skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I approve of the new Maps UI: http://maps.google.com/
I disagree. The Pope tweeting a bull or encyclical, that's like some 1951 version of The Future, where The Future is just like 1951 except everyone takes the Helobus to work. It's The Jetsons, nothing more.

When The Future really gets here, it will be obvious, but only in retrospect, and a few things will be major puzzles.
I think the dark grey bar across the top is a big problem for a few UX & psychological reasons.

First, it's mentally oppressive. The black bar at the top is like working in a room with a low ceiling painted black all day. It makes you feel boxed in.

Next, lighter colors that exist in the sky (blues, greys) tend to work better at the top of interfaces. If you consider the screen to be your full field of vision and relate it to what your eyes normally see when outside, the top-most area of the screen is "the sky". Making the absolute top part of a webpage black makes me think about a black sky which is ominous and indicates a storm is coming.

Finally, it just looks unfriendly and robotic. Blue is a more humanistic color and is more pleasing. I can't think of a worse choice for this newly-redesigned top bar than the dark grey/black they decided on.
If Google gives benefits in their search results to content websites that integrate with their own +1, I'm pretty sure that's not a problem ;-)
true. apparently windows phone has a concept of groups too but then that does not sync with the lists that you have on facebook.
Are there any NLP guys here? Can we improve this situation with modern technology?
Some interesting notes:

- Ipad is less powerful than Iphone (at least from a game developer's POV, regarding the screen is larger)

- Usability of the app catalog sucks for browsing

But what's the most important (meta) insight for me: Games (on iOS) are fully commoditized. There are twelve a dozen games for every genre and every theme and yet more developers are looking for gold there.
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His point was that the OS X applications he saw were just a thin layer over the CLI program - they provided no new abstractions. Whether the OS X application calls a library or calls the CLI program(s) is an implementation detail not relevant to his point.
> because who wants to share 1024x768 resolution pictures with their friends? ffs why do I then have a 15mp camera?

Hundreds of millions of people, apparently. Anyway, you can download the high res image nowadays via the link below the picture.
Yours may have, but mine has not. Google is well-known for rolling out different versions to see which ones 'perform' better with users, as measured by complaints or landing times or whatever UI-fu they employ.
Facebook developers upset by sudden aggressive banning
Oh cool, you found the discussion. Though I wasn't asking about the moderation exactly, I posted a similar question earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2704833

I just reviewed the guidelines and my feeling as to why it was removed is because of this:

Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com

p/s: Funnily, i think it applies to this post to. :)

Anyway, that is assuming that the post was moderated or deleted by the admins. It could just simply be the OP regretted posting it, deleted it and coincidentally the YC company that posted the job ad decided to remove the ad after receiving much criticism.
From watching the video, your game actually seems like it has a pretty fun core mechanic.

Go play Fruit Ninja, and then go hire the best artist you can afford. (and put fruit ninja in your keywords!)
Wow - I've never seen a cleaner font browsing interface, and they make using the fonts you look at so easy I didn't even realize I was doing it.

Let's hope the Web Fonts API doesn't go the way of the Translate API, or many webpages will be rendered in incorrect fonts. Horror!!
Shoot right after I wrote this too...
https://github.com/thedjpetersen/Google-Font-Api-Scraper
How Can You Create Your Own Labels Online?
Labels are very sticky types of tags which can be used for increasing your business identity. That is why idsketch is offering the reliable but affordable label printing solutions to its valued customers worldwide.
WakeMate 2.0 - For Real, This Time.
I think their goal was to make GitHub (and by extension git itself) more accessible to people who code, but are not familiar/comfortable enough with command line Unix or SSH to generate SSH keypairs. There are a lot of these people.

Although I agree that SSH keypairs feel more secure than a username/password, it would make setting up a new machine for development a lot easier than generating a new SSH keypair and adding it to my GitHub (or any other git server) account.
Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2703771
Holy crap, yes. This was incredibly alarming. SSH keys are far and away more secure than username/password. I would be far more comfortable if it were possible to use GitHub with nothing but my SSH key. The ability to create a passcode-secured key is vital to me, because the keys and the passcodes have to be stolen to be useful at all.

And if you use ssh-agent, I'm pretty sure it doesn't even send your private key; SSH creates a challenge that your key is used to compute, so even someone eavesdropping with a keylogger on the server won't be able to sniff your password.
Actually it's just Stickam. One that encourages you to be a leet idler.
This just seems surreal to me. It's nothing more but a gut feeling, but isn't it likely there will come a time when the novelty of playing "social games" wears off and people just leave them en masse? I've gone through this years ago, before there even was Facebook. But literally hundreds of millions of casual gamers still have to learn this lesson. And they just might.
I miss the Infocom games. One of the most enjoyable parts of them was the feeling that you were engaging with an actual person and their own personality, sense of humor, etc. The programmer and author of these games were often one and the same; at the least, they weren't a huge team of people writing off a spec.

