skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm slap bang in your target audience, and at first the idea sounds great.

Personally I wouldn't want a "get a site like this for free" ad on my page.

I also kinda agree with ohgodthecat that it's a bit disordered.

I love the animations and things on button presses though, and the idea of splitting down is very nice. The concept seems good so it'd be nice to see another iteration.
I would suggest a separate category for Show HN. Would make the whole thing easier. Also, Im not sure how Show HN is "news" as such.

So we have:
Hacker News new | threads | comments | ask | jobs | submit

Why not just add a Show HN bit?
Point 20 isn't totally wrong. You shouldn't try to “fix” anyone.
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Suggestion: Don't call it a tool.

Nobody wants to go to a "tool site" and use it like they would an app - because they have an app for that. People do like community, though, and would probably be fine with going to a site just to say hi to other hikers. Make like Facebook and emphasize pictures/videos, and a forum component, and that'd be a pretty handy site.

(Feature request: make a climbing section and stuff for niches like crack climbing or slacklining!)
It is not on our website yet, but we are currently looking to hire another web developer to come and join our team in Madrid. If you are interested and from the EU (sorry, visa sponsoring is very expensive) please contact me at: eiso@tyba.com
Love this idea and the site looks great. I checked out some of the member sites and they look very fresh and are well-designed.

One thing: The member sites you included all have their own domains. If users can't get their name as a domain, what are their options?
I cruise the "newest" so I can check out all the new posts that likely are not going to make it into my feed. A "Show HN" isn't special other than it is someone's project rather than an article.
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Exactly which vulnerability market participants would buy and hide code-sabotage flaws? Oh, right, the same ones who were buying vulnerabilities before ZDI existed.
And suddenly there's a problem: a majority of 'show HN' on the front page ... ;)
Not yet. I'll try to add that as part of next batch of updates.
In 'real' engineering, every engineering calculation has a safety factor attached to it. You figure out how much you need, and then you multiply it by the chosen safety factor to get what you need. The choice of safety factor varies. In some cases, it may be regulated/required. In other cases it is based on the engineer's judgement. And of course, it will vary from field to field. In aerospace, safety factors are typically much lower than in civil engineering, since weight is a much greater concern.

Which brings back to why we have a safety factor at all. The only reason why we have it is because of uncertainty. The real why we have safety factor at all is because we don't know enough.
Also, I should have clarified: on the original landing page, the language I used was:

"Coming soon."
"Want to know when it's ready?"

The original design is here: http://cl.ly/0o143s3d053r3V2B2K3v

I put up the page with every intention to write the book. Also, I told anyone who asked that I hadn't started writing yet. I just didn't put that on the page.

A couple of people are throwing around the word "Deception" and I think that's quite heavy handed. I didn't list every single detail on the landing page, but that hardly constitutes deception.

Again, apologies to anyone who did feel that way. I've tried to be as transparent and honest about this project as possible. If there's a detail that's important to you, just ask!
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Help Euclid digitize the physical world. Through innovative sensor technology and data engineering, we’re arming brick and mortar retailers with a new class of analytics to help them improve their profitability and shopping experience.

The dataset we’re providing is revolutionary, and we want our product experience to be just as special. Current retail business intelligence tools are clunky, ugly, and tedious. Euclid wants to break to mold by delivering insights AND a beautiful and effortless product experience.

The Product Designer will work closely with the Product and Engineering teams to create this experience. Primary responsibilities will include prototyping and designing user interfaces, producing gorgeous visual design, and delivering production ready assets. The Product Designer will also help make sure the product is well represented on our website and in our marketing collateral.

http://euclidelements.com/about-us/jobs
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New Relic is growing and we're looking to add several Ruby, Java, .NET, and Devops Engineers to our teams. If you want to join our fun dynamic company, give us a shout.

We are passionate, possibly even crazy, about application performance management (APM). Our mission is to make web applications run better, to make the internet more productive, and to make life easier for developers and devops. We are turning the APM marketplace upside down by providing SaaS products that deliver high-value functionality previously only available through enterprise software. We are well above 24,000 customers. And with your help we’ll get to 10x that number.

[H1B] is fine. Usually no [REMOTE] but we have made exceptions.
I was going to make the same comment... that button is way small I didn't see it, and was looking for it! Very cool app.
Eye based window/input focus. I've been wanting this for years.
Perfectly diffuse rooms are a common staple of acoustics labs in university and calibration facilities, it's a requirement for STC (sound transmission class) testing for building materials and wall/window assemblies.

