skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your brutal honesty, I really appreciate it. Regarding some your points:

2. How's the layout broken? I'm on Firefox on Windows XP as well, and regarding fonts, this was one of the few Google fonts that actually rendered nicely on my screens in different browsers. Some are utter crap, I really thought I had found one that isn't. Maybe specifying absolute font sizes would fix things.

5. Ouch. Although I'm not sure the layout is completely broken, the graphics could use some more TLC. The 'full stack' image is supposed to convey some mosaic-like design (with the shades of grey) instead of a 'clean' version, but I'm aware a failed miserably in this regard. Will redo the image.

7. No problem.

> I am left with the impression of a Jack of all trades but master of none.

I prefer to think of myself as a specializing generalist, see http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/generalizingSpecialists....

> you don't necessarily have much depth behind any of the technologies

I figured the industry experience covered some of this

> You're a UX designer, but your CV isn't optimised for scannability at all.

Well, I've played the role of UX designer, not the same thing. I focused more on story-telling than scannability here, good suggestion though.

> you're using a static background image .. instead of gracefully degrading CSS3
> you've failed basic cross-browser compatibility
> polishing up my front-end skills to get the design into shape

Good points, thanks. Please consider this version 0.1.

> how to organise your content for the way real people are going to read that CV

If by 'real people' you mean recruiters, that's not my primary target audience, I have an utterly boring, scannable MS-Word document for them if needed. Also, the page doubles as an 'about me' page for peterdevos.com and my resume, this may have been a bad decision to begin with.

> rookie mistakes in the design and lack of scannability are letting you down right now

Agree to some extent. That's what this 'Show HN' post was for, to get initial feedback. Again, thank you, much appreciated.
(Oops: better when the article is published as "public" in wordpress)
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If it's peak capacity syncs with peak demand for air-conditioning that might work.

Environmentally you would probably do much better (energy wise) by covering the roofs of building in Las Vegas with similar mirrors to lower their albedo and reduce air conditioning use.
It helps to remember that the first social networks (See: Usenet) were built out of email.

EDIT: All email needs is the ability to display information like the web can. Properly formatted and threaded.
OK, perhaps the parent presented a rhetorical question. I do think that this discussion needs to keep the two governments distinct, so I was trying to give some background. But it seems I may have just muddied the waters by not mentioning how relations are in practice.

"Renegade province" is the official stance, but you're right, it is much more complex. In practice Taiwan is autonomous, and the degree of interaction with the mainland is a big political issue -- there were no direct flights between Taiwan and the PRC until just a few years ago. And yet, as you say, Taiwan is economically interlocked with China.

It is interesting to see the discussion here and elsewhere focus on China as a bogeyman. I suppose the news fits into the narrative that has been constructed about Chinese espionage and such.
Could you elaborate on this? If the random data isn't caused by the JVM not filling a buffer with zeros (which I'm sure it does) how is the data actually leaking? Do you share byte[] arrays between threads or recycle them once a thread dies?
IIRC, both Adobe Reader "Protected Mode"[1] and Chromium "sandbox"[2] are built on Windows user-mode sandbox framework[3]. Basically, things like principle of least privilege and disable writes etc.

[1]http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2010/10/inside-adobe-reader-pro...

[2]http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sandbox

[3]http://blogs.msdn.com/b/david_leblanc/archive/2007/07/27/pra...
Ask HN: How to ask thoughtful questions?
I've been granted one hr with three people who have been very successful in my career. What's the best way to make the most of this?
That the city council is comprised of nice people is irrelevant. What matters is how they vote. And city councils in wealthy suburban neighborhoods have an extremely reliable track record of preserving the status quo in terms of urban development in order to protect the property values (dressed as "quality of life") of the existing residents.

Here's my suggestion for constructive improvement: Ignore existing residents' concerns about "quality of life" and allow builders to construct high-density housing. This will have the effect of increasing housing stock and making housing more affordable, without having to regulate affordable housing in special cases that almost always end up pleasing nobody.
I don't think that's a reason to "fix email". Rather, it's a reason to use the right tool for the job. If you need a to-do list, use an app that does to-do lists well. If you need to keep track of changes to documents, use a version control system. What's needed, of course, is a tool that integrates all these other tools into a manageable workflow. But that's not "fixing email", either, it's just another tool.
The real cost of acquisition would be much higher. Newsletter Subscriber != Customer
> sKyWIper may have been active for as long as five to eight years

spooky.
> Unless you are a Google employee working on these cars, you know nothing more than what Google wants you to know,

