skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Regarding looking like everyone's friend -- if you don't look like everybody's buddy, hire a spokeperson who is. George W Bush is said to have become president because he looked like someone everyone wanted to have a beer with. Not the quality I go for when choosing "Leader of the Free World", but if it worked for him it'll work for your startup. If you're a gangly ugly dude with an accent, hire a different rep.

2. I am conflicted on play video on load. Basically I suspect that most people in our space can't make content this good deliberately, so I don't want to encourage it.

3. One action button. This is interesting. On the one hand, I want to have a demo page and a "sign up for our email list" because email lists are demonstrated to have higher conversion rates than sign up (and email lists are documented to convert better). On the other hand I too enjoy the uncluttered simplicity of a 1 option page. The question is: do you want to forgo conversion for that warm fuzzy feeling? I'd rather take dollars. I think the lesson here is -- just test. However, prior determination that one button is best is dangerous.

4. Re. #8 (if you have to interrupt a checkout with sign up, do it tactfully and painlessly). I think you are being a bit fanboy here. It seems like the obvious UX advice is -- DON'T interrupt the checkout process with sign up.
They didnt fold when the EU tried to get them to increase tax rates on companies like Google and Intel though did they.
I think this entire assertion has the wrong idea.

This idea would be valid if the universal alternative to using Bootstrap is some impressive design stitched together by your in-house crack team of designers. But I'm sure the alternative to Bootstrap for most people is for the developer to use his own html/css know-how to construct something passable as he goes.

So, for most people, I'd wager that Bootstrap is mostly just a time optimization that saves the developer from spending time on a design that would have been far less impressive anyways, that saves the developer from burning time that could be allocated to the actual product.

I find it silly to condemn people for how they allocate their time.

Even the whole pro-Bootstrap chorus of "But it's just a standard interface for the web" is silly. Really? I have yet to even stumble across a Bootstrap website in the wild that wasn't linked to from a Show HN. Are these monthly Bootstrap rants conflating the HN echo chamber with the internet? Weekend solo-dev projects with funded business websites? I guarantee it.

The likening of Bootstrap to Wordpress' default theme is telling. Does anyone here really encounter WP's default theme in the wild? I sure don't. Maybe the majority of WP installs still have the default theme, but it's in the same way that the majority of WAMP installs still have the default "It Works!" Apache screen on localhost.

I just don't get the point. If Bootstrap really was some prevalent interface that most of the web started using, then you guys that do have the crack team of designers at your disposal should be excited! Here's your chance to stand out! But I'm using Bootstrap because it's literally faster than any other alternative I can think of until I have someone separately working on a UI branch that I can merge into my code.

If I took your advice and stopped using Bootstrap because you assume "I don't care enough" to make a custom design, I'd end up with something that will probably look worse and guaranteed to take much longer to create giving me more bottlenecks as I get hamstringed by aesthetics when I could instead be funneling my efforts into business logic and not into something that's rather trivial to switch out when my app is deployed and my time frees up to address less-critical concerns.
Pinterest has a market valuation of > 200 million dollars...

30%+ of its images are flickr images...

... 99%+ of which are "All Rights Reserved".

How many

... page views,

... new subscribers,

... and $$$

have the most-pinned flickr images generated for pinterest, with the author not seeing a single cent... not even having the satisfaction of seeing their popularity on pinterest reflect in their flickr stats?

And: Pinterest does not even have the decency to display the author name and license info next to the image.

Pinterest's business model is flawed; it is based on systematic violation of copyright. At some point, someone will start a class-action lawsuit and invite flickr photographers whose works got "pinned" to sign up, to reclaim part of that >$200 million pie.

