skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Add free website snapshots to your app with Snapito’s (beta) API
Goes from looking very "Flickr" to indistinguishable from so many small-time competitors or even Google Images.
Looks great -- but you need to clean up the knockout bindings when clicking a button again. After a few clicks, it gets slower and slower... Also affects which button you click first.
I aspire to build something as simple, flat, and creatively-written as the Flickr interface.

http://500px.com/
Android is most-used smartphone OS in UK, overtaking Apple, data shows
Can you tell us what the site is? I've once or twice found sites that blocked even mailinator's alternate domains. Having a less well known alternative to mailinator would be nice.
Confessions of a Successful Entrepreneur
I'd eat this. Imagine being able to always get exactly the right cut with exactly the right composition for a reasonable price.

The environmental and health impacts would be enormous to boot.
Facebook Profiles Accurately Predict Job Performance
crosses fingers scribd next, right?
It's one chain of a money laundering operation.

Multiple books are created at high but not too high prices. Stolen funds are used to buy them; (through multiple intermediaries, work from home mules being a favorite) and the profits are moved through multiple accounts as well.

The criminals don't care that they are giving a bunch of money to Amazon (it's stolen remember), they do want the funds coming out to be clean, untraceable, and usable.

The unfortunate thing being that Amazon's incentives are, in this case, aligned with those of the criminals. And while I'm sure that Amazon regularly helps law enforcement track down this sort of thing, I wouldn't doubt that there exists a temptation to not notice that sort of misbehaviour.
In what way does this negatively affect Google?
While I'm often the first to complain about article title baiting, this quote -- "'At a certain point, they can't get much younger or we're going to be invested in preschool,' quipped Marc Andreessen" would lead me to avoid blaming Reuters for this one.
Is YouTube too big to fail?
DMCA or not Google's negligent algorithm is causing people with a legitimate income to lose out. Maybe they should be at the end of the lawsuit to have them drop their automated system?
Submitted and discussed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3609089

Rebuttal and discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3609593
I'd pay to see a demographic profile of the buyers.
Boo, give me OpenID back! Or at least don't do password reset via HTTP.
> It is about 2.7 times the Earth's diameter, but weighs almost seven times as much.

2.7^3 = 20 times the volume. But only 7 times the mass. So its density would be only 35% of Earth's density. Earth's density is 5.5g/cm^3. That makes this planet's density 1.9g/cm^3, which looks about right for an object that is partially rock and partially water.

But this ain't a waterworld, it's a steamworld. Imagine the greenhouse effect from all that water vapor!
I agree. Flickr has been left to rot for years. The photo sharing space is funky where every service seems to be a bit wonky while flickr has just sat there.

Managing your stream and etc should be obvious options. In fact I find flickr often raises more questions than answers when using the service.

The up-loader isn't the worst problem but it is the most baffling issue. I can't remember the last time I had problems uploading anything anywhere on the net except ages ago during the eairly days of the internet, and on flickr today.
I'm kinda surprised that it's 2012 and humanity still hasn't created a space station on the moon, Mars or some other planet.
I was really quite surprised at the way this article was pitched. I'd expect to read this airy, hand-wavy level of detail in a news magazine, not Wired.
There are plenty of touch mice.
Poll: HN Meetup: South Florida
I'm gauging the interest for creating a meetup for hacker news enthusiasts down here in sunny south Florida. It would be a meetup for Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami/Dade counties with a neutral location in the center (to make it fair for both PB and Miami people). I'll deal with all of the organizing for the meetup, so all you would need to do is just show up. I'd also like to determine the best time of the week to do it so there's a few different poll options.
I'm interested - Weekend Only
I'm interested - Weekday Only
I'm interested - Whenever
I'm not interested
I'm not from FL
I read the article, I didn't think you could gather any meaningful statistics from their results, because chances are, people here were just clicking things and seeing how it works. Hence the off topic comment.
Get the hacker news app. It gives a very nice view of HN, plus you can send stuff to Instapaper for reading later.
I use http://ihackernews.com

works well on android browser.
"trust the tattooed hipster who wrote Amazon's pricing algorithm"

