skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Programmers are procrastinators. Get in, get some coffee, check the mailbox, read the RSS feeds, read the news, check out latest articles on techie websites, browse through political discussions on the designated sections of the programming forums. Rinse and repeat to make sure nothing is missed. Go to lunch. Come back, stare at the IDE for a few minutes. Check the mailbox. Get some coffee. Before you know it, the day is over.

You're fired.
What is the best payment service for escrow type payments?
We are building a service that will allow users to pay each other and we get a percentage. So we need to store the money until service is rendered and then distribute the money.

If you are familiar with airbnb, its a similar payment model but not the same industry.

What is the best service to integrate with for this?
Google hiring hitting natural limits?
> I would just be worried about getting sucked into the habit of having them cater everyday,

It was quite common to have this service during the internet bubble. Some folks put on a pound per month.

Also, there were similar services for keeping refrigerators stocked, soda machines, etc.
The closer a startup gets to the cutoff, the less there is to say about why they fell below it. I talk about that phenomenon here:

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
Would love to see a proper release of Lithium out, along with up-to-date docs.
wow that's pathetic shit. both sad and deeply depressing. there is NO place for this kind of sexist bullshit in the modern world. grow up. please.
I would need to share my link with someone else. Just like I can share the non DRM video I downloaded from Loius CK. The whole concept is that people will rather pay for it even if they can get it for free, if they think it's worth it. And it has been working so far.

So you shoulnd't need to create artificial blocks to try to stop people from pirating. I mean, look at the humble bundle, you can just click that you don't want to pay for and download the games. But people pay anyway and they make millions off it. So why would you create artificial blocks that pisses people off?

http://www.humblebundle.com/
oops, thanks. fixed.
Maybe he should diversify his friends portfolio and make some non-work friends.
Thanks Paul, we have no hard feelings and are really excited to hear we were that close. We just want to encourage other startups not to give up.
I don't believe they've changed their policy because they suddenly believe that user experience is better. It seems they've changed they're policy because they recognize that what they're currently doing is having no effect. Basically, they're giving up.
Glenn Beck Rallies Troops For Revolution Against TV
Congrats guys! And way to represent Wisconsin!
The probability that we will fund a startup decreases pretty smoothly as you go down the list. It's not asymptotic at the cutoff. We'd probably have to interview half the applicants to get that last one. Which would kill us.
Moving data into Amazon's cloud is easy—getting it out, not so much
You haven't actually read the paper, have you?
Great idea, but I think the word "screen" is too overloaded (even alongside GNU or shell) to be meaningful for comparison.

The useful information here is simply that tmux mentions are going up: <http://google.com/trends/?q=tmux>.
The Steam UI on the Mac looks exactly like it does on Windows. They skinned the whole thing. And this isn't a bad thing. Steam is intended to be a single cohesive gaming platform. It should look the same on every OS that it runs on.
Good points for me:

++ Supporting facts/sources: relatively objective news sources that back up their material are definitely an interesting idea to me

+ General visual style: clean, modern, easy on the eye, no major flaws that jumped out at me

And some hopefully constructive criticisms:

- Context/scannability: even if you're going to provide information in depth, I think some sort of summary and a guiding narrative would be helpful (by analogy with "inverted pyramid" writing style for plain text articles) or I'm not going to know why I should care unless I already know the subject anyway and I'm not going to find my way around fast enough to get into the deeper material

- Discoverability: because there is no narrative path to guide me through the content there is also nothing to highlight interesting patterns in all that data or key points unless either they stick out like a sore thumb on a graphic or I find a relevant bit of text in one or other of the tabbed sections; also, there are so many tabs and separate displays that I find it hard to browse while keeping track of what I've seen already

- Navigation: occasional visual details don't quite work, e.g., a two-tab layout with two columns underneath, where the tab labels look like misaligned column headings; navigation is generally rather complicated because there are so many show/hide options, and the navigation controls are not as visually distinct from things like static summary/heading information as they could be
With linebreaks added for readability: https://gist.github.com/b69c536f31bc584e557d
I would like to see a way for browsers to specify the width/height of an image, so that the server can return an appropriate file.
Show HN: Applied Gadgets project  CMU: 8x8 pixel Duck Hunt, with light gun
Are you being scapegoated for stuff or bullied in some other way at work? I've seen that burnout usually stems from some injustice that you are unable to avoid or otherwise control - leaving you feeling hopeless and burned out. My wife and I worked for Microsoft (at the headquarters in Redmond) for years and we became extremely burned out. Even after we were no longer employeed we had to write a book about it to sort out what really happened to us and what the causes for our burnout were. Just know that you are not alone and you're not crazy! Typically those that are scapegoated, or at least subjected to situations leading to burnout, typically have a talent that others are jealous of. You'll make it through this - do your own research into burnout and bullying it may help. Find someone that you can talk to about your situation to help you sort it out emotionally. I had my wife for support.
Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3)
Agreed. And I like the concept as well, but (even in just briefly poking around the few topics on the site) I also felt a lack of trust. This has less to do with anything particular to the site and is more so related to the fact that with pure data, and with little-to-no context, it is impossible to discern any potential biases that one could otherwise pick-up on. Furthermore there is no information on how data is selected (two guys sitting in a room copying Wikipedia? I’m not saying that’s the case here, but how would one know? And even if it were from absolutely reputable sources, any human intervention in selecting and deciding which data to include/not include makes it hard to claim real objectivity).