In fact, this seems like a valid startup idea to me: Create a one-page website explaining to flickr users what has been going on. Do a systematic reverse image search to find out which authors have been affected and invite them to join.
Arrange with an interested lawfirm to get a % of their fee in exchange for delivering the list of potential plaintiffs.
Exactly. Saying that this is just the way it is is ludicrous. They could under sufficient pressure change the wording so that they aren't assuming ownership or unlimited use and that it is something more akin to fair use.
the simulator already offers multiple levels of zoom
Postable - The easiest way to get people's mailing addresses
Unfortunately .bs reads as .bullshit to me.
"Repeat, iterate, and before you know it -- your top-notch lawyer guarantees that you will face no more expensive liability, but you now have the onerous terms set out in practically all sites that allow user-generated content"

If that lawyer exists, the Pirate Bay should hire him/her. I do not see how what they are doing is any different from what Pinterest does. Or am I overlooking something?
yes but it still feels like those are rather intangible improvements to the average consumer. will he care so much about improved resolutions and processor speed? speaking of aesthetics, I would love to see a screen without bezel on the side (like the galaxy s3).
Difference was that back then a game from start to end lasted a whole lot more than 4-8 hours.

Yes I know lots of games now do as well, but lots of the most popular ones don't.
This strategy doesn't work so great with things like dry cleaners, tailors, and dentists. Yelp has the potential to be incredibly valuable with these types of services but I've been finding that the recommendations and reviews are close to useless.
Hey Eric - thanks for jumping in as always. Fair points all around. Specifically on the checkout interruption for which I am being a fanboy (!), I think DollarShaveClub gets a couple subtle things uniquely right.

1. Show this as part of the 1, 2, 3 checkout flow by indicating it is Step 2 of 3. This makes signing up for an account natural rather than an aberration.

2. Continue the theme of man-laws, etc. alongside the sign up element; too often the sign up element is isolated and looks like pure work to fill out.

I think their UX has a lot to still improve, frankly, but getting these specific aspects support my guess that they're having a breakout week with the traffic from this newly viral video.
From Footnote 1:
[...] If we were to use the full dynamic range of 24bit and a listener had the equipment to reproduce it all, there is a fair chance, depending on age and general health, that the listener would die instantly. The most fit would probably just go into coma for a few weeks and wake up totally deaf.
so does http://www.mamma.com/ . I used to use this after Yahoo and before Google.
Facebook's Plans for Gowalla Revealed
Monorails aren't inherently flawed, are they? Isn't it just that implementations are generally older and not particularly high quality?

My largest complaint regarding Sim City 4 was that the transportation add-on was almost essential to the game, yet it was an add-on, and cost extra.
Or some server code that serves a watermarked image if the client IP block is that of Pinterest's caching servers. People see the un-watermarked image on your site, but a watermarked one when browsed on Pinterest.
> There's a difference between unique style, and unique function

just how many way can you click a button?
Perhaps. But the filtering isn't just to protect the restaurants from fake bad reviews, but also to protect the viewers from fake good ones by the restaurant.
The amazing part is it looks like a real Web 2.0ey kind of site.
At least it's looking better than Excite. http://excite.com/

Edit: Holy crap.

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Agree. And all of this is ridiculous anyway. A non-issue for the vast majority of startups who want to do something in the US. Think you're going to get funding and grow your company with a foreign TLD doing something that the US government might disapprove of?

Not to mention the fact that the entire OP is based on the way things are TODAY and that assumes it's even accurate. Which of course it's not (just taking your comment as one of many which makes an important point about UAE.)

Most importantly things in the political world can change overnight.

.ch is Switzerland which is great everybody thinks. Guess what? Check out the way the Swiss caved into US demands on revealing those keeping money in swiss bank accounts. Those accounts were secret for a very long time. Then that changed.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1917648,00....
Also, check SlickDeals - there's a notice there whenever these carriers change the contract terms. In such a case, you're legally permitted to cancel the contract without paying the ETF.
For restaurants, I've had a good experience with OpenTable's and Zagat's ratings. Both are consistently reliable -- no nasty surprises so far. (FWIW, the best way to access OpenTable reviews is to search for a reservation in a particular area, and then sort by the number of stars.)

