skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Crossfit is great for beginners. Most of the exercises and workouts scale very nicely, so you don't need to be fit when you start. For example, a workout might call for 100 push-ups over the course of 20 minutes. If you can't do strict push-ups, you can do them on your knees. If that's still too hard, you can do push-ups with your hands on a raised surface or even against the wall. Similarly, if the recommended weight for something is 135 pounds, no one will look down on you for using 85 pounds or 25 pounds if that's where you're at. The important things are that you come consistently and work to the best of your ability. Everything else will take care of itself, regardless of your starting level.
I was at a conference a while ago where speakers were given dollar coins for being under time. One coin for every full minute under their allotted time.

The event ran to time.
Unfortunately, you are at least partially right. HTML5+JS might be an acceptable solution to lots of problems, but I don't see web game development moving away from stuff like Flash and Unity to a W3C standard. It probably has a lot to do with having to wait forever while the W3C labors to push any damn thing out.
Yes, that is another great illustration of how complex and unclear this system of individual lists is.

Now imagine the same scenario under the Places metaphor. You go to the "Work Friends" place and share an item. Jill, who is also in that place has access to the exact same list of people that are in the place and so knows exactly who she is talking to when she comments on that shared item. No confusion.
Are Bitcoins Here to Stay?
HardlyWork.in Turns Your Facebook News Feed Into a Spreadsheet
The Internet Tidal Wave
Mobile Developers Guide to the Galaxy (.pdf)
Facebook sort of did that too, by allowing only college kids at first. I think it's the right idea. It only became stupid with Wave when they started giving out millions and millions of "invites". At that point they should've simply made it public.

But really, Wave was a fundamentally flawed project for multiple reasons: bad market fit, clumsy/complex UI, bad marketing, etc. I had a bad gut feeling about it since I saw the demo (which took 1 hour! That should've been a sign)

Google+ looks very exciting and it seems like they've addressed many issues social networks have had through out the years, including Facebook. The lack of a Circles like feature was a design flaw of all social networks so far, and I believe it led them to ultimately become irrelevant because of the sheer number of people that became your "friends" on those social networks, which ended up spamming you. Circles seems to fix this, and the other Google+ products looks awesome, too.
Holy tweet
Disclaimer, I'm working on OpenPhoto which makes your photos portable on the web

A zip file of all your photos and profile information doesn't make it portable. It makes it archivable. What good is a 50MB zip file of JPEGs when you spent time organizing them into albums and getting comments?

Data portability really means that when you want to switch from one service to another - you can.

There's such a barrier here that it's practically useless. A zip file does not equate to useful data for 99.99% of users.
sassa frassa kids these days
Sorry, my comment wasn't exactly chalked full of useful criticism. I found this and the Firefox post to be largely rants with either no point or nothing new in the conversation. We know Google is struggling with social, we know people are trying to compete with Facebook without cloning them, and we know that privacy+social is hard. I just don't see what another "Firefox is jumped the shark" or "Google will fail again at social" contributes to the discussion.
I'm really excited I don't have to build my own XMPP Muji client[1]. Hang-outs are something I've wanted for a long long time; passive virtual spaces. Goonfleet used to go crazy with Stickam, but it was more event oriented, less passive. Hopefully this can be a good marker in helping people actually communicate and build community over the net, v. individual play.

[1] http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Muji
I think you're getting downvoted for implying that something can be "cross-browser" that is locked into a single vendor. Your point is clear, but it exploits a nerdy little loophole in the definition of "cross-brwoser".
You clearly don't live in nyc.

NYC craigslist is covered w/ $20 - $50 guys w/ trucks who show up and move furniture / whatever for the agreed upon price. And there's always cabs. Seriously, it's not a big deal.
I doubt that's how the circles will work in final. Google uses labels much more than folders for classifying stuff (e.g. gmail).
I actually think not coming up with a clever or descriptive name is actually the right move here. Instead of setting it up as yet another new service from Google that you'll have to decide whether to invest time into or not, it advertises more as an enhancement of the features everyone uses already.

