skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is quite clear that there aren't much people (or any at all) which aren't registered but want to because if they want, there aren't much reasons why they have not already.

While there might be more reasons about the mirrored case, i.e. you are registered but want to leave but have not already, I wonder what these are. It isn't really complicated to do. Maybe it is just more like 'I would leave if there would be a better alternative but otherwise I'll stay`? Or just 'I'm not sure yet'?
>Until, inexorably, people work around your cruft and release cross-browser libraries that eliminate the "lock-in effect" of websites that require IE.

And also that they recover from the rewrite and released and marketed Firefox enough to make it real competition to IE.
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Luckily I work from home and I'm paid 100% commission based on the hours that I bill. This means that I'm free to do what I want for the most part as long as our customers are taken care of. The downside to that is that if I'm not billing hours, I'm not making money.
I don't think they mean like that. If something is obviously slow its a problem regardless. However, especially when you have a certain number of users, even a fraction of a second faster load time can have a visible change in your analytics.

I've read before that Facebook has shown that users tend to spend a fixed amount of time on their site. Once users hit that time limit, they're done. If your site exhibits similar usage patterns, the faster your pages load (even if they're already fast), the more users can get done on your site, which, depending upon your revenue model, may result in more revenue.
Flux on Windows unfortunately has trouble with a few games.
Compare with the Zuck stating: "move fast and break things" and "you won't be fired for bringing down the site."
For me the UX killed it. Allowing any user to design their myspace page was a bad decision. It was so annoying to find the information that is most important in a social network on many of my friends and general user's pages, as many just add crap on top of crap. Also, the terrible opening a MySpace page and immediately hearing a song or piece of music and madly scrolling down the page to find where to stop the awful sound. Most of the time I would just close the window in disgust.
Sorry, for being overly creative.

"free parking" is a spot on monopoly where the rules specifically state that once a user lands on the 'free parking' space no money is received. however, in almost every monopoly game i have played, players take fines/ taxes and put them in the middle of the board, and when a player lands on 'free parking' they get the funds.

It's an example of not following the rules as a point of culture.

The deal soured with Google because the terms were around pageviews and clicks. MySpace and Fox decided to target those terms to maximize revenue. The result was that MySpace added unneeded page flow for just about every user action. It destroyed UX and pissed off Google. Our team kept joking with management that we were going to create a MySpace-Lite as a side project from our REST APIs and to get rid of all of the crap.

WE SHOULD HAVE DONE IT. WE SHOULD HAVE CREATED MYSPACE-LITE

The Deal with Google was worth $300 million a year on total revenue of $750 million a year. MySpace Music was loosing the company mad money, it was and is a flawed model. Our team wanted to create an API where games and sites could access the music, and to create open playlists. We wanted to make the music open, and then work to license it. We were told that it was not possible.
To be more precise, they tied IE development to Windows and forced on mostly adding features like the pop-up blocker and improving security, resulting in IE6 SP2 being only part of XP SP2.
> prior to Facebook, P in LAMP also stood for Perl

The P in LAMP has been associated with PHP for much longer than the existence of Facebook.
Thanks for the advice on using refreshingcities.com, I hadn't seen that before. I've been meaning to look at balsamiq since it's recommended quite a bit. I'll take a look at it today.
Longer page would increase page load time. A longer page with viewstate at the beginning would delay loading of content. Google penalizes pages that load slower.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-sit...
Retro handheld games make a comeback
Am I the only who thinks a large reason why MySpace lost to Facebook was design?

MySpace just gave way to much flexibility to the users to modify the look and feel of their pages that it just got way to busy and very difficult to look at.

In some respects I think it was MySpace's business proposition to allow users to create their own personal spaces on the web easily, whereas, Facebook's goal was more to connect you to your friends. In that sense MySpace followed through, although that follow through seemed to lead to their demise!
When it comes down to it, despite how you feel you're good at "business", if you find a good technical co-founder, you're going to actually be close to worthless (considering you get a really good tech co-founder, not just a programmer). Business is easy for smart people. It's mostly common sense, personality, and drive. Once you find a really good technical co-founder, chances are the answer to "Could this business survive without him?" will be "No" and "Could this business survive without me?" will be "Yes". Keep that in mind when you think about a ridiculous share like 15%. Start at 50/50. His shares can go up if he brings more to the table. Yours can go up if you learn to code.
I used to use it and love it, but after a while I got tired of the inaccurate color profile in the evenings and realized I was disabling it more often than not. However, if you're just staring at documentation and code, it does wonders for your eyes. (An easy way to check how nice it is is to disable it late at night and feel your retinas come close to combustion)
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Sorry, hadn't seen your posts. Agree with you. And I'd add that there's not enough transparency regarding all these capabilities. It's like that cigar smoking baby from Bugs Bunny -- you think it's a photo sharing app, but that's just the coverup. You're helping them collect data God only knows what for.
I'm sorry if I come across as crude, but in startups there's no room for sugar-coating.

