skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smartphone/web hackers/designer: join a 4-person post-series-A team (YC W12)
We make "TiKL - Touch to Talk", one of the top social apps on Android and iOS. It turns your smartphone is a realtime walkie-talkie with instant messaging. The user base grew organically from zero to 22 million in 20 months without any marketing. We just closed an over-subscribed series A round. We invite iOS/Android/WP7/web hackers/designer to join a 4-person team in the current YC batch and help grow the user base from 22 million to 200 million. Based in the bay area, we offer a fun working environment, competitive compensation and excellent opportunities to own significant equity in a hot startup backed by all-star investors.

Required:

* Expert in networking, multimedia and multitasking on iOS or Android or WP7, or expert in extreme-scale web development.

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* Passion for quickly producing beautiful code/design and finding simple elegant solutions to hard problems

* "Whatever it takes" altitude, never settles, loves fast-paced dynamic startup environment

Plus:

* Experience in developing VoIP smartphone apps

* Experience with echo cancellation

* Experience with Facebook and Twitter mobile/web SDK

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Prepare to see another spike on your personal site. I recently spent over two hours on there, and I must say, you have a lot of interesting articles on a magnitude of topics, e.g., DNB and Spaced Repetition. I'm surprised you haven't wrote anything about Ghost in the Shell and Technology Singularity yet, since you seem to enjoy science fiction and technology as much as I do.
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+1 I really hope this trend of adding uber whitespace is short lived. On a site like this, I feel like the designer's goal should be to get as many links on the screen as she can without me feeling the site is overly cluttered. Solving that problem by blasting me with whitespace frustrates me.
https://github.com/Primigenus/Cleaner-Hacker-News

edit: waxjar already posted it further below.
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I tried submitting to reddit, but apparently economists don't like talking theory if it proves their theories wrong :/
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For dev tools, maybe. Personal photo apps? Let's be realistic here, developers are a tiny, tiny portion of the target market.
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Very risky, but not all failures.

Square, FitBit, MakerBot, Nest, Tesla
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Satisfaction and the feeling that you helped other people are profound motivators for human action, either with or without recognition.

My HN karma just topped 1000 today. It's a meaningless number, and my comments may or may not have helped other people learn new things, but I feel good about it anyway. How much better would someone feel when their Wikipedia edit count reaches one million, even if it's just a number? Besides, this guy probably helped a lot of people learn new things, a lot more than most of us can even dream of. He probably even helped me on more than one occasion, since I do political philosophy, too. Simply knowing that he did so, for him, might be worth more than any gold-plated trophy. To Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize was just a $192K grant to help poor people even more. She even refused the ceremonial banquet.

Of course, devoting tens of thousands of hours with no pay and no recognition isn't for everyone. But I don't think it's sad that some people do it. Every one of us wants to feel satisfaction. Not all of us find satisfaction in the same kinds of things. It would be sad if this guy did it because he wanted to get famous and nobody noticed. But if he just did it for the sake of participating in one of humanity's most remarkable achievements, we should all be happy, not sad. The only thing that's sad about the situation is that this guy is unemployed. But I would be sad about that even if he never edited a single Wikipedia article.

In fact, according to some philosophies, lack of visible recognition might even enhance your satisfaction, since compensation cancels out some of the karma you've accrued. Not saying this is the right way to think about life, and this guy might not even think this way. (What do "Christian radicals" believe?) But some people actually do believe in this kind of thing, and at some level I deeply respect them.
MAFIAA has rapidly descended from regulatory capture (anti trust et al) to legislative capture (DCMA, Sen Dodd) to finally executive capture (White House, DoJ, international arrests). Where they intend to go from here is anyone guess... Dictatorship? Hyperbole maybe, but only of the thinnest variety.
I'm not sure if this is spam or a legitimate post of someone's new project. It doesn't help that you submitted this twice with different names. I'm going to be nice, assume there is a friendly face behind zenslim, and idea dump.

I really like the idea of personalized diets and an online program. If I could ensure a program would give me realistic goals and recipes catered to my body I could be interested. You have to convince me though, and your site isn't doing it. I filled out your questionnaire but then it asked for a Paypal. I still have no idea what you're asking me to pay for. Is it a pdf? I can buy books and pdfs everywhere, something more interactive is what caught my eye. Can I see some suggested recipes from my program? Do I have access to a community? Also, I had to search a little bit to find out where I was supposed to go. There needs to be a clear flow, a quick explanation of the product, and a big link that says "BUY" or something similarly simple.

