skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gave it a shot. It's well-done, but there should really be an enticing reason for the visitor to sign up. If I get a link from someone and the first action I have to take is to sign up for something, 99% of the time I close it right away, unless they've personally given me some compelling reason to try it.
There is No Dumb User, Just Bad Design
A physical quantity is given by numerical value and unit of measurement. Giving angles as fractions of τ changes the unit of measurement from radians to turn.

There are applications for which neither radians nor turn are a good fit. Similarly, oftentimes the 'messy' SI units are a far better fit than any 'more fundamental' system of natural units.
US.gov, MPAA Celebrate Handing Hollywood Their Own Special Copyright Powers
That isn't really how it works.

You buy shares of XYZ for $100. It falls in value to $50. Where did the $50 go?
You are right. The price list was updated just now in the last hour. It said "$0.10 per GB".
Right, we retired the four "challenge" badges (I believe they were arithmetic, pre-algebra, algebra, and trig) in favor of the new "topic" badges which replace what was there previously.

I hadn't heard of anyone particularly upset about those badges, but we had many dozens of people who complained about the disappearance of the streak bar. We try our hardest not to hurt users' feelings but sometimes it's unavoidable as we make changes (hopefully for the better!).
You talk about what goes on behind closed doors, but provide no proof that you actually know what goes on behind those doors. As a YC alum, Mentor with 500 Startups & PIEPDX and friend of the family to Techstars... This post couldn't be more wrong. It looks like mostly it was written to cause drama and generate pageviews.

"Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 460 startups with only a handful of big wins."

We were just at the 7 year birthday party for YC in a room filled with successful founders. The collective valuation of the group is billions of dollars... and regardless that some founders have had their companies fail along the way, the network they're a part of adds huge value.

I'd go point by point and explain the counter for this entire post... but I don't have the time.

I think there is a valid argument about which incubator you participate in and the pros and cons each bring... but to warn people about the top incubators is almost comical.
Mac App Store Apps Get Some Analytics Love
How does SEOMoz crawl the web?
Google IO 2012 Keynote Day 1 [video]
Any idea how that's working? I've never seen image resizing work that well!
Rep. Jackie Speier Puts Forth Bill To Extend TSA To Mass Transit
Did the iPhone not qualify as a "crazy new idea"? Certainly more so than a PDA or a digital camera?
What product are you working on that it's possibly worth your time to test with FF 1? It's got like 0.01% marketshare at most. People mention IE 6-8 because large numbers of people are still on it due to corporate IT policies.
Yes, of course. Refute them if you can do it without being a dick. Ignore them if you can't. Even if you never interact with them directly ever again, they'll talk to other people, and you don't want to give them fuel to burn you with.
The article doesn't mentions that metros apps and standard Windows apps aren't the same. Metro is locked inside the WinRT and therefore limited to .NET, so while C/C++ are usable, its with the managed extensions only.

That and the documentation is filled with marketing, reminds me of what Sun did with Java.
Is there an app to automatically remove old versions of Chrome on OS X?
Is there an app to automatically remove old versions of Chrome on OS X?<p><i></i><i></i><p>I saw some information that there was a windows version but not one for mac.<p>http://m.lifehacker.com/5874876/oldchromeremover-frees-up-disk-space-used-by-old-versions-of-chrome<p>If you go to Applications > Right click on Google Chrome > Show Package Contents > Contents > Versions<p>It will show you old versions of Chrome that incrementally eat up storage space.<p>Deleting those old versions doesn't harm the functioning of my current chrome and none of the comments i've read show any negative effects on security updates either.<p>I personally removed 2 GB of old versions going back to January of this year.<p>I have seen applications that automatically do this for Windows, but none for mac. Have you all seen anything that could automate this process?<p>BTW, does Chrome seem to use up a lot of your harddrive space after even moderate usage? This browser seems like a massive resource user.
Thank you for getting my point.

My point was not whether you agree with the current taxation changes or not.

