skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but the real problem is the younger younger generation. Those kids have no direction. You should see them...
It looks exactly like Itty (since 2009, updated as recently as 2011): https://github.com/toastdriven/itty

The only differences I see are minor name changes. I'll have to compare the source code.

EDIT: It appears to be an unrelated codebase with a lot of improvements (for example, proper cookie support). Looks like I'll need to be updating my projects.
this looks like a better way to do it: http://fotons.com/

Found it on Reddit.
>I get on the plane and sit next to a guy who avoids eye contact, does not respond to Hi and then starts praying, seemingly detached from the reality. Shall I just ignore this and refuse to be terrorized?

That depends. Are his prayers Christian prayers, or Muslim prayers?
Hey All,

This is @dhg (creator of Skeleton)and just wanted to say I was pumped to see it on Hacker News. All feedback is well received and I'm actually in the process of releasing an update that will remedy the text-resize issue when font-size is bumped up or down, along with some other small bug fixes.

In terms of fluid vs. fixed I chose to have a set number of fixed resolutions because it allows for a bit more control at those sizes and has a set of associated media query sizes . It also allows for a nested grid which is not really achievable with a fluid grid.

Thanks for the feedback again everyone. I just started a new job that is keeping me busy (in an awesome way), but am going to try to get out an update next weekend.

Cheers!
They called it "Double Switch". It appers on 1:35 on the video[1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HrPGfn47t0&feature=playe...
Fix the workplace, not the workers
Ok. I'll bite: What problem do you feel Twitter solved?
Ask HN: Faster and most compact serialization tecnology?
What is the most compact and faster seralization/deserialization technology for transmit data over the network? Google Protocol Buffers, Message Pack, Thrift, Avro, ASN.1 PER

I'm looking for a binary format, with fast des/serialization, avoid redundand data (i.e. including the name of the fields like JSON/BSON does) and most compact serialized data.

I'll be using this for a multiplayer game, so it should be used to serialize few fields, but frequently.

I'm also thinking a high performance way of processing this data. I'm considering
Nagatti (based on Netty and implemented in Scala)
Akka (Actors framework in Scala)

I've also read about Norbert, but I'm not sure it would be necessary. I mean, I don't necessarily see the benefits of using ZooKeeper/JGroups in this project.
Google+ doesn't export email addresses that you don't already have access to--for example, if someone has you in a circle but you've never exchanged an email. That makes sense, because the export shouldn't violate the privacy restrictions enforced by the normal UI.

However, in you can't export an email address already connected to a profile (either through contacts import or because the user shares it via privacy settings). So, the point is that Facebook is impeding export in a way that does nothing to improve a user's privacy but does create obstacles to moving your information elsewhere.
Facebook and Google+
JQuery is single file too and that's a big part of it's attraction. Simplicity is a huge plus, not only for users, but also for the developer who is forced to be disciplined.

I haven't used bottle yet (just starting), but I'm very impressed with the templating code which seems very powerful and simple. Including the templating system along with the rest of the framework in a single file, forced the developer to think about it more.
> It's a big world. There will always be plenty of people who don't like whatever you say so that's simply not worth worrying about.

Yeah, this is why I quit commenting on HN, because fanboys will always downvote without reason.
Last.fm is usually so reliable that it being down seems almost unnatural. Hope they're back soon, one of the few online services I feel is actually worth paying for.
> I get on the plane and sit next to a guy who avoids eye contact, does not respond to Hi and then starts praying, seemingly detached from the reality. Shall I just ignore this and refuse to be terrorized?

If you're freaking out at something as harmless as this, the problem isn't the other guy.

This is the same kind of overinflated danger mentality that bars men from playing chess in a park near a playground on suspicion that they are child molesters.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/kiddie_pawn_sho...

