skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto on the 'Create Blog' / 'Sign in' confusion.

Actually, on the whole you have way too much administrative debris in there. I actually bothered to sign up, and it took 3 or 4 steps before I could actually do anything useful. Most people are not going to deal with that.

Here's my advice:

1. Let people create an event and start writing without signing up. If you must, make them give you an email before publishing it to the public, but let me drop in and demo it before I commit.

2. Get rid of the separate create event/invite/add steps and consolidate them into one app that lets you start blogging before setting a title, start date, tags, etc. Content is king-- the rest is just icing. Also, for the love of god, don't make any of those fields required, and don't have a text box I can only fill using a calendar picker.

3. De-emphasize the invite page drastically. The way it jumps up after blog creation makes me feel like you want to harvest my address book to spam people or something. Put it in the sidebar and make it AJAX, or whatever. Also, I had to look for a bit to find the link to skip past it and start editing.

4. When you post something, it shows up at the bottom of the page. The entire first screen is just title + metadata. This is dumb. Make the metadata smaller, at the top if you must, and put the commentary front and center. Also, consider inline editing.

5. Your graphics/JS on the edit page could use some polish -- seemed a little glitchy in Safari. Not a big deal.

6. This might seem like nitpicking, but have somebody do some copy editing for you. Aside from some grammatical/spelling/spacing errors, the front text seems pretty awkwardly written to me. Good copy is important. In your case, why not get rid of it entirely and just put an event stream or blog posting form in there?
That would be once for each load of the page. Sorry if I was less than clear.
No need to hack iTunes, just download the movie in a DRM-free format. I've heard that there are places on the Net that has things like that, something with pirates and a bay?

But sure, if the Blu-Ray replacement happens to have a working protection system they might finally pull it off. Too bad for them that the last part of the delivery chain will always be unprotected, unless they find a way to put HDCP in Eye 1.0 wetware.
What typing?

I use Visual Studio - you just hit a letter and then the <TAB> key and Intellisense writes the code. The programs don't always do what was intended but hey you can't have everything.
Sure, but the pirated HD version had to remove the DRM in the first place (eg, some Blu Ray titles require HDCP, which you have to remove to rip it).
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Minor thing: use something like feedback@blabify.com instead of blabify@gmail.com under "Have something to day?".
Yup. But figuring out how to do it will probably take longer than the download!
Has anyone noticed that the transfer charges for the United States are actually less than the charges for S3 once you get over 10TB? Other than the added cost of distributing the files to the CDN, wouldn't that make the CDN as cheap or cheaper than S3? Great place to put your most accessed files.
Google (GOOG) Begins To Monetize Google Finance....Good or Bad?
"Don't hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe's Flash software: Apple's terms-of-service agreement prohibits it."

That is probably the most trivial issue preventing Flash from running on the iPhone. Companies negotiate and renegotiate agreements all the time.
Ozmo: License photos/blogs/etc to other sites
there has to be some kind of lockout involved or every piece of crap will have to be picked apart.

It's not clear to me from the article whether the fee is paid as part of the submission process or after the app is verified. If it's the latter, then the verified apps are paying the burden of cost for those that fail verification. If the fee is not part of the verification submission, then every POC app will have to be picked apart, and I'd guess the process wouldn't be too rigorous.
The 'create account' and 'create live blog' -- its confusing as to whats the difference between the two. Do I need to create an account or can I create a new liveblog without creating an account.

additionally, the site doesnt work well with chrome - few broken elements.
People who want to implement SharePoint WSS 3.0 hosting, they have two options open. They need to have a dedicated server, which can be housed within the organization or, outsourced to a SharePoint Server hosting provider. The basic essence of the SharePoint work flow is to increase the collaboration among the users. This is because of the fact that not all workers will have same competency level and they will need some way or the other to increase the efficiency of the workers with increased collaboration. For organizations, it is time to revamp the work space and enjoy more organized work than ever before.
I am a native speaker. "segue" is pronounced like the "segway" scooter? (Wikipedia concurs - it's apparently from the Italian)

That's what I get for reading English at a higher level than it is spoken to me.
> Too bad for them that the last part of the delivery chain will always be unprotected, unless they find a way to put HDCP in Eye 1.0 wetware

That won't help you record it if there is sufficient pressure on the small number of manafacturers of recording devices:

I would imagine it would be possible to create something like a EURion for video and audio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
The actual 'liveblog' content is too low on the page - in fact, on my 1280x800 resolution, it's not even visible until I scroll down. When I visit a site, I want the main content to be the first thing I see and anything else should be secondary.

Neat idea though. I thought of a similar idea a few months back but, as ever, never got around to making it. I do wonder if having a desktop application is actually necessary though.
Besides the sign up/sign in confusion, I would recommend checking out why your sign up emails go to spam. I signed up and it went straight into my Gmail spam folder - I haven't had this happen in quite awhile, so it may be the way you are sending it vs. other web apps since those usually land in my inbox.

