skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every search engine did this, even Yahoo (search.yahoo.com).
Well using Chrome on Ubuntu with a resolution of 1366x768, I really had a problem, reading this post.

The words were cut at the end of a column, so that it was really impossible to follow the article.

for someone stating "I love typography", this usability-problem, kind of seems like anathema to me.

Or am I just the outlier with the wrong screen-resolution?
Finishing a Game (applicable to other endeavours also)
not ...

see: Eric Ries "The Lean Startup: Innovation Through Experimentation. ..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i65PaoTlVKg
What would Steve Jobs have thought of 1 week sprints or continuous delivery?
Got a better suggestion for writing I/O heavy Unix applications? I'd like to hear it.
Is it surprising that the GPL represents the antithesis of the startup community?

No matter how idealistic any large group of young hackers will want to be, fiduciary duty will always trump everything when you play with business. You can love the GPL as much as Stallman himself, but when you're grasping for any edge you can find over your competition, you'll think twice before shipping her a tarball of your source.
When to base64 encode images (and when not to)
It could hardly be more on topic, and until your dismissive post, the discussion was civil.

You're the one who conflates licenses and religion, and who refuse to even discuss the topic.

The choice of software licenses is far more nuanced than religion. There's a lot of misinformation around the GPL, and it doesn't hurt to talk about it.
Black on white for the text area is too hard on the eye. Otherwise I like it.
WolframAlpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=largest+known+prime
GPL is an attack on the user who wants to do whatever (s)he wants.
some people aren't comfortable with ruby
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I've tried one too that I think should really be how HN redesign should look like.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2tjm5GuRF1rtfgd6o1_1280.j...
Not a huge fan of the design, but nicely done.
The is _nothing_ stopping them from commercializing it.
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Whether you like them or not, a lot of thought went into designing tax forms. It's a marvel of form design that any intelligent person with a pocket calculator can fill them out by following simple directions. It could have been much much worse, considering how complicated tax codes tend to be!

Of course, things get complicated when you have different kinds of incomes with different rates and all sorts of deductions with different rules that Congress cooks up every year. But that's what computer programs are for. I hope they'll make bug-free and intuitive tax programs some day.

In the meantime, I like Canadian tax forms better. Federal and provincial forms come in different colours, and the boxes seem to be more clearly labeled.
>No ability to deal with negative numbers

How is representing a number in 2's complement verboten?
Yeah this is what I fear as well. I didn't know everything including the interface depended on a server. A little annoying once you figure it out after paying for one.
"Walking around the earth": Street view virtual walking on Google earth
This page provides street view tour of your favorite place on Google earth plugin. In addition, it provides KML data for the tour to embed it into your original KML tour.
In Sweden you can pay your taxes with an SMS. Basically, from what I understand, the taxes are so simple and the infrastructure already there for the govt to know your income that unless you are doing something funky you just confirm you taxes by sending a text. Quite nice.
You're absolutely right. But all frameworks have to go through these humps. Hell, I remember just 2 years ago having MongoDB in production it would regularly crash. We got rid of it in production, but I'd reconsider using it now.
I don't mind it if it hides away from a platform.

After all, that's the point of an API - to hide the dirty details.

I mean, I've not touched assembly code in over 10 years. I've not touched C++ in 10. This is a good thing, but I do remember saying the same thing about Java about hiding memory details. Now none of these languages require heavy memory management and hide nearly all those dirty details.

It doesn't seem like meteor is ready for prime time, but it is impressive (like RoR or roo) how you can make a site in less than 10 minutes.
Sure, and that's a distribution network they've spent 14 years building. And they have way, way, way more content than HBO does. And those people are all on an easy-peasy all-you-can-eat plan; they are not buying individual shows. And HBO subscribers currently pay an average of something like $12 per month versus $8 for all of Netflix.