Its not like Google's gonna get people to divest themselves of Facebook (not in the near future anyway), so they've got to position themselves as an auxiliary rather than an alternative.
Google would be better off targeting linkedin. I'm not even remotely enthused with what I've seen of this plus thing.
An Obvious Next Step
I've been using it. My prior experience has been with TortoiseHG.

I think it's a very simplified view of source control and badly needs to be iterated to appeal to power users.

That said, I'd recommend it for novices to source control.
I'm in the Field Trial. My understanding is that anything in a post can only be seen by the people who can see the post. Thus, if you share with a circle, people who do not know each other can see each others replies. It is all about who you chose to share to in the first place, they are the people you are trusting the information to.

I would need to test this more fully, but that is my understanding of it.
Nice I checked it out. I started a thread, hopefully people will join in on the discussion. Hopefully more people join your site.
My guess is that this is deliberate: the g+ sparks feature is meant to complement the +1 buttons, and at some point they hope to talk about +1 as part of g+.
Shouldn't that be possible via IMAP?
The commentary I have read this last week on this case seems to all take one side or the other and makes absolutist claims for either. There are certainly many such cases in copyright law where things are obvious and the result of a court case clear in advance to those knowledgable of copyright law. This is not one of those cases, it is more subtle.

The work is derivative, but he claims it is not a copy that has been filtered with an algorithm, he hired an artist to recreate it pixel by pixel by hand. Thus it's like an impressionist painting of a realistic photo. A substantial difference. Is it fair use? Fair use looks at many things not just one. Given that it's transformative to comment on what is being done to the music as well, and it's a non-commercial project (income went to pay costs and remaining profit went to charitable something or another), it might be fair use. Or it might not. This would have to be resolved in court because it's an edge case. It's not cut and dried who would win this case.
I concur, but technically Scrapy is an entire web scraping/crawling framework for writing crawlers, not just XML/HTML parsing like BeautifulSoup or lxml. You don't even have to use Scrapy's built in processor, you can use BeautifulSoup (or whatever else) if you want. What Scrapy gets you is all the logic for crawling of the web pages (requesting pages, reacting to html errors, etc.). You basically just tell it what urls to parse, what to parse from the pages, and what to do with the parsed data. It handles all the rest. I used it Scrapy just recently on an online movie site (shameless plug: www.qwink.com).
Writing a C library, part 2: Event handling and the main loop
A gritty look that is purposeful and well done would enhance a game that is already good. However, if the basic game mechanics aren't fun then you're just "polishing a turd" (see page 2 of that Gamasutra article I linked to elsewhere).
You can put people into as many circles as you want.
Ahh, here it is:
http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Category...
why don't my posts show up on hacker news
Former HBGary Federal CEO says We Need to Learn from LulzSec
Yes, AnyAsq is a YC company. We hadn't asked Harj to do an AMA though. :) And we hadn't really intended to launch quite yet but we're not complaining.

Ways we hope AnyAsq beats reddit ama:

-The concept should make more sense to people as a standalone site than as a sub-section on another site. (Easier to explain, easier to link to, etc)

-As a standalone site we can optimize the interface for this concept, which is really a very different idea than reddit.com.

-Twitter integration is really helpful. Acts as both moderation and as a way for people to spread AnyAsq to their followers when they do an AMA or ask a question.

-We're a YC company which will hopefully help us get people like Harj (or pg? Don't do it quite yet though please) on there and maybe help with press.
Working with "a subset of Actionscript 2.0" is pretty dang miserable if you're used the cutting edge stuff.
Developing a Site Structure to Convert
1- Who have you passed on you wish you hadn't?

2- What is one of the assumption you had about the entire process that ended up not being true?

