skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, unless the planning literally involved a cast of hundreds, I'd just create a temporary circle.
I desire to buy larger and larger monitors, am forced to buy HD aspect ratio monitors, and then find all these webmasters spooging all over my monitor with their various toolbars and spambars and crapbars and wastebars and iebars until I eventually get back to a 320x240 pixel screen.

When I see these toolbars, I just want to reach out through the intertubes to find the developer and cut off his damned fingers to prevent him ever writing any more code...

Yes, it's just you. :)
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It is hard on the eyes- With that shade of green, reading anything is a pain.
That may say more about your online friends than it says about Google+. I have friends on Facebook talking about Google+, and occasionally see a mention of it on Twitter, but everyone in my G+ "Friends" circle are using it as they had been using Facebook. At least two have closed down their Facebook account and migrated completely, and while they're more techie than Joe-YouTube-Commenter, one works at a bank and the other in carving granite, so, not -that- kind of techie.
?? I'm sorry. I don't understand your point. Could you explain it for me.
Self-policing on the internet by and large rarely works out well. Before long, most of the interesting people are driven out by the assholes, and the only other people left hanging around the assholes are the morons and bottom-of-the-barrel trolls.
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That's definitely an option, but from a usability standpoint for business owners it's a nightmare (as they have to keep track of many things already). Seems easy enough, user study showed it was a pain point.

I agree current implementation isn't exactly ideal, but we'll probably find a good compromise soon.
Top 100? I didn't know there were 100 MBA programs in the entire world.
Where did you get that information from. In most districts it's nearly impossible to fire teachers.
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What top 5 methods of paid acquisition worked best in getting so many members so quickly.
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Ask HN: Are there any CS students that would do a project for $500?
Hi everyone, I made a post very similar to this one a few days ago, and wanted to try it again after learning from some of the mistakes I made in the first post. I'm working on a startup, and we're looking for a student or recent graduate who would be willing to build out the MVP of our product for $500. We're looking for someone who could build a mobile app or mobile web app for us that would involve integrating the facebook places API and PayPal API. We would ask for the intellectual property. If interested, contact us at selfey.sw@gmail.com

Thanks!
How is that nice? And I can't find this quote in the article.
+1 for Richard Mlynarik reference and 'wastebars'.
I'm not against change, I like many redesigns, but there's something about this that seems off. I think the problem is they focused more on looking funky than they did presenting the content in the best way possible.
Yes it has loud obnoxious green look, techcrunch used green before, but I never payed much attention to it until now. And the headlines font size is loud with a Huffington Post attention whoring feel.

That said, I agree with others, the nav bar is cool as well
as hiding / restyling the share widgets. Still too much green and loud type.
If malloc is rigged to explode when it fails, you can't accidentally forget to check; sometimes, malloc failures can end up being exploitable. It's not like most code does anything particularly smart when memory runs out.
Two reasons why I'm still not digging TC's site design:
http://kacy.me/8NzH & http://kacy.me/8Mpa

That's a cache version with ad block on (use it for testing sites). Maybe if they turned off the linkedin and facebook integration, the site would load faster. I guess they get a lot of traffic from that though. :-/

I'll still stick to reading articles in Reeder.
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It seems like people want Reddit more than they want another social networking site.
OK, downvotes. Why, exactly? I'm not trying to troll. Monads as commonly explained on blog posts are cargo cult mathematics, and monads used in languages like C++ where they make code longer and more complicated instead of simpler, are cargo cult programming. I thought comments were for discussion, not silencing anything negative.
is it the -1 button? oh, well, that looks cool too :P
But that ruins the idea of a Circle. If I can join into a circle, the entire idea of a circle as it relates to privacy becomes ambiguous and you lose the clear distinction that probably already isn't terribly clear among more novice users.