To me, that says that HBO would be idiots to fuck up their current cable relationships in hopes of building their own direct-distribution product. For now they can happily continue to sell the downloadable content to Amazon at the same time they release the DVDs.
Here's what the HN Redesign should look like.
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Get Ideas on what to buy and do on Mother's Day! Up to 50% off Mothers Day Gifts | Gifts for Mom | Mothers Day Gifts. Mother’s Day gifts abound on the Internet. By typing in a search for Mother’s Day gift baskets you will be bombarded with a plethora of choices. Choose wisely Grasshopper. Favorite Colors, Favorite Pastimes, Favorite Foods All of these should be taken into consideration in the making of the best gift baskets in the world; that [...]
A cute story.

Now imagine you're handling customer support and have a serious situation, somebody's web is down, a server in 3rd rack has crashed and it's urgent, as always is. You have another urgent request to do a partial restore of some backup...

... and this guys show's up with his "go watch this youtube or I'll take my money elsewhere" speech.

Please, Mr Customer, take your money to whereever you want and go.

If I were a boss of anyone who responded like that (short and professional), I would never hold it against him. I'm not saying the guy (girl?) did anything wrong, and it turned out great, but the request was ridiculous.
Here's a blog post on using mruby as embedded language in a nosql database (AvocadoDB), like Lua within Redis.

http://www.avocadodb.org/2012/04/20/using-mruby-as-alternati...
A good, but pedantic, point. ;)
Can you tell me what the "<-->" (the button left to the delete button) button is doing?

I like it that you can do most of the things with the keyboard - although this is not really touch friends...
> ... and the trackpads on PCs all still suck at palm rejection and responsiveness while typing.

FWIW: this is not a hardware problem. This is an issue with trackpad drivers on PCs, which have been shit since the dawn of time.

I'm typing this from a MacBook Pro running Arch. It took me quite some time to configure the trackpad so that it was comfortable and half-usable. There's a driver for X called "mtrack"[1] which handles clickpads (i.e, where the entire trackpad surface is a button) properly. It's a more configurable fork of the "multitouch" driver that comes with most popular Linux distros these days. It does tap-to-click, tap and drag, drag lock and multitouch just fine. mtrack's palm detection is better than most trackpad drivers, but still not perfect, which is why I ended up having to turn off tap-to-click entirely because I'd get accidental mouse input while typing even with the trackpad sensitivity turned way down.

Now my trackpad works great. I still can't use guestures, though, because (1) X has shitty guesture support and (2) the GNOME folks haven't yet added guestures to Shell. The situation will (hopefully) be fixed with a future release of X and GNOME. I did get some guestures working using an unholy combination of xbindkeys, xdo and a Python script, but it wasn't worth it.

If you're running Windows on your MacBook and using Apple's drivers, you're fine. OTOH, if you're using a non-Apple notebook running Windows and your trackpad vendor doesn't give a fuck about writing good drivers, you're totally and utterly screwed.

This same trackpad works flawlessly on OS X. Clearly, the folks at Apple have spent a lot of time analyzing trackpad input patterns and determined the types of input that should be ignored.

[1] https://github.com/BlueDragonX/xf86-input-mtrack
Reminds me of [1], AKA why it's good to allow a moderate amount of trolling.

[1] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beli...
Try maintaining a backup of a bucket with tens of millions of objects that are constantly changing. Not such a trivial or cheap problem to solve now. Downloading the bucket listing alone can take hours.

Btw if anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them. So far the best approaches seem to be either to upload to multiple providers in the first place or to organise the buckets in such a way that bucket listings are not required to copy all files changed since a certain date.
I don't think 'better' is the right question. Their's room for multiple frameworks. To answer the question I think Meteor's strong suit is live coding for rapid prototyping.
The plus button is to add a task.

The up/down arrow button is to reorder tasks. Click and drag, make sure your cursor stays over the tasks. You can also re-order with shift+up/down.
Hm, I guess that means n+k pattern matching is finally removed.
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Healthy Seating - constant movement for the spine
I like the way your thinking with the schedule and the charts.