For bars and the like, I've had a good experience with Zagat's specialty guides -- e.g., http://www.zagat.com/product/specialty-guides/san-francisco-...
For those who haven't seen it, the awesome django-rest-framework has built in support for browsable, self-documenting, HATEOS APIs.

Here's a browsable example API: http://rest.ep.io/

Because your browser provides Accept: text/html by default you get back a nice html page describing the result for the API root. If you send Accept: text/json (click "json" at the bottom) you get back a json response.

You can follow the links in the html response to get to other parts of the API. You can also click "OPTIONS" to send an OPTION request to get a description of what you can send to that endpoint.

http://django-rest-framework.org/
Apple ID Blocked
Is this happening to many people lately?

My friend, partner and myself have all had to reset passwords on iforgot.apple.com in the last 2weeks.

None of us have had any security related problems or even left our phone lying around for someone to get at.

I did however notice it forced a set of T&C's down our throats I wonder if these are a new set of T&C's but still why the password change?
I think this is the essential point, the smaller ones often have no data points either way regarding security. That said, there are some great cheap ones http://www.lowendbox.com/
With your reasoning we should sign blindly all papers and if any weirdies are found it is just to protect the service provider incourt, never its it a trick against the user, right?
So you're claiming that pinterest should pay your legal bills for you? That's ridiculous. If you upload a photo that's copyrighted by someone else and get sued, why should pinterest foot the bill for that? There is no way the service would ever be viable under those conditions, because it would create an enormous moral hazard.
Ah seems my memory was bad there. I must have had it confused with another emulator, however that sounds while it wouldn't be trivial to rewrite those sections it shouldn't be very difficult to do so either, just very very tedious. I think other than that there could only be a licensing issue, and I seem to recall that bsnes had a fairly liberal license that shouldn't run into any problems. Though obviously you'll know better than me byuu :) In that case it's all about time and who has it that'll determine when/if it'll happen
Important considerations. Let's not forget the vb.ly debacle, in which Violet Blue's adult link shortener was turned off by the Libyan government. http://techyum.com/2010/10/official-vb-ly-link-shortener-sei...
I don't know if you're intentionally setting up a false dichotomy or what, but at face value your first sentence is a pretty unhelpful (and glib-seeming) platitude. It's not "always plan everything out to the nth degree or live life with no plans, whatsoever"... there's a lot of space to exist in-between.

Wandering around and finding new places and experiences can be great, but it's not for everyone, and it's certainly not for everyone all the time. There are people who really don't like being "surprised", pleasantly or otherwise. It's not a failing on their part, it's just how they're wired. Services like Yelp are (ostensibly) great for these types of folks, since it allows them to try new things with a little bit of reassurance that if the new thing sucks, it shouldn't suck too bad.

For, say, your tenth wedding anniversary, would you really just show up at the train station with your spouse and your low expectations, hoping to be pleasantly surprised by your randomly-chosen destination?
Randomstrap: Twitter's Bootstrap with extra variance
Where do you live? I'm in Southern Arizona and there are a variety of places (upscale to roadside carts) that offer Mexican food that's similar to Sonoran cuisine. You just need to travel south.

And I'll throw in my two cents. I've never used Yelp to find a restaurant. Usually I depend on asking locals in person or I read daily/weekly papers to see what places they write about.
If it's only hundreds of thousands, you might want to find thousands who'd like to pay hundreds for a TLD that rocks and is safe.
From the perspective of someone who frequents Hacker News then of course it's going to seem like there's a ton of sites using the nearly-stock bootstrap look. That's because people like us actually look at sites like "Built With Bootstrap" and check out people's demos of bootstrap sites. Back in the real world the average internet user will likely never notice.

Most sites in the early stages will have few visitors and due to variety of interests it's unlikely that a single person will be using a large enough number of these sites to start realizing this problem.

