skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have my doubts about that claim. In most cases, the 'you' that thinks something 'is easily explainable with a few words of plain text' often is a different 'you' from the one that struggled grasping the concept. That struggle is what made you think the concept is 'easy'.

Next time you encounter such a 'aha erlebnis', try saying the 'few words of plain text' to someone who still has to master the subject, and _immediately_ test him or her on the subject. I predict that, oftentimes, (s)he understood nothing of what you said.

Case in point: at university, I had a prof who said that it was perfectly OK if you could not do any practice integral. Trust me, he said, if, a month from now, you do these exercises, you will not understand what is hard about them.
> So negligent actions are not covered by insurance

Depends on the kind of insurance. E&O (errors & omissions) most assuredly does cover negligence.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_liability_insuranc...
Being overweight and having lost 35 lbs this year with plenty to go(I'm still overweight), I would say that you are more likely to work out and be active if you lose weight. That doesn't require much if any exercise, just an intelligent diet.

I'm not anti-exercise and I've worked out a lot in the past, but I've found that being skinnier makes being active easier and more fun. Moving sucks if you're carrying an extra 50-100 lbs. around. Most skinny people don't really get this.

So, I've focused on nailing the diet and that works for me. I basically didn't exercise more than once a week so far this year, but now that I'm down quite a bit, I am naturally finding myself to be more active.

In the long run both exercise and eating right are incredibly important, so if you're overweight and want to be more active, get rid of the extra weight and you might find yourself exercising more by default.
Zynga might file for IPO as early as Wednesday
I find I feel a sort of stage fright at the thought of posting something for my 800 facebook 'friends' to read.
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POP? It's leaner.

Seriously, it's an absolutely perfect match for exporting everything, and it's easy to set up, and you get it in the format of your choice. Infinitely easier than having them support only formats they have time to write exporters for. It's also easily resumable, unlike the 8GB zip file I'd otherwise have to download.
I've been using it. I like it a lot, but I can't figure out how to "git add ." in it!

I don't know why people are trashing this app. It's not exactly hard to use the command line if you don't like this app.

Using a GUI on git is just a convenience, and probably most useful for new git users.
Bad sign:

> 404. That’s an error.

> The requested URL /intl/en-GB/+/learnmore/notifyme.html was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
"Maybe the Olympics isn’t a good comparison, but where [IBM's Special Events Web Service] has 2000 square feet, Apple has one million square feet — 500 times as much."

How about "data center" is just a cover story, and the real purpose of the building is manufacturing? The big (water) tank would make more sense for a manufacturing facility than a data center (Cringely's speculation of diesel doesn't make sense - it is awfully large for diesel).

Some aerial footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDXSSi1qStA The end of the building nearest the helicopter looks like a loading dock for semis.

Overhead imagery of the completed building:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/01/apples-new-data-cente...
There is very little parking - that hurts the manufacturing theory (unless it is highly automated...).
TFA is a Slashdotism.
MapCrunch - Random Google Street View - teleport around the world
You can put people in as many circles as you want.
I wonder if there's a market in a corporate friendly version of FFox or Safari/Chrome - MSI packaging, updates on schedule, policy enforcement, etc.
IE has all of these things, and they're used to a large extent in many big organizations...
Interesting concept, but they left out the punchline: Exactly what do newspapers really think? Do they have a liberal, conservative or corporate bias?
For buddycloud's social location server (https://github.com/buddycloud/location-butler) we started out with Google but the rate limits and day limites were too low and they forbid caching. Now buddycloud uses Cloudmade which works well but has dirtier data (city details do not always match up into the correct fields).
Zynga plans IPO worth up to $2B
I believe the author means to use "small" as a descriptor of volume rather than of measure, and "mass" as a generic noun rather than a quantity. In fact, interpreting "a small mass" as "something light" would be incorrect without a constant density.

It's not a great sentence, because it's easy to get confused like that, but it is correct.
Super interesting article
You can see the new navbar in action on Google+: https://plus.google.com/

I preferred the lighter theme personally…
Google advertises on their site a native iPhone (OS4) App as "very soon". But no native App for Blackberry, WebOS and Windows Phone. For that devices they list a web client.

If Google+ (plus.google? How to spell it?) is a success I am uneasy how much control Google is getting over the whole IT industry.
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> but there is a site out there that they don’t know about and won't be prepared for.

Care to illucidate us?
He makes great points about MacRuby. I started tooling around with it for an app a few months ago, and though it was a great interface, it didn't make working in Cocoa any easier, and I still had to learn a lot of weird technology choices in Cocoa.