You use many words to say "we're both guessing".
I have an old iPod touch constantly plugged in a wall socket and hooked up to speakers in my bedroom. Running AirFoil on it allows me to play anything from my computer/iphone/ipad/etc. . Normally you'd use an airport express for that, but since I had that old iPod touch lying around, I figured it was better to recycle the device.
Yeah, I agree but have you tried an android phone? Pretty much requires that you sign up for a Google account to maximize its functionality...
I'm not sure I follow your analogy. Las Vegas is a case of suburban boom and bust, not urban conversion. If anything, Downtown Vegas and The Strip continue to do quite well.
Here's a variation I reported to Twisted in 2003: http://www.twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2003-J... , and an updated version at http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.twisted/3628 .

I did not come up with that myself; I had read it elsewhere.

Is this essentially the same thing?
It'd take a long time to type in those 20 email addresses every time you snap a photo on your vacation.
It would be fine if they were moving past the broken system to something better, this is sadly not the case. It really took someone telling me "Your doing great in all your other subjects but with this score in maths you wont get a diplom" to realise that I should probably go and learn the basics. As soon as the basics made sense , maths was fun and enjoyable (even without calculator).
I don't understand what you're suggesting the downside here is. They might decide not to take my code, lock it up in a proprietary system and profit from it without me getting anything out of it? How am I harmed by them not doing all that?
CloudFlare provides a IPv6 -> IPv4 gateway. As a result, if you're on CloudFlare, your host doesn't need to have IPv6 support for your site to be available. You can enable the gateway for free. CloudFlare's DNS listens on IPv6 and will return a valid AAAA record when requested. If your host supports IPv6 then the connection is IPv6 end-to-end. If your host only supports IPv4 then the connection is IPv6 from the browser to CloudFlare's network, and then IPv4 from CloudFlare's network to your origin server. Here's more on how it works:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflares-automatic...
TL;DR - designers and project teams need longer periods of unbroken time to get things done.
> Why build a new messaging product when the basic functionality of email combined with a little effort from the user can achieve the same result?

Well, to begin with, users don't want to expend even a little bit of effort. Isn't that why everyone is trying to minimize friction in the sign-up process?

I agree that e-mail, as a protocol, is a powerful tool that is often misunderstood. But we really need e-mail clients that allow us to keep track of a large number of threads without getting lost of feeling swamped. Gmail tries to do this to some extent, but it's far from perfect.
This is cool - some screenshots of what the skeleton app looks like would be nice to have though.
Start by practising: try to make this question better, discuss what you think and what you found researching about asking good questions.
So are some of the later ones. Twitter built a multi-billion dollar business by duplicating the functionality of email and listserv in a proprietary service.
At some point, the quantity of good art will be vastly larger than the amount of consumption any human can do in a lifetime.

Oh, I think we passed that point a while ago. I certainly don't have time for all the art I would like to experience. But: so what? Just because a given piece of art finds a relatively small audience, that doesn't mean it's not valuable to those people. We have 7 billion people on this planet now. If you release a music album, and you get .0004% of the world's population to pay $5 each for it, that's $140k, which after production expenses should be enough for you to eat for a year. Tweak the numbers if you like, but we're still looking at needing less than one person in 10^5 to pay for your album in order for you to make a living. If you reach one in 10^4, you're doing well.

Do you believe some sort of "meta-art" exists that machines will not be able to perform?

Yes, actually, I do. Machines will never possess original creativity.

I can't prove this to you. We'll just have to wait and see.
But there certainly aren't any counterexamples to be found yet.
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Here's an experiment with showing "just the content" http://www.shopobot.com/shop

Online stores show so little of what they're actually selling - we wanted to try stripping out everything that isn't the products. (using shoes from Amazon as the example here)
You point to the #1 biggest wonderful feature of email.

Sending email is an act that incurs responsibility. WHY are we sending all this shit around? Email makes it clear. I have made a decision that you should spend your time reading and understanding this text. If that's rude, tell me and I'll stop.

This article strikes a chord because email is about communication instead of endless "sharing," broadcasting, forwarding, signalling.

I'm awash in a sea of tweets and notifications but when I see a familiar name as the sender of an actual goddamn email, then I feel reality existing again.

I have a friend who can't stop dreaming about hypothetical advances in social networking that will let us do all kinds of wonderful things, but it'll never be good enough, convenient enough — no technology will ever do the real work of social caring, no shiny app will ever let humans communicate in a way that's easy and non-messy.

