skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved the idea of tipjoy. I hope this is a new incarnation that's better at getting traction.
There are larger touch devices out there, e.g. Thinkpads. I don't see why a screen has to be small to have touch.
I think it's perfectly fine if you want to play games dancing around what's legal and forge ahead against Craigslist's wishes. There's a long history of that kind of behavior in information services and they may or may not be able to stop you.

But making a big deal out of being some kind of ux hero is pretty tacky. At the end of the day, no matter how small you are you're still a commercial enterprise gaining benefit at another commercial enterprise's expense. You're bidding on eyeballs with an offer of time savings.

A vast majority of the web deliberately degrades their user experience in order to achieve business goals. Ads are almost always at least somewhat distracting, retailers stretch out checkout flows for up selling, sites "recommend" their high margin items ebay requires paypal and facebook sabotages their privacy management so you're less likely to bother.

If CL was to build a bunch of sweet vertical specific apps for their sections they'd need a ton more developers, designers, testers, project managers and so on. To compensate for the greatly increased burn rate they'd need to monetize a lot better which almost always means features, content or policies that negatively impact the user. Or maybe they'd have just taken too much VC to pay for it and gone under in '02 when the bottom fell out.

So by all means jockey away it's healthy for the industry. But crowing about it is a bit like taking a shit on the guy whose shoulders you're standing on while bragging about how tall you are.
I won't tell you what to do, but I'd like to point out some things you might want to learn:

D - http://dlang.org/
Vibe.D - http://vibed.org/
Diet templates - http://vibed.org/templates

Haskell - http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell

nodejs - http://nodejs.org/
coffeescript - http://coffeescript.org/

emacs - http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
As does much of B.C., which you'd have to cross on the land route to Alaska.
"But don't take my word for it. Download the free Release Preview and try Windows 8 yourself."

Does this sound like marketing to anyone else?
Sounds like Kickstarter: Steam Edition.
This is sensationalist, but I'll give you a little more background on what we do (even though many of these practices are not nearly as prominent as the article says they were in the 1960s - 1990s). In order to operate as a legal gambling entity, we have to build and maintain a host of elaborate security, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist protocols (one of the things that comes with the territory in the gambling space). We work with top partners in the industry, who have decades of experience dealing with these problems. While security and anti-fraud measures have improved significantly, this is a very high priority for us internally that we've put considerable time into.
Presumably there would be more opportunities for secure handshaking with a proprietary port. It doesn't need to involve security by obscurity -- it just needs not to be barkingly stupid.

The best practices in auto security are probably reflected by whatever the leading Japanese brands are doing these days. Traditionally Hondas have been the biggest theft targets, but a glance at the list of most-stolen cars in America ( http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=43... ) suggests that they've more or less solved the problem, as of the mid-1990s. I seriously doubt there's that much need for further innovation.
Awesome. Now they can make more font icons.
https://github.com/blog/1189-investing-in-github Straight from them. Congratulations on building such a great business.
On GitHub's blog: https://github.com/blog/1189-investing-in-github
I'm waiting for an IPO.
They certainly deserve it. They have a clear business model that makes money now and a gorgeous product. Look forward to seeing more Octocat in SOMA :)
I guess this is why hybrid devices like surface exist.
The question is whether the future is to have a single "do everything" device like a Surface laptop or several discreet pieces of hardware for different jobs.

People with high disposable incomes don't seem to have any problem owning a PC/Mac desktop , a laptop , a tablet , a smartphone as well as several games consoles and other gadgets. Assuming you already have an iPad I don't see any huge benefit to having a Windows 8 laptop over a Windows 7 one.

I know people who bought touchscreen monitors to run Windows 7, in combination to keyboard and mice. They found these a novelty for the first few days but they never really use the touch functionality.
CEO Tom Preston-Werner said the company hopes to develop new features but also improve existing ones, such as web applications for different operating systems.

"web applications for different operating systems"?
It's clear some disturbances must be measurable because as I walk around the room, the magnetic field measured by my smartphone constantly changes and since the magnetic field of the Earth is practically uniform over small distances, this must mean the disturbances come from my surroundings.

However, when toggling some apparatuses in my room, nothing happened. My laptop doesn't have a hard drive though, but even only centimetres from it, no change was measurable. Neither did anything happen near my lamps or the AC/DC transformator. The only place I measured a difference (<10%) was on the stove (why yes I'll put my smartphone worth hundreds of euros on a hot stove). However, this faded into the background at a distance of about 10 cm.
Yes, you knee-jerked on a contrasting of what he does with charity. He does claim that his software improves life, and this is his stated motivation in creating it. You may object to the latter?
$750M valuation!?
WTF? Why? What for? What are they planning to do with so much money?
So what if everyone made generic icons? I think your idea only works because not everyone is doing it.
>Touch device implies it's screen is small enough to hold in one hand

That's a very mistaken assumption for Windows 8 devices. There are going to be a lot of form factors with touch which are not small.

