skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah don't do any of these changes here. You've got your thing and it works good, extremely minimal which is awesome and perfect. My big hobby project is a bookmarking app (almost exactly like pinboard, except less reliable :P link's in my profile page), and I struggle with making the bookmarks more immediately accessible without having to make a bunch of clicks.

I like your idea here. I'm not sure I have a use case for it, but I really like the interface. Feels like this might be more at home as a very lightweight plugin.
Except in this particular instance, and in many other instances, it's not just pure patent trolls doing the abuse. Microsoft (and many of the other players in this war) does actually have a profitable software development portion of the company that could be blown up.
If you guys sign up with +hn within your email, we'll make sure to give you access right away.
We're launched with Asp.net :)
That probably refers to the iPhone's options on sending a scaled version of the images it takes.
I'd also consider it an homage to git's highly useful pickaxe functionality, which lets you easily find commits that added or removed a given string, for example:
git log -Sgithub
shows you revisions where "github" was added or removed from the repository. Turns out that "git pickaxe" is also an alias for "git blame".
This seems perfect for HackerNews comment threads where you never get notifications of responses (at least, I don't) and you'll inevitably forget to check back later.
After 5 seconds on the site, I'll share my first impressions before they fade, because I think they could be useful.

In my nominal browser view, all I see above the fold is a logo the size of an elephant, a blank field labeled "Submit", and what looks like screencaps from iTunes.
I own a blu-Ray player that has never seen a disc, I use it exclusively for streaming. Even though the quality of netflix streaming is pretty poor some of the time, it is still not worth the effort of obtain physical discs.
I'd say only notify the user if they try to push changes during planned downtime (maybe it does so already - I haven't noticed). That, or something unobtrusive, like an icon change 1hr - 30mins ahead of time. I think an actual notice would be overkill, though.
From a business standpoint, this is very bad. If Apple helps lower the homosexual population, their user base will dramatically drop.
It seems Sony has been on the wrong side of this twice now. They released MiniDisc just before digital music players and music downloads took off, and now a new and improved video disc just as the tide is turning toward video streaming. It seems they really should have learned from the first time.
Haha good point :)
Uhm. So what is the difference here? The ability to easily share with pre-configured lists of people? The rest of what's outlined on a linked page does not strike me as something that wasn't successfully done before.

Genuine question. Consider it a lead for how to change the landing page for more clarity discussion.
Especially since in the period he talks about digg was somewhere between 30 - 75 employees. He speaks as if they had hundreds or thousands of employees, but having only ~50 employees and claiming that you don't know half of them is either completely not credible, or if you accept it as true, a huge abrogation of responsibility and personal indictment of his own behavior.
Do you have an Android or iPhone developer on your team? Can I submit video's via my phone? Love the concept! Focus: phone adoption.
That's not iTunes. It looks like their OSX client.
Serious question: how do you guys get around the slowness of Riak? I've tried deploying it to like 5-6 nodes, and I max out at like 5000 GET/s with multiple clients/threads/whatever for a single key on giant ass machines with plenty of CPU and RAM.
Interesting question. My initial reaction was "no". But I realised I don't do it. I guess I just don't watch much TV anymore. Anything worth watching is worth buying the whole series for.
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1Password is an incredibly valuable tool for me that I use all the time. Before I started using it, I had moderately weak passwords that were roughly the same on every website for which I had an account. But now I can have randomly generated passwords unique to each website and not have to worry about knowing them--I just need to know one password (a randomly generated, strong one) and that allows me to securely log in to any site.

And the Dropbox syncing is a killer feature--I have the iPhone app as well as the desktop version, so I can view the passwords anywhere if I need to log in on a computer at school (for example).