Though, I think the difficulty of making a complex GUI in Cocoa shines in the OS X world. It's a lot harder to make a working UI, so you want to get the design right the first time, so you don't have to go back and re-do.
I had the same experience with my first Cocoa Touch/UIKit project. The GUI stuff far eclipsed the rest of the app in terms of development effort, which I did not expect. This hadn't been the case with previous GUI stuff I'd done (Windows apps, game UIs and the web), and took me completely by surprise.

The "no layouting engine" issue mentioned in the article applies to Cocoa Touch in the same way as it does to Cocoa, with the added wrinkle that if you want to support autorotation, this bites you even harder. Yes, there's the "struts & springs" system, but it's very limited - no equivalent to 'min-width' or 'max-width', and yeah I can't believe I'm citing CSS as a good example. It also doesn't help at all if you need to change the relative placement due to autorotation, or if you need to adjust positioning depending on content.

Styling is another issue - most UI elements can't even have custom colours. (this will improve with iOS 5, but not until iOS4 compatibility is no longer an issue) The default button looks awful. You have to come up with your own table view cells for pretty much anything but the most bare bones of lists.

In the end, I actually built my own fully fledged layouting system, which is content sensitive, has a fairly flexible elasticity system and supports a "flow" layouting mode which is somewhat similar to the way display:inline-block; HTML elements are laid out (but with grow-to-fit). I also built styleable versions of some of the views. If only I wanted to be in the business of building iOS apps, I'd be extremely well prepared at this stage. :-)

My recent foray into Cocoa on the Mac actually has been easier, but that's probably because you can get away with using the default widget styles. Apart from table cells anyway.
Zynga to File for IPO
It's frustrating that they don't let you switch for different services. I have my own domain under Google Apps I use for "work stuff" as well as a Gmail account I use for stuff I don't care about.

If I visit YouTube after using my work account I get that crappy error page. There is no reason my YouTube session should be tied to what email account I'm looking at. I don't see why at the very least it can't say: "Hey, you're logged into two accounts, would you like to switch?"
Apple Brings Former Mozilla Security Chief Onboard
I don't disagree with that sentiment for use during development; but for a long-lived application I don't think it's nearly as big a deal.

I don't know about you, but I've personally found that after a few months of working on an application the models tend to be pretty stable.
New Google Web Fonts Interface
Maybe they'll make something like Twitter...and Blogger...combined into ONE!

Nah. That's too obvious.
Upon closer inspection of the cover image, I finally realized what the knife body actually is. Crafty!
Skype employees were briefed in plain English about options
More or less predictable?
Ask HN: Why is this 131-point posting critical of a YC job advert dead?
I know this is getting far too meta for HN, but why is this posting critical of a YC job advertisement on HN dead?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2703771

I think it's a valid criticism, with a good amount of interesting discussion that startup founders (and others) could learn from.

Is HN really so disconnected that it can't accept criticism? Or was this marked dead because this is (apparently) an advert for a YC startup?

Until this post, I hadn't even realized HN had advertisements of any sort. This opaque posting of advertisements, and the fact that this criticism is now dead, among other recent events here, is really turning me off of this forum.
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- Whiteboard in every office.

- Offices for everyone. With doors.

- A break room with several nice couches or arm chairs. At a previous employer it was great to work for 10 or 12 hours and be able to relax for a bit.

- Shower. Fewer people than you think will take advantage of this, but I, for one, like the ability to bike to work, and shower. Also for those 12-14 hour days a shower can be a real perk-me-up.

Things you should not install but that I have seen. This predated the dot-com boom, and was from the S+L mess. Before he got sent to jail a guy in Dallas made a huge fortune and built his dream office building. Ten years later we moved in.

- Small dance floor.

- Murphy bed in the boss office suite.

- A multi-level living area suite (kitchen, bedrooms, living rooms, four car garage) reachable from inside the main office suite, but cunningly built so you could not tell from the outside it was there.

Okay the last item _was_ rather keen.
I really don't want a big black bar on top of my gmail.
The solution is simple: move away from using Google for searches. There are alternatives like Bing, Yahoo and Duck Duck Go.
I liked how non-obvious it is what they do or plan to do :-) Startups need a good sense of humor.
I vote for 2.

If you are able to create an original theme that offers something new to designers and developers (who are the main customers of premium themes) you can make thousands of dollars in only a couple months. Study the themes with several sales to see what they have in common and incorporate those things into your own theme.

It's also a great opportunity to find customers looking for support and outsourcing.
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Thank you for your replies. I am talking about Amputees (who doesn't have limbs to use a keyboard or mouse) or Blind (who are unable to read). It's highly unlucky that Facebook or any other social network will read my post and make the suitable changes to there products.

The reason why i suggested to have a different social network for disables is that, it's easy to maintain the application, add features and improvements to it (that would suit disables). If we are to integrate our disable friendly social media with Facebook or any other Social Network, we will definitely come across issues while trying to integrate there social network to our application. Every time Facebook changes a functionality or adds a feature, we have to constantly keep updating/modifying our application to adhere to it. So having our own social media created will definitely overcome this problem.