Am I missing some context here? Amazon is full of tattooed hipsters?
No no, the quotes desarcasmize it.
Absolutely worth watching, every second of its uncut entirety. Despite his initially almost paralysing self-doubt, defensiveness about European views of America and distinct unease at the start of the interview, he gets himself ever so gradually disarmed by the German interviewer. Her English is pretty awkward, but she's actually incredibly genuine and she repeatedly charms DFW with sincerity, as he becomes increasingly fluid and open. It helps that the producer is an absolute dick, allowing for a kind of common enemy to pave the way of rebellion. If you have a bottle of tequila or some other hideous drink, you should definitely reach for it each time he mentions the word "paradox" or "irony".
This isn't what they're proposing. What they're saying is that Android will be on the touchscreen, and Ubuntu will available on the main screen.

Presumably, Ubuntu apps will be given access to Android's data store and events, but Ubuntu apps won't run on the touchscreen, and vice versa.
Whilst the article is fairly extreme, there is a tradeoff between design and web performance optimization.

If browsers could send user-configurable HTTP request headers that said whether the user would prefer a fast or a full-featured, beautiful design, I wonder what most people would choose.

Of course, great design doesn't have to come at the expense of speed but it often does. There's also other issues such as brand/identity that play an important role.
HTML5 version of Clear iOS app
Bringing OpenID To The Masses: Clickpass

http://techcrunch.com/2008/03/11/clickpass-could-change-the-...
I want this to be a great new start for Flickr, but I'm worried it won't be. What Flickr is really missing in 2012 are more advanced community features: Its user base is brimming with talented photographers, but the dusty old pool system doesn't encourage the kind of individual curatorial approach that has propelled the likes of Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram to their present heights.

Pools are big buckets that anyone can throw a photo into. They can be moderated, but rarely are, and so tend to be a broad cross-section of a theme rather than a gallery of excellence. I rarely use them; most of my viewing on Flickr is browsing the photostreams of contacts I've added because I like their tastes.

Flickr could actually go a long way toward fixing this with a fairly simple addition: Give me a feed of favorites by my contacts. Flickr has individual curation; it's just hidden in dark corners of the UI.
The Weave
Happy cat day
A Haskell implementation of Scheme
Free symbolic algebra system for Windows
The device 'Time Machine' by Apple does exactly that.
I don't have any pets, but I have three little monkeys, and I want all of the sensors!
"Drew Houston turned to an investor who dismissed the idea & asked 'Do you use any file sharing service?. The answer was 'No'"

This is GOLD. Drew probably found the competitive edge by figuring out why the investor didn't use those other file sharing service and fixed that investor's pain
Since notifo is shutting down are you going to remove that?
50 Most Innovative Companies 2012
:D thank you all
Assuming that it'd perform that way in the real world, you are right that my solution would have no significant performance increase over the sscanf you use. But I don't totally agree with some of your supporting arguments.

The wire protocol you're talking about is a heartbeat protocol. This doesn't need to be human-readable because there is no input from a human, nor is it intended for a human to read. Debugging it would be as complicated as a "printf". Oh the horror. We wouldn't want to add debugging to our application - better make people read the raw data with a packet sniffer (which you can't run unless you have root, so good luck getting your application debugged quickly, developers).

Adding an extra argument would require appending an extra field and incrementing the version. Oh noes the mess! Since both solutions are versioned, forward compatibility is just updating code in the server, and if you're going to change things you have to update code anyway, so this doesn't sound like a good reason to oppose it.

Realistically, will more than a handful of shops have a big enough cluster for any of this to matter? No. But even your example of using sscanf is faster than Apache's code (http://pastie.org/3430085) while being 100% compatible with the rest of the code, and still goes to show that doing it right the first time is better than just slapping something together and waiting until you have to optimize.