And, of course, supporting and augmenting that is Dropbox: it lets me easily sync not only my passwords but also my files--I've stopped carrying around a flash drive now--if I'm working on a file at school, I can just upload it to my Dropbox (in the correct folder) and then it's there when I get home, without me having to think about it at all. It's very convenient and I've become somewhat dependent on it.
There are some solutions to on-line shopping:

(1) Pictures. Now digital cameras are terrific, and so is the Internet for showing high resolution pictures. So, high resolution pictures. Lots of them.

(2) Measurements. When I shopped for clothes for my wife for Christmas, she wondered how I was able to buy her clothes that fit. Easy: In secret I went to her clothes closet, picked out some of her clothes I knew fit her well, spread them on the bed, drew a sketch, took out a tape measure and MEASURED everything relevant. At the store, I did the same. At a store, e.g., Talbots when they still had nice clothes for women, a sales woman came and asked me if she could help and what size I was looking for, I explained that in clothes, especially women's clothes, the stated sizes didn't mean anything and I would use a tape measure instead.

(3) Colors. Colors should just be specified in 24 bit RGB, period. Then at home given the RGB values, use some drawing program to put up a big patch of the relevant color and compare with such data for other items already have and the color pictures. Then can do well on color.

(4) Terminology. The rag trade needs to totall stuff it on their 'creative' names that are poorly defined to anyone and just meaningless to men. So, to say that a polo shirt is a 'pique' is nonsense. Instead, say "knit" and then describe, in clear, complete English sentences and close up photographs any more of interest.

I went shopping for blue jeans on-line at the site of one of the famous brands, saw about three dozen colors, each with some concocted color name -- maybe New England burgundy or some such -- and gave up. I wanted just standard blue jeans, and the color names were meaningless and the photographs were far too small to see the colors.

One more, the rag trade has to understand that on color, about 25% of men are partially red-green color blind.

Last, the rag trade has to give up on expecting men to buy clothes like women do. Men just ain't gonna do that.
+1. Sync it with iPad, iPhone and Mac OS. Definitely can't live without it.
Hmm, we watch a lot of movies in this household and my two brothers-in-law are avid movie buffs/traders, so quite a lot of blu-ray films go through the PS3 here. I can remember only one or two that imposed trailers, piracy warnings, or other undesired material before the movie. I've seen a lot more of that in DVDs, and on HD-DVD. Blu-ray seems by far the more customer friendly platform.

I also really like the quality, though having a background in film product/editing I admit to being a bit of a snob about such things.
It's a awesome app. This is the way I want, for sharing files. BTW, is it created by Macruby?
And what's with the gratuitous snark about a car being something people "think they need"? Presumably these are the unenlightened few who don't realize that if they aren't banging out apps from their homes they can damn well walk the three blocks to the WiFi cafe.
Joe Armstrong's 2000 patent application
That's a clip from the latest episode of "This Week in Tech", http://twit.tv/293 . You can get audio as well as high- and low-def video downloads from there. The clip seems to be from 34:10 into the show.
They're already there, all you really need is the ability to stream H.264 and monitor input events. What isn't there is consumer internet connections, most people won't be able to have an enjoyable experience.
I'm sure that it exists, but could someone describe for me the main point of differentiation between Receivd and a shared folder on Dropbox?

That is, what should be compelling me to download another application to do that which I can (seemingly) accomplish with one already installed?

I'm not trying to be simply critical, but rather just pointing out that, at least from the landing page, there isn't anything necessarily motivating me to sign up. (That said, as it's on HN, I'd love to sign up, if only to provide feedback!)
Thanks for your comment - much appreciated.

We're optimizing the landing page as we go along. The difference is the ease-of-use, and the ability for non-technical folks to pick it up really quickly and get started with sharing files with the people they care about in a few minutes. Not sure if you noticed, but the current landing page is not designed with hackers in mind (we understand we're posting on HN, but technical folks are not our primary audience).
LastPass fills in all my forms and Passwords ...
It's possible they are using Adobe Flash Server.

