skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a reasonably competent web user.

I've implemented OpenID.

I run my own Open ID server.

I've implemented Shibboleth (and lived!).

I know that Yahoo is an open ID provider, and I think Google is too, but when I'm presented with an old-style (URL) OpenId login I don't have a clue what to enter to use either my Yahoo or Google account to login.

Yes, I know that now most login forms provide easy links to use Google or Yahoo to login. The point is that entering the URL is confusing because no one knows what their OpenID url is, and it isn't standardized in anyway.

The situation is so bad that the OpenID providers had to develop a way for users to enter their email addresses, and then the client performs a discovery request to find their URL.
Kinect helps surgeons in the operating room
Every school says that deferring is rarely allowed, but in my observation, it is fairly easy to get in reality.
Oh, very good. Maybe featured apps should be renamed to Featured Examples?

Just because if I google for Evernote iphone app, it takes me to the "legitimate" website of Evernote, not http://app.net/evernote
Unwind for 5 minutes
Interesting little 5 minute distraction
Infographic: The Potential of Big Data
btw this is an invitation for lawyers or legal experts to prove me wrong so i can go build this. i personally found a need for this type of site a while back for myself, of course i would take each person's feedback with a (larger) grain of salt and still consult my doctors.
Check out Sermo - it's been around since 2006 or so and has an iPhone app that lets docs take a picture and get crowd-sourced advice. www.sermo.com
this might sound lazy, but why don't you scrape the content (description, icon, screens) when i add my app?
http://www.sermo.com
Mad is the argument against nuclear war when the actors are somewhat reasonable. What happens if you get unreasonable actors that don't really care who dies, their countrymen and themselves included. At that point, we are totally screwed. I would be surprised if these type of people don't exist. Lets hope they never get near a nuclear weapon.
The food network did a big segment a while back on obesity and concluded that the simplest and most effective lifestyle choice you can make is using smaller plates.
I don't think that's lazy, that's smart ;)

We actually wrote a lot of code to do exactly that, but it wasn't good enough to make it into the launch. Would rather have less features that are rock solid than a flaky importer.
I certainly hope it isn't possible to integrate this with OpenID. If it is, sites will just continue relying on OpenID, and treat this as a weird special case, rather than a superseding technology that gives the user control without requiring a third-party provider.
IZEA "Goes Public" Then Pumps Stock in Laughable Infomercial
I'm not a lawyer, but would incorporating an S-corp in another state not solve your issues with Amazon and the CA law?
There's also http://www.rgraph.net/
Great site, well done! I found a few problems with your templates you may want to look at (especailly with a longer app name):

http://i.imgur.com/hGpwU.png

http://i.imgur.com/DgnnK.png (I had to highlight the text to see it)

http://i.imgur.com/WjsKe.png
I like this idea, and I hope mailinator supports it.
Well considering at StackExchange their main focus is the StackExchange set of sites, community building Q&A. If you didn't participate then you wouldn't be eating your own dog food and hence would not be as good a developer on the project. Having developers actively work in the community also helps keep them more focused on what they are building, and it means there are more people actually building the ecosystems.

Having your own blogs, podcasts, and other public artefacts also helps since it would help build an audience and get the word out to more people about the SE sites. Also don't forget that SE is a startup with VC backing, therefore if the developers don't help in spreading the word the company could fold.
We're one of the featured apps (ColorSchemer). We granted permission and appreciate the support.
Dear Recruiters: (a canned response to recruiting emails)
Good question for the devs. "git apply-reverse-patch" was probably too long for a fairly common operation? I suppose when you are trailblazing with a new paradigm, you are allowed to redefine things. I don't let those kinds of things bother me, personally; I just adapt my thinking to the new thing I am learning. Helps me to learn new languages easier.
Why Google+ Won't Kill Twitter
i always believe in necessity being the mother of invention. a lot of what happens today is more synthetic and calculated seemingly: how fast can i grow this, it's not about how well i can build this to solve a problem, though building things well may be a driver of growth, it isnt the focal point for a few of these companies. the tofu example in the article was perfect although most likely fictional, but there are lots of these types of companies sprouting up.
By the name alone I was expecting a Microsoft App store
Filed as a bug: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/58
you are right, that doesn't look great.