My point was that the rhetoric surrounding these is very anti-investment. The public attacks of rich people by politicians is extremely dissappointing and concerning.

As for the actual tax changes, taxing miners extra at the upswing of their cycle and handing out the cash as welfare isn't reform, it's naked vote buying and bad for the short, medium and long term.

Australia indeed should be listening to people wanting to invest in this country, and working out ways for them to double or triple the amount they're planning to invest. Not slagging them off and looking for new ways to loot their pockets.
One of the guys who helped get Sun off the ground used to joke that there were about 150 people in the valley who actually created the companies, they would go somewhere, build a company then move on.

It does feel like that sometimes. It was more like that when you would get one big company every 3 - 5 years versus two or three in 2 or 3 years.

One key observation over the years is that the same person who sucks in one job can be a superstar in another job. The 'fit' is as much about responsibility, management, duties, and infrastructure as it is the individual. We hired an engineer at Sun once who came to us via HP and was highly decorated, he was a 'legend', but he could not get anything done at Sun without having his own admin (which is something Sun didn't do). I watched excellent engineers waste away at Google because they didn't have the political skills to avoid having their progress blocked, and watched as really poor engineers benefited out of proportion to the circumstance rather than skill.
Transcript of Conversation Between John Lennon and Timothy Leary
Thank goodness for competition. Now maybe we'll see better performance from Amazon EC2 servers. A return to Moore's law maybe.
That is an impressive adaptive site design update.

A couple of things I love about this is (1) the elegance of the menu toggle to top in the small (mobile-size) view and (2) the slideshow control appearance on small view and adaptation to breadcrumb implementation on large view. Quite elegant and appropriate for each environment.

Of course, it is sad that the experience is rarely consistent when you start digging deeper into the site.
Looks like it'll be in Grails 2.2: http://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-9225
IE9 and IE10 both support rounded corners, but honestly speaking, I think the design they have would be worse with rounded corners.
All the outright crimes that went down and no prosecutions...doesn't that seem a little odd to you?
My point wasn't that Mustache lacks these features, but that they're so essential as to make not handling them well feel like an omission. It needlessly bloats your template code to have to write within these constraints, and for what benefit? Some nebulous ‘logic-less’ purity?
Are Germany Like Arsenal?
Building an Animated HTML5 Rocket in 4 Days – A Kicksend Story
DocuSign's new eSignature REST API
Sorry, Michaelsoft? Was that an intentional inside joke?
I think maybe you got the wrong end of the stick; I'd always rather go with Handlebars.js over Mustache. Plus you get nice things like helpers. Walrus looks to take it to a whole new level though, so I'm itching to try it out.
Or maybe it goes to show that your good/great/ok assessments across hardware/software categories aren't good predictors of winning/losing.
Yeah I think it's just a home page preview
Pen Type-A: a cautionary tale of manufacturing in China
Specially taking Metro into consideration which is very much about right angles.
I don't know, I just think you can take sparse so far it becomes soulless. Simple, clean design can still be emotive. This isn't. The stock art humans make this feel more like a Big Oil annual report. (And that Products menu is a little painful!) All that said, this is leaps and bounds beyond their current homepage.
Steve Jobs came back to Apple as an advisor in 1996, when the company was in trouble. That's the period we were talking about (see "Apple was taking an investment from MSFT").

The iPhone was released 11 years later, when Apple had already become an insanely successful company.
I like it but something about it (well, the entire metro design) feels... off. This is the sort of style I really enjoy so I maybe it might just be the feeling that's too forward for a company like Microsoft, but something about it that I can't put my finger on makes me second guess how much I like it.
I really don't like the use of big photos like here, the new airbnb, and Bing. They are busy, space wasting and bandwidth hogs. And to my eyes they don't add anything.
I've got a Torch 9810 that I use and enjoy. Screen is great and I love the keyboard...does what I need. Though it's lacking in apps it seems to have a few advantages over android phones.