On the client I presume it is Adobe Air (?)
Fukushima Warnings Went Unheeded: Reactor Life Was Extended Despite Warnings
Then why doesn't she attempt to hack it and install a different OS? It was given at Apple's expense.
Just today I used Kahn Academy in what the article seems to consider the "intended" way.

My wife's sister is in high school, taking chemistry this year. From time to time she'll get stuck on something, and I'll tutor her a bit. Earlier today she called and asked if I could help her out with "kinetics." I told her to go to Kahn Academy, watch the intro to kinetics video, and that I'd stop by on my way home from work. Later on, I stopped by and we went through a few pages of exercises together. There obviously were still a few gaps in her understanding, but all the basic hurdles (terminology, etc) were out of the way. We were able to just work on a handful of sticking points.

KA is great for handling the "busy work" of teaching.
Are these your friends or your family? If it's the former, time to find new friends. If it's the latter, a dysfunctional family doesn't need to warp your sense of what the rest of the world is like.
Windows Live Mail (the desktop client formerly known as Outlook Express) also offers resizing options when sending.
Custom Placemats
http://washableplacemats.com/Custom-Placemats.html
We didn't end up writing the Mac client in MacRuby. We considered it, but to be on the safe side we decided to just go plain Objective-C.
I suppose not caring at all about black people is not expressly racist, indifference and dislike are rather different, no?
Ah, the story was asking for it. Slut.
Thank You! I'd like to see this too.
Sorry to be Debbie Downer, and a little bit off topic: when will the trend of dropping vowels from names end? Googling for "Receivd" autocorrects, and I doubt they're going to be expedient in fixing that. Domain names are now responsible for devolving English...

I need someone to hate for this. Was Flickr first?
No, you can't.

The only people who know who are the good devs are the other devs who have worked with those devs. Reputation outside of the dev circle is largely orthogonal to dev ability, and rather closely tied to social skills e.g. schmoosing the managers.
He's blaming poor coders for digg's failure, but he's the one who ultimately hired them (or at least started the ball rolling by initially hiring bad people) so really it's his failure.

Every company is inundated by poor applicants. One of the most important--maybe the most important--responsibilities of a founder is hiring good people. He failed at that responsibility.
We built Receivd to not just share files with our friends and family, but to have them share back photos and other stuff with us. Our parents and our friends', for example, cannot understand Dropbox's shared folders, but they're using Receivd to share photos they took with their kids. That's a big win for us.

We love Dropbox and use it everyday, but we feel that Receivd does sharing the way that most consumers understand. For example, people move stuff out of shared folders all the time, which deletes it for everybody else - just a consequence of the tech. We do know that Dropbox is killing it, and as loyal customers we're very happy for them and wish them well.
I think that I could implement most of the ideas in this thread without mucking up my current UX. I'm working on creating a user page that you activate by clicking your bookmarklet on app.reminderbear.com/users (it doesn't exist yet). The users that want extra features can add them on their user page. Users that like things the way they are can just refrain from creating a user page.
AMZN's P/E of 65 is historically massive, especially when others like Apple are at 19. You flip 65 upside down to get .0154, or 1.54% if you want to compare it to a bond. Steep price to pay, market must expect them to quadruple or so profit in the near future.
I've been involved with several projects that did this.

The motivation wasn't to sound hip and cool, but rather to find a domain name that some squatting piece of trash wasn't asking eleventy million dollars for.
Haha! I actually did notice it on Flickr first as well. If we could afford the received.com domain we would have gotten it :)
Vancouver has more entrepreneurs per capita than any cities in North America
That's pretty much an unsolvable problem.

If you tell someone their baby is ugly, not only do they don't believe it but they also hate you. You could anonymize it, but you're just back to even because they still won't believe you.
I'm guessing he means things like this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797920

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1563941

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1062454

SearchYC is always your friend. Literally a treasure trove.
> Of course, the control interface itself had to be gorgeous to fit with Apple’s design ideology. The client I ended up with, as you can see above, used beautiful 3D effects, reflections, and animations to display the media options (watch the video). I didn’t get a chance to optimize for speed so the touch response is a little slow.