I think there is definitely desire for someone to gamify tasks and build in a good daily schedule.
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In Norway you don't need to confirm the taxes at all. You get a simple tax form on a web page and if the information is correct you don't need to do anything. If you need to correct it you just update the form online.
This is much better. Get rid of the superfluous numbering and put in the comments there.
Same here. Looking forward to watching and learning a ton!
Your Twitter Feed as Newspaper: A Look at the Tiny-Printer Trend
I've never used one, but Sony's Vaio Z23 has a a 13" 1920x1080 screen, which comes close (and is lighter than a MacBook Air). It's also staggeringly expensive.

If the rumours are true, Apple will release a 2560x1440 (2560x1600?) laptop in the foreseeable future, though.
I want to be part of a wonderful government system that gives me a tax deduction that is greater than my income!

Actually, on second thoughts, I can't speak Greek so I think I'll pass.
The linked to website's CSS doesn't work with Firefox - under Safari its all nicely centralized, but with the most recent stable Firefox there's a massive white sidebar on the left hand side so you have to scroll to the right to see all of the image.
Yes, ghost movement is definitely different and easier - for one thing, they don't chase pacman when they get close like they do in the original game.
So far the best. The 3 most important things are the largest: comments, link to story, upvote (though I would've moved upvote to the right of story link--but that's just me, I don't believe in upvoting anymore).
This is really nice.

It seems the schedule ought to update and/or be able to hide completed items.
This is interesting. I wonder whether the perceived (in a few minutes of testing) superiority of best-first-search with Chebyshev is some feature of the implementation or fact, because they "forgot" to tell us about both the algorithm and the metric in AI classes.
My wife has the same problem ;)
Woah, now that is minimal, I kinda like that.
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Facebook employees have @fb.com emails since quite a while.
I like how it shows that bi-directional search is way faster than one-way. It's something that you may easily miss during AI class.
The vaio looks good too. Too bad sony decided to screw us and only sells the i7, 8, 256, 1600x900 version here, and it costs about twice the money macbook air does, while including fairly unnecessary stuff like 256 GB SSD.

And I can't buy it in any other country, because Sony won't sell notebooks with english keyboards anywhere not US or UK.
Several near-earth asteroids can be travelled to at a delta-vee lower than going to the Moon. Remember that the Moon still has a gravity and no atmosphere, so actually landing still takes a lot of energy. An asteroid on the other hand has no gravity (at this scale) and may swing by closer than the Moon does.

A chart http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Deltavs.s...
Oh, that's easy. Just don't make more than a couple thousand dollars, then your standard deduction in the US system will be greater than your income. ^_^

(Of course, the IRS doesn't actually let their forms go negative.)
Every particular string may be made memorable, but you'd have to memorize it. Instead of it being natural, as in: a natural extension of how people think about things.
Show HN: Earthquake Notifications from USGS using Twilio
Earthquakes Monitor is a app for Windows Phone that sends voice notifications in near real time whenever an earthquake event has occurred near your location.
The app is based on data published by USGS and Twilio.

Demo video : http://youtu.be/x5hg7Oxh-jI

Any feedback or ideas for improvement would be highly appreciated.

Thanks ,George.
I for one like GPL's philosophy but to be honest I mostly use MIT on my small projects because I don't care. If credit gets attributed rightfully that's really all I care about.

I don't care if the MIT is better from an economical prespective or whatever. I'm not too worried if a company can't just use my software because it's GPLed. Their effen problem, I believe. For me, the MIT license is just small and to the point. Why isn't that a valid reason?
this is reddit style "no, this is what x us"/"(fixed)". please don't do this. submit as comment to the original story instead.
I think you're missing the point here SeoxyS. I just put an initial concept out there for everyone to see and maybe get a flavour of how a redesign/reskinning of HN may look. I understand there's a lot to be desired and I haven't sat down yet and put the time into fleshing everything out properly, hence this will probably be iterated on a thousand times.