I love many modern games but the better they get, the more they seem to be strangled by their own content pipeline; the requirement to produce AAA-level graphics, sound, writing, advertising means the scale of these things is very large and the appetite for risk is low.

All that being said, many of the Infocom games were stupidly obscure and irritating and relied on you doing something almost completely arbitrary at some given point to make things work. But they were just so good in so many ways that this was forgivable. All of the Zorks, the Enchanter series, Suspended, Starcross, Deadline... the list goes on and on.

It's worth noting that Infocom themselves moved into a dodgy neither fish nor fowl territory towards the end with added graphics and some pretty mediocre titles.

Almost 30 years on, I can't work on a house using a ladder and not think "It's too bad that the ladder analysis department closes at noon".
programming is hard, let's go shopping!
Facebook certainly benefits from network effects, but it will be interesting to see if Google can benefit from the potential of complementarity between its products that Facebook doesn't have. In my mind, two of Google's most valuable assets are Chrome and its affiliation with Android, both of which have been gaining marketshare. If they get a non-invasive Chrome toolbar and a sleek Android app out, you could get Google+ in front of a whole lot of users pretty quickly and make it a natural extension of people's mobile and browsing activity.

Also, Circles might help mitigate the network effect advantage of Facebook. Even if only one of your real-life circles (say your early adopting tech nerd friends) sign up at first, it can provide some functionality while it is still being more widely adopted by other groups.
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This would be great for something like node.js which is heavily nested. AFAIK it'd have to be highly configurable in order to dynamically determine nesting depth: closure, block, object literals, array declaration, etc...

Of course it'd also have to take up less space than the indentations themselves to be beneficial (assume 2 spaces). Still, I feel like there's some real potential here that could be used in something like cloud9ide.com since the majority of developers there will probably be node.js devs.
The only thing I don't like (and which I'm surprised can not be configured) is the red line above the particular service you're using. I just don't care for the color red all that much and would prefer green or blue.

As a matter of fact, I wish there were a way to integrate my Chrome/ Gmail/ Maps/ Docs/ other Google products with a consistent visual theme...along with about 500 other things. If I were given face time with Google's UI people there'd probably be mass resignations by day 3 :-)
Another suggestion - check out Never Gymless by Ross Enamait. It's a fantastic resource for people who either don't want to go to a gym or just those of us who work really late some days and don't want to miss a workout.

http://www.rosstraining.com/nevergymless.html
That depends on who you are and what you think about when you think about future. For some 70 years old men the present world might already feel like the Matrix in some ways.
> ... the email addresses are hidden, and it is impossible to tell which is an old/work email address rather than a personal one. I hope this is fixed soon.

Skype 5 has been broken in this way, showing a half dozen indistinguishable items naming the same person when you try to add someone to an existing call.

It still is broken, months later.
I'm really pressed for time, so this will be less word-crafted than I usually try.

If you'd like to filter on stories with those words
in the title, you can use the "title:" operator:

This seems completely unobvious.

Did you try sending us an email with your feature
requests?

No, because I tried using several combinations of the obvious things to try, got frustrated, and honestly couldn't bring myself to care. I know that's going to be frustrating to you, because no doubt you do care and want me to care as well, but I'm finding that whereas with SearchYC I could find pretty much anything I wanted really quickly, with HNSearch I simply can't. It returns stuff that seems irrelevant, or not what I wanted, and doesn't find the stuff I think it should.

And I'm too old, too tired, and too grumpy to try to work out why. In particular:

... you can use the "title:" operator:

... just seems like too much hard work.

So good luck, hope it works, but I'm probably not going to provide much high-quality feedback.
Txtzilla.com SMS PHP API (2¢/real texts anywhere). Awesome.
Whatever can make them close down Orkut faster, I'm down.
The problem is that friend groups in Facebook are an afterthought at best and horrifically broken at times. To the point that they're nearly useless. I've had multiple instances of Facebook deciding to ignore my default post settings for a type of post or album, posting it wide open when it should have been restricted to a certain friend group (mobile apps are especially bad about this, IME).

Things I want to share with friends of family may not be things I want coworkers seeing. I don't want to share photos of drunken antics with bar friends with my grandparents. I don't want updates about a sick relative to become office gossip.

Yes, the feature sort of exists in Facebook to kind of get this functionality, but there is a massive appeal in a network that treats the idea that not all acquaintances are equal as a core concept. And because it's a central value of the network, I have a lot more faith that it should actually work than the Facebook model, which has already failed me plenty of times in the past.
The results come via a rebranded Yahoo! search, which itself consists of rebranded Bing results.
I'm specially interested in the potential of a developer API for this new Google Sparks. Since users explicitly list their interests. If google let's developers access user's interest graph with AppEngine. Then we can do some really really cool customized user experience with it.