Any acoustically well-designed movie theater (THX or HPS-4000 certified among others), performance space, concert hall or auditorium will be decently diffuse, at least at higher frequencies.
Oh no! Thanks for the help. If you just press the Report button I'll get a stack trace and that should be enough for me to solve it. The app does lots of processing in bitmaps and uses a fair bit of memory. It's possible I'll have to do some optimization in memory management to fix the issues.

Thanks for the heads up!
Obligatory pointer to One Second After by William R. Forstchen[1], which is a factionalized account of what came out of the US EMP Attack Commission[2].

A power hiccup is not a problem. A systemic power failure is a catastrophe!

1. http://www.onesecondafter.com/
2. http://EMPCommission.org/
Who cares about the stock price, Zuck should win the Nobel Peace Prize
Also place the following in the top horizontal menu on each page:

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Terrorist victims in 2001: 3,000

Murder victims in 2001: 15,000

Car collision fatalities in 2001: 42,000

Cancer deaths in 2001: 550,000

The only thing that's disproportionate is how we react to terrorism.

(statistics are for United States)
I get it now. I though there was interpretation of the right hand side of the =.
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We have the following open positions, and more:

* Front End Developer

* Web Designer

* Web Developer Intern

* Business Analyst

http://www.kiwicrate.com/jobs
Definitely more interesting than about.me and more appealing than linkedin.

But will the people I want actually bother seeing my profile on tyba (employers, investors, clients, etc)?
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Wouldn't they be the same thing, just "tuned" to block out different frequency ranges? I'm guessing the tuning is based on the material and shape of the foam, and thickness and material of the walls? It's all waves.
Seems to be happening... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4054104
Indeed it would affect everyone just as much - still, I will spread MySQL knowledge (not hate) whether or not there is a reason for it.

And I'll say it time and time again, If you think MySQL does not have major issues as a DBMS, you should not make database-related decisions as your knowledge is too limited to make a sensible decision.

Just like windows.

The real Windows experts can both tell you how much it's made of fail and fix your issues, the others are charlatans.
Hi Elliot,

Thank you for your feedback.

To also respond to: ohgodthecat (thank you too!), we've spent a lot of time putting the Tyba sites infront of people working in HR. So far we've mainly received positive feedback about the interface, since it gives them a very quick overview of a person (both the visual elements such as the images and the way we do the layout). However we will take this into account and keep on gathering more feedback. Thank you!

That ad is there to incentivize users to upgrade to our premium plan which is when it disappears, you unlock themes and get yourname.com.
Conservative is an overloaded word. If you read the blurb following conservative it seems like he's using it in the sense of risk-aversion not in the sense of political spectrum. Both tend to be true facts of life, but the idea of trying to accomplish big things when you can take more risks is the more important one.
Love this idea, and the interface looks brilliant. Initial suggestion is to have a password confirmation box on the sign up page.
Great idea, kudos. Here are some random thoughts, as I'm totally part of your target audience:

• There are people/couples/friends who avidly hike on their own, on a regular basis, and then there are people who want to hike, but are novices and/or seldom get around to it. The latter group is something like 10x the size of the former. I'd encourage you to reach out to them.

• Meetup is AFAIK the only game in town when it comes to finding other hikers/groups and it totally sucks. Meetup is about 'joining' and 'persistent groups' and mailing lists and discussion boards and...a lot of crap. People just want to hook up with other hikers, easily see who they're dealing with in terms of experience and potential flakiness (big issue in my experience) and plan a trip.

• For people looking for information to use in planning their own trip, the ability to download GPS data shared by previous hikers could be great.

Best of luck!
I didn't ask any of these questions, understood the larger concept, and signed up. it sounds like you just don't like socks.
The difference between the two environments, at least on the desktop, is jarring. As the author points out, on the Metro side, the desktop is just another tile. Strange.

And on the desktop side, they've removed the start button, so the taskbar looks incomplete. To go to the start screen, you either need to move your mouse to the bottom left corner to reveal the start screen icon as a hover/tooltip sort of element, or the bottom right corner, which brings up the charms bar with the start button. In both cases, it's move/hover/click. In both cases, not self evident (like a button!?) and not super discoverable. This makes more sense on a touch device but it's not so great for mousers (e.g., the people who will run the desktop version in the early days, a.k.a nearly everyone).

I'm guessing (and hoping) that they have a new alternative to the classic start button planned for a final reveal in RTM that will take you directly to the start screen.

It'll be interesting to see how this is solved over time. I imagine Windows 9 will have most of the usability issues solved. In the meantime...
> I wouldn't put it past THOSE people to do such a thing, would you?

This is amazingly bad logic.

The US has done some bad things.
This is a bad thing.
Therefore the US did this.
Q.E.W.T.F.