I appreciate the feedback, and will definitely take it into consideration.
You should also have a quick look there:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3858838
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what ellipsoid do you use? do you consider geoidical(?) heights?
Getting light with Boora Architects and BubbleDecks
It's worth noting that Linus has three daughters.

The brilliance with this rule is that his daughters may avoid spending hours fighting over the bathroom during their teenage years.

Not even psychology escapes the scope of Linus' hacking prowess.
In fairness, I doubt most traditional banks actually design their own 2-factor authentication hardware. But yeah, calling Square a hardware company is nevertheless a stretch. (particularly as the hardware component is a freebie/loss-leader IIRC)
What is this company and what makes them special compared to, say, MySpace?
I guess Google should make a point and release a NaCl Picasa version.

If I could grant to a NaCl app the right to read photos from USB attached cameras and a folder on disk with read/write rights then there wouldn't be a need for a dedicated Linux version.
Why are new Samsung and HP computer parts being dumped in Guiyu?
Your design puts too much emphasis on the points. It is important but by far not the most important.
Very neat. Lots of potential! If I can give some UI feedback (from my perspective, of course!):

* The Plus buttons are a bit confusing. It says down the bottom to press "enter" to put in a new task, I added some notes, then clicked outside of the textarea field... then I pressed enter... yes, silly I know, but easy to make this mistake. Then I realised that the + inside the task creates a new task!

* Can't remove multiple tasks in one go - the popup makes this frustrating.

* the <-> is not working. Test case: add two new tasks to a project. I can't move the bottom one above the top one for some reason - it seems to move all the tasks/projects up and down...

* Add a new task - in the task tab, the textarea box is quite small. Click on another task, then go back to the newly created task - the textarea is the right size.

* If you click on add project, it is excellent that you have it says "Enter a project", but a suggestion is to not provide focus in the text area - the next time you click in there it clears the warning.

* If you add a subtask, then make increase the task size but move it outside of the window, then without releasing the mouse button drag it above the task, then some odd javascript loop starts occuring and my browser (Firefox 11) freezes until it asks me to stop the script.

* What do the checkboxes do?

* What does the text in the very left hand panel signify? Seems to be projects? I seem to be getting old ones appearing... duplicates sometimes.

* Why a seperate mobile view? You could use CSS media queries to achieve the same functionality.

* Is there any reason why there is a script tag after the end </html> tag?

* Can you split the js out of the page and into their own files?

Please take this as constructive feedback :-)
I'm sure it's been said before, but I don't see why there's this obsession with fixing what isn't broken. Seems like change for the sake of change.

The current layout puts the most important element ahead of all else: the headline, the link title, or whatever you want to call it. Everything else is secondary.

I don't particularly care who submitted it, what the amount of comments are, or the ranking, until AFTER I've read the article/page. If it's good content, upvote it. Isn't that the point?

I have liked some of the styling/design ideas people have come up with, but every one, as many have pointed out, just breaks things up in a way that makes it more difficult to digest what's being presented to me.
Oh boy. We really need to push this into X as soon as possible. Not only it would make using Linux on Apple hardware halfway decent, it could also help pretty much every other laptop out there.
That approach might have disadvantages, especially with senior citizens and poor people who might not have ready access to the Internet. They are the ones who usually miss out when essential services go online-only. But then again, we're talking about Scandinavia here, so the size of the affected population and the severity of the problem would be a lot less than in the U.S.
It's hard to say from the outside whether the hardware was what killed them. Increasingly, hardware lives and dies by the software that comes with it. If they were building it today, they'd probably be basing it on Android or bits of WebOS or something and "standing on the shoulders of giants," to overuse that phrase some more. (i.e. reduce the effort going into the software stack) And the ARM chips and mobile browsers of today are quite a bit better, too. So maybe they were just ahead of their time. Or maybe they just didn't see the iPhone and iPad coming.
If Andreeson Horowitz invested in a company that produced a time machine, the New York Times would criticize them for not using the time machine to go back in time and invest in an earlier funding round.
That is very generous. I hope that this is a win-win situation for the ecosystem and their business.
Same thing in Finland, except you can do it by mail or online. The tax form arrives by mail, which you can then either mail back after filling it out or just go online and do the same thing.
Very nice. Sleek and easy UI. I designed a to-do list a long time ago. 4 years, 3 developers, and $2,000 later the 2.0 version still hasn't launched. I learned a lot.