Eg. IdeaPad Yoga.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SHKFYngqOM

Acer All in One http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/03/acer-announces-windows-8-...

Even an 80 inch computer. http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/05/25/microsoft-sell-80-in...
> Are there any stats around on how many people are using Thunderbird ?

The article mentions over 20 million.
I love Trello. I've been using it to plan my wedding. At first my fiancee was worried that it would add too much overhead. (She was never overly concerned that it was spectacularly nerdy to be using a software project planning suite—and that's a sign I found a keeper.) It's really shined with the guest selection/invitation process.

We created a couple of lists to group and sort guests into Definite, Good to Have, and Maybe lists and used labels to relations to whoever wanted them, which really helped with the friends and extended family that the other didn't know. We used checkboxes to track addresses that we were waiting on, who's save-the-dates have gone out, etc. I've used the API to total up people for the headcount (since cards we often for "Jack & Jill Smith"). If we were doing assigned seating, we'd probably make lists for each table and move the cards around. Thankfully, we decided to go for heavy hors d'oeuvres.

The thing's versatile: very few things feel like they're driven by the project planning domain (e.g. voting for cards). I'd love to see some kind of ability to embed scripts and save some checklists as templates that I could apply to cards with one or two clicks, but the API access suites my needs right now (and I know some people are using Greasemonkey scripts).
Live star map in HTML5
I'm actually pretty impressed by Windows 8...but do I see myself actually buying an MSFT tablet over the next iPad? At this point...no.
Not really, unless you only contracted to support IE 10.

There is a proprietary filter property that works on previous versions IE.
Why Google Hates Payday Loans (But Loves Profiting from Them)
As long as I can pull up a command prompt I realy don't care as it's the easiest way to move all files starting in "A" and ending in "Z" (move A*Z ./wibble/wap/woo/.). Show me a GUI that does it easier and then we can talk about progress.
Oh look, they've updated the copy dialog again. Tell you what: maybe just make it as fast as it can possibly be, and I'll promise not to ask how long it's taking.

We seem to be heading towards a point where booting Windows is going to take longer than copying a single file.
Be my guest. I have no dog in this fight- don't even own a mac. :p
NB: I one thing I notice is how few undersea links Russia has. There's a run to Japan, one to Finland, and a few through the Caucuses. Otherwise, Russian overseas network traffic is almost wholly dependent on third-party links.

Also impressed by India's connections. And of course, the NYC-London linkages.
An important economic concept is return on investment. Generally speaking, the main goal of business owners is to try to maximize dollars earned/dollars invested.

High inventory costs increase the denominator, which reduces ROI-the very thing you're trying to maximize.

This all assumes that capital is your main constraint. But you can apply the same concepts to any other constraint. For example, if you're trying to maximize dollars earned/hour of labor, you want to minimize the amount of labor tied up in inventory.
If I have a product and a set of users, and you have a way of increasing both my revenue and my users satisfaction by inserting yourself between us, please do. The OP's point is that undermining Craigslist makes no sense for Padmapper, since that's where the data comes from. If people who list apartments get them rented faster because of Padmapper, they like it. If people looking for apartments find them faster because of Padmapper, they like it. If it increases Craigslist's revenue, they like it. If all of these points are positive, it's hard to understand why Craigslist would be against it.

Please recognize the distinction. I'm not saying they're outside their rights to deny this access or that Padmapper is somehow within theirs by violating the ToS, just that if it's a win for everyone, shutting it down doesn't make sense.
The link is incorrect. Here is the correct link:

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/dont-use-that-open-api-it-could...
Because they didn't do this with the customer in mind. They did it for themselves. The main is because they are very "weak" on the ARM architecture, so they need to somehow tout the ability that you can also run legacy apps, even though that's always been possible on Windows tablets, and people never cared, because they were still unoptimized for touch, just like the one that exist now will be.

And second, probably because they didn't want to be the ones that actually push the knife deep into their decades long partner, Intel, and they wanted to drag them along in the "post-PC" era.
I approve of that as well.
Were all 15 retweets from other people with unique histories and no way affiliated to your identity?
It'll be interesting to see how well they keep up their whole anarchism thing with a burst of new hires, and with investors asking them questions. Good luck to them!
I couldn't disagree with this comment more. You are not trying to sell your product to YC, you are trying to sell your company to YC. You do that by understanding your product and your customer and how you will bring the two together. Not by pretending some person in YC is suddenly your ideal customer and shifting your entire pitch around that.

That's what we do here... this sounds hollow.