I think an interesting (though much harder to develop) implementation of this concept would be to have it powered by a complex algorithm that combs the web for sources and pulls consistent data from them. Such a system would essentially verify data accuracy through identifying consistency across a massive number of sources and prevent any selection bias. Just a thought..
The whitespace options are especially grating to me. Gmail offers 3 options, all of which are poorly spaced. Configurability isn't a replacement for good design.
Looks nice!

I must admit when you said "desk-on-wheels" my first thought was that it sounded like something from a Terry Gilliam movie.
I don't think much explanation is necessary. YC is never going to catch every potentially successful startup. The process can be refined, but you will never recognize all of them. Averages being what they are, I think YC has done very well. The Codiqa team showed tenacity, and when YC didn't work out for them, they found another route. They are a great example for other startups. None of this should put YC in a negative light.
They are. The debuggers and finishers are the ones making $100k for day-to-day Java maintenance at the big banks and insurers and retailers and such. For every starter who's succeeded in their own business or risen to a $200k director job in CorpWorld, there's four other starters who are subsisting on someone else's capital and haven't launched anything for real income yet.

That said, pay is based on perception as much as results. If a starter can sell someone on his vision of a $50M revenue payment processing platform, there's a good chance he can convince someone to pay him a small fraction of that like $500k, at least until the project dies off. Finishers can't do that while shooting one bug or fixing one feature at a time.
A Nexus One is a very convenient target for research because it is (a) sold without ties to a carrier or any carrier-specific junk, and (b) flashable with any specific system image you want, including custom AOSP builds without doing any other work (the hardware profile for the Nexus One is shipped with AOSP).
You can't downvote a submission on HN, but you can flag it. I'm not sure if you have that ability, though, since you have less than zero of that precious karma.

Regardless, you shouldn't be downvoted for explaining why you 'downvoted' a submission, nor for pointing out an inaccuracy in the submission title.
FutureAdvisor (YC S10) Raises Funding To Bring Investment Advice To The Masses
Thanks for the response! I had to facepalm at the WSGI config, I had been setting it within the app itself: it returned a 500 otherwise, which makes sense now.

Consider my one issue moot! Next time I'll read the docs better before complaining...
When I'm designing, I usually start with black and white, then fold in color where it seems appropriate. The monochrome design of Gmail gives me the impression that the designers didn't bother to finish the job.
"dealing with catering was a huge pain for everyone who handle such things" Here you have it folks, catering isn't just a little inconvenient or cumbersome at times, it's a HUGE PAIN.
Quick side note: I hit the "fancy view source" button on the bottom right and I thought it was pretty cool. Hoped it was a draggable bookmarklet, it's not, anyone have a favorite kick ass view source bookmarklet?
Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords
Server Side Upgrades
7.6 quake hits southern Mexico near Acapulco
Depends on what you do. If you do video, HDDs are actually behind the tech. Every time they double the resolution (DVD -> 1080p -> 4k -> 8k), you need 4 times more space. That's not even considering lossless formats, which need even more space.

Same with photography. Each raw photo from my 5D II is 25MB. The megapixel race isn't over.
As the only HN user who disliked the entire series of books, I have no problem with the sentiment, though I disagree with the action. If I found out my imaginary child's imaginary teacher were reading from Ender's Game, I would visit that teacher to ask that better books be read.
Interesting. The demo worked great in FF, but was just a flat box in Chrome.
"The money stinks as a comic"
A classic case of oversupply perhaps. Far too people quitting their day jobs to do stand-up full-time because someone in the office laughed at their jokes.
I feel like the default twitter bootstrap color and style scheme is starting to get ridiculously overused, maybe it's all the new startup sites using it or maybe it's because I've been looking at a lot of hacker news links. I doubt that's the feedback you were looking for though :)
OCaml has a powerful module system which can be used in a way quite similar to typeclasses (https://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/37).

The main difference is the lack of purity, which means that the side effects of a function aren't part of a function's type. It also doesn't have the wide variety of extensions which you can use to do really crazy stuff (like verifiably correct red-black trees, https://github.com/yairchu/red-black-tree/blob/master/RedBla...).
I have no idea why 5 paragraphs of message board comment is supposed to get me to ignore the fact that anyone on the Internet could backdoor my Emacs by editing a wiki page.

