skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing user engagement through the gamification of Jing.
Yes. I'm fine with the new look but what I actually need is something like RSS for Calendars. Every time I attempt to connect my Calendar to something else I end up adding things manually instead because it's so much hassle. There are some huge economic opportunities going to waste in this area; with a few changes Calendar could be as successful and prominent as Google Maps/Earth.
4G LTE technology. That's hugely valuable to everyone in the mobile space.
This is kind of interesting, but there's a lot of grey-on-grey on the top bar, and I'm not sure if it's an accident or not but the top bar extends down to underneath the first headline.

It would be neat if you moved the search somewhere more prominent too.
exactly my thoughts during the presentation.
This is it - would a user pay a "delete all your messages just this once for $1" fee, or would lump sum work instead?

I'm also wondering about maybe selling credits instead - e.g. buy 20 deletes for $9.99. My fear with credits is that it would make the tool too complex. But again - I can only try :)
The tech IPO floodgate truly has opened. This is like the 5th high profile IPO within the past few weeks.
No. You have to install sshd on the iPhone before you can SSH into it.
And we've whitespace..!
Totally agree; and if it results in a support email, that's my profit blown in no time. At the same time - if everybody who signed in to the tool gave me 50 cents, I'd be a happy man :)
it sorta does. If you hit tab while typing a method name, it'll guess at which one you're trying to type and populate the args as well. It's not particularly useful, but it does indicate that there is code in the app that is trying to do this, and could be improved.
If you say that, you don't know anything about Access.

Access is a veritable swiss army knife for non-computer people. A smart business user can do all sorts of things in an afternoon that normally require a programmer a few days to get done.

Example: My wife is a financial person whose employer doesn't have $350k to create custom reports in whatever Oracle nighmare her billing and finance system is implemented in. She can, however, export some data and do the reporting/analysis that she needs to get her job done.

The new versions are super-powerful. If your employer publishes lots of list content on SharePoint, you can treat the lists as a sort of database table in Access, and do lots of ad-hoc reporting with a tool that is right there on your PC anyway.

That said, Access gets evil when some dope decides to implement some critical application for a global company on his PC.
Try it. See if you like it. The only way to know whether you want to do something or not is after you've experienced it.
Hm, the top bar should not extend down to be underneath the first headline so that might be a bug. Mind taking a screenshot for me?

And I almost completely forgot about the search box, will fix it. Thanks.
Ask HN: What happened to Who's Hiring this month?
I agree, I really like the automatic updating that Chrome uses.

I think that both Firefox and IE will eventually change to that model also. It gets out security patches more quickly, ensures that most everyone is using the latest renderer, has the latest features, and best of all doesn't nag me about updates.

There are definitely disadvantages to automatic updates, but for me personally I find the advantages too tempting to go back.
Really simple notes
http://i.imgur.com/i3y8u.png

I figured out what it is, it's the browser being zoomed in. When it's zoomed out it's right.
People at the top only need to make a few big strategic decisions a year. Some of them, purely through dumb luck, will make the rights one and continue to rise. This is not meritocracy, it's a crap shoot.

People at the bottom make lots of little decisions every day. They may get lucky now and then, but over a year, the occasional bad luck will cancel that out. So you have more meritocracy at the bottom, and less the higher up you go.

In a large organization like RIM, the principle talent of senior management is not strategic decision making, or management, but rent seeking: appropriating the product of the lower ranks for their own glory. Other principle qualities: fine grooming and dress, a firm hand shake, politics, public speaking, and punctuality. These qualities are practiced daily. You can't fake it. Strategic decision making? A few times a year.

Add a little random luck in strategic decisions, and you have the CEO. There are enough contenders for his position that someone, somewhere will have a string of good enough fortune to land them there, regardless of merit.

[hat tip to Taleb re: executives and strategic decision making]
Hi jsean, David from Intercom here.

I can't talk about the "relation" metric as I'm not as familiar with this part of the product as I am with others, but hopefully I can help you with some of your other questions.

Currently with the widget the user can read new messages from you, write new messages to you, and reply to either type of message.

Right now the behaviour is that, if a user doesn't have any unread messages, clicking on the inbox link brings them to a new message form. There's also a "New" button in the inbox (seen here: http://intercomapp.com/images/marketing/shots/5.jpg ) that brings them to the same form.

If you have an Exceptional account (getexceptional.com) you can see the widget in action.

We're using Qwerly at the moment for social data.

If you have any further questions, let me know here or fire us a tweet @intercomapp.

David
I almost lost a toe/foot due to the resistant bacteria in the Yamuna. Internal and International pressure must be brought to bear, to remedy this dire situation.
I would bet that Google wouldn't let this happen unless Chrome superceded Firefox's market share by a very significant margin -- but then again, the asking bid price for the default search engine is probably directly proportional to Firefox's market share, so at that point, why wouldn't Google hang on to the privilege (it wouldn't cost much).