There is no link here, except in your own mind.
http://www.10gen.com/careers
I don't like the font or spacing or something... something about the proportions kinda makes it hard to read comfortably (I'm on a mid rez LCD display)... Also might help having the border/background being a different color (hmmm, maybe a fabric book cover or endpaper texture? )

Option for author to "theme" thier book with 5 or so different layout themes so one would be fictional, another might be non-fiction (using some sans serif font), etc. Of course the reader can override if desired.

The book title at the top gets lost in the content.

The top menu symbols show up on the printout - might want to have the print version have a light BookVoid header showing... with the book title.

Maybe an option to border embedded graphics, that wake turbulence pic doesn't seem to rest well in the page... (can you caption it too? or have text wrapping options?)

When you go to settings the book content graphics disappear.

The navigation symbols are interesting but I would think trying to be a bit more conventional symbols (+/- magnifying glass, graphic of gate-fold, etc) would be worth a shot.

BookVoid? Sounds like limbo from books... Maybe instead of a word that reminds me of emptiness or clearing out, look for something growing or spreading... maybe look for Book[Word] combos relating to say garden, spring, sharing, inspiration,creativity?
Not sure what their margins are. But I'd give them 99$ today to send my wife 13 pairs of socks. :-)
I was coming here to say the same thing (well same intent) as the original commenter and found your reply useful. It does seem like a fun joke app, and your smart for using that to your advantage. Good job!
Using mk-slave-delay you can do this with Mysql as well. We always have a slave running behind a day. You can fast forward the slave using the 'START SLAVE UNTIL' command.
The users can choose to stick with: tyba.com/theirname or what we see with users whose name is not available they often use a variation e.g. jsmith.com john-smith.com johndsmith.com etc.

Also some users upgrade to a premium plan without a domain name to remove the ads and get access to the themes.
Actually it's exactly what happened.
Just showed this to my wife, a major sock whore, and while she LOVES the idea, she complained that she can't use it because it doesn't spell out how you intend to bill her and when.

Is it upfront for the year? Pro-rata? Subscription billing of $11 a month? etc.

Aside from that, we both love the idea and the copy. I probably should echo the other sentiments expressed here - call to action is hard to find, price should be easier to find, etc.

Also, my wife just lamented that she can't go back and buy April's sock. Is there anything she can do about that?
I can't disrespect those that go to the effort of setting up a business. So congrats on the venture. There are a few variations of this business, so maybe it works. However can someone explain if this business model is profitable? Socks and underwear feel like the last thing I would subscribe to on a monthly basis?
Next week, car manufacturer says his customers are unreasonable for wanting his cars so much.
Because the whole founding principle of the country is "One nation, under god, indivisible...".

It's supposed to be a singular entity where everyone is working towards the benefit of everyone, but that got lost somewhere along the way.
I like the map too, great way to utilize a 3rd party api as a major design element on the page - in a very appropriate way. Really cool idea!
How to be awesome, step 1: Stop using slideshare.net, it sucks.
Looks cool, but too hard to find pricing.

And for anyone that loves odd socks, this is an awesome site (not affiliated, i just love their sock selections and used them for years):
http://www.sockdreams.com/_pages/index.php
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Let me know if you have a problem I could help solve!

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Why not sell zero-day exploits to security vendors? Working in network/information security, I don't know how often we're hit by a virus days before McAfee et al had definitions for them. While I'm all for disclosure and making the developers patch their code, it's really quite irritating how long it takes before AVs have caught up.
Awesome idea, beautiful looking site :)
Good job ruining the front page today, hopefully it won't last.
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(just to be clear, I have no clue wether HIV was assisted by some military programmes, but I can safely say such "mistakes" have been made in the past by the same army, like when they used to test nukes for example)

That means I just used the HIV word to connect to the concept of bio weapon testing gone wrong - weapon testing gone wrong.

The reason why is that one of the most popular theories on HIV is that the US military had a part in its development.

I don't know and I don't care, those people have such a bad karma even AIDS wouldn't make much difference - just read the disclaimer next time ;)
Ok, now there are many more than 5 Show HN's on the front page.