Meanwhile, things that are orders of magnitude more likely to cause harm are ignored.
Introducing Sled
Happened to check the site again and it was up! I think the idea is interesting, but wonder how you keep users sticky on your site. I'm very much into music could see myself checking this site if I'm checking out a new artist. I'll be sure to pass your site along to someone in need. Thanks for sharing.
FYI, yesterday was a birthday party and the library. This morning was a water park and making lunch together. Tonight will be puzzles and dancing. :D
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Show HN: I built an app to improve your Vocabulary
I had "discomfit" as one of my words that I wasn't clear of the definition of, I was pretty close when I looked it up but couldn’t have guaranteed it. It's probably easily confused with discomfort ... which made me think that this needs to be a little more tested. Commonly misread words could easily inflate scores.

However, I think a multiple choice test could also inflate scores unless the definitions were very cunningly constructed.

I scored 75-80th percentile (32,800) which surprised me. It seems quite a lot of words, for one. For another I consider my vocab' to be very good and I don't think I'm being bigheaded in that. Ergo I expected to be ranked higher.

On the second page there was an entire column of words of which I recognised only three sufficiently to provide a guaranteed accurate definition. One of that column was terpischorean, another tatterdemalion.

Whilst looking up tatterdemalion I found little use of it after the 1930s except as a proper noun (a Marvel Comics character for example). What I did find however is that Google Books is useless for finding dates. One citation from an author Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton is given a date of 1999. That's a reprint date, the author died in the 19th century.
Version Control For Your /etc Directory With etckeeper/Bazaar On Debian Squeeze
Palantir, FB, and Quora all have top-notch internal recruiters - it's one of their big differentiators.

A bunch of other top-tier startups have their top, productive execs handle most high-profile recruiting (Keith Rabois at Square, ...)

Most startups have the founders handle recruiting, except for the mechanical details of HR compliance and scheduling. Recruiting is probably the #1 task of a startup founder on an ongoing basis; sales being #2, and product work being #3.
It does. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_DOS_machine

NTVDM is unavailable in 64-bit Windows, but XP Mode uses 32-bit XP, so it can be used to run DOS software. (Though there will be trouble if you try to use it to run DOS games.)
lol, how ironic: "Service is unavailable"

WherethefuckisthisWEBSITE?
Due to rapid improvements in technology those in the poorest countries can now easily access information, entertainment, books, knowledge from anywhere in the world at remarkably low cost -> Greatly improving their quality of life...

I find it unlikely that someone who is put out of a job by new efficiencies would find much solace in low cost YouTube access. It's precisely this blind faith in efficiency as a measure of progress that I question. I'm not saying it's always bad, but it's clear now that improved efficiency is not always good. We need to find new, more suitable metrics by which to measure progress.
Ask HN: How could one enter the business of imports/exports?
Hey guys I'm very interested in this field and I am fluent in several languages that are very central to a lot of import/export hubs.I'm very interested in the business and was wondering where I could start with this. I just want to export/import large amounts of whole sale products.

Are there any sites that I should check out in particular?

Also is there any sort of website that hosts a lot of Chinese manufactures? How do I get in touch with them?
Ruling Passions (an essay on David Hume)
Brad Feld's new Book- Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and VC
Not sure Europe fits that, looks back at the past but forgives a lot...
What would you say about writing an OS on something like an Arduino ? Without mucking with ASM, you could at least give it the ability to run multiple processes and implement some IPC. I've been trying to do something of the sort but I've got other high-priority stuff to get out of the way first.
>or anything else that isn't part of broad, general English

So scientific words aren't general English? This suggests that the authors don't think anyone ever talks about science?
The amount of amazing resources he has put into his repo along with the code is astounding.
Writing an OS kernel is a great experience. You will be a stronger programmer at the end.
Another good resource is CMU's course on the subject: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410/
I tend to agree with Daniel Pink's assessment[1]. The reality of the situation is that us millenials have grown up in an age of instant feedback.