Does Opera have a default search engine?
Could you by any chance make the source code easily accessible? I don't know about others, but I prefer to verify the source of any extensions that have access to sites into which I log in.
Table's <tr> height can be reduced, and add search on the top to the <tr> -> <td>
CSS3 Transitions with custom easing functions
My frame of reference is that most academic technical presentations are bad, just like most software produced during university research is bad to the point of being impossible to run anywhere else.

You may feel that the information in a single slide with three formulas and a few bullets of prose makes it worth the effort to put up with a bad slide, but that doesn't make it a good slide by any means.
Your momma doesn't have to be there to see the grandkid pics. You can add people to circles on Google+ with only an email address (doesn't have to be Gmail) and it will just email them updates/pics.
This seems pretty cool, but is there a way to filter out certain file/folder patterns (or globs) on a per-project basis rather than globally?
My least favorite VC behaviour?
CSS3 Linear Gradients
Nice. I had been using Georgify [0], but it doesn't display deeply nested comments well.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjfdfaleomlfanfeh...

Edit: After a few minutes of clicking around, Georgify still feels prettier.
I'll turn it around. The only features of office I really like is the spell/grammar checker. I really wish MS would sell it as an independent application that can be used with any text application. Also, excell is OK, but other than that I really don't like office.
I'm not a good designer by any means, but I've learned a lot by finding sites I like and just poring over their CSS to find out why they did what they did.
from textmate, to vim and now sublimetext2. I'm not that proficient on editors, but sublimetext is being great. fast and simple very configurable. my editor of choice for a couple of months.
I thought the same thing. Now I feel a bit bad. :(
The New York Times Enables In-App Subscriptions For Their iPad And iPhone Apps
"Anything you can brute force with your hardware can be brute forced on someone else's hardware."

How doesn't this argument apply to increasing work factor in bcrypt?
Zynga files for IPO at $1bn valuation, lists Facebook as its biggest weakness
Standard lightbox image technique, pretty nice once you get used to it. Click image to expand, click almost anywhere to collapse.
Social Media Search Tips for Cops & Law Enforcement Analysts
Thanks for sharing this experience with us.

1. When you mentioned about 1 or 2 users signing up randomly - what's your overall inbound traffic to your app like?

2. I am guessing you did not particularly do any paid advertising, except for submitting them to various directories, is that right?
Yep, first cycle of Springboard will finish end of July, so let's see what happens from there!
No one's talking about making a good living this year. The question is what happens next year, and the year after, and so on. The people currently working for RIM will not continue to make a good living if RIM continues its downward trajectory.
Maybe in Farmville cash...
Its Microsoft, but I'm still happy about it. Always a good thing to have a test like this. Hopefully very soon the numbers will be 100% across the board.
I think he's talking about the repeated rebuffs to the calls for audits of the supposed gold at Fort Knox by people such as Ron Paul (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/31/rep-paul-calls-fo...)

The "conspiracy" theory goes that this gold has either been loaned (that's why Ron Paul phrased his question to also check if they're "obligated") or sold to drive down gold price thereby making dollars are more attractive investment than gold. Hence the call for an audit. The "conspiracy" theory further suggests that all the world's central banks are doing this.
I disagree.

I've got Office 2011 for the Mac and Office 2010 for Windows. One of the first things I did was go and look to see if they'd improved the templates and they simply aren't very good.

I agree that people get bored of seeing the same ones over and over but that's part of the same problem - with so few good choices people all migrate around the small number of least bad options.

As for it being trendy to hate on PowerPoint, I don't know who you hang out with but talking about any presentation software in any terms isn't trendy among people I see... I get that certain views become fashionable but I don't think PowerPoint is the sort of thing that people round on in that way, it's a bit to "meh" to generate a bandwagon.
Right. For the amount that RIM leaks and shows ahead of time, they should be delivering more complete products. Anything really new from them in the past 3-4 years have been really half-baked. I was a 9530 user (storm1). Woof that was rough in the begining.
US authorities have access to European cloud data
Gmail’s got a beautiful new look and you can try it now
And even then you have to somehow find the IPs, which is pretty hard if they aren't connected via WiFi.
A much better article. Techcrunch is useless.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230444780457641...

heh. Just realized the wsj article is 2 days old. Still better than TC's.
Hmm... $90.6 million of net income in 2010? Can it sustain the growth to justify a double-digit billion market cap?
Indeed, but this time someone is actually making a profit! That's a refreshing change.
Why Twitter Should be Very Worried about Google+
One thing that religion does very effectively is convince the masses that environmental and societal problems are not in their own hands, and are dictated by complex external processes which they will never understand.