And this is how software comes to be that drives me absolutely nuts with its slow UI.

Every time I've had to use a UI that is whooshing things about in a slow and laggy way, a little part of me dies.
"Us" men vs. "them" women? Is HN officially a boys' club? I hope not.
Seriously, some of the best coders I know are high school dropouts. Well, actually I'm the only coder I know who's a high school dropout so there might be something to it.
Count us in.
Sounds like a great way to kick off recruiting for his next venture.
If only I could set my own quick day/time reminder.
Well, can we at least agree that the tax code is all kinds of crazy and needs to be reformed, regardless of total revenue take? I thought that was noncontroversial.
We don't have screenshots up, but there's also a really hot iOS app in the works.
U.S. government officials say it over and over again: we don't oppose countries like Iraq, Libya and Iran having WMD because we're scared they're going to attack us with them. Instead, we oppose them having WMD because that would allow them to deter us from attacking them.

That sounds about right...

Makes you wonder if the world would be a more peaceful, but more dictatorial and regimented place if everyone had nukes.
Of course my argument holds up. It's true by definition. But remember, my first post said that I thought there was a stronger case for a GSM monopoly.

Look, the term "monopoly" is a pretty strong word, and it carries with it certain connotations that I don't think apply here. So if you want to use it in the strictest sense of "a market with only one seller" then I agree with you, but saying that "AT&T has a monopoly on GSM mobile coverage" has about as much weight as saying "Apple has a monopoly on iPods." Yeah, true, so what?
My completely uninformed assumption is that for an attention seeker like Rose, running around and doing things that get you more attention is probably a lot more fun and rewarding than the nitty, gritty details of managing a business.
You should mention that it uses Flash. I have a Flash blocker installed, and when I tried Sendoid just now it simply failed to connect. I thought "What a piece of crap," and closed the tab.
I agree. And massive raspberries in Mr Rose's general direction.

However, consider the reverse, is there anybody who is consistently good at picking good developers? Is there any interview process that consistently works? If so, I am not aware of it. Hence I don't consider the hiring process to be 'solved'.

I can see the reasons behind Joel Spolsky's "make sure they write code during the interview" mantra, but you look at some of the other stuff he wants and it's all pointless pointer twiddling. Then he went and broke all the rules anyway by working with Jeff Atwood who by his own admission wouldn't know a C pointer if it bit him in the face.

It makes me wonder, how do they do it in other professions? E.g. is there a process by which you can weed out the good Civil Engineers from the bad ones? Or good Lawyers (leaving aside the obvious and droll joke), or good Doctors? What about a people oriented profession like Priest? Surely they would be able to weed out the good from the bad.

But no, it turns out that for Doctors and Priests we're always getting bad ones in the news (Doctor's lying about their qualifications, practicising without a licence etc).

Okay then, the 'fluffy' professions haven't got this sussed, what about the technical ones?
Classy, nothing like an exec who blames the hires that came onboard under his watch for his failures. Here is a hint for the next time Rose, you were building a web site, not the space shuttle, you don't need 40 "rockstar" developers, hire fewer people and work slower.
Well, you obviously have more insight in to the early days of digg than I do, but you're basically proving his point. You say you had significant equity but wrote bad code. That's not a very good formula.
Well, it looks like it was a false rumor - but my point was that if Reddit started a users fund - they could get a portion of the % that CN was seeking to pimp out for $
You need to label your input field better....all it is is an input field with a button that says submit. It's not very clear to people that they need to enter an email address
I agree, but I refuse to go 100% digital when the quality sucks like it does.

Netflix's streaming catalogue is bad...like really bad, and I don't intend on paying $15-$20 for an HD version on iTunes when I can get the same thing for the same price on Blu-Ray.