As the successful sites grow larger and move beyond the early stages it's likely the developers will have access to more resources to improve their site theme over time and move away from the bootstrap look.
They also pay $500 000 when reported via other means, of course, if thats coming from a company like.. VUPEN.

Pwnium is just there to lower those prices, at least attempt to.

This one exploit is there to be able to say "see, we get those for 60K, why would we pay you 500K"?
I don't think it's pedantry. I think it's good to point out that while this change is good, and is in the same realm, if you give the impression that it would prevent an attack like the one this weekend, it's security theater.
Very Metro-y, I wonder when this redesign went live.
Without typing anything in the search box, hit down arrow to get a list of suggested searches. My personalization was extremely spot on given that I haven't used Lycos in 10 years.
Call me crazy, but somehow LFS+(Puppet|Chef) makes a lot of sense... :|
I used to know someone who worked at a facility where he didn't trust the wifi (perhaps he thought they were running bluecoat or something). He just used an iPad 3G for all his personal stuff. He was pretty well regarded, so no issues on productivity/etc.
OK, it's a screwy compromise, and it wasn't exactly intended by a single party. But it's happening anyway, in the sense that Google is awarding money for full exploits, and ZDI is awarding money for something that is both tasteless advertising, and still allows Google to fix more bugs than if they appeared only on the black market.
If I'm a copyright holder who feels like my work is being misappropriated by Pinterest, I'm going to sue Pinterest, not the user. Their Terms of Service won't stop them from getting sued, and the indemnity clause won't magically make money appear in their pockets to pay for their defense. If they decide to start suing their users for recovery, that would be pretty amusing.

"I trusted the person who gave me the image" is not a legal defense for copyright infringement. Their only chance is to stay within the DMCA safe harbor or else they will eventually be shut down.
The extra money is for dealing in a grey market. I thought people would want to be more discreet about this.
Speaking of the DMCA Safe Harbor...

Images on Pinterest, in some cases, were not even uploaded from a user's hard drive; they were pulled in via a the 'Pin It' button (http://pinterest.com/about/goodies/)

In this case, Pinterest even acknowledges that the images are not the property of the user, "When you pin from a website, we automatically grab the source link so we can credit the original creator."

I'll bet the 'Pin It' button ultimately gets them in hot water, because it's hard to argue the content is 'user generated' when they know, via their 'Pin It' code, exactly where the content is actually coming from.

§ 512(c) [DMCA Safe Harbor] also requires that the OSP: 1) not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity, 2) not be aware of the presence of infringing material or know any facts or circumstances that would make infringing material apparent,

I wonder if 'the original source URL' of a image may be construed as a fact that would make infringing material apparent. IANAL.
The largest In The USA. Maybe you are aware that other countries do actually exist?
wtg eo, beats giving virtual dogs virtual fleas so you can sell virtual flea collars ;)
I agree that loading sound immediately is not something I like to hear as a user.
However, I read a while back that having sound play on your siet immediately upon arrival, relatively loudly for a couple moments actually has a positive effect on users staying on your site. given more time I could probably find the article again, not that I believe it to be particularly scientific (I think the author surveyed a handful of sites).
This is the absolute wrong way to look at things. This is the sort of reaction that gets Cameras on every street corner, or searches without a warrant, or SOPA passing, or higher gas prices.

You see - When something is presented to us, and at first we yell. Well, 'they' listen, and tone it down. But 'they' bring it up again, and we yell (but not quite as much, or as loud). Eventually, the original goal is implemented, but with no fuss because we've been wore down.

To react with 'please not again' and to paint the person that is doing the finger pointing, as the bad guy - is the reaction that gets things FAR WORSE than this happening.
Kony 2012: Put an end to the #1 war criminal
Exactly. A tuple is exactly the same as a relation.
> Worth it in many ways.