"Spirituality" is a problem here. It's not part of the solution. This article is intellectual masturbation, imagining some interplay between science and religion. The truth is that we need less religion and more scientific awareness amongst the people in this region if they are to solve their human-created problems.
When you mentioned about 1 or 2 users signing up randomly - what's your overall inbound traffic to your app like?

In June, the app's homepage received 1,344 unique visitors. It's typically around 40 a day. So yeah - conversation rate really isn't very good ;)

I am guessing you did not particularly do any paid advertising, except for submitting them to various directories, is that right?

Completely right; I don't know enough about paid advertising to be effective, so avoid it altogether. For now at least :)
A few media outlets including http://twitter.com/#!/TheNextWeb have claimed this means Zynga has a $1 Billion valuation. That's not true. Zynga is RAISING $1 billion. Some of the stock will not be available on the IPO day.
Thanks for trying it out!
Also comment collapsing ala reddit would be frigging awesome!
Absolutely not. A key quote from the WSJ article:

"That could value the game publisher, which had about $850 million in revenue last year, at roughly the same as the two biggest videogame publishers—Electronic Arts Inc. and Activision Blizzard Inc.—combined."
I was hoping someone would offer up this argument and I'm glad it was Scoble. I think that Google is filling a void with plus because it's doing exactly what Scoble mentions, providing a social network for geeks. Sure, their intent is most likely to knock at Facebok, though, at the core, I'm sure the push behind the project was to develop something for people like them...or, us. Those who are deterrent should really put some time into this. I haven't gotten to use it yet and based on the reports, I know I'm going to love it. As opposed to creating a Facebook "killer," Google has drawn a dichotomy between SoCiAl and social. Smart. And keep in mind, this is just the first version.
Normally I'm with you, but this redesign reduces functionality and decreases legibility. That's an f'ing terrible improvement.
not storing the password in sql has nothing to do with obscurity. In fact, it's smart.
You do not understand what "security through obscurity" means.

Following your train of though, we should display the salt and the hash publicly. That is extremely dumb.

Put your passwords in your post, otherwise you'll be doing security through obscurity! oh snap?
I like that thought:

influx of a generation of Germans raised under "socialism" has strengthened the base of voters valuing economic stability

An interesting point. What is also important, Germany is not an Two-party system, and elections happen basically all the time. For a long time I thought this was bad, but start to believe it's a strength. The strong left wing, always short just a few votes, keeps the other forces in check.
The article is suggesting that Scala is a better tool than Java for jobs similar to his. He spends about 80 slides arguing why (e.g. less code, business logic doesn't get lost in implementation detail, more maintainable).

Those are all benefits of Scala over Java, so what makes them less important than Actors and functional programming? (Notwithstanding the fact that some of those benefits are because of gradually introducing the more accessible functional programming constructs - like filter and Option.)

That's like saying you shouldn't use Ruby unless you plan to write lots of DSLs and monkeypatch everything. Some people do those things with Ruby, and it's good at them, but it does other things too.
Google doesn't need Skype. Their Google Talk voice and video chat is robust and more stable than Skype's infrastructure. Heck they don't even need to compete with Skype, as Skype is self-destructing from the inside out. Maybe Google could have come up with some migration plan from Skype to Google+, but it would have been too much trouble and then they'd also have a lot of technology overlap.

IMO Google Talk, Chat, and Voice are already superior to Skype.
Office 2007 was a pretty specific case where MS gave people an opportunity. The UI hasn't changed that much since Office for Windows arrived and it won't be repeated for at least a decade, probably more.

As an aside, the interesting thing is once people get their heads round the UI they pretty much universally like it, it's just the instant reaction that's so bad.
I’m not a programmer, much less a hacker, but I thought it would be interesting to find out from people that are.

The barrier to entry is sufficiently low that you should at least try to become a hacker -- or even a programmer; you have the requisite curiosity and imagination.

There are many benefits to learning how things work and what's more; you can do it!
Ok, it's interesting that just an hour of submitting to such directories can bring in such decent traffic!

> I also contacted lots of people on Twitter and asked if they’d give my app a try.

How do you do that? In past, when I have tried doing this using @replies on potential people who might be interested, I always felt like I was just barging in on a stranger!
Bonjour makes finding the phones easy in a restaurant with wifi.

Here's a bit on it (read the answer) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6241623/ios-bonjour-over-...
> This geek elitism ...

What's wrong with geek elitism? Geeks are in fact a dominating[1] group in society, atleast on an intellectual scale.

[1] Have you noticed that half the population is below average?
Entrepreneurs Should Say No to Silicon Valley's Bully [Arrington]
Check your math. It's a P/E of 222. Given the risks involved, namely that the Zuck can end it anytime he pleases, I think it's insane.
Maggie's Clickbank Products Review Blog
I think it's more that Google was hovering around from the start with the G1. So the improvements they made were incremental on that brand new platform but Microsoft and RIM would need a revolution to be able to catch up to the iPhone and G1 at that point in the game.