3- Who is one entrepreneur (or team) whom you really thought had it wrong, but invested in anyways because they had that je-ne-sais-quoi?
That's exactly what happened with Wave for me as well, but I wonder if the same will happen to Google+? I didn't really see a use for Google Wave... it was just so awkward...
"They thought video on demand would be a killer app... but it never caught on"
5BX - do it everyday and it really the most basic you need. 11 minutes a day.
Yup, and when you call and schedule a couch pickup for $40, they call back and say "Is rain, I need $60 now!" And I hang up, sit down on my newly-purchased couch in the basement of the building I bought it from, and scramble to find another guy with a van.
if you had that level of testosterone and various endorphins in your bloodstream, you might seem a "little strange", too.
Draw creativity from everything around you; even this...
I think it's a great simple interface for, say, our designers who may need to interact with git but don't necessarily need or want to know more about it than absolutely necessary.

For power users, look elsewhere.
The first advertising campaign aimed at monkeys - for science
Part 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2703203
Why is Gormo's comment dead? He was right, mshron misunderstands his parent's comment. The concern is that people can only be a part of one circle.
I think it would be super nice to be able to search by specific location instead of, say, "South Brooklyn". Thanks, buddy, that's kind of a big place.
Well yea. Sounds good in the UI. But I wonder if that is even implementable in their current data model.
Poll: Which Geocoding API do you use?
Why did you choose this API? (Each API seems to have different terms of service, usage limits...)
Bing Locations
Foursquare Venues
Google Geocoding
SimpleGeo
Yahoo! PlaceFinder
I don't understand your position. The iBookstore is purely ePub. Amazon has already said they are adding ePub support to Kindle. ePub is already the dominant ebook format for interchange (I don't consider PDF to be ebooks).

If Rowling were to sell her books on the iBookstore, they would be every bit as much ePub as if she distributes them herself. What's more, the iBookstore doesn't mandate DRM, so even the argument that she's doing this in order to promote DRM-free is a red herring.

Sure, by all means distribute the ePubs yourself. Rowling can publicize DRM-free ebooks using the ePub format. But there's no reason for her to avoid also selling her books on the existing bookstores. Let the consumer choose which place to buy their book from. The only reason that makes any sense to avoid selling on the iBookstore is a desire to avoid giving the 30% cut to Apple. And convenience goes out the window as a result.
For a second I misread that as "Preposterous Hack Day", and got excited.
I haven't heard anything about API's or developers.

Another annoying case of "do no evil" not implying anything about actually pushing the state forward or helping. I'm not altogether that interested in the greater of the two silos, although I am excited by a state of play other than facebook moseying down the field palming the ball in one hand.
i don't know if i agree with this. I see your point, and it's valid. However, living in NYC I became accustomed to getting anything I wanted within a 5 block radius. Or at least, if you can get it within a 5 block radius, the convenience factor is so so much greater than going crosstown or something and/or hiring a mover.
Google has finally flinched. Google isn't being creative with this new gimmicky look. Google is showing weakness by being reactive to potential competition.

Google has turned into its own tribute band.
I've been using it for about five days and I keep it open alongside textmate. I'm a CLI diehard but I do still find myself using it for things like switching branches and checking what's in a commit. It really does add value as far as that's concerned.
For me, it's avoiding eating too many small children. They can be very addictive and fattening if one isn't careful.Personally if you have the same problem as me, I suggest doing what I did and having a few more dogs and cats in the day.They help fill you up and divert some of the craving to keep you down to a healthy 2 or 3 kids a day.
I just tried this out. Yes I can add people to more than 1 circle easily.
Ned Batchelder: Vi Hart etc
>So in short, mathematics saves you time by expressing common patterns or ideas.

I wasn't arguing that. In fact, I said that math is lending me and students of other fields tools to use and apply. The problem lies in the expression of said tools (which is exactly what I mean with "arcance notations") and the inability of many mathematicians - no offense - to separate those two concepts (tools/mechanics and expression) from another. They assume that they are completely inseparable, which is not only part, but a major source of the problem. Any attempts to somehow make math less obscure (or even just suggest it) is met, in great parts, with conservative hostility. I've seen mathematicans claim "that I was telling them that their profession is pointless and should be abolished" when all I was saying that a majority of the expression of math is incredibly obscure/arcance to most people which are not mathematicians and mostly not suited for practical appliance (as in, appliance in fields of science other than math).