There's a way to fix this, but it's not via public circles. There are lots of good ideas out there about how to use tagging, filtering, sparks or combinations of the three to provide a subreddit-esque layer on top of Google+ that would enable more content and options for users while still allowing my Mom to safely post her pictures to her Family circle without worrying about "Public circles".
The actual article display isn't that bad, I can read it quite well, but the overall layout is (as others have said) very obnoxious. The most important part is the articles and they haven't butchered the content finding like gawker did. It'll take some getting used to I assume but I guess we can wait and see.
"To defend Android, Google must attack software patents"

But then Google jeopardizes its own search patents.
Why do I think of Breitbart every time I think of TechCrunch?
Oh look, their list of "Hot Topics" includes "Quora".
My first thought is that social sharing should go down dramatically. A lot fewer social CTAs on each post, and the left buttons, although aesthetically pleasing, don't really incite the user to share.

Mashable is an example of the in-your-face sharing buttons allows social sharing to go through the roof, and also allows for immediate social proof that hey - other people thought this article was cool, too.
If I found a random USB drive on the ground I would probably format it with a device that any malicious software isn't targeting, such as a game console.
Ask HN: when Problem is not Problem
I wonder when Problem is not Problem. For example,

McClure: “What problem does it solve?”
Google: “Online sharing is broken. And we aim to fix it”
McClure: “Erm, no, that isn’t actually a problem for people. Twitter and Facebook work just fine.”
from "What if Google pitched Google+ to Dave McClure?"
http://dylancollins.com/?p=342

Or discussions here about Google+ and Excel alternatives sound similar.

I think it is Complaint if Problem is about existing major products. Your thoughts?

Thanks.
We started around the same time in Velocity, Waterloo but with a more secure patent-pending approach:

http://vimeo.com/22926049

hardware took ages to develop.. It still doesn't work for BB.. ;)
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It seems like Sparks could be modified to support something like that. Maybe it already supports this exact thing.
I think I found the problem: the current versions of Opera don't support hardware acceleration.

There is a lab build that uses OpenGL to speed things up, but it only made this page slower. It passes the microsoft fish test with flying colors, though.
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I used to have an 'Anyone but godaddy" policy. Then I ended up with some names at eNom and they just emailed me my password. Now I'm shopping around to move.
Well businesses have to do something with people that are too incompetent to trust with doing actual work; making them managers at least limits how much they can screw up. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dilbert_principle).
I despise the valueless menu bars that people stick to the top/bottom of the frame... e.g. those dumb social bars...

But the idea that a menu bar moves up/down with the page content is a holdover from print media. A tasteful and useful menu bar that sticks to the top of the frame is a very useful piece of UI; why is the world should I have to scroll to the `top of the page to find the menu? GMail does it nicely. I think the Techcrunch bar is actually pretty useful (even if I think the rest of the design is straight 1996).
I stopped reading after realizing they didn't use reddit for an IAmA.

EDIT: Directly.
My thoughts on it:

1) Two clicks for search needs to go. Why can't they just get rid of the white space from the logo and display the search at all times? Make search easy, not hard.

2) I don't like being asked to share an article before I even see the title of the article.

3) Images under "popular posts" get maimed and look bad (low resolution/pulled horizontally)

4)Im not a huge fan of the pixelated logo, but to each his own

5) The headlines on the articles seem quite... Big.

They got some things right, but it still seems like a first draft rather than a final copy.

EDIT: They already fixed the images under popular posts, so they are already working on it. Maybe there is hope yet!
$10/hr - clearly they don't know the going rate for security researchers and pen-testers. Or perhaps I should circulate this to the guys I use, to get them down a bit :)
Ouch. Now you know what it feels like to work for a startup.
How are you classifying employment? Do you just use a predefined list of occupations and search the users "Occupation" field for items in that list?
It's funny. I just got a response from Diane Feinstein a couple of days ago too. Apparently, whoever wrote their replies decided to do a batch job? In any case, here's her response to me: http://pastebin.com/LzCB2KMs
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Personally, I think you're right, but you sort of take a risk when you go for hyperbolic sarcasm. I'm not sure how much of the first paragraphs he believes; much of it, if he did, somewhat discredits him in my eyes as an engineer (let alone as an unbiased source). The takeaway certainly doesn't depend on whether the preceding paragraphs are gospel truth, but one's judgement of the author's credibility, in my opinion, does.
And no doubt the Ars article will be posted on HN once it's been written.
Discussion on the same article from a couple of days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746481
I mean, I hate it, but whatever. It's still TechCrunch.
I guess dropping tidbits of inside information for HN karma will never go out of style. NDAs apply after you leave, be careful...
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I don't even have an opinion on the redesign because their site performance is still terrible. Techcrunch is probably the most sluggish website I regularly visit on my Macbook air. Bringing up Firebug/Web Inspector is horrifying.
There's nothing in an engineering program that teaches one about sales, marketing, accounting, inventory management, etc.
Well, I guess, for most scientists, black and white aren't colors.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_black_and_white_if_they_a...
Easier: short stocks that you think will go up. Avoid the whole VC problem entirely!
Put it together correctly, and there will be no visible pyrotechnics. Just a USB stick which mysteriously fails to mount. AFAIK, most police agencies will not attempt chip-level data forensics, and perhaps no one will take the trouble to pry the stick open.