He's right; community code is a model that works on Github and absolutely does not work on an unauthenticated Wiki.
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Why Do The Labels Continue To Insist That 'Your Money Is No Good Here?'
Perhaps I'm misreading the parent, but I think he said "to Kill a Mockingbird" was one of the first required readings in school that did not fall into the drivel category.
Theses icons, however, weren't as visually distinctive as others. I always had to pause for a moment to figure out which one was the spam button. I've changed back to text.
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http://www.almstba.com/vb/t68409.html
IPL T20 League: IPL 5 Live Scorecard, Video, Statistics, Records
Google Cloud Storage adds several highly requested features
IPL 5 Schedule, IPL 5 Match List, 2012 IPL Fixtures
I think that's what most people don't understand. Actually, I'm not sure if it's introverts vs. extroverts necessarily, but there are definitely some people who thrive in a busy, loud environment but many people who don't, such as my (admittedly introverted) self.

My boss was incredulous when I told him that his shiny new office environment that packed 30+ people into a 30x24 ft. space was the worst environment I'd ever worked in. He told me that they'd done this because people had complained that the office was too quiet. <sigh>.
I can't say I've read the entire series, but you're definitely not the only one who here who disliked Ender's Game. I keep this around in my bookmarks since it pretty clearly expresses what I think is wrong with the book: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm
Similar to Joyride: http://www.zurb.com/playground/jquery_joyride_feature_tour_p...
Time vs Money

Not worrying about what to get the team for lunch is a huge time saver.

It gives us more time to spend on users.

Disclaimer, we use ZeroCater twice a week and absolutely love them.
It's quite stressful when even half the people you know get laid off.

I worked at a startup that began expanding very quickly in early 2008 (i.e., the worst possible time in recent history). When the economy collapsed that summer and they couldn't raise capital, they had to do layoffs.

That in itself isn't really interesting, but the way they carried out the layoffs was... suboptimal. At some point on a Tuesday, they had the HR manager walking around the cubicle areas, tapping people on the shoulder and calling them in for a meeting. After that, they would return to their desk, pack up their stuff, and leave the building forever.

No one really knew what was going on and those of us who hadn't been tapped by this "Angel of Death" were confused and afraid that we would be next on the list. It wasn't until after the herd was culled that management told the rest of us what happened.

I'm no HR expert, but there must have been a better way to do that.
s/Google Wage/Google Wave/
My employer gives breakfast, fruit, lunch and cake + free coffee, coke and tea everyday.

Most of the new people allegedly take an quite a few pounds.
I might consider moving the "Try it on this page" button up to the top, or making the "try it on your site" feature not require a login until you're ready to save your tour.

A lot of webapps today have conditioned me to just click the big "try it!" button without reading anything else. So, I clicked the "try on your site" button right away, but then gave up when I had to create an account.

On returning to the site a little later then I discovered the option to take a meta-tour of the tour-generating product, but it certainly wasn't the first thing I could find on the page.
Quite the shock to have the whole studio laid off like that, but I dare say that sort of thing isn't unusual in the games industry at large.

I worked at a big publisher studio for quite some time. They laid off people nearly every year, yet it felt relatively 'safe' compared to the rest of the industry.
Interesting, well written article.

However I was surprised to be made aware of the existence of a logician named Haskell Curry. The name struck me as the punchline to a joke only told and appreciated by the uber-nerds in the halls of elite university mathematics departments.
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Yeah I know, this annoys me too.

We just didn't have much time (and design talent) to customize it :)
Yeah, the external keyboard would be a must. Thanks for your thoughts.
Sizing up Adobe
I got some Sheryl Crow action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1OfNKorIKA
If the transformations/transitions are handled by the graphics card the faster js becomes irrelevant. For example js performance on IPad is not amazing, but it will run many transitions smoothly.

As far as WebGL, it clearly is important for any serious 3d. But adding a slight 3d effect to a UI element should not require a detailed knowledge of shaders and 3d geometry.
Agreed. The icon buttons would have been fine had they colorized them in some manner. It's a lot easier to distinguish in that manner. I find myself confusing the "archive" and "move to" buttons far too often when working quickly.
Homeschool Domination: Why These Kids Will Take You Down
I hate wearing headphones even more than I hate being able to hear all 250 of my coworkers at once.
If you wrote software to take advantage of monster physical servers, it will almost certainly fail to run efficiently in the cloud.

I find this statement kind of incredible when the solution for the terrible I/O of EC2 is to spin up ranks and ranks of virtual machines, trying to make up the difference in aggregate. That is efficiency?