Also, it's a valid point to say that we shouldn't have special syntax/language for every appliance of math imaginable. That would indeed not only be stupid, but actually /increase/ obscurity. We should, however, stop excusing the obscurity of math with "it's shorter to write". Readability and - most importantly - comprehensibility should /always/ come before convenience. Even in math.
In Facebook's privacy settings you can specify that your updates are visible to "Everyone; except person X". The annoying guy doesn't see your posts and stays calm, works brilliant.
It should be easier than that.
OK. The late 80s, early 90s experiments with the cable company offering "interactive Tee Vee", a.k.a. "video on demand" never caught on. That was almost a cliche by 1995.

So what's different now? Netflix on-line streaming videos is quite nice, and so successful that the shadowy "movie studios" are starting to strangle it by making it pull movies every so often, etc etc.
that is really creepy man, fail joke
How to protect yourself on social networks
The value of mentors in accelerator programs
It's a very good idea and I think with the right marketing and some good contacts it could easily take off and become a very valuable resource to many companies
Can mysql really not use an index to do a top / bottom 10 query? In Oracle it can do a top n query avoiding a sort very quickly on massive datasets given an index on the sort column. Being that is a common pattern in web apps, which is probably mysqls target market you'd think that would be high up the dev priority list!
plus they are used to epic winning
Anti-data-lockin FTW
I take my girlfriend out to the movies almost every weekend because we love seeing good films on the big screen. If I'm not these folks' ideal user, I'm not sure who is. But I'm very much on the fence.

If this allows you to take a guest, it's a great deal and I'd be an avid customer, even though some months I don't see that many movies. If not, the potential for underuse is too obvious.

At least with, say, a gym membership, you can imagine yourself using it enough to justify the cost. A gym membership is also a lot cheaper in the short term and more convenient than the nearest alternative (buying all the gym equipment yourself). There is practically never a month with five movies I want to see. And if there's not anything good in theaters, I can watch unlimited movies for $7 per month on Netflix, or if I want newer movies for my impulse-viewing, it's $1 a night with Redbox (and Redbox is usually more conveniently located than the nearest theater).
Office 365 Launched Globally
I've been enjoying the app these last few days. Nice job! It's a great add-on to an already killer service. I'm quite happy to send the folks at Github some of my money each month, because they really earn it.
CSS1K - CSS Zen Garden meets JS1K
Most larger homes are not built to comply with the building codes requirements of commercial structures (e.g. stairs: 100psf live, 42" guards, 1.25" diameter handrails, etc.) and the optimism embodied in real-estate listings is legendary.

Legally, pretty much everything must comply with ADA- and in California and several other states you can be sued for damages (though if you are in California and read the newspaper I suspect you have seen something about such cases).

Of course people do stuff illegally all the time - you could fill the house with grow lights and pot plants. But things have changed a bit in the 70 years since HP left the garage.
Search for streaming movies from Netflix, Amazon, iTunes and Hulu
Scott Hanselman referenced http://www.fitbit.com/ (hardware for $99 instead of $150 to $250) and http://www.loseit.com/ (tracking software currently free in beta instead of $13/mo) in a recent blog post about continuous improvement measurement.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ProductivityAndContinuousImpro...
Indeed. XP itself is a major reason IE6 hangs around so much. XP installation discs and images only ever came with IE6, never anything newer. And with the frequency that most corporate workstations get reassigned and recreated and reinstalled, IE6 comes out of its casket all the time. It's not that these corps are scared or ignorant of upgrading past IE6, it's that doing so across 100 or 10,000 machines is a huge task and not worthwhile from a cost-benefit standpoint.
One of our competitor used it.

We could track the campaign because the twitter account ( 18K+ followers ) used bit.ly links. After one week of promotion, the links had been click 16 times if my memory serve me well...