Recently i created an application that could send a tweet or an email by patients who has neuro-muscular disorders (total-paralysis). what i found is that, social media could definitely make an impact of the lives of disables as they could share there day-to-day hardships and triumphs in life. However, i agree with the two of you that creating a separate social network for disables would separate able users with disables, so i hope existing organizations who are involved in social media would come forward and address this issue.

Your thoughts on this...
Anybody interested in this startup idea?
Super like! Can't wait to try it. Looks much easier than tinkering with raw CSS.

Edit: 2 lines of code were all I needed to add. Ridiculously easy.
when I go south to visit relatives in Tacoma or Olympia I feel a little like I'm going back in time about a decade, or visiting some underdeveloped country (bad food, bad transportation, almost no entertainment other than TV, malls, movie theaters and TV, etc.).

I'd be curious to hear your further thoughts regarding that.
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Their business model isn't dependant on it. This makes it not worth the risk to sell personal data (the risk being bad publicity).
Inside Google+ - How the search giant plans to go social
I don't believe they can pinpoint "the affected users" (supposedly below 100) with such accuracy. It's not responsible to assume nobody else logged in from another location just because only one person logged into 100+ accounts.

It would have been easy to announce without panicking the existing users. By not announcing it at all, and trying to stay below the radar, you incite everyone who's unaffected and reads the news--or, at least, they did me. It's a cheap business move, not "the integrity of your data is our first priority".
Any interest in either open sourcing said layout system or perhaps even selling it to those of us who struggle with these sort of problems (a la Sensible TableView)?
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I really can't stand the black bar at the top of the screen. After so many years of low contrast it feels way too distracting. But the redesign isn't going to bother me that much since I've been using DuckDuckGo exclusively for months.

Edit: If you can't stand the black bar either, just switch to the secure version of Google: https://encrypted.google.com/ They haven't changed it yet and it usually lags behind on updates.
After SF, Boulder, New York and Vancouver, it's time for the european capital of North America to get an accelerator program.
Pretty much everyone who comes to Montreal ends up wanting to stay here, so this is a golden ticket for anyone looking for a bit of variety!
Looking forward to seeing what talent we attract - the advisor list is pretty impressive in any case.
"I really wish someone else had created this."

You mean like any number of startup social networks each year that fail because they can't get the traction which Google is more likely to? It's sad, but that's the way it is - there are innovative and good social networking sites out there, but without the backing that a Google product has they keep failing.
You could have a better thanks.php page. It took me a second to realize the submission actually went through.
That's basically how Google Reader does it, too. The problem is, as you said, if I comment on something someone shared, I have no idea who can see that comment. I was definitely a bit weirded out the first time someone I'd never met replied to a comment of mine on someone else's shared item.
> The cross browser web already exists. It's called AS3.

AS3 is not cross-AS3-player.

Does it have two (or more) interoperable implementations? Can it run on platforms not supported by Adobe?

While single-vendor closed-source plugin is strictly speaking cross-browser, it doesn't have things we want from "cross-browser" solutions:

• freedom to run it on any computing platform (people run HTML+JS on their Amigas, because they can!), now and in the future (what if Adobe decides that maintenance of Flash Player is unprofitable? How useful would be archive.org in 20 years when none of supported platforms is alive?)

• competition between implementations, so that if one stars sucking or does something user-hostile, competitors will take over (You don't have browsers with hidden hard-to-delete cross-site cookies — they compete on privacy features!)

> You cannot build a 3d racing game in HTML5+JS in the browser.

There's a quite convincing proof of concept that you can: http://helloracer.com/webgl/

It doesn't work on iPhone and I'm not sure if it works 64-bit Linux, but that's not a problem, right? :)
Not to mention, er, YouTube.
I see what you mean. I will correct that. and thank you for registering :-)
What about cycling to and from work? By the time you get there you are energised and at the end of the day it wakes you up too.
I run http://hackernewsers.com, please could you add that?
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Would you mind fielding some questions? I'm interested to know if the photo sharing is any good? Do the full-resolution versions stick around? Are the management features any good?
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Well, Apple's repos and bugtrackers are internal so we may never know. However the differences between them can indicate separate repos or at least far away branches. N9's browser is built from WebKit2, so it may be also more prone to crashes due to Chrome-like process separation, a feature Lion and iOS 5 will also have.
How is this useful if everyone else hasn't already downloaded those fonts? Everyone has Ariel. That's why it is so popular.
I like the new navbar. I think it will draw more attention to google's other products. It also doesn't disturb me from the rest of the page, since it just seems like the window has been reduced vertically.
This is the sort of thing that seems hugely distracting for a day or two, and in a week or two you'll be so used to it that, if someone were to take it away, going back to the way it was would seem like a huge distraction. For about two days.
YAWN - Yet Another Way to do Nothing

BTW, thanks for giving up on Google Health. This is way better.
First, thanks to Harjeet for doing this.

