skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
based on my real world usage, I either have something in mind and will check on yelp, or if I'm really clueless I'll check out my friends reviews. I'm usually limited to what restaurants are in an area x miles away from me, and in a short time I pretty much know all the good items at all the places within the areas I frequent. For all the companies that try to build off of these types of recommendations I just don't see it as a problem.
Are you ready to launch? Then launch. You could spend years wondering if you're going to be good or bad (but can improve) at doing the items you listed, but you won't ever know until you just launch it.
H.R.2940 did pass the House today

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR02940:

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2940/

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H.R.2930 (CrowdSourcing one) still making its way

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR02930:

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2930/
Dear Mr. Editor,

You have until next Tuesday to put the <time> element back in the spec. If you don't, we'll do it for you.

Lots of love,

HTML WG Chairs
They're not exactly hiding that. We're all aware that those two companies, along with others, collect our information and generally use it to promote relevant products or what their algorithm's believe we want to see.

Amazon, Netflix, and others all do it blatantly. It's not a conspiracy, just something that originally had a good intent (and still does), but is not yet developed enough to provide a well-rounded stream of information.
Hey Bobby, so made the share on facebook checkbox more visible. Also, clicking out of the modal now automatically unchecks that box. The only time it will share now is if you click "Done", with the checkbox checked, in which case, it should be very clear that you've seen the checkbox and know what you're doing.

Deployed and tested. That should eliminate any unwanted surprises, so feel free to mark all the things you've done!
dsr_ 1 is correct. On that floor plan, at least, the only women are secretaries or receptionists.

Susan Kare desiged the icons, as you say, but that was years later. In 1978, the Apple ][ was still only a year old itself.

The Macintosh isn't really that early in Apple history, for those of us who grew up with Apple ][s.
Whatever made you think it was your data anyway?
Typically, the CEO is "locked away" in a spacious corner office and the engineers have to make do with cubes.
Recently I walked into project that used Twitter bootstrap for the initial CSS. A prototype was built, relying on the bootstrap CSS, and from that point on it has been hassle to work with the CSS.

I'm really not sure I understand the strategy of dumping so many styles into the global name space. Basically, all of us have been working around the styling as we implement features.. a major refactor is in order and we will likely be ditching bootstrap.

Just a warning if you plan to build beyond the styles provided by bootstrap, it is not straightforward. Really, the entire set of styles should be contained within its own namespace or some other meaningful semantic convention.

Am I missing something? What is intended after 'boot'? am I really supposed to replace these global styles manually?
Importantly, the people went with it.
The comparison is invalid because iPhone/Blackberry devices are premium high cost devices with high quality control.
A direct comparison will only work against other premium high cost devices with high quality control.

By comparing every Android phone on the market (from cheap to premium) to only premium devices you are always going to get a skewed result.
For a more detailed explanation (and if you don't want to figure out where in the video he talks about it), Pinker wrote an article too: http://www.scribd.com/doc/389762/Steven-Pinker-What-the-Fuck...

(I believe this is just an excerpt from his book, The Stuff of Thought, but it's been a while since I've read the book so I don't remember.)
Store your plaintext email on someone else's server. Act surprised it's not private.
Why is this the only way to win? Computers don't have unlimited storage.

Also, don't underestimate the "lipstick", in this case the user experience. Dropbox beat jungledisk (another s3 backed cloud storage company) on UX.
We're working hard to get there!
what makes you think it's plaintext?
Thanks for that. It was a real eye-opener. I knew that China's debt stake was less than everybody complains about, but I didn't know the exact numbers. Sometimes we need a little dose of perspective.
That just proves that they can't read everybody's email.
Im located in Atlanta, GA. Im a web dev myself. I have been looking for some interesting startups. I've worked in corporate America for 12 years and work part time projects as well.
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They recorded the girl with green screen. Why not use these frames instead of placing her on top of glass and spending minutes per frame trying to replicate that same shot?

And yes, they could've have created a simple animation (which they did anyway), and then convert it to jelly beans with a relatively simple code in Processing.
This one is more interesting: Can this be called the Facebook bill? It moves the 500 shareholder limit to 1000.

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2167
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I don’t understand. Why does that make the comparison invalid? That makes no sense at all.

You are naming one factor that might explain the difference – but that is exactly the point of such comparisons! To figure out what the difference is!
Louis Vuitton Men's Shoes - Replica Louis Vuitton Men's Shoes
Not really. You would notice completely different type of picture then. It would not be consistent. It has to be moving a bit everywhere in every single frame.
Groupon Set to Price Its IPO Tomorrow, Go Public Friday
When kids have problems creating Google/Facebook accounts - that restricts kids' freedom of expression.