Personally I think that anyone who feels they need this kind of service (e.g. a less-techy manager at a company) almost certainly has some go-to tech guy that could whip it up over lunch. If the company doesn't have such a guy, they're probably doomed anyway.

I just don't see much of a market here and I would be surprised if this thing, in its current iteration, would ever buy you ramen. You might be onto something, but I think you should aim higher.
nice, any reason that you chose to deploy on an iPad app vs. a normal web app?
Ah sweet. I met Euwyn in NY in the '09 HN meet, I think in January. Awesome that you're now in SF and hacking away. (Unless I'm thinking of a totally different Euwyn Poon)
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Completely agreed.

It was downright embarrassing to have a profile page on MySpace. Unless you wanted to spend an entire weekend customizing your page, it was going to look like a banner ad factory had exploded on your profile. I'm a web professional -- I can't have that as my public image.

Not only did MySpace look like an amateur web site from 1998, it was completely confusing to operate. What checkbox do I click on which page to turn off the flashing purple?

MySpace just had an inferior product, plain and simple.
I hope they can get this to the level of the Timex Datalink; so far it's still very toy like.
It certainly is more difficult to leave Facebook if many of your friends are there to stay. Actually, the social costs of leaving or not joining Facebook can be quite high. This may explain why people hesitate even though they would like to leave.
It has a "wake up setting' in the windows version.
Everything about these looks amazing and they look like they do a perfect job of maximizing both visual pleasure and practical purpose.
agree with the 50%, both of you should be vested.

You want all co-founders to be equally engaged in the company. Anything less than an even split at the very start sets up a structure where one feels they are getting less than the other.

You mention the things that you're good at and call it the 'real business side of things'. Does your 'co-founder' find this insulting?? Is he really just a code monkey? Somebody who can build YOUR product? If so, he isn't a co-founder.

If you are building a technology company, all your 'real business' skills are worthless without a person who understands the technology. BUT your technical co-founder should be well versed in the market also. Together you will be making the product market fit. Together you'll be making partnerships/sales work. Together you'll be building and managing the team.

If you aren't feeling the 50-50 split, I'd ask, is he really a co-founder?
Really good point. Mostly, I was amazed at the amount of time devoted to doing "manager-ish" things like writing up perf feedback, snippets, and also the laborious interview task.

Part of my frustration there was seeing myself doing 2+ interviews per week for most of my career, and my colleagues and coworkers doing 1/month or less. This isn't right. I also saw internal recruiters who had "favorites" who were googlers that were more laxed in their feedback and would more likely lead to a hire. This is wrong.

Interviewing and hiring is really, really important! But, I think that Google's distributed system actually bogs down everyone instead of doing the fast & easy thing.

How would a 3 person company hire their 4th and 5th people? Google needs to do that, at scale.
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It's necessary if it's GPLv3. The anti-Tivolization clause means that the manufacturer needs to provide the ability for the user to sign their code.

From a support point of view, I cannot see any reason why any hardware manufacturer would go along with GPLv3 software. It adds a level of complexity that just doesn't make much sense to deal with, because it's not the manufacturer's best interest to support ANY code, just the code that they have put on the device.
I found actually confronting the sleep issues I had much better at fixing it. Late day caffeine (you have to stop drinking it by 5 to get it down to a reasonably low level by 12), overly bright bedroom and unpredictable sleep schedule were my issues.

The windows program was great for years (f.lux) though until I did the above.
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It does but I think you misunderstood the point.

Most .Net developers are working on intranet sites. They don't have problem with large footprint pages.

When they move to internet and public domain websites, they are newbies. It takes them a while to adjust to the way internet sites are written. SEO optimizations, CDN usage, Ajax calls etc are pretty important on internet site than on intranet site.

Imagine using a Update Panel to code for an internet website. It would create enough junk javascript to delay a page load but it works fine on intranet. To fix this jQuery or some other Javascript framework must be brought in.
It's clear that the popular thing to do is rag on the first launched concept, and yet everyone still seems to be ignoring the team. I doubt Sequoia, bubble times or not, is likely to back a buzzword friendly concept if they didn't believe the team could make it into something worth a multiple or the $41M investment. I'd say it's a little early to judge whether the concept or the product will take off, but I think the team will build and iterate Color into something valuable.
"Artificial Intelligence" is both an umbrella term for a number of CS/stats approaches to certain types of problems (graph search, classification, etc.), and also a term often used to mean the same thing as Artificial General Intelligence (i.e. an artificial mind).