Could you try reducing the font size of the Title text size (under the "Styles" tab in the theme editor)?
>That way, when users hit Ctrl-+ to override a site's smaller-than-the-browser's-default font size, the site will show about the same amount of text on each line, rather than producing narrower lines as the font grows.

That is stale 2008 advice. Every browser but ie6 uses zoom to resize pages. Text is resized on ctrl-+ regardless of px vs em. The days of sizing things with em's is long over, and these days it is counter-productive.
Yes, I was trying to think of a "chronic" condition where a test result is sufficient to believe you have the illness (that is, the lack of symptoms is not sufficient).

But I think we both agree that HIV is a generous case in that the testing is fairly accurate. There are many illnesses with no great tests. The more obscure, the more likely there won't be a test for it. So you end up in a situation where you go to the doctor with a rash and your diagnosis is "an allergy to strawberries or leprosy".
Except I never said that iOS's home button behavior is "extremely intuitive" or assert that only people who've never used it find it complicated. Of course, I also didn't give a long description of the iPhone's home button behavior, say that it's really complicated to explain, and then say it's intuitive....

Obviously some people disagree with the iPhone's home button behavior. Then again, they're not complaining that it's too complicated to understand, merely that it's not the ideal (or perhaps "correct") behavior.
disclaimer: I work for Epic

Paper is drchrono's competition not because they can't go head to head with the major vendors, but because they're likely going after a completely different market. Epic targets the largest healthcare organizations (i.e. Kaiser Permanente) and thus our software is geared towards those specific use cases. EHRs have been in place for many many years in most organizations this size (100+ physicians). I would imagine that drchrono is instead targeting much smaller practices and facilities that still rely heavily on paper. This is a niche offering. Fortunately for them, a niche in healthcare IT is still very big business.
You'll have to wait for CSS4 for that...
Did that! looks much better now, thanks!

When trying to upload a second screenshot I'm getting this (google chrome): http://i.imgur.com/Agk8l.png (after a refresh it seems to be working properly.. odd bug)
Thanks for e7RXhPe3yVWGHHDd !
News Corp. owns quite a lot of things - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Co...
It looks great. Can you use your own app domain name instead of using app.net/yourappname?
This comes off as incredibly biased.

I haven't gone through Techstars, but I've done YC. I wouldn't consider myself an expert on YC (only reasonably knowledgeable about the session I went through), but I will say that the training and experience I gained has been invaluable in my efforts to focus on product, communicate about our vision, talk to investors (or ignore them), and much more. These things I learned from doing them, not reading about them. Does participating in YC make me an expert in building a company? No, building a company does that.

To that point, getting a Harvard MBA doesn't make you much of an expert of anything besides going through Harvard. I have interviewed plenty of marketing MBA's at my old job (not Harvard, but hear me out), and when it comes to online marketing, they don't know the basics. The modern business world, particularly online, moves so fast that it's near impossible for Universities to keep up. Regardless of how good your in-class education might be, you aren't an expert at running a business until you've done it.

I would argue that, after 1.5 years of running my own business, I am more of an expert than any fresh-out-of-Harvard-MBA, and I still don't know shit. Until you've felt the pain of firing someone, worrying about payroll, killing a partnership you've invested in, and more, you aren't an expert in business. Neither Techstars/YC nor Harvard make you an expert in anything, and the choice really comes down to what you want to do, and how long you want to spend preparing vs. actually doing something.
Is the traditional Debugger still relevant in 2011?
Low Cost UnitedHealthOne Plans
> And where there's software, there will always be viruses.