The biggest question I had for a while about YC has already been answered. That is, how much does the educational background of an applicant impact the analysis of an application.

I know a few former and current YC founders and they all seem to have the same thing in common: CS degrees from elite universities.

Harjeet put my concerns to rest with his answer that it is only relevant if it directly relates to the problem being solved.

I'm sure a PhD in Machine Learning from Stanford doesn't go unnoticed even if the problem being solved is technically somewhat simple. However, it is nice to see that everyone is treated equally at least on paper.
I get the black bar on the secure version too. :(
Argh this is terrible, I fear change.
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I would add to the above comment that it helps to use the KISS principle for marketing - (No not Keep It Simple Stupid).

I'm talking about KISS the band!

You basically need to tell yourself that you made the Best F--ing Game in the World and use that to fuel you past all the disappointments in the marketing - cuz it IS hard work and there is no magic bullet.

Also, you should be using this game to build up an "installed base" for your next game. Get fans on facebook. Build up a mailing list. Have a way to message existing users. etc.

One last thing, since I'm on my soapbox, is that I think this whole $0.99/unit business model is somewhat unsustainable and really works to the advantage of the big publishers and against indies. It really is in the best interests of the publishers to keep the accepted price point at $0.99 because only they have the economies of scale and connections to move enough units to make a hit - or if it isn't a hit to just move on to the next title.
http://hn-books.com

I'll submit an email.
Skype adds XMPP support, IM interoperability next?
I have used it for a couple of one off things. For the most part you get what you pay for. If it seems too real to be true it is. Don't expect to get 1,000 facebook likes or 10,000 twitter followers for $5. You won't get social proof/traffic that amounts to anything. Take the $5 and buy a beer for a well connected friend, you will have much better success.
Space junk sends astronauts scrambling for safety
Google is criticized for never updating their style and never taking design risks. They are now updating their style and taking design risks. Some people will never be happy.
Great article for sure, but I take issue with these bits:

> Unfortunately for everyone involved, every OS X application that’s showed up over the years gave up and tried to turn CLI commands into buttons.

It's my understanding that for a really long time there was no linkable library for interacting with Git. So unless these devs wanted to first write said library they were pretty much left with putting buttons on the CLI.

You might say "Well they should have written one, then!" but that is quite a risky capital expense on a piece of software that could easily flop. GitHub did it (with Summer of Code's help), but they have umpteen uses of such a library even if nobody uses GitHub for Mac.

> It blows my mind that no one tried to do anything special. Git (and its DVCS cousins like Mercurial & Bazaar) provide an amazing platform to build next generation clients — and it’s like the entire OS X ecosystem left their imagination at home.

I dunno, I think GitX (especially its forks) does some pretty special things, including making it dead simple to stage/unstage/discard single lines of files.
I'm testing Google+ as we speak. I can confirm that you can add people to several circles. However, I haven't yet been able to test how people in those circles see an item that you share.

As far as I've understood, Circles are your personal aliases for groups of people and they are not visible to other people. This is really useful in certain situations, but it can also create some confusion when people are commenting and discussing about your photo, as they don't have clear visibility who else is seeing the photo and their comments.
MySpace could be sold for $20 million
Don't Yahoo and DDG use Bing for their search results? If so, Bing is the only alternative on your list.
1. Does YC have any plans to hire associates/interns?

2. What 3 early-stage startups excite you most that haven't been funded by YC?

3. Do you personally invest in startups?

4. What do you like most about your job?

5. Do you have some cool YC-related stories you could share?

6. What's a typical day like for you? (If "typical" doesn't apply, what'd you do today?)
Apparently I need an account there to see the data in question.

So, to anyone who is more motivated than I am: Should I be worried? I have an Assembla account, though I haven't touched it since I discovered GitHub.
That is true, eventually our brains will readjust and we will tune it out as usual. I suppose for the meantime the huge contrast will draw more attention to Google+ when they release its full features for everyone.
Thank you. I did know the naming issue. WhatFont was a temporary name. The tool got released by my friend (he tweeted to 14k followers) and became popular faster than I could change it.
Afaik, not really. Mails in GMail are not represented in a hierarchical tree structure and thus don't directly match the IMAP protocol.
That's the best web demo I've ever seen. I'm a jaded person, but I clicked on all the things and did all the stuff and felt pride at using their (impressively easy) interface. Serious unexpected design chops from Google!
I have corrected it
French search engine sues Google for $425mn