say there are so many different formats of receipts that it could prove unfeasible, although just extracting the receipt values could be done, i guess.
Thanks for the suggestions oziumjinx.

Many people has missed the free plan so I definitely need to do something about it.
Carmack: Direct3D is now better than OpenGL
I live on Ocean Beach in San Francisco, and apparently there is nothing to worry about, other than to stay off the beach. I'll keep you all posted if things get crazy.
Solving Mazes With Memristors:  The Inside Story
I'd say hundreds is not normal. It is order of magnitude too low.
Start spending time programming microcontrollers and relive the 80's at 1/10th of the price.
Perhaps this is an intance where a central service could aggregate e-receipts for customers. I could see this being linked to loyalty programs from major grocers, gas stations, etc.

You could then manage your preferences with the central service who could email you receipts or just store them for you indefinitely.
I second this - 1 click signup is huge for a competitive market like project management apps.

I do something similar to Balsamiq for one of my apps - it keeps a high contrast "Save Progress" button at the top of the screen, and any time the user does one of a few set actions (for you, create a project or to do list) I pop up a modal to ask for their email and password to save their acct.

In addition to greasing the sign up process, it gives you an idea of your market fit - the data you collect around this "temp user" process is very insightful.
Thanks Melvin. Great idea.

We've set up the invite code "helpjapan" if you would like to use Hello Bar to encourage aid.

Melvin's working version is a great example to duplicate. Just sign up at http://www.hellobar.com and enter the invite code on the next page.

Pasting Melvin's code is a great alternative as well if you don't want to sign up for an account.
/sw is somewhat like /opt, it's usually used by the package management system Fink. You shouldn't need to manipulate any of the files directly.

http://www.finkproject.org/
the advantage i see in the business owner signing up, as opposed to a more detached solution, it that the business could be categorized in the "backend" (by industry type and etc), and that information would help automatically tagging the receipts (expense type), for example
This great (long) article was posted a while back, about how to get what you want out of Kickstarter. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1552952 Under the heading "Defining the Pledge Tiers" is the result of an informal survey showing how easy it is to get money at various levels.
Great looking site and service. There are a few out there so the fact that your site looks great is a good starting/selling point as an initial reaction to a potential customer.

The one thing I would say to help get the sales would be to add some kind of list of what you get (an overview if you will) on the pricing/plan page. Since you have a link to the plans page right on the main page, a user may skip the area where you list what you get when you buy. So to have the list on the plans page will eliminate the chance of someone possibly leaving the purchase page to look at plans and potentially lose the sale.
What your email address says about you
This is an interesting approach. Right now, credit cards don't get itemized receipts (afaik), just totals to charge to the customer's account.

For a service like this to be really useful to me, I would want itemized receipts.
Yes, fair enough – I basically agree. Just posted that comment as some food for thought. I think this link was a good read, but perhaps should mention the marketing part of app production as well, if not just coding for coding's sake is the purpose. The reality is not really "you build it and they will come", which is a common mindset that might get people disappointed in the long run.

And yes – the biggest challenge is probably coming up with something original!
It's a description of how cookies work and why cookie heists are so devastating. As far as I can tell, the article doesn't contain any actual best practices. Furthermore, I think cookie stealing is a trivial problem and there is really only one solution: encryption.

The reason why encrypted connections are not the norm is a purely artificial one, because technically we could easily have the encryption aspect of HTTPS enabled by default, just as SSH does it today. We don't have that because browser makers and certificate authorities are happily running a money-making scheme that makes authentication mandatory if a site wants to use encryption. Droves of web developers and users have been brainwashed into thinking that encryption without an URL identity mechanism is somehow worse than having an unencrypted link.

However, this all has nothing to do with cookies, the connection is just incidental.
Interesting that he says OpenGL has been more concerned with backwards compatibility than Microsoft has with Direct3D which is surprising considering Microsoft's normal compatibility fanaticism.
It wouldn't be hard for eg the Nectar card in the UK to be extended to support this. The principal use case I see is for expense submission rather than personal accounting; rather than having to photocopy each receipt and send them all to finance, log on to the loyalty card website and tick the transactions that need to be shared with one's employer.
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The other thing I like about Apple stores (the UK ones, at least) is that you don't have to walk anywhere to pay. The last time I went there, the guy entered my purchase into his iPod, then scanned a bar code on the nearest chip & pin machine. This was then the designated chip & pin machine that I could put my card into.
If the power going out is enough to potentially cause a nuclear meltdown, I'm pretty sure that's indicative of flawed technology rather than some problem with public perception.
nice thoughts. I'm not planning to make something out of this, i'm just wondering about it
Plenty of mailing lists here (including some high traffic ones like LKML). I use OfflineIMAP to sync my mail.

This results in pretty fast gnus startup times. But then, I only start it up every once in a while when I have to reboot due to a kernel upgrade.
How exactly was that a better domain? I always thought that part of the issue with delicious was that you couldn't easily tell someone about it.

"Del dot". "No, D-E-L, not Dell, it's not a Dell site". "DEL dot icio dot US". "Right, there is no www and no .com. It's just D E L dot I C I O dot U S. I don't know why they didn't use www or .com, maybe they wanted to seem hyper confusing to new users"
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Thanks Jdog. I like this a lot. I am putting it on my list. As mentioned before the price page should have more info about the plans and product. Fully agree. Will implement asap.
I've read both books and like them both.

However, I prefer Bird/Wadler better because there's a pervasive "let's derive this"/"let's prove this" approach to the topics. By which I mean, given a spec, let's derive a program that does the task (and later, let's optimize this function using laws we know such as relations between map and filter, the laws of fold). Hutton takes this type of approach only in his final chapter.

Hutton is definitely easier, and does a better job of teaching you the core of Haskell, however Bird/Wadler teaches you how to derive programs from spec (further covered in Bird's Pearls of Functional Programming book).

I think the difference is like the one between How to Design Programs and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
I think the key would be to find a company to partner with (say Krogers?) that would, with the customer's approval share the data from their loyalty programs that, in theory, store it.

This way the customer only needs to take one action, opt-in when signing up for the loyalty program, as opposed to scanning a barcode or QR code for every purchase.
True, but I use Delicious for grouping things that I don't remember, so it saves me not a one-off search but an entire search session on a topic. Also, the graph aspect of seeing who else bookmarked a page, then what else they've bookmarked and tagged, is still a killer feature (if it weren't so slow) after all these years. Given how rarely I'm the first to add any page, for me Delicious is basically a database of everything interesting on the web. That just has to be valuable. If only some deep thinkers and hard workers would do something with it.
That is good stuff. How is http://coder.io using these?
That's quite interesting. Now whenever I see a banner ad I will involuntarily start thinking about this.
Not really; Microsoft wants existing software to run on the next version of their OS, and that's still supported. The issue is of source compatibility, I think.
Do Nectar currently provide this information to customers? If they did then you could put together a quick hack that scraped their web site for the data.
It's in review (I'm an occasional Manning reviewer and have looked at this recently).
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Stores tend to put their name on the receipt (or at least the large ones do), which you could cross-reference against a list on the server. Alternatively, if you've used your phone to capture the receipt, you've got probably got geotagging information on the image.
Maybe because bookmarking is a bit like TODO apps: not technically difficult to do but everyone hates using someone else's system. Of course, Delicious was the exception :)