Your button styles are really messed up when you create a post on a live blog - when you hover over a button the style changes, also the Start/Stop buttons weren't exactly clear (maybe they should be at the top and colored, green/red).

I also didn't get why there was a sports category thing right in the middle of the live blog creation, with only 2 sports listed. I think you should just get a bunch of categories together and categorize each live blog, ie. Internet/Technology, Sports, Entertainment, etc.

Also, embed? I was looking around and have yet to see a way to embed these live blogs onto my site. If I'm hosting a live blog, I'd like it to be able to post it onto my own blog within a post or on a page.

The design could also use a refresh, I agree with some of the other commenters when they say it looks like a blog when you first visit the site.
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HDCP only matters to people who support DRM with their money.

Disclaimer: Not me.
Can someone explain why Yahoo has not simply copied the adsense/adwords of Google wich is where all their profit comes from since they already have the same amount of users worldwide? They developed very slowly and still its notthe same thing.
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1. Too much meta-data at the top of the live blogs.

2. The listing is kind of boring, and the 4 digit time is confusing at first, I would prefer "8:32pm".

3. blabify@gmail.com? Use your own domain, looks better.

4. "Create Live Blog" wants me to login? If a user isn't logged in, send that link to the register page, and dump the "Create Account" link altogether.

5. Personally, I hate the design, its just not inviting for me. And the fact its not customizable means I'm far less likely to invite people to read my live blog.

6. I cannot delete live blogs?

7. The "My Account" / user page looks highly unfinished.

8. Why do I need to see the "What is Blabify?" panel everywhere, when I have already signed up and logged in?

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OK I'll refrain from re-factoring the above, they are raw thoughts as I was using your site! ;)

Like the idea and concept a lot, but I think you have a lot of work to do to make it more user friendly and appealing. Good luck! ;)
I suspect that his point is-

Using long-lifed connections, and sliding more data through as time goes on, avoids some of the overhead of additional HTTP headers that you see in opening new requests and replies.
Ask YC: How can I increase revenue from $1500 to...?
Hey all, I have this site that I've been running for a while (it's a travel forum) that brings in about 1500$ dollar a month with adsense. If I could double that, that'd be pretty great. Any thoughts on the possibilities? Of course, I'm expecting to get a lot less ad $ with the crisis and all... But then again, the site isn't really monetized much.. logged-in users don't see any ads for example. Of course, I don't want to put lots of ads on it either, which is why I'm asking the questions..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
Love me some Sigur Ros.
A friend and I will be car-pooling from the 96th and Township Line area. I have room for a couple more, although I drive a 97 Mercury Tracer, so it will be a tight fit!
The iPhone has to be concerned about power consumption, and as a general rule unleashing interpreters is risky because it allows "unnecessary" amounts of computation to consume power.

Consider Flash video. While it would be nice, is it the most power-efficient way to display video? Ditto for games, or anything else that Flash is used for.

There is also the very real problem that Flash is abused for things that people don't want. Pointless intros, advertising, expensive animations...all consuming CPU in a way that is largely beyond the user's control. From the article: "websites that use Flash to render content or navigation won't work on the iPhone"...fine by me, I have never seen a site that did Flash navigation in a way that was more useful than default web navigation (instead, it was just...flashy).
That's ridiculous. Good programmers work out how to type less using the power of their mind. If you can type exceedingly fast, where is the incentive to produce better more concise maintainable code?
Learning to type fast before programming could be a big mistake IMHO.

Also, if you love programming, you practice... and the more you practice, the faster you get.

Typing is just the current method most people use to pass data from ourselves to computers. Programming will continue to exist once we have moved on from using keyboards.
My thoughts exactly. I only purchase media that is DRM-free. Amazon's MP3 store for instance. If they want to make more money they can start by offering more content as DRM-free because otherwise I'm not buying…
Music does many things for me- it blocks out other distractions without the weirdness of noise cancelled silence, it gives me something to occupy my mind between coding bursts so I am less likely to jump over to the internet for stimulation, and it seems to keep my brain more active in general. I generally listen to melodic stuff, (like melodic trance or classical music) no meaningful words, but often with vocals.
It is more economically feasible to transport materials to Perth.
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If I remember, the company behind it was bought by Intel for their Linux distro for MIDs and low power devices.
Its also slated to be integrated into Maemo, the OS running on the Nokia Internet Tablets.
Demos look impressive but sadly not enough documentation.
If I had to, I could use a mouse with my foot on an onscreen keyboard. It would require a bit more patience and time, but it would in no way hinder my ability to create software.
The way it seems to work is that CloudFront caches files at their edge servers, and then serves them using the CF pricing- The content is loaded FROM S3, however.