Next time, if this is legit, post a Show HN or something more rather than just a link. Don't do it anytime soon though, 2 is enough for one day. Tell us the story behind your project and ask for feedback. Maybe talk about conversions, what programs bring the most money in, etc.

OK, idea dump over. Good night!
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You do benefit yourself, because you learn more about the topic, and can work with people who also understand it (English would be useless if only you could speak it).

Of course, by 1m edits, that benefit might no longer be worth it.
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Very good critique.

Another thing I think the current HN design does well is act as a filter or repellent. Hackers can typically deal with an unattractive interface, whilst the average person would be turned off and leave the site. Those who stay on the site do so for its content, they don't need any extra convincing to stay.
I skim submission titles and consider everything else subtext. The titles aren't distinguished enough for me here, I find my eyes jumping around more than I'd like them to.
I don't think its fair to call that attitude 'racist'. Anyone trying to accomplish something great is ridiculed at one point or the other.

Anyway, the point about the copy->innovate->invent cycle is a very interesting one. I'm guessing that the competence (and possibly, sales) that copying gives to the copier builds their confidence which is then applied to solve genuine problems, which leads to genuine progress.
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I support the effort of these HN redesigns, as I think innovation is important in any field or hobby.

But I just haven't come across one yet that I think is better than the current site.

One of the things I like most about the design of the site is its consistent use of one style. For example, the styling of the entire second line of a submission (below the title) uses the same color, font, font-size, lowercase-type, and spacing throughout.

It's also nice that all of the relevant information for a submission is contained in that second line -- # of points, username, submission time, # of comments.
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Keeping the lenders waiting for dues, the Kingfisher Airlines has even started importing the Air Turbine Fuel directly. With the formal nod by the Indian Government the Company went ahead to import ATF on its own. The airline was initially importing the ATF from IOC and BPCL.
Well, that can to some extent be expected -- trying to describe a progressive taxation algorithm can be much more messy than just saying, "here, look it up."

There are much more important WTFs. For example, there are two different tax rates which you might be paying -- one for capital gains and certain dividends, and one for income. The first is always taxed at a lower rate. Meanwhile, you have a "deduction" -- an amount of money that you're allowed to deduct from your return as if you'd never gotten it in the first place.

The IRS forms actually implement a worksheet which just says, "subtract your deduction from your income, and if your deduction is larger than your income, subtract whatever else there is from your capital gains."

At least, I think that's what it does. As this article shows, you have no conscious idea what the heck you're really doing when the IRS invites you to play Turing Machine.
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In Europe everybody and their brother have their own struggling Groupon-clone.
Really like the hierarchy, my only problem is it would be another app on top of existing ones that already sync quite well and are fully mobile (i.e. g-tasks).
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I'm pretty surprised this is just getting out now. The company essentially ceased to exist as anything but a legal entity back in December of last year.

However, most of the team is still working together at a new company as mentioned in the linked article on theverge. And most of us still even sit at the same exact desks we sat at while working for chumby.
Neat! I was just researching SVG and Canvas for a drawing application. Apparently SVG performance degrades as you increase the number of objects but it can handle changes in scale (zooming in for instance) much better than Canvas can. It seems you've gone with SVG (Raphael) for all your rendering. Have you seen any performance degradation in your tests?
I actually agree and I've made updates and updated the code on the article. I'll update the article with the proper screenshot here in a second.
Also the current design makes the headlines the most contrast (black), which really is the main information on the page. In his "design" he has all kind of visual and distracting garbage, like the orange numbers (why, why???).

And yeah, insane spacing between the lines makes absolutely no sense.

The striped header is not more visually appealing than the current plain one.
Agile focuses very hard on the short term. Hopes and dreams are not short term. Agile is a way to implement innovation but it will not create it. My experience is that the shorter the stories are then the less innovative the code becomes. The really cool stuff gets done at nights and weekends.

But was it not ever so?
For those reluctantly remembering that stack of your old floppies and wondering how much of a pain it would be to attempt recovering your data from them...

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I'm sorry to say this, but what SeoxyS said was exactly how I felt.