Know that any serious electronics tinkerer could come up with many tricks far more clever than this one.

And once again, one ought to compare the sentence for evidence destruction to that which your original crimes carry.
Why is BTW an 18-year old student from Moscow, the very definition of not notable.
As he mentions in the post, this is from one of the creators of Tumblr, who's elevator pitch at this point is "a social network that gives users control of their identity". It is one of the easiest ways for someone to practice what he's preaching.

Still, the people who are converting everything over to Google+ aren't crazy (well, they are a little bit, no search and no RSS is kinda a big deal). The design of G+, particularly the permalink pages, does a good job of making the first thing you see the actual content, not the fact that it is on G+.
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So unless you are using zero-days you are a script kiddy?
> While this is a very nifty bit of code, I'd be very careful about using it for unit testing as there is a high likelihood of minor behavior differences verses a real mongod which can cause surprises in production.

Yep, that's a valid point. My plan is to run my tests most of the time with embedded-mongo, and run against real mongo on occasion (such as say, using embedded-mongo while developing locally and real mongo before pushing to production). I haven't benchmarked it yet, but my test suite seems to run a lot faster with embedded-mongo than real mongo. And it's definitely a lot less work to use than an ad-hoc mock layer.

> PS- That is really impressive for a weekend project! You should get in touch with us at 10gen if you're looking for a new job.

Thanks! If my current startup goes down in flames, I'll be sure to give you a call :).
That is not true. That is redistribution wealth. You are taking the money away from the people are are making and giving to the people that are spending it. That makes no sense. Savings is what drives the economy. Without savings there would be no capital. omg.

Please tell me where this multiplier comes from? If money was multiplied through taxes the USSR would still be around and booming as they had an effective tax rate of 100%. So do tell please.
I call bullshit. Please remove your wiki page for Grace Metalious. She never did anything but write a few trashy novels. I came up with that example in about two seconds. I'm pretty sure I could go on all day. Notability _is_ inherited. Except of course in the case of Wikipedia editors, whose contributions are minute and often negative.
Nope definitely not, there is a wide gulf between the two. It's just if they were using their own zero days then it'd be pretty obvious that I was wrong.
Wow, that is strikingly similar. I notice how neither commented on the technical ramifications of this, and gave a generic "this will protect us from evil pirates" response.
The basic thesis is this: What ever we can measure and whatever we pay attention to, we improve. It's just like Hacker News karma.

A management that forms a tight feedback loop with market watchers and stock prices tend to learn very quickly what pleases the market, and optimize for it. MBAs learn about how to hack the balance sheet so that earnings per dollar capital rise, and the stats look good.

However, there are alternative management score cards being developed to measure businesses better. Measuring willingness of customers to refer friends is one. Mining companies for example measure near misses and lost time injuries as a priority because the publicity of one bad accident can jeopardize new investments.
Sparks looks like the preemptive avenue for sponsored content. Reminds me of an AOL suggested content sinkhole. It's an insult, really. At least back when people were dialing up there wasn't much in the form of federated content so it was in AOL's interest to prime the customer with bland reading matter to keep them interested. This Sparks thing, I dunno.

I think at this point since they have all the early adopters already locked in and providing feedback, they should think of suspending any new signups until they have the circle matrix figured out, like Twitter did.
Most people's brains aren't trained for reading things properly unless it's with the intent of immediately applying what they read. They can try really hard to read carefully, but their brains are simply not in the right mode to absorb the material the same way they would if it were being put to use. It's hard to even become consciously aware of how poorly you're learning, because it feels like you're really concentrating.