Vision is trivially covered by the former definition, and clearly not by the latter.
Offer HN: Need web design? I am here to help (free)
I have some time so I would like to help someone from HN with design. I know there are many programmers and developers on HN that need web design for their applications and they need every penny for marketing,hosting,etc.
So,if you need web design for your startup feel free to contact me and include link to your HN profile in email.
I'm the same so I put "Yes but I want to leave" because essentially you were forced into an account in order to use the login (meaning you wouldn't be on if you'd had a choice and hence you want to leave)
Show HN: Just launched the CashBase (personal finance) Android app
CashBase (http://www.cashbasehq.com/) is personal finance software made simple. We have a web app, an iPhone app (http://www.cashbasehq.com/iphone/) and, starting today, an Android app: http://www.cashbasehq.com/android/

What do you think?
If you're using Firefox or IE, Flashget or Ant solve that problem nicely:

http://www.flashget.com/

http://www.ant.com/video-downloader
Just wanted the experience of developing an iPad/iOS device. I've done a lot of web apps but this was my first tablet app. The UX considerations are different and very interesting.
My co-workers swear by Flux, mainly because they only code. But as the designer in the team, I'd have to disable it every time I'm working on a design.
Are you doing "silent auction" on us, trying to figure the value by the Law of large numbers?
Clickable: http://www.cashbasehq.com/android/
Keep in mind that 1)Safari Books is a separate operating unit from the main O'Reilly publishing and that 2) a majority of th books on Safari aren't owned/published by O'Reilly. I'm sure some of the security measures are a result of Microsoft, Addison-Wesley, etc. allowing their books to be in Safari.
> How would a 3 person company hire their 4th and 5th people?
> Google needs to do that, at scale.

Yes, exactly. If you're doing 2+ interviews/week this should directly lead to you getting more high quality co workers on your team. While the folks who are only doing 1/month end up with withering teams. Properly aligning this incentive is the key to solving the problem.
I've always seen it stand for Python, Perl or PHP-- with many shops specifically stating "P for PHP" or "P for Perl". Yahoo hasn't settled on PHP vs. mod_perl (as a replacement for a C based template system filo built) until early 2000s and (when I was there) still had many Perl based services in production.
Would love to learn more about the UX considerations given that you've done everything from iOS to Flex.
Link a portfolio?
I'm in Jordan, and things this started up out of nowhere. There have been failed attempts each and every Friday for 2.5 months now to start true protests/revolutions, but with no effect. Yesterday people started camping out on a square near a main road, and today shit hit the fan as pro-government supporters stormed the square and the gendarmerie hosed down protestors and unleashed crowd control to try to bring things to and end.

There's a confirmed death from last night as the pro-government supporters stoned the protesters, and unconfirmed reports of another death today. Confirmed reports of many in critical condition after today's stampede though.
Been using it for about 3 weeks now, not sure how much of it is placebo effect but noticed a solid improvement on how tired I feel and how easy it is to fall asleep.
I find an enormous amount of hostility on HN towards facebook, with a lot of people proudly mentioning that they will never touch it.

I don't see why, its a wonderful site.

Some notes on my usage, though:

All of my privacy options are on the lowest possible setting. I treat anything that occurs on the site as if it were public. I don't see why not, I'm not going to pretend that photos of myself or my wall postings are anywhere near interesting enough to hide. In fact I'm not sure why people who put things on facebook want privacy at all. I never worry that something I say might be picked up on by the wrong person because I'd never say anything that I wouldn't want the world to hear.

To a shy person, the usefulness of the site is just astronomical.

Among others I am friends with my boss, my mother, my little cousins. Facebook lets shy people like me keep in touch with a massive amount of people where I can write them the modern equivalent of letters very quickly and easily, as well as let them broadcast their life's updates to me. I can keep in touch with all manner of people.

Without facebook, I'd have no idea cousin X is having a baby, or that Y is having apartment trouble that I can help them with, or that Z got a new game we can play together. And so on.

If I meet someone at an event and really hit it off (romantically or not), I can go on facebook the next day and look them up by name and add them. No exchanging phone numbers or emails or anything like that. I just search for them and find them. In college it was enormously useful for making friends and I still find it useful now that I've graduated.

I made a page for my hometown. I broadcast events going on around the city (fireworks, beer festival, city meetings). In this way I help my community learn about the goings-on of the town.

I could go on, but this is probably enough to give those who don't use it an idea of why I enjoy it so much.
We've found that required email confirmations can drop conversion rates by 60%. Capatchas I wouldn't worry about unless you have serious spam problems. Seems better to detect and push capatchas on unhuman like engagement.
This problem has been addressed over the last 20 years by more products and services than I can remember, ranging from csh scripts that would ping a site and send an email if it was down to HP OpenView.