My brain is going crazy with ideas after reading about this. Just imagine the possibilities... hmmmmm :)
The "Keep Me Posted" button brings me to

https://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/+/learnmore/notifyme.html

which is a 404. I had to manually delete "-GB" to get a 200.
It doesn't show them for non-Google+ users, but I assume that Google thought it's a marginal use case in the long run ;-)
Download from all filehosts at one location
Dear github: clicking "published" on a project deletes it from github. That was a surprise!
I gave this a spin as well and was fairly happy with it, at least as far as it goes. Takeout has a fairly limited scope, but of course the DLF (greatest project name EVAR) has done more good than just this.
Real time server checkin map using WebKit CSS animations
I'm kind of surprised that at this point this kind of data isn't in some sort of git repository that people can send pull requests when data needs to be changed.
FWIW, Diaspora has had "aspects" from very early on in its development.
It's also a bit ironic that starting strength will teach him the proper mechanics for most compound lifts, and then Crossfit will turn around and teach him how to work as quickly as possible with an often times alarming disregard for form.

If anything, I'd look into barbell complexes as a way to prepare for Crossfit.

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_trai...

Check out the Cosgrove Evil 8, it's one of my all time favorites.
Just this "demo". Makes sense considering some of the animation and interactivity they have on the small windows. I doubt the actual product uses Flash for anything other than, maybe, sound and video (as does GMail/YouTube/etc).
What is your definition of small?

You don't think there were MANY accounts that logged in from new locations in that time frame? Think wireless networks...

I simply refuse to believe that with such a gigantic service they could determine that only X and Y were compromised by "one person" so accurately and so quickly--especially considering they haven't even implemented a build/deploy-time test suite that, among many other things, asserts that something like the auth system works actually works.

Your suggestion is pure speculation like you say, and, really, any application that logs something like "invalid auth" usually(!) immediately aborts the session (since that's the logical thing to do); it doesn't continue it...
Evidence based software development
Some time ago I read the slides from Greg Wilsons excellent presentation Bits of Evidence.

Today I found out that it's on YouTube (see comment).

I find it fascinating that the scientific studies of software development apparently seems to be mostly ignored or unknown to our community.
They didn't say anything yet. But yes, I'm sure they'll have some exciting API for us to toy with.

AppEngine + Social Circles + Spark interest graph = drools
You should be able to use the normal Google Map zoom in/out slider on the left side of the map. It should work just like a normal map.
I can't speak for anyone else but for me purpose, if I distill the meaning, means that I walk away from the game richer.

Eg

I have experienced an interesting emotion due to a story and the characters. Or I have realized a principle thanks to an interesting strategy (happened to me lately with Defense Grid - I realized I shouldn't build the longest path possible but maximize the times an enemy walks around a defense tower; this translates directly into books I'm reading now about featuritis and user experience - minimize the number of features, maximize their usefulness).

I'm not a native speaker so maybe there's a better word for it that eludes me.

Edit: Story is definitely one (maybe the most important) cornerstone of purpose!
You can embed font declarations in CSS (the @font-face declaration), specifying a path to a download. The browser will download the font and show it on web pages with the declaration.

Google offers an array of freely-available (open source, actually, I think, but I'm not 100% sure) fonts that are hosted on their servers that you can use.
What companies came to mind when you saw the site?
It would be pretty easy, too, using Inform 7.
Better: bitcoins!
I recall seeing a spreadsheet of ycombinator graduates (sorry, can't seem to find it now - will link it when I do) and noticed that a significantly large percentage of its founders were ivy league/1st-tier school graduates. I bring up this point because you seem to think age is a factor that brings you down... but the statistics would have it that even a candidate in his mid-20s from a non-prominent school could not get accepted to yc.
What type of job Matt? Also, open to PA/MV or just the city?
"If you are in the high school - college - internships - jobs life stage"

Read: Not you.
I would be very interested in some sort of summary how this HN post increased your sales.

Seriously: we (Blade Polska s.c.) have been through this also. We did everything according to common marketing wisdom about Tap4Two (even the landing page! [1] and real-life video [2]) -- it concluded in 10-20 sales each day. Mostly on the German Store.

We're planning runnig a facebook campaign targeted for Germans, spending all the revenue game has made so far. We will share the outcome for sure.

Your game looks like a lots lots of work with 3d engine, very impressive. What framework did you use?

[1] http://www.tap4two.com
[2] http://tumblr.com/x1a1pmizw9
Anchorhead is sort of a Lovecraftian story.

Violet is a fun, short, one-room game. You have to finish writing the last thousand words of your PhD thesis, or your girlfriend Violet will leave you and go back to Australia. Mostly this means you have to figure out how to deal with distractions. The characterization and narration (in Violet's voice) are charming.