There's some kind of consumerism-type ideology around social networks and apps that works like that of beauty magazines and television. TV is boring so Facebook is the new Friends.

It's all so happy, creative, wonderful. There should be a social network that says "fuck you" to all the cutesy glitter on the top of the Maslow pyramid — that's only about, say, "sharing" expressions of the dull lethargy that comes from exhausting oneself with work or work-seeking in a crisis economy.

Sorry for ranting, but this deeply-rooted nausea w/r/t the social web is something that doesn't come out clearly for me all the time, and when it does I feel like I should channel it to get some affect going, because everything is so tediously pastel and we need to change shit up.
Any decent email client should do autocomplete.

Even if that's not the case, this is something the client should handle.
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Low density suburbia is what makes the Valley appealing? You can get that anywhere in America for a fraction of the price. What distinguishes the Valley is obviously its status as a tech hub. And most people may prefer to live in a mansion on the hills, surrounded by other rich people, just like most people would like to live in the Hearst Castle. But back in reality, people are choosing between a 1000 sq.ft. million dollar house in the Valley, and an hour long commute to something more affordable. The people who like the status quo are frequently those who bought a house in the 90's or earlier and saw a 500% return on their 10x leveraged investment, and don't want to see that price drop even a little. But even they complain about traffic.
Bolding (and other similar operations) should use Cmd instead of Ctrl on OS X. Google docs does this
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If I read correctly, Apple will not allow the donation UI to be shown modally through an UIWebView, but instead requires that the donation be made through the Safari app.
I disagree, at least from the perspective of a customer. One hosting company I like to work with used to answer competently within anything from 10 minutes to an hour and this turned me into an evangelist. The prompt answers also made me a lot more tolerant when the response wasn't correct and allowed another iteration without waiting for another "within 24 hours".
Also see http://beta.etherpad.org for a nice editor
It's good but codebase is so huge..
No, that's not true. Where a company is domiciled has nothing to do with these regulations - they apply to any company which has users in the EU. And yes, they will apply in a slightly different form as interpreted to each member state.

And yes, this is a somewhat ridiculous situation; but in practice it's not really likely to be a problem, unless you've got a major presence in an EU market.

In practice, the UK at least is extremely unlikely to pursue any non-UK companies for breaching the UK interpretation of these regulations (which is very light-touch anyway); if only because of the difficulty in taking effective action.

Other member states might take a more or less proactive approach in pursuing action; and other countries have a different take on the regulations anyway.

Basically, if I was a small-ish non-EU based website with EU customers I'd be keeping an eye on this to see where it goes, but I wouldn't take any action yet.

If I was a large non-EU-based site with tens of thousands or millions of EU customers, I'd be paying quite a lot of attention; what I did about it would depend on my risk profile.
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"€32,000 (well above many corporate jobs)" ... "80 hour weeks"

If your friend expected his early employees to work 80 hour weeks, the pay he was offering was not "well above many corporate jobs".
In the source of the script itself, it has:

Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.

...which is how jQuery is licensed, as is common for plugins and other jQuery-based projects.
Take a look at http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury/
I couldn't agree more. I deal with a large number of older people on a daily basis as part of my volunteer work. Getting these folk to use the Internet in any way is painful. For example, I send out these PDF reports once a week. It's the same template every time but for accounting purposes, it has to be done. I wrote a Python script to generate those for me and I stick them up on a simple website on S3. The script them emails everyone to let them know the report is available and that they can download it. It includes a link to the report and to the website with all the other reports. These guys absolutely cannot open a browser and view the PDF in the browser. If it's not an attachment to the email, they don't know what to do.

TLDR --- Email is great. It's so simple that even non-techies get it.
Thanks all for your feedback! In fact, we're aiming at being "Pinterest meets Instructables" – knowledge porn for makers. We're in our very early stages, so the HN induced traffic surge hit us a little unaware. Also, we are working steadily on our posting and sharing features to get more instructs on the site – any feedback on that is highly appreciated!
A look at how the Facebook Smartphone may look and feel like
I agree with this. The business context is really the one where email is most broken.

Tools like Basecamp and Trello do a good job with project management, but they aren't a 100% substitute for all the various functions of email. I sometimes think that a hybrid between email and a forum/bulletin board would be the best way to manage complex communication, instead of convoluted cc lists...
> I don't see computers as being good enough at general driving to make it work.

Why not? It's a fairly mechanical operation, and 360 degree range-finders can do a far better job of detecting obstacles than rather limited human vision.
It uses inline styles. That's an issue for me. It also looks like it doesn't do nested lists.