Agreed.

I just hope that the car manufacturers will take developments like this into account, and make these systems very robust.
He's harryh (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=harryh) here.
I'm with funkah. Mailing list archive pages haven't evolved in a decade.
I can't speak to any other YC company, but I think drchrono certainly stands on its own merits here. Great looking product + hot industry + ongoing major news topic = mind blowingly awesome press.
Fox News is owned by News Corp.
I can't stand OnStar for those exact reasons, especially the GPS/data-connection.
Is OSX Lion Available Yet?
So basically: Chatroulette for Google+?
Who funds terrible startup ideas?
http://www.google.com/?q=who+funds+terrible+startup+ideas

Click "I'm feeling lucky"
In past few months or so I've found TC to be unusably slow. I don't know if it's all the ads/tracking/js being loaded but it takes 20 seconds or more for me to be able to actually interact with the page and so I've just stopped reading it. This is a very welcome new way to read it.
Ideally, if your HIV test comes back positive, you'd also be given information such as how likely false positives

Unfortunately, try telling someone that the ELISA test is 99% accurate to resasure them that they probably aren't HIV positive. :-)

Ideally, there wouldn't be this tradeoff between the efficiency of the system and any one individual's health.

If we could diagnose w/ 100% accuracy then it would be easy. If our medications had no side effects and resistance to antibiotics didn't then it would be easy. But once you put those two things together, even throwing economics aside, you have to be careful that you're not harming more people than helping, net.

While FB saved the day here, I know from my doctor friends that online diagnosis in the hands of most people hasn't been net beneficial. With that said, in the hands of some (and I suspect that those of us on HN are in this minority) we can provide real value to doctors.
I'm not a lawyer but I do belong to a number of health lists and I do run a health site and my day job is in a related industry, so I get ongoing training and exposure to some of the laws and these types of issues.

a) All email support groups (that I belong to) have huge disclaimers at the bottom of every email announcing something like "This is a free and open discussion of health issues. This is not medical advice. Please consult your doctor...blah blah blah" to try to cover their butts.

b) A published author in the alternative health space actively encouraged me to adapt his own written disclaimer to put on my website to try to help me cover my butt. He has at least once been dragged before a medical review board/court/some such because of the information he disseminates. So, yeah, it's a real problem.

c) Privacy laws are a big deal and there are very big problems with encouraging people to post pics of symptoms, including how much of the body to show. I have seen a photo of a naked child (from the back) covered in a rash posted on a group and I think it was handled carefully by someone knowledgeable (the woman who posted it was herself a lawyer, so I imagine she knew what she was doing) but I can see this space being open to serious pitfalls in that regard.

d) I went and did the very rude thing of getting myself healthy when that is supposed to be impossible given my diagnosis. I have been repeatedly told that I am engaging in irresponsible, dangerous, evil behavior for talking about how I accomplished that, even though the path I followed is really incredibly conservative (for example: get informed about food chemistry because everything you put in your mouth has an impact on your body chemistry).

So, in short, there are some very big problems/challenges with your idea. Your concerns are real concerns, not neurotic worries at all. That doesn't mean it can't be done. But, no, there is no magic wand of "I talked to a lawyer and it's all okay now". You would have a lot of work to do to make this at all viable.
Just rolled out a fix for that bug, could you try it again?

We're doing it live here.
Somehow Kruschev, Stalin, and friends were not crazy enough. It's easy to call someone a nutjob. It's hard to know what it's like to face the sober realization that you could, if you wanted, end human life on earth.
Introducing the AWS SDK for Ruby
Again, though, this isn't apples to apples with iOS. You're using several screens to store a few apps on each. But then you've got the app drawer full of apps. How many swipes do you have to go through to get through all of the apps in your app drawer? Is your worst-case actually better than an iPhone user who has all their apps on 5 screens instead of in the app drawer?