Wow. Nice.
The real question should be: Where the hell is the open source alternative of Gmail?
UI Stencils
I wish people didn't participate in contests on twitter because I read twitter to see what my friends are up to, and not which products they are using.
Same subject, longer discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220353
Building a simple robot with LEGO Mindstorms.
The only thing that came to my mind was, "What if I do that as a PostScript program instead, and feed it to some printer?".
that's not true. They didn't even experiment CommonJS on browsers properly.
Is the "retweet" count on the bottom of Twitter's web UI authoritative?

The company's response makes it sound like they also counted some other kind of retweet, which maybe was quoting someone's tweet instead of pressing the Retweet button.
Check out the 10 startups demoing at this month’s New York Tech Meetup
"Little-known social coding start-up GitHub Inc. has raised $100 million in its first round of funding, in a sign of how big investment bets are continuing in Silicon Valley"

this "little-known" probably has more revenue than a lot of "well-knowns" out there, and the "bet" here is probably a lot safer too...
My dream programming language is actually a Lisp with static-by-default typing that was powerful and useful. If you end up implementing something, PLEASE post it on HN or let me know, I'd love to check it out. :)

This is how I know about Typed Racket despite not being that keen on Scheme dialects (other than call/cc), I was very excited to see how compile-time typing could work in a Lisp/Scheme.
I for one am glad that someone is taking on the space between the Macbook Air and iPad so that I don't need to spend on and lug around two devices.

If you want an iOS clone, there's always Android. Why should Windows too play a me-too copycat and reduce choice to the user? What benefit is there to that?
This happened to Armenia, only it wasn't a work crew that cut the cable. It was some random old Georgian woman digging around:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-c...
I hate to crash the party, but this is a very odd move for an awesome company and a service that I use and <3.

Github has always been against taking money. Actually, TPW has used some very harsh words criticizing startups that choose to take VC money.

Now, Github raises 100 gazillion dollars? How the f*ck do they plan on spending that wisely? Sure, it's nice to have that sum in the bank. But, in all honesty, someone has to explain how this is a reasonable move, because I simply don't get it.
I've tried this in the past but it made both escape and ctrl+[ no longer function. What worked for you?
Apple's approach requires you to have multiple devices to get both the tablet and full-on-workstation experience. I don't want multiple devices. I want a single device that can adapt to different uses—the Surface tablet looks just about perfect as a starter laptop replacement to me. I'm hoping it'll do to my MacBook Pro what the MacBook Pro did to my desktop PC: relegate it to infrequent use for a few specialty cases that need a bigger screen or the full laptop form factor or something.
"finally" raises funding.

In my mind the $750M valuation is still actually pretty consevative. GitHub has a long long way to go and I see so many great things ahead for the team, but I don't understand why they would raise $100M?

Is this a deal for the founders to take some money off of the table? I don't see what benefits $100M will have for them.

(Don't shoot me for my opinions on this one), but I think it's also really only a matter of time before the legacy systems move from SVN/Mercurial/CVS onto GitHub. Some people use BitBucket (I guess because Atlassian makes some other great software). SourceForge (past it's sell-by-date), and Google Code isn't really suitable for anything other than hosting specific release candidates or tags..
true but GPS don't work well either so that is one of the real uses for this technology approach, if it's not being used already.
What makes you think this will ruin them?
As someone that knows Eric personally, I can confirm that he'll make less money by showing craigslist listings. However, I'll leave the details up to him, though I understand why without them, you're skeptical.
Well, yeah -- the people who are going to object most strenuously to a huge UI change are those who are invested in the current interface, and are going to have to waste a lot of time relearning things the 'new way.'

But they also tend to be the people most invested in the software itself, so if you're a company that sells software you should probably torment them at your peril. Drive them away without successfully luring any new users, and you may not end up with very many at the end of the transaction.
>"but I don't really see what the point of this post is- shaming this company for... what?"

Rarely is it the case that I feel like some dispute should be kept private, rather than brought public. In my opinion, the internet is the great-leveler in that context; it's so easy to get things into the court of public opinion. Governments and companies can get away with far less than years past.

The OP felt he was misled, or worse. He tried to deal with the company through private channels, and they ignored him. Bring it on. Let me be the judge of whether I'd like to deal with the company.

Now, whether it belongs on HN is another issue...
Where's the solid proof? All I see is screenshots of web pages, which are near the top of the "things that are easiest to fake" list.
A lot of people use their laptops on a dock of some kind, with an external keyboard.
The winner never had any retweets on his actual tweets. People did quote his tweet, and as stated in our emails back and forth, he had 13 mentions while I had 15 retweets.
SL: What you want out of switch statements is an easy way to implement a state machine -- or state-machine-like construct.