There are more than a few and sub $100 tools for Windows that'll do this and a lot more, so charging $15 for a service isn't going to fly.

Further, to properly monitor uptime requires a lot more than just monitoring the host. You need to monitor the various services, and the health of those services. Is the web server returning a valid page or a 404?

Then there's the need to monitor hosts and services that are not publicly routable, getting into authentication or the need to run the service inside the firewall rather than via a public site.
This application made me feel dumb. I downloaded it to my Droid. It asked me for my name. Then it asks me to take a self-portrait, I do it, it shows the picture, I click OK. It goes back to the camera UI ready to take another picture. Uh? OK, I repeat this a couple of times until I quit the application.

I give it another try. I open the app. It now it shows my name and the colorful shutter. I click the shutter, I take a picture, it shows the picture and the options [cancel] and [ok]. I click [ok]. It shows the camera UI again ready to take more pictures. No indication on what is happening. I click cancel and I get a completely white screen.

I wanted to at least see what was the big fuzz about this app but I feel like for a pretty savvy person like me to feel this frustrated is not a good way to start. Maybe the iOS version is easier to use.
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What do you think about the reputation problem, in particular?
I think they made a good decision to go with a .com.
It would be interesting to see that numbers that equate with this, or with people who wish to have a FB business page so sign up with an empty personal page.
"Does any of this get better for mobile devs? No, it gets worse, unless you're picked by the platform's kingmakers."

I can only vouch for the major mobile software marketplaces, but the App Store, the Android Marketplace, and Amazon's Appstore are festooned with indie/small shop (or even one-person) developed apps.

There are handfuls of developers whose works fans look out for. Mika Mobile is one. Never heard of them? They made Zombieville USA, a million+ selling app. They followed up with OMG Pirates!, another million seller. They now have Battleheart, which was top 5 in the app store and is still on the top 200 charts, even at $2.99 in the notoriously penny-pinching App store.

Need more? How about taptaptap, who have never made an app that wasn't a huge ($500,000+) seller. Or Backflip, Donut Games, and Nimblebit, who have all had monster sellers consistently.

There is room for not only hobbyist and/or one-hit blockbusters (Tiny Wings, Doodle Jump, Pocket God), but also consistent sellers (the aforementioned, Popcap games, and of course Rovio), along with AAA megacorp houses. Now, being an indie rock star competing against the Billboard and the millions of bar bands hoping to strike it Aerosmith-big, now _that_ is an undertaking. Ditto, filmmaking and acting.
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A postscript to this, now that the blog is back up and I can do some measurements: the server is Apache 2.2.14, and it's using the default keep-alive timeout value of 15 seconds. Looks like a typical case of Wordpress and Apache with the default configuration suddenly getting slashdotted. More on this from patio11:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/19/running-apache-on-a-memo...
I use a nice Awk script https://github.com/pkrumins/gnu-awk-youtube-downloader to download youtube videos (a dozen thanks to the creator) when i don't find a downloadable version elsewhere.
Repo and office liquidation.
I love flux, but unfortunately it doesn't work with my USB monitor adapter[1], so when I try to use it at my desk I get two nicely tinted screens and one normal screen. When I'm just using my laptop on its own it's great!

[1]: http://www.diamondmm.com/BVU195.php
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From http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/business/yourmoney/15frien...

But the board also lost sight of the task at hand, according to Kent Lindstrom, an early investor in Friendster and one of its first employees. As Friendster became more popular, its overwhelmed Web site became slower. Things would become so bad that a Friendster Web page took as long as 40 seconds to download. Yet, from where Mr. Lindstrom sat, technical difficulties proved too pedestrian for a board of this pedigree. The performance problems would come up, but the board devoted most of its time to talking about potential competitors and new features, such as the possibility of adding Internet phone services, or so-called voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, to the site.

The stars would never sit back and say, ‘We really have to make this thing work,’ ” recalled Mr. Lindstrom, who is now president of Friendster. “They were talking about the next thing. Voice over Internet. Making Friendster work in different languages. Potential big advertising deals. Yet we didn’t solve the first basic problem: our site didn’t work.”
I was thinking about making that an open source jQuery plugin. If you would like I can provide it to you. There are a few issues with it right now however. After I fix those issues, I can provide it.
Sure. For one, you touch with your finger and not with a mouse cursor. I wanted the whole app to be in view unlike a web app that could scroll down on and on. Also, you want to let your users hold the device however they want so you have to design for different orientations. When designing a web page, you have more flexibility as to where you put your buttons. I originally laid out my buttons very different and realized my hands were moving all over when using the app. Now it's laid out so that most everything is w/i reach if you hold the ipad with both your hands and use your thumbs to navigate.