For example images attached to text messages on my wife's Galaxy II open as a slideshow or something and are displayed as a thumbnail, and as far as I can tell that is a common Android issue and there is currently no workaround.

It's too bad RIM hasn't been able to execute better on upgrades.
It did for me a couple of minutes ago.
Are you not thinking of custom URL schemes, which you can switch to another app and optionally pass small bits of data to it?
‘FreedomBox’ Is in Danger of an Early Death
I watched this a few months ago but don't remember much other than simple != easy. I thought I had taken notes, but turned out I had it confused with a Dan Ingalls talk on OO from 1989 I watched around the same time (which I found interesting enough to take notes).

Reading the comments on the infoQ page jogged my memory a bit. I remember thinking that his concept of "complect" was the same as "connascence" - a term I learned from a Jim Weirich talk [1]. Minimizing complectity/connascence (variables shared between modules) is good.

Is there something more striking (and summarizable) I should have remembered?

1. http://www.bestechvideos.com/2009/03/29/mountainwest-rubycon...
I don't see anything special about this new design. It's sparser than before, but I don't see anything "too Metro" about it. Just 3-4 images and text links. Is that supposed to mean it's Metro? Because there are a lot of similar sites like that on the web. Would Craiglist with bigger fonts, more space between links and 3 big images at the top become "Metro"?
I already have a Galaxy Nexus, and I just bought a Nexus 7 tablet for the NFC capabilities, because I couldn't wait any longer for the PlayBook 4G with NFC.

I'll still be developing for BlackBerry 10, and BlackBerry 7 will still be my daily device. But I will be shifting my focus to Android for now, for strategic reasons.

RIM dun goofed if they're losing people like me.
Great advice for everyone, even for those who do not have their own start-ups.

Be resourceful in every situation possible and do not cross line.
I was actually talking about the padrino program and the people I know who are padrinos for Startup Chile participants.
The simplicity of the metro design style is a great direction. It's in a way a forced simplicity which can minimize the UI clutter we have come to know from Microsoft. But reducing elements means that the few that you have should be as refined as possible, and proportion, scale and white space become more important. I think this site would look 10 times better and balanced with better sizing and spacing of everything.
I think the competitive forces will have some bearing here, although gas prices are an example of something which gets regulatory barriers put in place of expansion (you can't easily get approval to build a refinery). Given the 'cyber war' type mentality I am keeping a close eye on the regulatory environment growing up around providing 'cloud' services, be they compute, storage, or web front ends.
Evolution of the Web
Case Study “New Technology meets old typeface design”
Am I the only one hoping his retirement leads to a second career doing voiceover work?
Another week another post about someone leaving facebook.

There is nothing interesting or novel in these posts. All that happens is that the people who have also left facebook find validation in seeing someone else do it so they up vote their story to the front page.

I don't know if it's about individuality or some perceived minority of 'non-facebook' users wanting to band together, but the fact that someone has left facebook is uninteresting.

In addition to this it's made worse by the articles acting as if it's some crowning achievement when all they're doing is limiting their methods of interacting with other people.
Just as a side-note I would like to mention that the Colombian government will soon start a similar initiative called "Apps.co"[0]; probably is going to be less attractive than Start-Up Chile but it haves to start somewhere. I would also like to mention that I am a Colombian developer willing to create a Start-up in this country; if that is also your case please get in touch (my email is in my profile).

[0]http://www.vivedigital.gov.co/appsco/ (Spanish)
I usually select all by clicking and dragging upwards a bit. Works on OS X at least.
They only waste space when you've got space to waste. I really like the way the layout changes as the screen size changes and the images become more cropped.
Sorry I'm not understanding but really wanting to. What do you mean "more emotive"? What exactly could be done to this page to make it more "emotive"? What takes away from its "emotiveness"?