So do we need to use an unreadable, simpler solution? No. But it would work just as well as anything else and take just as much time to write - if not less.
I think the licence text itself is fairly straightforward (as much as legal agreements can be "straightforward") about it:

each Contributor hereby grants to You a [forever lasting]
patent license to [do anything with] the Work

The key part being "the Work", which is the code (in source or binary form) that's covered by the Apache licence. A derivative work would be covered by this patent licence, but a clean-room re-implementation of a feature would not because you are no longer dealing with "the Work".
The idea is that once you define "apply" and its like, you don't have to write function () { return; } inline any more. You just use library-level functions and partially apply them. These techniques reduce the number of anonymous functions you create.
Fat, bad. Cholesterol bad. Salt, bad. Everything, bad. Nowadays, though, they differentiate between "good" cholesterol and "bad" cholesterol, as if we're supposed to be able to distinguish them somehow.

Screw this guy and this kind of anti-intellectualism that makes it cool not to learn about stuff. "Why should I have to know anything about biology?". I don't care that it's only part of the intro, this kind of thing reinforces the kind of self-important "customer-is-ALWAYS-right" righteousness that glorifies ignorance. It makes me angry that people get away with shit like this.
Unnecessary. Our apps aren't "social." :)
How would amazon even know?

And in any case it's not necessary to use fake book. You can publish a 10 page "book" with your random doodles and use that.
You must be confused. I never suggested optimizing the code. I suggested using an initial design which is inherently efficient. They could have also made the heartbeat packets into XML documents. They didn't because they're not totally insane.
Historical issues for who, exactly? The way it was solved was to keep a copy of every DLL ever released on your system--I don't exactly call that solved; it's more like treating a cold with medicine that stops you from coughing (you're no longer coughing, but you're still sick). You can't really expect to use that solution for all possible situations.

It's absolutely unacceptable to keep around support for every version of HTML and JavaScript and CSS ever, especially when some of the versions are contradictory. The real solution is to make a clean break, learn from your mistakes, and do it better the second time around. Unfortunately, that means losing a lot of content if you can't automatically update it to new formats.

As for being a solved problem on one specific and unchanging platform, that's like saying networking is a solved problem so long as you stick to TCP/IPv4 and never have more nodes than you can have addresses. That's not a solution, it's a cop-out. Requirements change, specifications change, and most certainly, performance characteristics change.

As for being a solved problem on windows, the solution is just as bad as the problem--the difference is where the pain point lies. On my w7x64 machine, the windows folder takes up somewhere around 15gb of space (I don't have it handy to check the exact amount). That is absolutely unacceptable for an OS without any applications installed.

As for being a "monthly" issue for browsers, how frequently do you think it was an issue for major OS vendors until the specifications were finally more-or-less set in stone? Because I assure you, it did not happen overnight.
That is just awesome in every way.
I'm afraid to. :) they might buy them bulk and I end up with a load of books. I forgot to mention this is print on demand which makes it even more silly.
I first heard about de Bruijn sequences [1] in a talk by Persi Diaconis. Among other things, he described the lock picking "use" listed first in the Wikipedia article. They're such obviously cool objects, that I feel like they should be useful in all sorts of places. Sadly I've yet to find an excuse to use them myself though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence
Yes Finally!

I can't wait for this. I'm a heavy heavy flickr user. 100+ hours just these last 2 weeks, every day hours and hours. (I use flickr to look for creative commons photos for my websites).

1) Flickr currently wins the award for the worst search results. I've spend dozens of hours looking for specific photos with flickr returning the most irrelevant results you could ever imagine. Sometimes the results have absolutely nothing to do with what you searched for. It was funny for a while when page after page of Asian Children turned up when I was searching for nature photos. But after

2) Flickr's flow is broken. There's something very unnatural about the way search results, pages, streams, and download pages are set up. Common, it's a photo gallery with comments, I'm not sure why they had to complicate it.