Can you elaborate? Part of my everyday life as a coder is downloading packages and building them, so I'm curious how this brings more to the table. I flipped through the book (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.1/) and couldn't tell..
I love how game consoles are always providing exciting hacks - from the variety of CPUs and DSPs used in SNES cartridges to the brute-forced SHA collision exploited to hack the PSP.

For what it's worth, this is almost identical to the process initially used to hack satellite TV smartcards, except it seems that these devices had a lot less physical tamper protection (and can't be reprogrammed with a new ROM over-the-air).

I think this kind of console hack is a dying art - as process shrinks and most consoles move closer and closer to commodity hardware and off-the-shelf software, LLE and chip decapping become less and less appealing and software exploits are the name of the game.

Absolutely awesome, though - this is the kind of story I come to HN to read.
And now that this post has made it to the front page we will likely single handedly increase their monthly page views by a few hundred percent lol

EDIT: Maybe not ... http://siteanalytics.compete.com/lycos.com/
Pwn2Own 2012: Google Chrome browser sandbox first to fall
Wow, this was made with Constructor 2? I didn't think you could make this kind of stuff with it.
Recently, I wanted to make some picture postcards of various locations around the US for personal use, so I went looking for images. I found many on Flickr. I wanted to compensate the original photographer. There is no easy way to do this.

At best, some photographs have a "request to license" link that bounces you to a third party (typically Getty Images) which offers to "Review the photo to determine if it's a good fit for licensing through us; Contact the photographer; Handle the details like releases and pricing" and takes "between two and seven days to arrange licensing." with prices typically around $100 for usable resolution for a postcard.

At worst, you have to sign in to Yahoo so that you can send the photographer a message about wanting to use their photo. You may or may not get a reply, and you have to arrange how to pay the photographer, if at all.

This may make sense for images which are to be used in a commercial context, but for personal use like how I wanted to use the images, it's way too expensive and much too much friction.

The vast majority of images will never be used commercially. There should be an easier way to remunerate the photographer, and at more reasonable prices. A "Pix Store" if you will. Maybe that's what the stock photo sites are supposed to be, but they don't have nearly the inventory.

Sorry for the tangent.
Choosing a crash reporting system for your Cocoa app
It's a well-known psychological effect. If you reward people for an activity that they already enjoy, then they will enjoy the activity less; their motivation has been diverted towards the reward.
Cucumber for Android
Project can be found on github: https://github.com/calabash/calabash-android
I program Java in emacs. I work with many people who do. Of course, it's hard for me to say _objectively_ that I'm productive, but my peers seem happy with my work.
I have awesome and awful memories of using Lycos' Tripod as a web host back in its early days. That and Expages were what got me hooked on web development as a kid.
I did the StartupBus last year, it was great.

In addition to building something cool and credible, you got to show that you could handle a lot of challenges (little to no internet connectivity, distractions, etc).

However, in our case we weren't allowed to use the bathroom on the bus.
In OS X Lion your scrollback is maintained between subsequent launches of the Terminal, especially noticeable between reboots when "Reopen windows when logging back in" is ticked. I mentioned this because a very similar issue, see: http://superuser.com/questions/315174/how-to-open-a-clean-te....
and its a completely fluid design
Big solar flare will hit the Earth tomorrow
Prior to Google, I used to use MetaCrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com), which also still exists, and now simultaneously searches Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

The parent company also owns dogpile.com which now does the same search.
When I want to find a good place to eat, first I 1. ask somebody where a good place is and what they liked that they ate 2. figure out what kind of food i want and look for the best rated places near me 3. compare the menu with what i know about the cuisine, pictures of the place and any details i can scrounge up 4. then I just go and try to pick something I think i'll like.

Food isn't rocket science. Good places are open for a while and have lots of people and you avoid chains and franchises. Don't complain about the service, nobody cares. Don't complain about the prices, nobody cares. Don't complain about the clientele or the ambiance, nobody cares. It's about the food, stupid.