On the other hand, full-screen mode is really cool.
A UI experiment: show "just the content"
Make them play the Khan Academy math exercise set from the beginning. That way, any gaps in their knowledge get filled in and they will be much less frustrated by encountering problems they don't have the tools for. If they get stuck, there's always a link to a helpful Khan video on the topic that the particular exercise is testing mastery in.

It's like playing a reasonably enjoyable, if a little tedious, puzzle game. As a side-effect of playing it they will just happen to learn all K through 12 math. I went through the whole thing when they had 280 exercises over the course of a month. It was a great review.

Here's a link: http://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard
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E-mail has a culture around it that doesn't work for many tasks. It's called "inbox zero". Basically for most e-mail users they attempt to clear out their inbox to zero new messages every time they go to e-mail. This means if you want to do things that require thought over a period of time you'll almost always have someone using e-mail the wrong way for the task.
I don't expect Google to be completely open, I just don't expect them to lie for no reason, and so don't see why I should doubt what they've said.

They've been quite reasonably open about the limitations of their technology: It requires mapped-out roads, visible road markings, fair weather, et cetera. It requires a human driver at the wheel because there are some traffic situations it is not able to navigate; an example given was meeting an opposing car in a narrow road where the car was not sure if there was enough room to pass. In these situations, a voice announces politely that the human should resume control. If the human does not, one can only assume the car will come to a complete stop.

However, they have demonstrated the ability to autonomously navigate most types of traffic, including reacting to unexpected obstacles or pedestrians, dealing with panic stops ahead, negotiating with other drivers at a four-way stop, et cetera.

They claim hundreds of thousands of miles of fully-autonomous driving, with occasional human intervention being necessary in atypical circumstances. That seems like a completely plausible claim considering what they've shown us, and lacking any way in which they could profit from lying about it, I don't see any reason to take that claim at anything but face value.
Anyone know anything about DMCA Guardian? I've never heard of them. I definitely can understand how a company like this could be useful, but I'd worry about the means they use for enforcement.
One thing I'd add is: Once a problem is escalated, put the customer in direct contact with the higher level support. Triage is fine, but not being able to communicate with whoever is working on your problem is really frustrating.
Well as some one who has been working on www based systems since 1994 and one online systems for many years before it's a pity they did not ask people actulay working in the industry.

Ironically Neelie Kroes, the EU's Digital Agenda Commissioner now wants us to have manditory electronic id cards storing god only knows what information about us.

This is a far worse infringement of our rights that some aggressive retargeting as opposed to being asked "papers please" on the euro star.

I think i will change my last name to Pike :-)
We have an Apple TV, but it's not connected to the house's speaker system. Airfoil is nice because I can hook an old iOS device up to the main receiver for the house and send music to it through iTunes, Spotify, etc.
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This is another one russian text editor - http://elrte.org/demo. Comes with filemanager - http://elfinder.org/
In social networks, companies are not trying to fix email or group communication because its broken. They are trying to produce users for their specific applications. If they use Email as a substrate for communication, they have no user. They end up being just a software vendor.
I don't see why that would be worth $3 a month. In the vein of http://monkeymace.com/post/23937902775/all-you-need-is-e-mai..., why wouldn't you just have one email thread where everyone replies what they did? This seems over-engineered.
In response to this thread about how hard it is to see content on the campers shoe site: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4032486

We're experimenting with UI for browsing huge sets of options like shoes. What do you think? Refreshing or overwhelming?
I started linkjs[1] so I could create an extensible inbox/social app that supports multiple services and interfaces. The idea is to build tool environments around communication, much like the environments we already have around processing (e.g. the unix shell).

Email will be one of the services the comm environment integrates, so it's more of an extension than a replacement.

1. https://github.com/pfraze/linkjs
I suspect I'll be down-voted for saying it, but Silicon Valley does not need housing or offices. People need to move out of SV. Software can be done from anywhere...why bother doing it in an undesirable area? Everything in the Bay Area is overpriced, and most of it is pretty boring. SF certainly is not boring, but it has also turned into a dump (was way cleaner when I was a kid, not sure what happened). And yes, there are VCs outside of SV, believe it or not -- not that proximity to VCs should be a deciding factor of where to base your company.

(For the record, I grew up in the Bay Area, if it matters.)
We're doing this now. Our biggest challenge is that we don't have a set start of day for anyone (some of our team have sleep disorders that cause their start of day to migrate over the week). Any advice for that case?
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Nested list works: create a list, select a couple lines, indent.
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