About the products page -- overall I think it looks pretty clean, but I mostly have a problem with the "More Products" category where they bunch together a big list of random products.
Been really impressed by the man, the language and the philosophy ever since I saw the video. Clojure has been a challenging and yet eye-opening experience, and I plan to continue learning it and using it in as many projects as I can from now on.
Javascript Robot powered by Chrome API's Johnny HTML5
Iranian activist: They will kill my father if I don't delete my Facebook Page
I downloaded it, and I like it. I wish they also had the swipe-to-right to see the browsing history.
We built a website for this exact purpose - sharing the domain names you bought but ended up not using. Posted a Show HN the day before this thread appeared. Feel free to have a look!

Link: http://friendsdomains.com
My equity stake and the small size of our team means my work directly contributes to the value of the company, which in turn contributes to my own personal net worth.

Only going off of anecdotes here, but doesn't it take being a very early or significant employee plus a big dollop of luck to get enough equity to make it "interesting" in net worth terms? (The author seems to be an early employee, but from employees of startups I know, being employee 43 or whatever gets quite boring equity wise..)
I worked in "anti-piracy" (read: a DMCA chop shop) for a long time. This is one more bit of idiocy that will continue to push people to seek alternative outlets than the big content guys. In the last twenty years we've seen the nominal rise of self pub outfits like Lulu (and now Amazon), musicians like Marillion, NIN and King Crimson taking broad control of their releases, and scads of different business models/approaches that effectively shut out BC and their sycophants (the most recent that I thought was pretty sharp was the moves by Louis CK).

I think its a matter of time; BC will get more draconian for their current assets, which in turn will feed a culture that will want to create more of their own without a sword of IP damocles overtheir heads.
I'll add the silly comment that given their costing, what is the price per mined bitcoin? Granted using a botnet will be cheaper but I'm wondering about 'floors' in that space. What is the cost of a 3DES key? what is the cost of an MD5 collision? etc.
Health care law cheat sheet for those of us in a hurry
The Ultimate Guide to Marketing with Infographics (with PDF)
Apple WWDC versus Google I/O Swag
> When Steve Jobs came back, he terminated all those projects and discontinued most of the product catalog.

Woah, that was a crazy idea...
vim loads the same file in 3 seconds. (Doing large smooth scrolls using the scrollbar lags out for a few seconds, but jumping to a given line is instantaneous.)
Maya archaeologists unearth new Dec 21st 2012 monument
Clarification: It was an app based around picture taking, and you could view those pictures online. The viewing online looked great, but the taking pictures, and view pictures on the android app was slow and running out of memory all the time. We could barely get it to run on Android 4.0 which has a larger heap size for apps than our target 2.3.3.

Sorry if that was unclear!
"I'm not 100% sure why people prefer Android or iOS to BBX, but I think it's partly just psychological."

People prefer software that has existed for several years to software that might never be released. This isn't psychological, it's the same reason cats are a more popular pet than unicorns.
Setting `img { max-width: 100%; }` by default and scale it to `150%` when viewport reach certain threshold (for mobile). For the former, it will beautifully scale to the containing div size, for the latter, you can set outer div to `overflow: hidden` and left/right side will be cut off giving the image a square-ish feel.
> Third-party processes on iOS cannot mark data pages as executable

Doesn't the UIWebView do that for you? And isn't it written by Apple? Why couldn't Apple make it use Nitro? Not sure where the security risk would be.
Fighting with wrong arguments
Check out how much Apple is adding for the 3G versions of their iPads - $100. That's half the price of the tablet already. And it's not even in the $500 iPad as default! And you want 3G as default in a $200 one?
I like how it doesn't just refresh the page, but the original you requested. So if you get redirected to a mobile subdomain and check "request desktop site" you'll get the original domain. Killer!
Bookmarklet to open pages in iOS Chrome
They don't work too well on anything aside from GSM networks. some CDMA carriers (coughverizoncough) have this nasty habit of refusing to activate anything they don't sell. A practice I'm not exactly sure how it isn't against the law.
Debt Financing: Is it Appropriate for Your Startup?
Collect.js - use clean urls with Backbone History / Router
What gets me, is that all this hard work could be put into something way more useful. Instead it's wasted trying to re-invent the wheel. This app offers hardly anything if not nothing new.
I think you're right, but lottery tickets seem to sell pretty well too.
There's good advice in here and he makes some good points. I'll try to share my (somewhat rambling) take on this.