While this is a worthy goal, I don't think your proposed syntax is very readable. It might be better to think a bit more abstractly, and instead of asking, "How can we improve switch?" ask, "What features does a language need in order to facilitate implementation of <whatever>?"
To me, it came off along the same vein as Daring Fireball, but in a worse fashion — a little too pro-Windows and the new features.
When I think of a submarine cable, I think about fiber optics and all the data that can go through it. But when I see a map of all the submarine cables on Earth, it reminds me of a nervous system. Unicellular organisms long ago started cooperating with one another and evolved into multicellular lifeforms. I get the impression that, as data transmissions increase year after year, humans are forming some sort of superorganism.
Sensationalist?

It is a link to the California State Library.
OP has explained his side, which is compelling. JPEGmini tweeted "You have only seen one side of the story" https://twitter.com/jpegmini/status/222433391025459200

At what point does he-said/she-said matter for a company? How much is negative publicity worth to an early startup?

1) OP is completely legit, which paints JPEGmini in a bad light. Give him a camera and let it go quietly, and get some kudos for giving out two cameras.

2) OP is not legit, which with his compelling argument will still have people thinking something is fishy. Give him a camera and let it go quietly, and get some kudos for giving out two cameras.

For $850, I think winning the kudos would be far more important than a company trying to prove somebody wrong. Sounds like pride is getting in the way here. Chalk up the the drawing as a lesson-learned and figure out a less ambiguous way to deal with the next one.
The problem with all those prefixes is the w3c. They are stuck in the web of the 90.
I try to re-read "Perpetual peace" from Kant, as I had to go through that book while I was student. I think it has some deep insight, so it's a book I'd recommand, even though it's not the easiest one to read.
Windows 95 was the last time I can recall a major rev of Windows lived up to its pre-release hype. This Windows 8 hype reminds me of the salivating over Longhorn which turned out as Windows Vista, again.
GitHub Raises $100 Million From Power VC Andreessen Horowitz
I'm about as far away from a "coffeehouse-MBA" as you can be haha :D Sorry though, the point wasn't to inundate people with things they didn't have the context to understand.

One thing to keep in mind is that this is an update to something already released, and terms like "Instarepl" were introduced there. Likewise, the playground itself is really only useful to people who either do Clojure or are interested in trying it out. The post contains links to things like Leiningen as that is likely new to folks starting out with Clojure, but aside from that I don't see many other Clojure specific things. Maybe it's worth reintroducing some terms every time, but I worry that serves as an equal annoyance to those who've already heard it all before.

What do you see as marketing-slang? And are there other things that made it frustrating to read?
PadMapper is actually a pretty unusual "business" since I'm the only person who works on it full time and it grew out of a hobby project, and still isn't really run like a business. But yeah, that's generally a reasonable assumption.

I don't have to, but I thought it'd help to explain my reasoning to people.
I won't offer any sympathy to people who spam their followers with companies' advertisements.
I still think it's a bet... OSX isn't integrated with iOS in the same fashion of Metro/Desktop in Win8 and Android has not a real desktop version to make a comparison here. Microsoft is trying to bring the touch experience to desktops with a keyboard and a mouse and that's very risky.
I wonder what the percentage the founders are pocketing?
How would Padmapper be using "government violence" when they successfully counterargue Craigslist's attempt to use "government violence" against them, resulting in no damage to Craigslist?
"Why they don't afford the user choice like Linux I don't know."

You can choose to have the standard desktop be the default, is that what you mean?
Outlook has a captive audience. I suspect email in non-business contexts will fade from common use before a decent email client comes along. Or maybe it will be for "fmail" instead.
Ah, yeah, it's Technology Review. That's what they do. It's not a rabble-rousing publication.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/09/github-funding-say-what/
Ok, how does this makes sense? The relative savings are interesting, not the absolute.

Tried the open source PackJPG ( http://www.elektronik.htw-aalen.de/packjpg/ ) I just ran on a few images. It says avrg. comp. ratio : 78.28 % . And the author answers (my) emails and didn't scam me.

/edit: ok, i don't get what their software does. It is not a new codec, so is it possible that their software is superior to imagick convert -quality 85 ? Any technical details? The whole product seems highly dubious. The PackJPG thing is "lossless" as it does can restore the original jpg.
why would it ruin them? Given the valuation people are talking about, they sold less than 15% of the business - they'll probably retain enough control to do whatever they want with it and probably try new things...

I personally know at least one company that has been profitable from the very beginning and took 3 rounds of VC already, always on the same terms: "we don't need your money, so we'll sell you a very small piece for a large sum and run with it the way we do today". In the end, it's a great way to either cash-out, put some money in the bank to avoid future surprises or launch new experiments/products with minimal risk...
"I have a feeling it has something to do with the fact that the winner has 130k+ followers and I have only 84."

Lol if you had put that at the very start of the article, not the very end would of being obvious why they screwed you/tried to get some more publicity, front page of hacker news now.

Funny thing is they sound like lame people, but there product sounds useful. So in effect your probably helping them now, much more than those 15 retweets did.