My recommendation is that deleting tasks needs to be a little easier. I hate those "are you sure" dialog boxes but on the other hand you don't want users accidentally deleting things. So do this: Make the user "double click" on the trash can icon to delete a task. That solves the problem elegantly.

There's 2 glitches. When I added projects then deleted the projects, their names still show up on the very left most panel. When I click their names nothing happens and I can't get rid of them. I had to refresh the page to get rid of them. When I click on mobile and then click the back button I get a red error message saying "Error saving to server. Check Connection."

In Firefox 11 for Windows 7 when you click the task boxes (which highlight blue) underneath the project's name the boxes change height slightly which is really awkward behavior. Setting overflow:hidden on the elements seems to fix it very nicely.

Color wise I wish it wasn't so grey. Too much grey can make a page look too cloudy and gloomy. Lighten things up a bit.

In the right panel, the tabs [Schedule | Charts | Help | Task]. Change "Task" to "notes". Otherwise it's confusing. And make the help tab the last one and the Notes tab (Task tab) either the 1st or the 2nd tab. The font-size used for them is also too big, use a font-size that's 95% of their current size. Also the tabs need some room to breathe, give the #tabs ul a padding:0 0 0 4px;. Also give #tabs ul li a padding:5px 8px 4px 8px;

Also you should show order and priority. There are 3 main panels. The left (project names) the middle (task list), and the right (schedule, charts, help, task/notes). In your css make the following changes: In #content #rightContainer get rid of the border-left, and add box-shadow:-1px 0 2px #666; and in #content #leftContainer get rid of the border-right and add box-shadow:-1px 0 2px #666 inset; It'll look much better because now it gives the app a slight 3D layered look. You could also do it in the opposite way (giving #leftContainer a box-shadow:1px 0 2px #666;) to emphasize the left panel first (which I think is more visually correct). It's just a little harder to do it this way because you'll have to create an inset box shadow for the right panel but because it uses tabs (with different divs on top) the inset box shadow doesn't show up unless you give ALL of the divs inside of it a box-shadow:1px 0 2px #666 inset; as well.

The button-links up at the very top (Sign up, Sign in, Feedback/help, mobile) should NOT be buttons but instead just links that are underlined. Get rid of the single "sign up" link and instead change "Sign up to save your tasks" to "Sign Up to change your tasks, it's free." and make the "Sign Up" part an underlined link. Change "sign in" to "Log In". And change "header nav's" padding to padding:2px 10px 0 0;

Make the changes and see if you like them.
*How about something a little more mobile friendly?

At the very least, a pad on clickable areas would be much appreciated (seeing the comments on a post or upvoting takes a lot of skill to hit that link with a finger point).

The vertical 'information density' will drop a bit but people don't have much trouble scrolling.
I have not been acquainted with the American tax system - I live in Australia, which has its own system with its own quirks.

What is a standard deduction? It sounds like you get an amount of money back no matter what you paid. Is this true?
From a user perspective, GPL offers in theory more freedom, since new products built on codebase X will also be free.

It is debatable if this is true in practice. If less software gets built as a result of the license restriction, the GPL takes away freedom. Even closed source software adds some freedom - the freedom of choice.

From a developer perspective, there is no question which one is more free. We often do not have the choice to release our software as open source, and when we do, an invasive license like the GPL is still a headache. If I can pick up a library or framework and just use it, that's the one I will pick.