The problem is that all the old players were left in the dust because they had too much momentum on their old platforms. It's like hitting the breaks when you are going 100 mph. For Google and Apple, they were going 0-60 pretty quickly and then just slowly came up and surpassed the incumbents.
Some of the toolkits have SSHD in them. Most of the old ones did, but I'm pretty sure most modern jailbreaks do not by default.
Of course, if you're doing the hashing on the client, there's no need to reverse the hash anyway. An attacker can just replay the hash they sniffed. You can do some additional things to avoid this (like using a nonce as part of the hash), but the best solution is still to just use SSL.
Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (July 2011)
Since the whoishiring bot seems to have not run...

Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (July 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2719083
kone.djibril (invite needed, thanks)
The example on the bottom can hardly be called C++

#include "stdio.h"

void main()
{
printf( "Hello world!\n" );
getchar();
}

- main() should return int, not void

- std::cout should be used instead of printf

- std::cin should be used instead of getchar()
If you have a different experience, you should write about it! About a 100% of engineers around me have succeeded in finding jobs very quickly and had choices, which is not the experience of 95% of people in this world.
xavura
Why did they include the On2 purchase? Does Google+ have WebM/VP8 features I didn't hear about?
I disagree. He's providing feedback to the designer, and his "douchey" criticism communicates his emotional reaction to the design better than any inoffensive feedback could. The designer would rather be exposed to his unfiltered emotions than read a detached analysis of them.
"Step One: Create Your Campaign"

What? Why? What's a campaign? Why does it need a name and a description? Why can't I just tell you my affiliate ids and get the linking script code?
There's a little bit of truth to it. As far as I know, Mozilla is not actually directed to do anything by Google in exchange for the money. I'm sure if they had too many missteps that Google would begin reducing their funding, but in general they don't have profit as a driving factor in development and Chrome still does.

For example, it took a very long time for any really effective adblock extension available in Chrome, and (this has likely been fixed) for a while even when it blocked ads it actually still loaded them so the ad producers couldn't tell difference.

It was because of technical limitations in the capabilities of chrome extensions. Considering adblock plus has nearly double the #2 most used firefox extensions, and nearly 6x the number of users as the #3 most use firefox extension, it seems like the design for extensions should almost be done specifically with enabling adblock in mind.

I'm no conspiracy theorist and I use chrome, but it seems to me that at least in the above case, Google put their bottom line as an advertising company above what the users wanted or what made the best browser experience. Not that it is too much of a bad thing, but I think saying that Google has the same kind of control over the direction of Firefox is silly.

I'm sure you could find plenty of charities that are nearly entirely funded by Microsoft's Charity branch or something, and I'm sure those charities don't go around badmouthing Microsoft but they don't exactly take orders from them either.
I have a couple of friends who switched to the Mac to get away from WindBlows and Cygwin when developing, while retaining a good every-day platform with cool commercial software available. They have never looked back to WindBlows, or felt like they should be using Linux.

I tried to dump Windows by moving to Linux for my every day OS, but found doing some simple non-dev stuff (synching my PDA properly) too painful.Windows was bad enough that I took the leap and bought a Mac, and have loved it for development as well. I have done mostly command line dev, and IDE-oriented dev, and both are great on the Mac. The advantage over Linux is not cost, of course, but the everyday "It just works" experience and the availability of commercial software like Photoshop. And it is plenty Unixy, if you don't mind the fact that things like user accounts aren't managed just like Linux or base BSD.

I think it is the best of both worlds and would highly recommend it.

Brian
He must not have noticed, but in the new UI you can minimize the "Mini Calendar" on the left side.

For someone with such a packed calendar the mini calendar is useless, and with it minimized you can view even more calendars than you could in the old UI.
I wouldn't touch this IPO for one major reason - reliance on FB. In fact, the first risk that Zynga lists in the filing docs:

"If we are unable to maintain a good relationship with Facebook, our business will suffer,” according to the filing. “Facebook is the primary distribution, marketing, promotion and payment platform for our games."
Ok, it's interesting that just an hour of submitting to such directories can bring in such decent traffic!

It's not just directories - although they makes up for a decent amount of traffic! - and organic search brings in a decent level of users as well. Although my SEO knowledge is close to zero, I've tried to choose, e.g., a decent title for the homepage that's Google-friendly.

In past, when I have tried doing this using @replies on potential people who might be interested, I always felt like I was just barging in on a stranger!

Search for people asking how to do what your tool serves, and send them a reply. It was a free tool at the time, so seemed totally reasonable to me, but I accept others might not see it that way ;)
Science, Superstars & Stocks: Is Everything Getting Harder?
Care to share your interface config for the lazy? Sounds sweet.