So from that one experience ( I know not that much ) doesn't look to be worth it.
I think you need a terminal window open when using git really (unlike mercurial but lets not fight now). I do however like Tower
Totally agreed. I also lost a little respect for Hipmunk when I found out they are basically an exact copy of ITA's app: http://matrix.itasoftware.com/search.htm.
Without going into whether I agree with his assertions on Cocoa, if it seemed so much easier to do with web technologies, why didn't he just do it with web technologies?

Cocoa is probably the framework best suited for incorporating web views, and tons of apps do this: Mail.app, iTunes, Aperture, Colloquy, etc. etc. Use the right tool for the right job, if you have something that is going to have a lot of flow-based layout, then by all means use WebView.

It's kind of like refusing to use an NSTextView, then complaining about having to lay out text yourself.
Not only is it painful to configure, but it only works with their desktop Web client. Mobile phone users can talk to everybody or nobody.
Unfortunately it is still pretty hard to get any of your Google Talk chat logs out. Most of the solutions are from years ago and no longer work. I ended up being able to download an sqlite database of my chat logs using Google Gears.
Not only that, but Flash isn't perfectly "cross-platform" either. It's really only a great experience on Windows and 32 bit and a crapshoot everywhere else, it's still the major cause of browser crashes everywhere else, has struggled with 64 bit implementations, has a long history of sandbox security problems, and their feigned "open source" efforts where there's proprietary parts they don't document or release garners them few OSS friends, downgrades poorly, is a significant resource requirement overhead, and isn't very accessible by default (the standard swf you encounter will not be blind-user accessible).

If Flash is the answer, we're in even worse shape than using HTML/JS.
Like Orkut?
Intermediate cryptography resources
You know the future has come when something like THIS happens...
I'm not a web guy by any stretch of the imagination, as you well know, but I find doing webdev really easy compared to any GUI library out there. If I can say "ok, this is only going to work in embedded Webkit/Chrome/whatever", I can whip up something that's pretty and functional in no time at all. When faced with the same task in GTK/Qt/Wx/whatever, I fail miserably. I've done a good bit of both, but I doubt I'll ever go back to making desktop apps -- I can always embed a webserver into whatever I'm building, and do the UI that way...
thanks. I just set it up last weekend so I'm still working on getting things revved up, so we'll see what happens. I'll take a look at your thread and jump in with some thoughts today.

EDIT: replied to ya
> Eventually, I (well, many of us) decided that better native clients (OSX, Windows, Linux, Eclipse, Visual Studio, etc) was the best way to grow GitHub.

I hope that means they plan to build a git GUI client for Windows, the poor bastard child of git support.
You're right about the definition of FTA in this context. But TFA means The F(ucking|ine|*) Article in this context.

I bet it's not a typo.
As an early user on anyasq (http://bit.ly/iQYjXb), I'll say anyasq already has a much better user experience than reddit AMA. The twitter integration for both questioners and submitters (and the emails when you get new questions) are key. Once they get a few prominent people on there I could really see this taking off.
Gamasutra: 15 iPhone Game Observations, Before and After
Neat! Good answers.

How do you make money though? Who is paying for what?
I'm not sure 'purpose' is the right word here. Truly what is the purpose of a game? I don't think there's a trivial answer to the question, and I think 'story' is more fair. People care about stories. Stories generate meaning.
appears in other google products but not in gmail.
Apparently not! http://warpspire.com/posts/designing-github-mac/
Supreme Court to weigh in on warrantless GPS tracking
I'm curious to hear from people who don't know - and don't want to learn - git on the command line. If this gets those uses checking their work into repositories, it will be a net win for version control.
1. I shouldn't say specifically because YC applications are supposed to be confidential, but if you look at the more successful startups funded by YC's competitors, there's a large overlap.

2. How predictable outcomes would be.

3. Airbnb.
Ironically the meaning of "there’s room for innovation in how businesses measure success and more meaningful definitions of ambition" is not at all obvious.

Arab spring and Twitter connection aside, are they going to measure success in rainbows, or cash like the rest of the world?