Yes, I'm tired of the shitty menus and load times, but until they find a way to reproduce Blu-Ray quality in a digital format, it's a price I'm willing to pay.

Still, great piece by Marco.
I think he knows that. He just saw “what looks like screencaps from iTunes” for the first 5 seconds, and afterward, he realized his mistake.
Also, we're based out of Mountain View (no offices yet). Let us know if you'd like to sync up :)
OP[1]. It does not mean what you think it means.

[1]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/iphone/#define?term=op
I totally disagree. I think he's directly blaming himself. He's NOT blaming the B and C developers for doing a bad job. They did a B and C job. He's blaming HIMSELF for hiring less than the very best.
I did a similar thing for my iOS app[1]. It was free for months, and I started charging for it last October. I raised the price by a dollar every week, and sometimes kept the price for a bit longer than a week if I thought it might have been influenced by other factors (like new updates).

I was surprised to see that my app’s sales averaged to be about the same at every price point (some price points had more, some had less, but there was no consistent trend downward as the price rose). Thus, my revenue maximized at the highest price point I tried ($9.99) and I kept it there.

I presume that my experiment was so flawed that the results aren’t conclusive (rankings, ratings, etc. all changed throughout the experiment), but I was happy enough with the results that I went ahead and priced my app at $9.99 and have kept it there ever since.

[1] Iron Money, a personal finance organizer. I include this here because I have a feeling this might vary from category to category.
They'd setup a method of preventing right-click save of images not that long ago, replacing the image's referencing URL with a small blank block. Easily overcome by viewing source, but still was the new start of their effort to protect the content a little more.
From memory, this is no different than Microsoft's versioning correct? (Albeit Microsoft's implementation is well hidden. I think I read an article linked here on HN about it).
http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/GOOG/Statements.aspx?source=icas... shows that Google paid $2.3B on $10.8B pretax income, or 21%. That's far from 2.4%, but it's also far from 35% so I'm a bit lost.
I'd be interested in hearing how the C & D developers were managed more than the fact that some developers had less skill/experience than others. On a project to build a platform like digg, it seems like some extremely significant foresight in software engineering would be needed to give all developers tasks which are both suited to their talent and will be appreciated as important work.

I wouldn't dare make excuses for a developer sabotaging work, but there are some bad situations many developers can be put into which are more likely to produce lazy and shoddy output.
I fear that in the future these mispellings will wind up being recognized as correct spelling of the words.
only in the short term. In the long run that will become clear to an intelligent person.
Amazon should rename it to "App Hole".
Huh? Blu-ray isn't the only way to get 1080p/60fps on a TV. Indeed, it is perhaps one of the most inconvenient ways to do so in the modern age.
I've been developing software for a long time and know what technical debt is. I've seen CEOs with no coding experience effectively judge programmers. I was surprised the first time I saw it, but trust me the good ones can do it.
Amazon is great for that, when I got my Kindle I was perhaps a bit too rough with it. It was the week after I had gotten it as a birthday present and I didn't have a case yet but I wanted to bring it with me for a train trip. I threw it in a bag with books, keys and other loose materials and the next time I tried to turn it on, the screen was completely broken.

I called up Amazon support and explained the situation to them, being completely honest about how rough I was with it. I was pretty confident they'd just say it was my fault and make me pay for repairs but instead they simply got my Amazon account details off me and sent a new one right away. I mailed the broken one off a few days later and didn't have to wait too long for the replacement despite being in Australia.

Great customer service.
How about multiple bookmarks? Like, "Reminder Bear - 1 day", "Reminder Bear - 1 week". Then I could click whichever is appropriate for the link I'm looking at.
Recognizd!
From what I can tell after signing up, it seems like it lets you essentially seed ("share" in non-hacker speak) your photos to a selected group of peers ("family/friends"). Pretty cool idea if those peers also become seeds, a la BitTorrent...