3) I should not have to right click on an image to go to it's download page.

4) Flickr has a serious quality problem and is a terrible place for Photographers. Why? Becuase Flickr is a place for shitty family photos. People upload them by the room full. And I do NOT want random people's portraits in my search results. Any good photography that has potential to be licensed or commented on is lost in the jungle of family vacation photos. Yes I know flickr is a photo hosting site, but what people are really trying to use it for are to showcase and host their photography, which is actually useful. So these 2 groups, average consumers and pro photographers are both using Flickr in two different ways and that really hurts the site.

So I'm very excited at what the redesign is going to look like. I just hope they don't turn it into some laggy ajax nonsence where effects pop up every time you hover over a photo or all the photos are dynamically grouped using javascript after they're loaded (which again, makes scrolling laggy).
Too little, too late. People have moved on, it seems, judging from my unscientific poll.
I've always viewed you/YC as a bit disingenuous in the way you evangelize startups over college.

Even though I've read many of your essays and hangout on HN quite often, that was my overwhelming impression. I'm very glad to find out I've been wrong this whole time and that this is in fact your stance - much respect FWIW.
Tribal Skepticism?
“It’s A Brick” – Tesla Motors’ Devastating Design Problem
It if confusing, but having been forced to use an Android device for the last two months, and now back with the iPhone, it did have some advantages. Sure, you wouldn't know what it would do, but before having to go home and you just press the back button, and sometimes it takes you where you wanted, sometime it doesn't. Then you just rerun the app.
YouPorn accounts leaked by negligence of YouPorn
An example: http://chat.youporn.com/tmp/register_user_20080906.log

Someone grep'd these files and put it in this pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/ieC6eTB7

There was no malicious hacking at play here. As you can see, this sensitive information is available on HTTP. YouPorn admins are retards.
It is a fundamental principle of justice that everyone is equal before the law.

It doesn't always turn out that way, because people implicitly or explicitly undermine it by handing out exceptions to Special People.

It's better for everyone if that doesn't happen. It's a stupid law, but it's the law. Let's not give him a free ticket because he's Not A Normal Teenager.
Free as in beer, not as in freedom
The author just nailed it. I really liked his 24 popular startup that misleads entrepreneurs" - he makes awesome points.
Sure, this is clearly true, but this battle was lost fifteen years ago. Graphic designers run the web now.
That is not my intention.

What I'm trying to say is that there are traditional tools, the baseline, the fundamentals, such as the list I mentioned above.

Then there's another genre which add the 'social aspect' to the traditional tools.

Did I mention freckle to be a social time tracking? Nope :)
It also stripped out Google's click-tracking, and didn't put your search terms in the Referrer header.

They claimed to not keep persistent server logs, but there's no way to verify that.
10MinuteMail.com is another option.

(biased creator here)
Thanks for the insight! My original message was just me not understanding your real point. I'm usually little allergic to an attitude like "you can't understand this high magic!", but in this case I must apologize my misunderstanding.
Why client-side web development is harder than server-side development
If the phone could access remote computing resources then this would be awesome. (I could show you stuff I've written years ago saying you should "dock" a phone, wirelessly, to keyboard and monitor and have it also connect to external CPUs and GPUs. I'm sure other people have had the same idea.)

I'm just really skeptical that a smartphone has enough computing power for me to want to use it as my desktop. That's why Apple has gone the route of iCloud; you have your content already synched to your desktop but you keep the interfaces and hardware separate. This is a move that won't be viable until hardware catches up. Or it will be like the original MacBookAir: underpowered but good for certain mobile business users.
I'm 31 and I'm working on my first startup, so to speak, at the moment. If you've been working since your early twenties then you have the advantage on me -- I lost most of the decade due to depression and some consequently poor choices.