As for accessing things quickly, an iOS user can stick all their "social" apps in a folder on their main screen. The 5 screens can easily become a single screen, with 1 click to open any folder. Left and right swiping don't even mean anything here.

As I said, it's not Apples to Apples. Saying that iOS should have left/right screens because it works on Android doesn't make sense if the usage patterns are different.
Unlike lots of people, I RTM.
Thanks :)

re:custom domains, not at this point, but that is definitely one of the most common feature requests we have gotten so far.
Thought that popped into my head. Instead of having separate passwords for different sites, now you are trusting your email provider to be absolutely secure (with that one ultra-secure password you are using, right?).

So if a BrowserID user were to ever get their email service compromised, it's keys to the kingdom.

IMO, I think this needs a rethink.
Failing to reject the null hypothesis as they did is still a worthwhile result
The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist's View
You all are bums. There are some excellent features to be up and coming. The point is not that some features do or don't work in some other browser. The point is you can point your users to an free, cross platform app they can download that runs you web-app with native implementations.

X.platform > X.browser
Ask HN: Established developer with no CS experience looking to catch up
Hi HN!

I've been an avid spectator here for about a year now and wanted to start by thanking everyone here for keeping me up to date on the latest and providing a source for me to read intelligent discussion on the things I care about.

As a bit of backstory, I got into computing when I was about 12 years old and programming shortly thereafter. I never accomplished much, but I learned the fundamentals as I bounced from VB6 to C++ to C# to Java to PHP and eventually found Ruby whilst serving a tour of duty in Iraq a couple years ago. I was going to attend school after I returned and get a CS degree, but something much more wonderful happened that prevented me from doing so.

One day while I was in Iraq, I read a blog post written by someone who would become one of the most influential figures in my life that had a profound impact on the way I went about doing my hobby projects. I emailed him directly to express my gratitude, and to my surprise he responded! We continued to correspond during the remainder of my time overseas, and I worked on a small Rails project that he had the idea for but never the time to do.

Shortly after I returned home, he proposed one day that instead of going back to stocking shelves at Wal-Mart as I had originally intended to do when I got back, that I come work for his consulting company as an intern, with the potential for a salary offer sometime down the road. Midway through the year and I was a full salaried employee working for a respected consulting firm, which was more than I could have come to expect in my wildest dreams. Our firm was acquired by a hot startup earlier this year, and I'm now still doing my dream job in the company of some of the most amazing people I've ever met.

One thing has been itching at the back of my mind ever since last year though, and that's my tremendous lack of knowledge when it comes to CS fundamentals. Algorithms. Data structures. Math. These are things that I see most people in my field around me excel at, and I often find myself stumped at the what would seem to be the most trivial problems when it comes to them.

So today I decided that I am once again going to try my hand at seeking the advice of people who are way smarter than me in the hopes that something profound will happen.

What can I do now that I already have the career of my dreams, with no time for school, to gain the basic CS knowledge that I find myself lacking in?
Text is resized, but not necessarily content. Also note that that behavior is configurable in several browsers, including Firefox, for people who don't want to have to choose between reasonably sized text and crisp non-fuzzy images.

Also, many browsers that support zooming don't necessarily let that zooming override a size specified in px.

In any case, why would specifying the width of a column of text in em be "counter-productive"?
What most of the docs I've seen in the Bay Area do is keep everything on paper. And yeah, that reassures me relative to records kept in electronic form.
A New Direction for Digital compasses
10 Steps to Product/Market Fit
Not sure if you've ever checked it out, but the seattle.rb meetings on Tuesdays at Vivace on Broadway are usually well attended, and both Aaron Patterson and Eric Hodel are usually there. It's like having a superstar Ruby/Rails team at your fingertips, and everyone is super helpful.
Given the information in your post, it is a bad idea to buy GOOG.