Here's what I think should have been done:
LINK http://www.grooovy.me/HN.jpg

Here are some thoughts on why I made mine this way:

1) Hacker news is read by hundred of thousands of people every month- to adapt to a completely new design would wreck the user experience the users have come to expect.

2) Your patterns and icons, while I appreciate the gesture takes focus away from the headlines. The most important thing should be the headlines on hacker news. That's how it was designed to be. Everything else should pale in color compared to it.

3) As SeoxyS mentioned, I designed mine as to not disrupt the functionality that everyone's used to. What I did was "design" the page to improve readability. I made the background color behind the text a light grey so it's not as gloomy as the current site and used a dark grey font rather than the black on current site to improve faster reading. Black on white is always tiring on the eyes, which is why I tried to adapt different shades of grey.

4) I don't like HN's top nav bar right now because it takes focus away from the logo. The logo should be consistent with the one found and recognized on YC's main site. A logo on the site should be loud and clear. I made the top nav bar a darker grey so that it would give focus back to the logo.

5) The selected links are now orange instead of white. By having tiny accents of color, it adds the kind of eye candy that you want but nonetheless tied in with functionality. UX comes first, then UI. You can make something pretty after think about how you'll first make it user-friendly.

6) To improve eye candy, I gave the bottom nav the bright color of HN to really lighten up the page. I felt that otherwise there would be too many grey areas.

7) I moved the search to the top and yes, this does change what the users are used to, but in my opinion a good change. I've read many posts where people (including myself) have had a hard time finding the search button. To move it to the top nav will adapt to web standards.

Normally, I'd make the search larger and start right aligned at the end of the top nav bar and instead move the username + logout link above it, but I felt that it might be too disruptive, so I sacrificed what looks the best for a better experience (this is important).

I do give you props for trying it out, that's how we all push forward to improve.
Copying != plagiarism. Plagiarism is about pretending to be the original author of the ideas - maybe there were some examples of that in the article - but the bulk was about simple imitation without appropriating the authorship.

Conflating of copying and plagiarism is another attack on the Copy-left culture (but it can also be effect of the authors stupidity).
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Ask HN: MarkMonitor whois server hacked?
Running whois from a console for domains managed by MarkMonitor is showing a lot of spam entries. Checking whois though www.markmonitor.com website itself seems to be fine. Here is what I am getting:

>whois apple.com
Server Name: APPLE.COM.ZON.COM
IP Address: 17.172.224.47
Registrar: DOMAINREGISTRY.COM, INC.
Whois Server: nswhois.domainregistry.com
Referral URL: http://www.domainregistry.com

Server Name: APPLE.COM.WWW.ZON.COM
IP Address: 17.172.224.47
Registrar: DOMAINREGISTRY.COM, INC.
Whois Server: nswhois.domainregistry.com
Referral URL: http://www.domainregistry.com

Server Name: APPLE.COM.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
IP Address: 203.36.226.2
Registrar: INSTRA CORPORATION PTY, LTD.
Whois Server: whois.instra.net
Referral URL: http://www.instra.com

Server Name: APPLE.COM.WAS.PWNED.BY.M1CROSOFT.COM
IP Address: 203.206.208.201
Registrar: TUCOWS.COM CO.
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net

Server Name: APPLE.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
IP Address: 203.36.226.2
Registrar: INSTRA CORPORATION PTY, LTD.
Whois Server: whois.instra.net
Referral URL: http://www.instra.com

Server Name: APPLE.COM.IS.OWN3D.BY.NAKEDJER.COM
IP Address: 209.236.225.10
Registrar: TUCOWS.COM CO.
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net

Server Name: APPLE.COM.IS.0WN3D.BY.GULLI.COM
IP Address: 80.190.192.39
Registrar: EPAG DOMAINSERVICES GMBH
Whois Server: whois.enterprice.net
Referral URL: http://www.enterprice.net

Server Name: APPLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
IP Address: 203.36.226.2
Registrar: INSTRA CORPORATION PTY, LTD.
Whois Server: whois.instra.net
Referral URL: http://www.instra.com

Server Name: APPLE.COM.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
IP Address: 203.36.226.2
Registrar: INSTRA CORPORATION PTY, LTD.
Whois Server: whois.instra.net
Referral URL: http://www.instra.com

Domain Name: APPLE.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
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Looks really impressive, well done! Can you export? PDF would be useful, if it kept the formatting, and perhaps markup too.
This is what HN looks like for me:
http://i.imgur.com/FAElk.png
http://i.imgur.com/KqnGO.png
Can others run whois against various domains runned by MarkMonitor such as apple.com, google.com, microsoft.com and see if the entries are all hacked?
Like a lot of failed companies, they built a product the market had no need for. I don't think this reflects at all on hardware startups - just poor investment.
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I don't think Square counts as a hardware startup.