As the cliche goes -- the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
As a possible replacement: http://googlesharing.net/
Is there a standard to support web callbacks (or whatever they're called)? I wouldn't mind hooking up HN to Prowl, since that's what I did with Notifo anyway.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I was under the impression Redis is one of the fastest data stores out there. What do you mean it would blow the latency budget? I'm curious because I've switched my startup's backend to node+redis.

Thanks in advance!
That's a step in the right direction, but the cord still frays at the brick end unless you leave a big loop before wrapping the cord around it. And the USB iPhone connector still frays. It would be nice if they'd adopt the standard flexible nubs designed specifically to avoid this fraying problem, but when aesthetics and practicality come into conflict at Apple, aesthetics usually wins.
What is good license choice for OS project that might be included in SaaS?
Which is the best license for Open Source project that can (does not have to) be used in SaaS?<p>Commercial use and modification is permitted as long as the running end product (providing service) contains notice/link to the original sources. I am considering Apache 2.0 with few additions for the notice/link.
Catazinelive
CaTaZine Live is a weekly edition of the official magazine of the CATreloaded team, which is known as CaTaZine.
Workstations at offices, gaming machines, animation and image manipulation will all probably stay on desktops and that will keep them around for years.

The scale of a desktop fits and works. Like how we could make a TV the size of a watch, but we don't because the large 60 inch plazma format, while immobile, has benefits worth the tradeoff.

Full featured mouse / keyboard, larger screens, surround sound are all perks of stationary desktops (I guess you could attach all these peripherals to a laptop, but then you are partially defeating the point of being mobile.
There is a video, showing the functionality. [0]

Now I begin to understand why Canonical made those recent changes. The Ubuntu part of it seems kinda slow, but smartphones are going to get faster. [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUXUjjg9qQ0
[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/5559/qualcomm-snapdragon-s4-kr...
Thankfully, I never said they could do "whatever they want" with them, I said they could take them down and share the profits of the ads on the same pages as the videos. And they can.
It would be pretty freaking awesome, although I wonder if the cost of building and maintaining such a station could be recouped from fees and sponsorship.
Androbuntoid: a THICKER client
Future of Social Gaming: US Social Gaming A $5 Billion Market By 2015
Researchers Reveal How Attackers Can Track Cell Phone Locations
What is the reason behind stop supporting it?
We start rolling out Beta invites tomorrow!
>I would like to have a desktop in the cloud, and data in the cloud

You would sacrifice your freedom and privacy for a (dubious) convenience?

>What benefits do we stand to gain from still having things run or be stored on a local machine?

So that you won't be in paralysis when internet is unavailable?
Lawsuit for what? Google has every legal right of rejecting any video they feel like it. That's defined in their ToS and there's no law that overrules it.
So the Internet effectively partitions. Which side do you think will be the vibrant one, and which the stagnant one?
Y Combinator's Secret Weapon
I totally related with this article. I started my company when I was 18 in Australia and now, at 20, I've come to silicon valley and I can't even legally go to a bar for a drink. I once got halfway to a super-relevant networking event full of potential customers, only to find out that it was in a bar and I was too young to legally get in. And I sympathize with the lack-of-car issue - thank goodness my co-founders are both in their mid thirties so they can rent a car. Otherwise I'd be pretty stuck for transport around here.
I interpret 'functionally inequivalent' as 'produce different outputs'. With that, it is easy: there are aleph-0 such programs.

As to the number of a given length: if, for every possible output, we pick the shortest program producing it as a representative (utterly reasonable, as we know all programs to be optimal :-)), one should study how to sort outputs by their Kolmogorov complexity.
The reddit hivemind does something ferociously stupid that makes all internet users look like drooling morons -- is this news to people?
Win 2 tix to this year’s SXSW Interactive just for mentioning this blog post
How to use RSS feeds to simplify your job search
Pretty sweet, I was thinking about trying this as well. The only thing missing is the pinch open gesture to create a new item.
You are suggesting an optimization over the default "just use text." Your initial design is more complex and error prone - in my experience, people screw up simple binary formats much more often than simple text formats.