Amazon then requests it from S3, so it can cache it. This means you need to pay for that download from S3, just like you would if a user downloaded it from home.

After this cached copy is stored, Amazon won't need to download it from S3 anymore, so you shouldn't get hit with that again, unless it expires from their servers somehow.
Requiring more patience and time fits the definition of hinder.
You must be doing pretty well to get $1500 from AdSense. You might try direct sale of advertising - they pay much more than AdSense so you could boost revenue without showing a ton of ads. (I haven't done this, just heard. No idea how hard it would be to sign advertisers).
First off - remember that free consultancy may only be worth just what you pay for it.

FWIW. I found the site landing page failed to tell me clearly what I could expect if I followed the links. I suspect that you may be losing a good part of your potential audience at this point.

Then, it has to be said, I did not see a lot of ads on the pages I sampled (none at all in most instances). I would have thought that a bit of work on the page keywords would enhance the attraction of your site for adsense dollars and then some work locating the ads at the right points to attract visitors when they are ready to buy something could pay dividends.

A specialised Amazon book store could add to the monthly take. Plus - where are the ads for travel insurance, cheap airline ticket shops etc. etc. There is a lot in this area you could do without overwhelming your site visitors with the commercial aspects - good well targeted ads are a useful resource after all.

Good luck with it - it's hard work running something like this but a little more application might just make it something special.
That 'work it' is from 'harder better faster stronger', no?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq--Nw

It should be able to play samples from across the web. Uploads would be fun too.
That is good for receiving data. Yes, having a single JSONP etc would save some headers there. (Although creates other issues).

But for sending data from the browser, you can't do any other sort of streaming, so you have to send a new request each time.
I've always wanted to learn to type with just my left hand. The Half-Keyboard idea goes quite a way to that end; http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol/ used to implement it on earlier Mac OS X versions, but they were threatened with a patent suit and so removed it.

Can anyone here type with one hand and recommend how to go about it?
Is there anywhere to read about the physics of this for a mechanical dummy?

Specifically I'm wondering, wouldn't the counterweight be pulled toward earth every time we use the elevator? Would we have to continually boost it?

Does the counterweight have to be in a geosync orbit, or the center of mass? If the latter, what keeps the counter weight in geosync?
Apple would be crazy to allow Flash. There's two possible outcomes that would come from full Flash compatibility, and neither is good for AAPL:

1. Flash is slow and clunky and sucks battery life -- much like it does on a full-powered Mac.

2. Flash works great and developers use it to sidestep the App Store, bypassing both Apple's stewardship and profitability.

I've never seen any indication whatsoever (outside of hungry-for-pageviews rumormongering) that Apple is in the least bit interested in letting Flash on the iPhone.
"Companies negotiate"... but does Jobs? What would Adobe have to put on the table to get Jobs to budge?
If you can type exceedingly fast, where is the incentive to produce better more concise maintainable code?

You don't strive for concise code because it takes less time to type. You strive for it because it's easier to read.

The reason you have to be able to type quickly is that, while your final result may be concise, you may have to type parts of your code several times as you revise it down to that final form. Then you have to type the documentation, the emails to the rest of the team, the blog posts describing your work. Then the specs will change, or your ambition will grow, and you will type some more.

Programming will continue to exist once we have moved on from using keyboards.

I don't see why this would happen. Except for those who are unfortunate enough to sustain a typing injury, keyboards are better than the alternatives. Have you ever tried dictating Perl code to someone? As if reading /^foo+([bB]a+r)$/ wasn't hard enough -- trying to pronounce it is like torture. Are you capable of writing 82 WPM longhand? I certainly can't. Maybe if my notepad had autocompletion, but even then I'm dubious. Keyboards have autocompletion, too, and they have it right now.

Maybe someday we'll perfect the mindreading interface which rearranges text based on pure thought, but until then I suspect that keyboards will always be the first choice. Which is not to say that I'd turn down a notepad that could flawlessly read my writing. The problem with typing 82 WPM is that it's hard to do it all day. I'd be willing to switch back and forth to longhand just for the ability to write digital text while I'm taking a break from the keyboard.
Aye, but someone's figured it out, hence making the download possible.