Older generations tend to view this as emotional neediness, but the reality is that feedback is necessary for a healthy work environment. When we don't get that feedback, we tend to disengage and assume we're either not important enough to get feedback, or our workplace is ambivalent to our presence.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/8113600/Think-Tank-F... - just posted it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2773834
Few questions:

1. Does the author know that Quora traffic is decreasing dramatically (a fact which states a web service "in trouble") or just he assumes that "since I left, all others left with me"?

2. What does he means "Not solving a problem"?

If I want to know how many NICs I can stuff into a single server machine [1] or how to build a 10Gbs wire-tapping monster[2] or why programmers so fanatical about their text editors[3] where will I go and ask those questions? attackofdesign.com? shall I start gambling which of the 4 sites of stack exchange is the best site to get the answer and not getting it migrated 5 times before getting and answer?

BTW, the first two questions were real world problems I solved and quora helped me a lot.

I simply cannot stand this anymore, smart people are spending time and energy to build things we can use for free, and we, instead of thanking them, talking about their "troubles" and giving them advice.

The easiest thing for a _blogger_ to do is to write where did Bill Gates gone wrong, or why is Google failing going social time after time (hey, people, until two weeks ago, this was the mainstream state-of-mind).

I do not believe in critics, I do not read critics before I buy a boo, watch a film or go to a restaurant, and ever since I did so, I failed less, while by the time I was relying on critics I failed much more. The fact is simple, can you mister opinion do any better? Can you? If you can't, stay still, if you can, stay still and do instead of talk. But, no, those who cannot compose a jingle for the local radio station write music reviews, and people who cannot make a decent omelet blogs about restaurants and those who cannot do start-ups blogs about start-ups.

Michael Arrington build an empire by writing about startups, yet when he gave it a shot with that tablet and the Singaporean company , he failed at the spot one would not expect him to fail at (he's a lawyer, mind you).

I am not saying there is no room for blogging about start-ups, all I am saying is that I would rather be on the side of those who _make_ the news, rather than the side of those who _write_ the news, let alone those who _read_ news.

If ideas are dime a dozen, advice is dime a dozen kilograms.

[1] http://www.quora.com/How-many-ethernet-ports-can-I-build-int...

[2] http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-build-a-high-performance-serv...

[3] http://www.quora.com/Why-are-most-programmers-so-fanatical-a...
> I get on the plane and sit next to a guy who avoids eye contact, does not respond to Hi and then starts praying, seemingly detached from the reality. Shall I just ignore this and refuse to be terrorized?

The idea isn't to shrug off what you perceive to be dangerous situations. The recent attempts at US attacks were thwarted because people were correctly suspicious. Level of suspicion also depends on where you're at. In your second instance with the coffee shop, if I'm in Vancouver, Canada I'd think "He probably just forgot it, I should go after him." If I'm in London, then yeah, I'd probably be suspicious since from my perspective there seem to be a lot more successful attacks there.

The idea is in how you respond to those sorts of things. Do you really consider the plane scenario a strong possibility for you, with the guy actually carrying a bomb? If you do, that shows two things. One, you're (statistically) over-paranoid and have been "terrorized". Two, you've basically admitted that you think all the current security measures designed to make you feel safer are basically crap, in which case you should agree with removing them and potentially designing better methods that actually work.
I'll start with your second question:

In some categories lean can be a big number: search, making chips and (today) building a social network. Can you start with 10 people and 150k a month burn in these categories? Sure. However, if you're going to take a real stab at this type of problems in a massively competitive market with HUGE incumbents you need 30, 40 or 50 people.

Also, "too expensive" is relative. Spending $500k a month might seem too expensive to someone starting out as an entrepreneur, but to VCs and founder who have been in the game for a long time they would rather risk blowing out 10m and figuring out a lot of problems quickly, than sit around and slowing figuring stuff out.

The whole industry is biased toward big success. Just the nature of the beast. If you want to do something more modest--and i did on my last two companies--you raise small amounts of money and shoot for a small target.