Regarding "protecting from advertisers" - do you want government to protect you from advertisers?
I'm really loving how fast they are pushing updates and just using Bootstrap in general. I've already used it for my startups new website (http://www.sponsorfied.com), which turned out pretty awesome, and the time I saved by using Bootstrap was pretty incredible.

I'm definitely using it for any side projects or sites I need to toss up without spending days on them.
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This is the type of thing that you wouldn't have done 10 years ago because noone would have found out about it.

Reminds me of the Amazing Honda Accord commercial - the Cog... Rube Goldberg machine all done without CGI (5 months of pre-work, then 605 takes until they got to one that didn't screw up somewhere)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo
They did a lot of work that they could've avoided with CGI, but where would the fun be?
Making of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh4zWeUDW-E

Another good one that is similar in the sense that they went through a whole lot of trouble is the Sony Bravia commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NymcQJjPCs
They did a lot of work that they could've avoided with CGI, but where would the fun be?

BTW, it seems Jelly Belly was in on the fun a little bit... http://www.jellybelly-uk.com/bean-world/page/?id=47
At the very least, I'd imagine that she didn't pay for the jelly beans
The surest road to "better" is often simply to optimize for a different segment of the market.
I spent the afternoon at this event.

My top 5 and bottom 5 are roughly the same. I really, really want to use Smore, but I have nothing to promote right now!

Frankly, the GoChime system feels creepy to me, just based on their current implementation. Perhaps they'll get good feedback that points them a better way - or shows that I'm wrong!
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Real Security in Mac OS X Requires Apple-Signed Certificates
It's going to suck. It's going to break. People will not sign up. Get over it. You cannot change that until you launch it.
Google's Ads are served in an iframe.
Sometimes it's useful to have a new way to think about the same boring old problem. Personally, I like this set of guidelines because it focuses on things that make code more readable and pleasant to work with instead of getting bogged down in minutiae like where braces go or whether or how I have to import things.
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I think it has to do with a perception that Groupon does not create as much of the value they take credit for.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369188,00.asp
Ah, ok. I parsed the title as meaning "HTML 5's time has come again".
Looks like that's a day old; Groupon's already priced it at $20 a share (http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/groupon-prices-i-p-o-...).
Majority of YouTube views from Non-English audience
As someone moving from New Zealand all the way to the states for my business, I'm just starting my research on visas. What's the problem you guys are actually trying to tackle?
Moving it to another folder wouldn't have sufficed?
No Google doesn't read your email. In fact their spam detection just works by flipping the worlds luckiest coin at every incoming email.
Refrigerator repair in Corona / East Vale CA. on an LG refrigerator leaking
> lifetime unlimited worldwide data plan

Unfortunately the web-browser that makes this useful (beyond buying books) is still labeled "experimental", years later. Meaning it can be dropped at any time.
I think that for them, the art was in the physicality of it. For them, how they did it mattered.
I suppose this is where you rely on the cascading thing - place a @import at the bottom of your bootstrap for your overrides.

Using a framework favors convention over configuration for the benefit of speed.

I especially like it because the team has a central set of documentation for the UI to use - that means if we override a style, if they followed the convention, everything works out better.

I do agree using a namespace would help though.
And they did.
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Society works on a handshake; there is no ultimate moral arbiter. So when the vast majority agree that certain words are no longer offensive, then it's OK to use them without concern. However, as long as that isn't the case (and it certainly is not the case in general in most societies at this time) you have to consider more than just your own personal views on profanity. If you are offending a portion of your audience, then it's fair to say that you're being disrespectful to hat portion of the audience. Most people I know use profanity (sparingly) with their peers (age-wise), very rarely with their parents, and almost never with their grandparents or young children. I think that reflects a knowledge of their audience and a respect for varying levels of tolerance to profanity. I find it troubling when I encounter people that lack that level of respect for others, and shameful when I'm guilty of it myself. Broadcasting something on a very public medium like the internet means you can't possibly predict your audience and therefore can't really determine whether profanity will be offensive or not. So why not refrain.
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they didn't say that they shot them in order.

She implied it when she said that after every day, they could see the progression up until that point.
I think this change in focus from technical ability to semantic information really signals that we are solidly into the information age.

We have pretty much worked out how to get stuff done, it's time to start harnessing the results and start reporting on what is out there.

Classifying the information can only be a good thing.
It's rare that I indulge myself in making a pithy remark on HN, but this is one of those rare times I will, karma be damned.