I wonder if everyone was like oh a post to make everyone feel guilty about letting Show HN's slide, let me show HN something and reap the benefits. Good thinking.
What do IT workers and paratroopers have in common?
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I'm signing up, I'm getting my friends to sign up. I haven't seen any responses from wolfparade yet but I find it amazing how much constructive criticism is coming out of this.
We make sure we follow sound SEO techniques. Most Tyba sites rank on the first page of Google for the users name within days and often go up to the first result within weeks (since they have more unique content then for instance an About.me page)

We actively try to be more appealing than LinkedIn since our target user is overall younger. Students today are constantly saying "LinkedIn is borring"

We also see users currently including their Tyba site (especially premium members) in their CV, email signature, and on their online profiles.
Maybe you could mock that up and "Show HN"
There is no link here, except in your own mind.
That's a canned knee-jerk response, not one that shows you read my message. That's not relevant data to the question of what future bioattacks or computer attacks are possible... and note my continued avoidance of the term "terrorism". Once an attack is launched the source isn't very relevant. Failing to secure our infrastructure because "terrorism isn't something to be afraid of" is still a stupid move because it leaves you open to not-terrorism just as much.
It's up to 13 now. Getting kind of ridiculous at this point.
I also hear that In-n-Out(burger chain in California) pays $11/hour plus benefits and vacation for a job that requires no previous skills (flipping burgers. The reason companies like this exist, is because people think, "Because I was able to teach myself, my skills can't be worth that much". No surprise they are looking for interns so they can get cheap wages, but I doubt they will follow through with the teaching them part of the deal. The Independent Contractor part is equally amusing, cause after all the taxes, you'd be better off working for In-n-Out
Another thing - How do I delete a book I created?
BTW, Ron Sauro at NWAA Labs (http://nwaalabs.com/ or http://nwaalabs.ipower.com/pictures1.html) was hoping to build a quieter chamber but his funding dried up. He built his acoustical testing facility at a nuclear plant that was constructed but never commissioned.

The original plan was to build a 50ft by 60ft by 55ft chamber, with about half of it being underground. Given the exterior noise level of around 20 dBA (the plant is located in the wilderness), the thick concrete walls of the facility, and some additional noise and structural isolation he might very well beat Orfield's record with a much larger chamber (meaning it will be anechoic down to a lower frequency). If he can get the funding.

If you're ever in the area, Ron is a friendly guy and he'll be happy to give you a tour (he's on LinkedIn).
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This is great. I've found a couple of sites similar in the mountaineering/climbing sector, but not for hiking/backpacking.

As a data point for you, one of the tools I've come to love is the split map available on Hillmap.com (Not sure if Ryan is on HN, but maybe worth getting in contact.)
That's fair. Yes, it seemed to me everything that came after what you wrote about the clock seemed to be there to support the overall point.
People, it is said, do "stupid" things on the internet in the belief that they will remain anonymous. Have the US and Israeli governments made the same mistake?
In the case of NSDictionary, Underscore.m's map iterates over objects and keys.
Fast Enumeration only iterates over the dictionary's keys, when you probably want the value or both.

But I agree, supporting any class that implements NSFastEnumeration would be nice to have.
I think the concluding paragraph really hits on a very good point, and one that people don't consciously realize too often.
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I have to agree with you. The call to action is easy to miss because I don't expect it to be in the lead visual. And then clicking on subscribe just gets me a form to fill out, well before I'm willing to pay. And the about page is cute, but not at all informative.
very cool i really dig it. one suggestion, the slider makes it a bit difficult to find recent releases, once you slide past 2005 or so you can't really easily adjust it.

even still, this is a great way to view movies - nice work!
Sound waves and radio waves are not the same thing.
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It's all waves.

EM waves vs pressure waves, they're not the same thing (although the math is basically the same, just with different constants). Something that affects an EM wave won't necessarily affect a pressure wave - a Faraday cage for example will block EM waves but won't do anything to block sound waves.
This would be great. I'd love to have a place to go to check out the current state of the art. There's a huge amount to learn from other people's projects.

Additionally, votes cast there would be meaningful in terms of seeing which projects the community approves of - as opposed to on the front page, where the level of randomness in vote allocation is pretty huge.

People shouldn't have to wake up at 6am to post their cool weekend project for vote-optimization reasons if they just want some smart people's feedback.
Shameless plug:

SockJS[1] is a client and server library that tries to be a WebSockets poly-fill. Basically, you can start using SockJS right now, write code using WebSockets API, and replace SockJS with native websockets when they're ready.

So, with SockJS websockets are basically working. There is no reason to wait.

[1] https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-client
No, you just described the old Mozilla sidebar. You could put anything there and interact with it. If you weren't around for that era, just look at this: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=...
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Most of the blog links are broken. I wanted to see where/what kind of socks each was to check quality.

All I know is the first pair of socks were cashmere and had hand stitched seems so I know at least you were serious about that one.
Simple, easy, clean. Sold already.
the problem with this strategy being used by many is presently apparent on the homepage. i would estimate over 60% of the stories are Show HN. I personally come here for technology news, so this makes HN less valuable to me as a user.
I, like OP, also upvote "Show HN" posts on the basis that people should be encouraged to ship. It worked on me as well.

But anyway, could somebody explain this:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/216352/show_hn.png

Is this a result of this thread?