Neither model is wrong.

In terms of #1, you can go check out youtube channels yourself. We basically stopped writing pages with great writers (but not experts) to creating videos with experts in them. This costs 10x as much, but the result is stunning.

Not sure if you're into styling your hair, but we have one of the best stylysts in Los Angeles doing a series--think of it as a Khan academy course--on styling your hair.

http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-style-your-hair/how-to-do-a-per...

or photoshop tutorials like Lynda--except free:

http://www.mahalo.com/learn-adobe-photoshop-introduction/

http://www.mahalo.com/photoshop-video-tutorial-how-to-make-a...

Now imagine those not only as courses on mahalo, but also iPad apps. And imagine 1M videos with that level of instruction.

That's what we're doing.

... and that all came from my vision of search results + content. Now, I still believe in that vision, but the truth is Google went from ten blue links in 2007 to what it is today: content + answers + some search links. we knew that was possible--that they would wake up--and they did. c'est la vie!
I'm pretty sure that they'd ultimately accept kernel patches for the actual end-to-end functionality that Android needs, but there would be a lot of debate and probably considerable engineering changes to kernel interfaces needed first.

In practice, Android development seems to be more focused on shipping rather than on code quality, accruing technical debt in the process. To be fair to them, it's a project that is really an entire Linux distribution, requires lots of components written from scratch and not used anywhere else, and they're under massive pressure to keep up with the competition.
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Aardvark's acquisition by Google for $50M about 18 months, back when the market wasn't as bubblicious as it is now, is one comparable. http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/02/12/aardvark-google/ looks at why that valuation arguably made sense. Aardvark had $6M invested, Quora's got $11M.

Like I said in my other comment, not sure what valuation makes sense, so I'm not convinced it'll be in the X00,000,000 range... but it's not impossible.
Maybe it's not reasonable now or ever but I'd quite love to think of Google as a company capable of doing things that are immensely interesting but have no obvious, immediate, practical "use."

I don't know if they are there quite yet. It seems to me that they still strongly incentivize shipping products and making things people will use within in their corporate culture. I might be wrong. There could be a light coming on.
The main feature that Rc has which Bash lacks is simplicity. Bash's man page is twice the size of Rc's entire source code.
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I get on the plane and sit next to a guy who avoids eye contact, does not respond to Hi and then starts praying, seemingly detached from the reality. Shall I just ignore this and refuse to be terrorized?

Yeah, typically when I sit down on a plane next to some stranger who doesn't talk to me or interact with me I guess you could say I "ignore this and refuse to be terrorized."

If there is a sliver of probability that I can be killed due to my inaction, I will act and I will do my best to avoid that risk. If it takes de-boarding someone from a plane, so be it.

Fuck you for thinking you have the right to screw over other people's lives with your paranoia. Do you understand that "someone" is a human being like you?
Writing a toy OS is something that while seemingly intimidating, is actually pretty approachable. My mind was blown when I came across Lions' Commentary on UNIX as a HS sophomore, and I ended up spending the whole summer working on some dinky Unix'y clone.

I do OS development and most of my coworkers had similar experiences.
I'm not the author but there is plenty evidence that Quora's traffic has decreased significantly since January (almost certainly by their choice). The results since April depend on who you believe; Google Trends says it's flat, Comscore says that it's increasing month-on-month and is back to February's level.

http://bit.ly/imitates#comment-151083
Actually, we can't fail now.... we have a lot a revenue and 30M+ users a month.

I don't thin it was a lack of focus that caused problems for us. The main problem for us was that building a search results that is--sometimes--20% better than Google's does not incentivize people to switch.

This is a problem Wikia Search, Blekko, Bing, DuckDuckGo and countless others have faced or are facing.

Although it's easy to change your search engine technically, it's not necessary unless your search engine is failing. The problem is that innovators look at the times when Google fails (i.e. when you see 2-3 horrible results in a SERP), but not when it succeeds (the other 7-8 search results).