Food for thought, is a bank that only provides internet banking services and providing a 2-factor auth dongle a hardware company?
Meh, nodejs makes this type of service obsolete. I can host my own messaging system now, thanks anyways.
This is awesome - you should make yours an UI wrapper for existing well entrenched systems
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The left side is correct for a very particular reason: things on the left can be lined up into nice little columns, where it's easier for your eye to visually ignore them if it doesn't care.

I think you might be right, though, about the weight gain of the points. Points should be clearly labeled as points by putting a + sign in front of them. Comments should clearly be labeled with a comment icon, rather than the text -- this was actually something the other design got kinda right, but it put them in an ugly place (on the right, where they add to visual clutter), and it insisted on placing the number inside the comment bubble for no good reason.

That leaves the bottom bar to contain something like:

( ▴ | ⚑ | @meteor.com | nim, 3 hours ago )

although I guess if you really want we can keep the upvote button off to the far left.
actually i disagree for a different reason - it has less to do with what is important, but more to do with usability.
there are two things you can click in a story - the story itself or the comments. i actually like putting the points+comments to the left (302 points...21 comments) and making this part clickable.

really helpful especially on a mobile phone.
I like yours but black and white text becomes VERY tiring to read after a while.

I'd like to suggest this one:

http://www.grooovy.me/HN.jpg
Man, if you think some procedural fumbles like this are bad, I suggest you don't look too closely at our criminal justice system...
That's not really a typical 6.5 device tbh.
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GPL 3 has a clause forbidding the use of GPL 3 licensed code on locked down computers. Googling for "anti tivo clause" will bring up a lot of discussion about it.
I mean, the video is cool, but I don't think the product is very useful.
This is well done!
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Wow, not only does that notation seem like a huge pain in the ass, but it's only for CSS; doesn't fix the html.

https://plus.google.com/115203843155141445032/posts/BrrLGL5k...

-webkit-image-set( url(image.png) 1x, url(image@2x.png) 2x )

That's their notation. Imagine having to do that for every image ever, when they're all just filename + 2x resolution key + filename extension. Totally asinine. Developers should just be able to pick a single page-wide filename key for all their 2x assets, and the browser will know to look there.
Here's what I think should have been done: LINK http://www.grooovy.me/HN.jpg

Here are some thoughts on why I made mine this way:

1) Hacker news is read by hundred of thousands of people every month- to adapt to a completely new design would wreck the user experience the users have come to expect.

2) Your patterns and icons, while I appreciate the gesture takes focus away from the headlines. The most important thing should be the headlines on hacker news. That's how it was designed to be. Everything else should pale in color compared to it.

3) As SeoxyS mentioned, I designed mine as to not disrupt the functionality that everyone's used to. What I did was "design" the page to improve readability. I made the background color behind the text a light grey so it's not as gloomy as the current site and used a dark grey font rather than the black on current site to improve faster reading. Black on white is always tiring on the eyes, which is why I tried to adapt different shades of grey.

4) I don't like HN's top nav bar right now because it takes focus away from the logo. The logo should be consistent with the one found and recognized on YC's main site. A logo on the site should be loud and clear. I made the top nav bar a darker grey so that it would give focus back to the logo.
5) The selected links are now orange instead of white. By having tiny accents of color, it adds the kind of eye candy that you want but nonetheless tied in with functionality. UX comes first, then UI. You can make something pretty after think about how you'll first make it user-friendly.

6) To improve eye candy, I gave the bottom nav the bright color of HN to really lighten up the page. I felt that otherwise there would be too many grey areas.

7) I moved the search to the top and yes, this does change what the users are used to, but in my opinion a good change. I've read many posts where people (including myself) have had a hard time finding the search button. To move it to the top nav will adapt to web standards.

Normally, I'd make the search larger and start right aligned at the end of the top nav bar and instead move the username + logout link above it, but I felt that it might be too disruptive, so I sacrificed what looks the best for a better experience (this is important).