>Sometimes in the chaotic trenches of a startup people make bad decisions. Your company seems like the only thing in the world and you’re willing to do anything to ensure its survival. You’re stressed and overworked. It can be a recipe for disaster.

In my short experience running a business I've learned that it is indeed very stressful, most of the time. You get it from all angles and chances are you're working day and night at weird hours. You begin to form a bubble around you because all you think about is the company and its success. It's easy to lose sight of other important things like the people around you and the people you interact with. Certainly a recipe for disaster. It is absolutely critical that you keep a level head. Maintain your mental health and don't let things get to you too much. (Thanks go to jacquesm, who helped me with this during a particularly troubling time.)

>At the time it might feel pragmatic [...]

Sometimes I find myself making what I consider to be 'tough calls' or difficult decisions. Often times just trying to go by the book (or the policies I've set). Occasionally the decisions I make leave a bad taste in my mouth. Not because they were necessarily wrong or heavy handed at all. Just that they could have been more right... if that makes sense. It's more than just doing what is pragmatic or technically correct. It is people you're dealing with, after all. There are feelings to take into account.

>You should always treat people with respect, first and foremost because this is how fellow human beings deserve to be treated. But you should also remember that it’s a long life in the small valley.

This is a really important thing to remember. It's easy to get caught up in the heat of defending your position or policies. Nearly all tech startups must work with many people on the web at large. There may be thousands, even tens or hundreds of thousands of individuals that your startup(s) will encounter along the journey. If you really want to cover your bases for your future then be respectful to everyone. (I am also reminding myself here.)

That said I'm not a big fan of the Valley, its relatively small number of players, or the cabals. I wish less advice pretended like it's the only place in the whole wide world. (Then again, if that is your only experience to draw upon I can see why you'd talk about it like that.)
When even you're pissed, I know it's bad.

I thought of getting the Galaxy Nexus due to the stock Android, but my carrier in Jamaica just launched the quad-core S3 for USD 715, so I'm gonna go with that.

What's your PIN? Might as well enjoy it while it lasts...
True - it seems though that she is in it for much more than the $$ which is great. Anyone joining a start up for the money does not have statistics on their side.

Here is Joe Spolky's on how equity ought to be divided:
http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...

It gives you an idea of reasonable percentages.

edit: changed he to she
I'm more interested in making sure that inducement is not confused with DMCA red flag knowledge than defending Mega. You might want to read the holding in Veoh as well as the DMCA text itself, for example, because some of your statements appear at odds with it. You can find an analysis under footnote 1, above.

Of course, we're both focusing on US law and ignoring NZ law, which is more relevant, but less familiar to us all, and that's probably what this case will turn on in the end. Then again, knowing how these things get enforced in practice, the US authorities may find some way of making NZ law irrelevant.

I don't doubt that Kim could end up shipped off to America for trial, no matter what NZ law says about the subject.
That's a relatively recent feature. Several months ago opening large files would stall Sublime something fierce.
Hacker sentenced to 3 years in prison for selling cable modem hacking tools
These posts are pretty common I feel in HN. Every time it just comes down to FB gets harder to use. I have a Close Friends tab and I put my close friends in it. That's it.

I "Like" some pages but you can easily click on that drop down to unsubscribe.

FB is pretty flexible on what content you want to appear in your feed and sometimes there are surprises but you can pretty easily scold it with a few button clicks and it'll fix right back up. Works for me. I understand there's a need for it to just work without the use of any interaction but then you'd lose a lot of features if you had that.
I'm not particularly anti-Microsoft, but I absolutely hate this design. The text is so huge I find it painful to read, most of the page is taken up by a slideshow of what seem to be generic stock images, and I have to scroll before I can find anything useful.
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