We took a really hard run at making better results and we proved we could make something incrementally better. In our business making something slightly better is, essentially, failure because it will not cause folks to switch.

Now, in terms of educating folks, that's a wide open space. Right now there is no wikipedia, google or facebook of learning. There's Lynda for software, Rossetta Stone for language, Khan Academy for math and bunch of individuals teaching one-off things on YouTube.

We are making a brand that runs from how to do your hair, to how to solve angry bird, to how to make a movie poster in photoshop to how to make a vegan shake.... and on and on and on.

We have 40k+ videos now and make over 1k a week (with 90 people). We'll get to 3k a week in the next year (with 150-200 people). Then 5-6k videos (with 300-500 people).

We're already, we think, the largest providers of orignal (non-UGC) content to YouTube. And we only pivoted a year ago to do learning videos.

our ipad apps/courses should really drive traffic too... and forget about it when every TV is internet connected (which really starts this christmas and goes forward for the next 7 years).

best j
Sam odio might be a good example. He was a founder of divvyshot (YC 2009 i think), got 'acquihired' by facebook. Last i heard, he recently quit facebook? http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/sam-odio-facebook/

(ot: typing on the ipad in bed isn't as easy as i'd like it to be)
Read a lot. In fact, buy a Kindle and read a lot. It has a built-in dictionary which is quite decent, and you'll actually look up words that you would otherwise skim past with a mediocre context-based understanding.
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I went to this and I can tell you there were far more than 24 candidates that didn't show up. In the first room alone, there were more empty positions than there were filled ones. It was so bad, at one point as I was working on modifying candidate short list (over 75% weren't there) I got asked if I was a candidate myself!

As a result of the no-shows, the recruiter to candidate ratio was probably 5 to 1, which caused lines to form around the existing job-seekers. The space was hardly big enough as it was - I can't imagine what we would have done if all the candidates showed up too.

I think the event was was a good experiment, but frankly for the price it wasn't worth my time to attend. I'd much rather see a speed-dating format. That way everyone gets to talk to each other and you work around the issue of having more recruiters than candidates.
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I scored a mere 25,700-something. Based upon my ability to regularly, inadvertently stump spell-checkers and random humans alike, I will continue to assume that I have an above-average vocabulary. :-)
Move to where there are jobs.
Probably some kind of absorption chiller like this is a more sensible idea for solar powered airconditioning: http://www.solarpanelsplus.com/yazaki-solar-HVAC/
In the past 3 years or so I've used Last.fm almost non-stop. It had to be some kind of hack or hosting service explosion.
I'm with the OP, domains with foul language don't hit my sharing feeds and I'm not likely to make it a habit of frequenting the site.

While that may be true for you, my point is that I believe that to be a shortsighted view. It will almost certainly reduce your chances of finding some interesting material. Maybe the trade-off doesn't matter to you, and I certainly can appreciate that, but a trade-off is being made.
The problem is that the "fuck" here really has nothing to do with the app. It would add some amount of shock and emphasis to the question ("where is this?") but there is nothing shocking or surprising about the images, so it's just oddly out of place.
Very nice, as someone who codes HTML all the time this is far preferable to opening up some obscure presentation software that I use maybe once or twice a year. From a comfort prospective this is what I'll be using from now on cause It feels familiar.
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Does anyone know how Last.fm is doing? I still love it, but I've seen a lot of friends move away from it, to services that don't quite do the same like Spotify and Grooveshark.

Is that just my friends or have they experienced a massive exodus? I'd be sad if CBS pulled the plug at some point in the near future.
I've started building a webversion of Lions' Commentary,
maybe this is helpful for someone.
https://github.com/warsus/lions-
http://warsus.github.com/lions-
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CollaborativeEditing

It has been tried a few times.
Isn't that a bit strong, in the project you mention in this talk: http://vimeo.com/2723800 Ruby was used (with success). What's to hate?