You have provided no proof that your expected growth is not already baked into the price.
HOT new hacker coworking space in downtown SF + Hacker Hostel
This is pretty cool. As someone who builds robots, having a better way of determining orientation with respect to the Earth's magnetic field is definitely a win for localizing where the robot is.

Not sure why the article suggests your clothing would have a compass in it, but the combined sensor would probably become the orientation I/O device of choice in phones/tablets.
You can have fully decentralized identities quite trivially: just create a public/private key. No consensus algorithms required. With browsers now supporting synchronization features to connect the browsers on all systems used by a single user, such a system could actually work quite well now, without the usability issues it would once have had.
I managed to upload all my screenshots, seems to be working, thank you! the site looks great.
I would agree. The company I work for gives a 25% boost in pay just for relocating to the SV branch from other branches. This is merely a cost of living bump for the exact same job title.
I wonder what 37 signals would do.
It gives me a blog post named "When Startup Ideas Go From Bad to Terrible".
In Unity you can manually tile windows using the Ctrl-Alt-Numpad keys. Gnome 3 just has the much more limited "aero snap" feature.

If you mean 'make windows neatly line up against each other', try holding Shift while you're dragging a window around in GNOME 3. This is an old feature of Metacity from GNOME 2, which Compiz (Unity's WM) only approximates.
What I have learned about Idea Validation
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2683767
The site is really well done, and the selection of launch partners is great. I like the App.net app pages much better than the Apple app pages that try to launch iTunes. I don't think it matters much whether it's nameofapp.app.net or app.net/nameofapp.
The Folly of Charging by Bandwidth
Well, $5 from HTC, probably none (?) from Motorola.

No doubt they're making a fair amount of money though.
Dalton, why can't I upload and play music or view photos from app.net? I am confused
Every window manager I've used since WindowMaker back in 1998, including Metacity (GNOME 2), Compiz (Unity) and Mutter (GNOME 3) has supported resizing windows by holding down Alt and dragging anywhere on the window with the right mouse button.

Metacity and Mutter default to resizing with Alt+middle-drag rather than Alt+right-drag, but you can fix that in gconf-editor: "/apps/metacity/general/resize_with_right_button"
Oh interesting... maybe it depends on your location? I've confirmed with a few people that it goes to Y combinator. Just thought it was funny and worth sharing.

Maybe don't hit I'm feeling lucky?
That is one sexy domain name you got there!
I never knew that Google takes you directly to the official website of a product. What I know is that google ranks websites based on keywords, links, content... (SEO) and show you (typically) the 10 first most pertinent results.

Being the first on Google doesn't mean that you are the official/legitimate website of that product.
Google Pinyin update, Both Chinese and English Voice Input Support
There was a giant thread on reddit about introductory texts for pretty much any field of computer science...

Here's what I found: http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/ch0wt/a_reading_list_...

Not the link I had in mind, but not a bad starting point.

Ah, here we go: http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/gprp0/is_there_a_li...

So, pick one that interests you, and start reading. The trick: The very moment you don't understand a concept it's referring to, explore that concept. (Wikipedia is your friend). You want to lay a foundation, so never just gloss over things. Make sure you understand.

Trick #2: Take any knowledge you gained, and write code. You learned how a hash table works? Go write one, see what happens. Step through it with a debugger.

Trick #3: Once you think you understand it, try explaining it. To really whoever you think is listening. It might be a mentor, it might be your blog, or it might be a plush animal. (Me? I've got Rico from Madagascar sitting on my desk. He's an awesome debugging buddy. ;)

That should at least get you started.
And even then you won't be able to vertically center without using divs nested three deep...
"Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies." — Stefan Banach
You still have to enter your e-mail and a password into the BrowserID popup; and with OAuth, the sites using it didn't store your password either.

I literally don't see a major difference here, except that now we're using email instead of whatever bullshit identifier you could have used with other OAuth providers (e.g., your Livejournal username, your Facebook account, etc., etc.)

If I'm wrong, I would love to be enlightened.