It's might seem like a chicken and egg discussion, but it isn't: the crack needs to come first. But once one person cracks it, the content is available for everyone else.
2.The ADMINISTRATIVE FASCIST. Usually a retentive drone (or rarely, a harridan ex-secretary) who
has been forced into system administration.
I don't even know where to begin with this. Typing is a way to program, but not the only way. One can get on ebay or the like and find these old engineering sheets of paper where people at IBM would hand write FORTRAN code, then take the paper over to the department that would make punch cards out of the programming sheets. No typing involved. It is like saying to fly you need to know how to handle jet engines, rather than the principles of lift, keeping the nose level, etc. Whether the plane uses a jet engine or not is incidental to good piloting skills. Similarly, whether one uses a keyboard to create a program or the IBM engineering sheets to handwrite out a program is incidental to good programming skills. Typing hasn't a thing to do with programming.
Hrm. I think great and just decent programmers are probably well within an order of magnitude of one another when typing, but not in terms of productivity. Yeah, if you don't know how to type, learn, but come on, is the sort of thing one has to resort to to get traffic?:-/
E-gad. I wouldn't want to work with any of these jerks, including the author. What kind of punk keeps a diary of how bad his contract is?

I've never had a bad contract -- and I've been in situations more stressful than this. A good attitude, good people skills (fundies a problem? Yeesh. What a piece of cake), and the ability to say "no" will fix about anything.

But I have worked with a lot of folks who were smarter than everybody else, who kept a running list of grievances, who had to work with poor managers.

Contracts are like playing cards. Each time you get a different combination of people, skills, and faults. I can imagine myself walking into a job with such a piss-poor manager: you either convince them that you are working to cover up for them and make them look good or you fold your cards and find another contract. Sulking for 5 months isn't much of a life. Life is short.

It was a bad contract, yes. But it takes two parties to continue something that painful. The author bears quite a bit of responsibility (and needs to grow up), in my opinion.
Thanks.. good tips so far. The income has been steady for about 2 years now.. so I'm thinking maybe the best thing to do is just to do some seo, focus on that and increase traffic.. that way I don't have to add more ads either.
ps: traffic is like 800,000 pageviews a month, if that helps. I guess my question is also: am I doing good with the ads, or could it be much better?
More to the Mark Cuban Insider Trading Indictment Than Meets the Eye?
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There's nothing worse than an insecure boss.
This is the video funded by Mark Cuban -- Loose Change: Final Cut
Amazon launches CloudFront, their pay-as-you-go CDN
A horny boss?
This article is lengthy but excellent on the topic of monetising a blog. Some of the techniques should apply to your site too:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-f...
I'd reply "a horny, insecure boss?", but then people will accuse me of turning this place into another reddit - and they'll be right!
"I don't see why this would happen."

You can't foresee any time in the future of the universe when we will stop using keyboards to transfer data from ourselves to machines?

Before the advent of the typewriter, I'm sure there was a similar argument for Authors - that they must learn to write quickly and neatly with pens. Good advice in the day, but an Author is still an Author, whether they use a pen or a typewriter.
I think it would actually be a lot harder to apply something like EURion to video or audio, because of user expectations. Video and audio recorders are not expected to duplicate an existing artifact but to make a record, something you usually only get one chance to make. A EURion measure would be prone to abuse, breaking the user expectation that the given event had been correctly recorded.

The obvious example: What if a guy robbed a bank wearing a EURion t-shirt? None of the security cameras would record him, unless you had some exception for security cameras. And once you have an exception for security cameras, do you have an exception for, say, home security cameras? If so, anyone will be able to get a circumventing camera; if not, a lot of people will be upset.
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Mark Cuban was the 20th hijacker!
Back I say, BACK to reddit with the conspiracy theories!
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My uncle crushed his spinal chord and lost the use of his legs and fingers. As a c6, he can move his arms in broad strokes, allowing him to type.

He has become a hacker in the best sense and done important work for many years now. His mind matters more than his fingers.
I would be sooo pissed if the movie i downloaded wouldn't play on my regular TV or projector I setup or something. I don't understand why they would require encryption for an analog out? Even a digital out. The movie-cracker people do everything in software anyway, so it seems like there's really no point in encrypting the transmission link.
Needs a demo, or a video demo.
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Few months ago we were writers, now we're typists. What's next?
You can have people posting original content on e.g. their blogs, and linking to it on your site with slinkset... or is that not a viable option?
Crime might pay, but only in volume
He did not start Pixar. Why would he say that?
Yup. In fact, if you look at all of the financial crises of the 20th century, all were at least partially caused by momentum investors having access to large amounts of leverage.
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Great post Paul. There will always be room for good ideas that actually solve problems. If you position the start-up now, it will be ready to reap even greater rewards as the economy recovers.
As I've said (once) before on HN, the combination of:

1 - increased leverage (risk) => increased rewards (if risk pays off)

2 - intense competition between companies (with the possibility of buyouts, loss-leaders, etc)

Means that companies which don't adopt risky positions will fail in the marketplace if the risks don't home to roost soon enough.

Those which do adopt the risky position will out-compete them.

I'd love to know what economists make of this. Someone mentioned the 'dot com fallacy' last time I brought this up, but google tells me that is just "make it up in volume", which isn't what I mean here.