These aren't Infocom games, they're recent games written for Inform. You should be able to find them online, probably playable in the browser.
> People who take internship opportunities from emails they receive are usually too lazy to look themselves, which probably shows a lack of drive. I say usually, because this isn't always true.

that's a ridiculous line of thinking.

emails are sent to department heads because outsiders typically deal with them often and don't have a relationship with the students. the emails are then passed along as a service to everybody.

what would a student with "drive" do differently to find an internship? walk door-to-door carrying 100lbs of stones in a backpack to submit applications?
Helping Make Support Ubiquitous
We just released one of our side projects SUPPORTbuddy (http://supportbuddy.org) a free app for iPhone, Android and Facebook. The inspiration for the project came from a team members experience working as a life coach at a residential treatment program for adolescents during college. It exposed him to how important support really is when people are faced with tough mental and physical health challenges.

We would really appreciate any feedback on the app or help getting the word out. Thanks!

iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/supportbuddy/id432427238

Android: https://market.android.com/details?id=org.supportbuddy.app
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-multiple-sig...
I sometimes reflexively type 'l' or 'i' in Unix terminal windows rather than anything appropriate or functional.
Anchorhead looks promising, thank you.
The first couple of check ins for go lang chronicle evolution from C to Go
> I have one friend who I both bike with and play board games with.

I think that's your problem. If you keep your social circles separate you don't have to worry about this, online or off.
This sentence is baffling to me. Do you not know what Wave does? Really? Or do you NEED a marketing person to tell you how to use a product?
wow! This article is junk it doesn't say anything. I guess in order to hit the front page It must contain the words startup and entrepreneur.
Looking at this: http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/policy/ it seems the data will be available through an api (i presume oauth )
This is exactly what I needed...Thanks.
Ask HN: Can you slow down with all that G+
Google is all over the News page,I understand that but slow down please.
I suggest buying Vibram shoes and start running gently. My minor back pain went away and it feels great. Gotta ease in the calves and lower legs though.
Depends on the parser. Infocom was pretty good, especially toward the end with the larger VMs.
Butts are for Pooping
It's just an infrastructure problem. Hardware scaling is hard to get right. So it's easier for the engineers to have it released by small increments. This way you can slowly adjust hardware as the need arises. If any problems show up, it will be easier to track it down and fix it.
This happens from time to time. Threads critical of, or problematic for y combinator companies or affiliated companies are killed without warning or explanation.

Pg has to protect his assets I guess. This is capitalism after all.

This is what is meant by having contacts and influence in the industry. Pulling strings and all that. One of the most oft cited advantages of being part of yc is being able to call pg for favors, I imagine that includes having threads killed on here.

EDIT: actual job ads can probably be killed by the companies who posted them, however I have seen multiple user submitted links killed in this context, including one I posted myself.

EDIT2: for reference, here is the link i posted that got killed when near the top of the front page:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com

we were having a nice discussion about how the top search term referer for reddit is "jailbait" then boom, dead. The motivation for having that one killed isn't hard to see. I'll see if i can find the link to the thread itself...
I think what's really remarkable is that Fog Creek does it with products that, honestly, don't seem to have that much "cool" factor. No disrespect intended to Joel or the employees, but I'm somewhat amazed that a bug tracker and a wrapper around Mercurial garner as much excitement from the developers as they do.
Hey Google...F*** Social.
Noone will care, and noone will use it. If it won't help you get laid, or boost your ego, it'll be useless. We human beings are not rational.
Thought Experiment [or What Happens When We Live to 600+]
Zoom is a nice OS X app for running IF games, and it incorporates a GUI interface to ifdb.

http://www.logicalshift.demon.co.uk/mac/zoom.html

The developer of Zoom also does the Mac IDE for Inform 7.
Another good source of information is Ross Emanait @ rosstraining.com. His plan is geared more toward boxing and other combat sports, which I just always found more fun. E.g. throwing a heavy sand bag around as if you were getting ready to fight a bear, and so on.
> "I can't think of a worse choice for this newly-redesigned top bar than the dark grey/black they decided on."

Really? Did you try much, because... danger red, hot pink, puke green... that took like three seconds to think up. Ergo, I think you are engaging in at least quite a bit of hyperbole here, leading me to consider dubious pretty much everything else you said.
I think you are undervaluing the rich partner's contribution. I'd rather be "#2" in a well funded startup than the "CEO" of one with no cash.

If the idea is sweet and you are able to lead the team to success, you will become loaded. His coding/input is irrelevant--he has the cash to get you there. Plus, when it starts rocking if you are the leader he can never let you leave.

If he isn't comfortable with you leading and there’s fight about it, then like the previous poster said, it just accelerates the inevitable.
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