You're missing the point.
If Quake was done today
When I was your age, we rocket jumped all the way to school uphill, both ways ... in boiling lava
I want something between Kindle and iBooks. Kindle is too flat and lacks any personality. iBooks gives the personality, but the skeuomorphic behavior is off just enough to be disconcerting (like a robot that is almost, but not quite, human).
But regardless, I thought one of the biggest points of hacker news was the ability to grok out meaning of news and opinions, and not debate the effectiveness of its communication.

I think it's quite the opposite. The community has grown around an appreciation for effectively communicating and discussing ideas. This is why comments with little information and inflammatory comments are typically down voted.

In terms of business and startups, there are numerous articles posted here that discuss nothing but communication. How do you communicate with users? How do you work well in teams? How can you get your message across clearly and effectively to prospective customers?

Communication is just as vital as technical skill.
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I voted this up and I didn't even notice that swombat posted it. I voted for it because of the artistry, but also for the attitudes towards craft and long-term projects in the making-of feature.
The refurbs from Lenovo are a steal. Buy one of the T- or X- lines and you'll have a very solid laptop.
Thank you for the advice. Also I just joined up crowdwoo twitter lotto http://twitter.com/#!/RussellBal
No visa exists for scrappy founders without their own money. You need an employer to qualify for H1-B or EB-2. You need $500k to qualify for EB-5. You need $50k and be from a 'treaty nation' to qualify for E-2.

American-educated immigrants get kicked out and start companies in their home countries or H1-B and work here until they get a green card, when they'd rather take the plunge and start a company? How many founders are camping in Vancouver, the closest urban non-US setting, jotting down the coast for investor meetings in Silicon Valley?

New Zealand, you can get entry status for a 3-month a year, no questions asked. What happens when you raise funding and the angel or VC wants you to locate your company close by to take advantage of their portfolio network? Do you return to NZ to work remotely like Amit Aharoni did? Do you spend your time and money that could be spent on building your company on lawyers to deal with your visas? What happens when an adjudicator rejects your visa, since 'CEO doesn't require a degree,' making it a much harder designation to apply under? Oh, the same adjudicator will be responsible for your appeal, btw.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mother dies
"well do data mining" is the new "well have ads" for unmonetizable businesses. Then again the data mining is probably just for ads anyway, so maybe it's just more of the same...
Thank you for the advice I will try to put it into practice. Over analyzing the what ifs isn't helping my goals. Fear is a funny thing.
Wow, I sure hope that's not what people think.

Here's the scoop. We kinda invented the whole distributed source management thing, go to google groups (if they are still there) and do a date search for changeset before 1998. Now do one today. That's all us. (in case they aren't still there, there were something like 16 hits for changeset before us and now there are zillions.) Is that proof we invented it, I dunno, it's something. We certainly raised awareness that Subversion, which started when we started, wasn't the way to go.

What our EULA said, and says, is while you are using our system you can't contribute to an open source system that competes with us. If you want to work on some other open source you are fine. When you stop using our system, have the big fun, but while using it, no copying our stuff to some open source clone. Yeah, I know that makes many (all?) of you insanely pissed off. But we invented this stuff, we've been ahead of the curve a bunch of times, and open source is always right there ready to "rewrite" whatever we invent. Is it really so unreasonable that we don't want to hand whatever is next cool thing (in source management, right, that's cool :) to people and say "here ya go, have at it, copy it"?

We don't think so because we spend tons of time and money figuring out a right answer. It was a lot of work and just like you, we'd like to reap some benefits from our work.
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It is believed that the key to a successful singing career is singing in harmony and harmony is said to be the key to music. If a singer is not capable of singing in harmony would not be able to sing with musicians, with accompanied instruments and recorded music or with other singers. Singers like these would be embarrassed every time they perform because of this failure. So, it is very important to learn to sing in harmony if you want to be a successful singer someday.
Red Digital Cinema announces Scarlet X -- 4K resolution, $9750, Ships in 2 weeks
Your math is off on the Jelly beans. 288,000 / 400 = 720 Pounds. JellyBelly Jelly Beans Retail on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Jelly-Belly-Assorted-Flavors-3-Pound/d...) for $9/pound. So, even if they didn't buy them wholesale (hard to believe) - it's still only $6480 worth of jelly beans.
There are individuals who care more about fundamentally good ideas than about leveraging them for profit. We aren't sufficiently offended by profanity to consider it a net negative value in presentations.
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In some sense, you launched when you posted this Ask HN!