I've finally gotten to the point where I can tell when my brain isn't learning like it should, but I still can't just will that mental state away.
That's a good analogy to describe the current state of things, by why can't we aim for something better? For example, I would not be afraid to put a random CD in my CD player.
Could someone link to a description of the PROXY protocol?
It's not a good idea to myopically focus on anything. Including data.
And now you think I should be using C
Two immediate impression:
- the logo. oh my gosh, it's hurting my eyes!
- there's empty space next to Share button, why not expand it so users dont need 2 extra click (open the share list) to share?
"and many people find Ayn Rand references annoying enough when they're on topic"

That doesn't mean they should vote it down. It's a legitimate point of view. It's mainstream enough to the point that her views are now taught in major universities. We're not going away.
The logo is emitting a lot of green noise. And there's a lot going on in the overall design -- it doesn't evokes emotions that compel me to stay.
Isn't that what the "Following" Circle is for? People who care about Minecraft add him to that Circle? Maybe I misunderstood the purpose of that Circle.
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Why would it ask? If you didn't want the computer to access the drive, then why did you plug it in? The mere act of plugging in a drive is a signal to the computer that you want the drive to be made available.

Note, however, that this is NOT a signal that you want the computer to start running arbitrary software on the drive.
Not sure if the downvotes are for the terrible joke or from people who don't understand FP
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When you're dealing with a malicious attacker, you can't assume that they're playing by the rules.

All an attacker would have to do is find the ID of a device that you have used in the past.
And what if you've plugged in a USB keyboard at the same time as that drive?

And that USB keyboard has said "hey yes I want to run the software on this drive"?
Any plans to allow purchases from Non-US countries?

I just tried to buy a domain but can't fill out the form.
Going on a tangent, but hotmail is really good nowadays. My non-serious-mail-from-friends account is on hotmail, and it's as good as gmail, a bit better in some stuff and a bit worse in others.
I wonder if it's possible to buy bills via Kickstarter...

Is that legal? Would a PAC or Super PAC be needed first?
It never ceases to amaze me why we give power
over to those who do not themselves produce

Given the context, "those who do not themselves produce" means MBAs? I've got an MBA (and an MSEE) and am a CTO, and I think people think I can produce. Of course, there are useless people who graduate with every degree imaginable. MBAs happen to have graduated too many people and have gotten a bunch of focus over the past decade, so are rightly getting their ration of shit, but that's not about the notion of an MBA being useless; it's about oversupply and under-quality.

Also, I assume you meant "those who did not themselves produce" because one of the most frustrating things about management is that you don't get to produce much. That sucks, but it's part of the job (I hate leaving work when my big accomplishment for the day was to talk to a bunch of co-workers, but it's my job...).

Actually, why do we view 'business' as its own separate
field when it doesn't mean anything in a vacuum?

Because running a business is something people do and is has very specific rules, regulations, mechanics, knowledge, etc. Accounting and finance do matter (a lot) and products, people and ideas do fail because they neglect to understand these things. But business studies are cross-functional/domain: I took the "core" stuff, but I also took great classes on control system theory for business ("system dynamics"), industrial economics, strategy, technology strategy, organizational processes, finance (NPV, capital structure anyone?). These types of knowledge give you a very different (and, hopefully, more effective) perspective on what businesses are and how they operate.

Computer science doesn't mean anything in a vacuum either. What if you wrote a program and you couldn't market, sell or support it?
I wonder how they would have fared if it wasn't publicly known that they received zillions in funding or that they spent 350k on a domain name.

Had they been in stealth mode and didn't feel compelled to release as half-baked product too early, maybe it may have turned out differently.
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>Contact your representatives, do something.

I think his point was that OP did exactly that, and found that the 'AAs already have his legislator firmly in their pocket. It's like that scene at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where the chick is all relieved to see someone she knows and trusts, only to realize too late that he has already been converted.

I also absolutely hate the phrase, "Do something!" or "Get involved!" in regards to politics or causes in general. It's absolutely useless. People already know that they want to do something, they want to know what they can do that will actually have an effect on the outcome, preferably with tutorials, lessons learned, etc. Harassing already-bought politicians does not fall into that category.