When I have a problem with I/O, I improve I/O: A gorgeous cluster of Nimble SANs with some supporting local Fusion IO cards. When I have a problem with memory or caching servers, I add memory or caching servers (just got a relatively low cost dev server with 192GB...just incredible). When I need more processing power, I add more processing power. Just added some Xeon E5s to the mix, and boy do they set new thresholds of power.

That's the world of controlling my own hardware.

This story is really one about restrictions forcing a more efficient platform. Yet you don't need restrictions to have an efficient platform, and the two are only loosely correlated. This is the story of the alcoholic cheering on prohibition without which they couldn't contain themselves.
I like this a lot.

I haven't tried making a tour yet (got turned off when I saw I needed an account), so I'm not sure what options are available, but...

I feel like there could be more visual emphasis on the content being isolated. The Drawium annotations look a bit too similar to the content. Maybe that is because the background color of the demo page is close to that of the annotations, or maybe it is because the annotations appear to be in the same layer as the highlighted content (perhaps a light-color shadow would make the annotations stand out more?). It would be more difficult to implement, but I wonder if having a softer edge around highlighted content would help (gradient fade to black). Or maybe add a shadow around the highlighted area to "raise" it out of the page?

Maybe timed transitions would help. What if the transparent overlay fades in around the content being shown before the tooltip, rather than appearing instantly and at the same time? Isolate first, then explain. I see that the API offers additional options. It would be nice if the demo tour on the homepage includes a variety of these options.

I also instinctively tried to use the left/right arrow keys on my keyboard navigate through the demo tour. Next/previous key bindings may helpful.

It's not clear how far along in the tour I was. How many elements is the tour explaining? Do I have to click "Next" a hundred more times? What if there is a number somewhere in each annotation showing progress (eg. "3/8").
Probably it generates 32 bits twice.
Apple, Steve Jobs, Win Design Patent for Shanghai Store Design
Anyone who liked this read might also like the read "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid". Its such an interesting book, and teaches through very simple ways.
Really? The splash screen (literally the first thing that appears when you first run Emacs) has links to 3 key pieces of documentation: 2 tutorials and the reference manual, which is surprisingly comprehensive. It would be really hard for them to be more upfront about the documentation.
That's how some arrived at the layout that this article derides. A consulting company that held some tech events in Phoenix had a bunch of private offices but they weren't used that often. What they arrived at, for their next space, was two conference rooms and a big open office shared by a dozen or so people (mostly developers).
Ask HN: Making a salary for the first time?
Hi HN,

I'm about to finish my masters in CS, and I have a good full-time position at a major company lined up to begin in the summer. I'll be making more money than I've ever made, which I'm mostly very happy about but has also been a source of some unexpected stress and confusion for me. I feel like I've learned a lot about computers but not so much about managing income.

How can I be smart about putting away much of what I make in order to someday buy a house, send kids to college, retire, etc.? Where do I put that money? How do I decide whether to spend a paycheck on a nicer TV or bigger apartment instead of putting it in a 401k? Do I keep doing my own taxes or should I hire a professional?

I know many of you were once in my position, or in a similar position. What advice do you have for someone who is about to no longer be living stipend-to-stipend?

Thanks!
Well, that's a first (regarding my "Poor English"). You shouldn't confuse poor English with poor proofreading, though :-)
That automagical download and convenience you're talking about is one of the things you pay that 30% for. It's your call whether you want to go through that channel or not - no one's forcing you.
Compliments on the execution of your site, platform and branding. This is well deserved success. Keep pushing and reapply to YC, I you want to, you'll make it!
I've never had any issue nor felt that Maven is overly complicated so far having done a few large projects with minimum Maven overhead (i.e.: haven't had the need to customize it).

I do agree with you that XML makes programmability aspect of it a little bit more complex than it should be (you still can write plugins if you have to, as opposed to use XML).
I've tried pointing out a deficiency in the system RNG to those guys before.

They're not as grateful as you'd think.
Now all they need to do is make the settings page match the rest of the site. Notably putting the Save button at the top of the page after making everyone get used to not having to scroll around to find the Send button.
Its time for a Hackathon
Interested? Write in to hackathon@kaperlabs.com with your linkedin/github profiles for an invite.

Send in your entries, if programming or Amazon Gift cards interest you.
First, could I convince you to upload your presentation to Speaker Deck? I'd love to bookmark it there for posterity.

Second, at what point did you decide you had to pivot, and third, what about your new idea for Fab convinced you to move forward with it?

Bonus question: Do you have any plans to leverage Pinterest?
That's all I could think about when reading this; no one else seems to agree!
Hackathon Perk: Women who bring you beer
At least I do get a relevant ad (for a DirecTV promotion, I don't have cable).

But seeing it 100.000 times is NOT going to make me purchase it.
Alternative gist, but with line wraps:

https://gist.github.com/b69c536f31bc584e557d
For those that don't have Office Manager probably? :D
i really love Reposts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2805452