I think this is a good way to do it as well, as you're likely to get some helpful feedback and tyre kicking from HNers.
Hi there,

My email info is in my profile.
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I would say the comparison is more like saying windows laptops have hardware failures more than Mac laptops. That is probably a true statement, but I bet that is affected by a few crappy manufacturers. When you compare an OS with a hardware platform it is just silly. I think this kind of lame comparison is a sign of either fear or sour grapes. Reassuring for Android in a way.
Don't assume that everywhere that speaks English has the same monoculture. A very strong aversion to swearing is, as far as I can tell, specifically American.

I'm Scottish and I swear more or less continuously, using words that are considered to be the 'most offensive'. This isn't 'trying hard', it's simply a cultural artefact, a side-effect of growing up working class in a particular place in the world.

This kind of reaction to swearing is really just parochial nonsense.

(On the other hand, if you do have a character trait that some people consider a flaw, you might as well go out of your way to own it, and so: http://theswearingrubyist.com/ )
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In the same way that people tend to overestimate their own abilities (e.g. everyone thinks they're a great driver and it's everyone else that's a hazard on the road), I think most parents vastly overestimate their children's maturity and decision making capabilities.

I'm not sure why parents are so keen to run out and let their kid's create their own Facebook account either. Everyone in my child's life is within proximity to his physical space, i.e., family and friends at school, etc. When he wants to say hi to grandma we jump on skype or video via gchat.
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Hey foxhop, I understand your fear (we all do to an extent).

Most people advocate a MVP approach (minimum viable product) for many reasons. First, you can do less work before releasing. Second, it allows your ideal users to help you develop the product further. The few users you have (heck even if it is only 5) will be able to tell you what they like, how it is useful etc. You may not know all the uses for your product and a group of people might find that it is useful for X. Then you can market it as the "perfect solution for X"

Your initial users will most likely be HN members. Most of us know how hard it is to do all of those things so we're not going to worry if you don't scale in a timely manner etc. If your site crashes, we'll calmly inform you, if you take a while to respond to feedback, we will understand.

I'll send you an email and I'll see if I can help you..
Prepare your expectations accordingly. Have you been collecting emails from a landing page while you were developing? Do you have organic search traffic coming to your site? Do people know about your app? Have you validated the market for your application?

If you answered no to those questions, expect zero people to know or care about your app. Launching and running a successful web app is 10% development and 90% marketing.

I'm telling not trying to discourage you, the opposite actually. Just because no one signs up when you launch doesn't mean your app sucks. It means no one knows about it. Start marketing, start blogging, start SEO, start guest-posting, start doing everything you can to get the word out.

As an aside, you should probably have a way to monetize the app in mind and put it in place before launching. Very few apps can get away with ads or freemium effectively, especially if it is a small micropreneurial endeavor.

Edit: Looks like you have an email list. That will help you convert well on the first few days and give you a morale boost. Don't worry about the rest, tackle it as it comes. You'll never be ready enough, so just go for it when you have a working product :)
Cloud9Living.com shows this concept definitely has potential. Instead of going with the daily deals model, I would suggest going with the DailyCandy model (before they ventured into daily deals). Suggest experiences to pursue near the city you live with a weekly or daily newsletter
I suspected as much, but as I've never used them I wasn't sure. Thanks for clarifying.
True. And, if possible, eventually expanding into the original segment is always a possibility. It's all about finding an untapped niche or one that needs some new tapping.
Oh my fucking God on a dildo. Really?

If we banned swearing at work it would be a lot quieter, I guess.
I haven't done it in ages, but a quick google shows gives an example (BTW google beats vim :help if you don't know the command name) http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Edit_remote_files_locally_via_SCP/...

vim scp://konimi@vim.org//var/www/html/rtc_functions.php

i.e. you just start vim with the address preceded by the protocol name (here it's scp, but also works for ftp and rcp). The "konimi@" is the syntax for username. You might need to set up SSH passwords for scp on the remote (that's a whole other thing to research)
Is Being Agile Really Something to Strive For?
It's interesting to see the toilet is in the center of the building. When Jobs took over Pixar the new campus development was planning to build three separate buildings: for creatives, for producers and for business people. But Jobs insisted that they be brought under one roof, with toilets at the centre — because that’s where everyone meets and talks.
From the article: Fact: Just 9.2% of oil consumed in the U.S. comes from the Middle East.

That number is small comfort. Petroleum is fungible. Thanks to the arbitrage guys, a barrel of oil sells for one price worldwide. That means that a severe shortage in one oil-exporting country can have large effects on the price of oil everywhere else.

I don't have enough expertise to argue with the other claims, but if the author misses an important point like the fungibility of commodities, then I will be agnostic about the rest of the article.
I'm not sure how it is in Britain, but there is not much logic/reason in politics in the US.
In the vein of intelligent use of swearing with a scottish accent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9arSotadmY