skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh no - I didn't criticize the products. Where did you get that from? And why should serviceability be sacrificed for qualities like weight, form factor, etc?

Sent from my 2010 Macbook Pro...
Mouseover on an entry should make the grey foreground darker, instead of making the white background darker.

If you are going for scannability, repeating "Sign up to see if you have any mutual friends on Facebook" in bold blue on every entry is hurting you much worse.
Should Twitter entertain millions with public rows?
DNS SRV records now [May 2008]
Par:AnoIA: Anonymous Launches WikiLeaks-esque Site for Data Dumps
The problem is definitely on both sides. Some of the most visible and hilarious examples come just in the last four years. Obama the constitutional scholar (rightly) lambasts the Bush administration for accumulating unauthorized and unchecked executive power. Of course Obama the president doesn't view those newly acquired powers as such evil things. Why would he? Once those powers are in the hands of the "good guys" or the "right elites", it makes it so much easier to do "good". No need to deal with any of the bureaucracy and red tape that would otherwise exist.

And of course the right is now "terrified" that the same powers they enjoyed so freely just four years ago are in the hands of the "bad guys" or the "wrong elites".

It's easy to disconnect yourself with the way humans actually behave when you're the one in power because you believe you won't act the same way that everyone else would.
You are still free to do that ... get a screen off ebay, get a case with batteries off ebay, you can still get a new motherboard with more soldered ram off ebay and have it shipped to your apartment as well.

I fail to see how that would change ...
Drew, I picked a call slot off the calendar you listed on HN. Thursday @ 3pm Eastern Time. Let's work out a way to ship.
The title of this submission is unnecessarily sensational and editorializing. Using your home as an ad hoc bed and breakfast is not the same as renting it out.
How is this any worse than "fundraisers" walking around neighborhoods with clipboards taking card imprints or writing down card numbers?

And, as a fraudster, how competitive is this particular vector --- of walking door to door to steal card information --- versus any of the, you know, SANE mechanisms already available to steal cards?
Do you have sources for each those, especially the uni-directional resizing? They sound quite interesting.
Unless the login form falls into your lap from heaven pre-tested, I see no way it would not add time to a project.
Your page copy and the first few minutes of your video that I could sit through just tell me you are nerd raging over advertising on the internet. I get that you want to do something differently, but WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU BUILDING?

What am I becoming a "member" of? What am I funding? App.net appears to be a way to get more installs of mobile apps. What the hell?
TV Stations: Get a Clue About Adobe Flash
I'll tag http://www.overcomingbias.com also on here
And it has had upcoming third-party apps for 2+ years since you bought it. I'm not seeing the problem.

If your issue is "developers have only tested it with the latest device", that's not an issue Apple can correct.
Could somebody explain whether SRV have gained any significant adoption since 2008? The author's points seem compelling.
I won't pretend I'm not tempted.
Inside Google’s Fascinating Stash of 10,000 Indoor Maps
Does that change as time passes? Can't it be done with a picture of you (and a scale like a quarter that you could hold between your eyes) ? Anyway, I don't know why that won't go on the prescription, bothered me too.
That was also the first thing that came into my mind. It is quite a smart human interest story, showing some humbleness, back to the basics approach, etc.
http://sfo.craigslist.org/rid/
I'm not sure how it's any difference from a guy with a bucket, clipboard, and nice suit "collecting money" in the form of cash.

Unless you're talking about someone using a mocked up Square reader to do something malicious like harvest credit card information with a custom application or something. In which case you should be terrified of all card readers.

This sounds like you're diluting your opinion with a bit of confirmation bias. Yes, credit cards are vulnerable. But do you have any idea how easy it is for a scammer to stick a fake front plate on an ATM and harvest your account information that way?

The world is a scary place, but you can't use the fact that there's bad people in the world to shoot down a credit/debit card based fundraising tool.
Trick Gives iPhone Owners Free Access to Paid Content Inside Apps
I literally spit coffee out on my desk that you recommended Windows Azure Active Directory for this type of scenario.

"He's giving his users a great experience". It's almost like you're trying to be ironic.

Your comment seems borderline FUD on BrowserID, especially to smush it between "Easy to use" and "Azure AD". BrowserID is built on an older protocol and is pretty straight forward PKI. It's not hard to implement right now. At all. In fact it's a snippet of JavaScript and you're done, outside of server side validation if you want session management.

edit: For the downvoters, please note that Azure AD is less than 24 hours old. Besides the fact that it integrates into existing AD systems and really has no place at all in solving the problem being discussed in this thread. Whatsoever.
Thanks! There certainly are, but not for a little while. Which would you prefer we support first?
I think the value of a site declines over time relative to how long an individual has been viewing it. The first few weeks I started browsing Hacker News, a large portion of the articles were interesting.

The percentage of interesting articles has declined over time. Is that because I have overdosed a bit on the types of articles and discussions that appear here? Or simply because I have consumed more internet based news now than I had when I started reading HN? Who is to say.

Yes, sites in general can and have declined. However, due to the fact that I have not seen trolls dominate HN, and in my view the quality of HN is approximately as good as it has always been, I find it difficult to measure the quality of the site to a precision that would allow me to track it over time. In my own head.

The short answer is, this site is still among the best discussion news sites on the internet.
Luck and the entrepreneur [2009]
I had to take my couch offline because my HOA threatened to fine me. No more visitors, no more foreign friends. :(

It seems the first wave of enforcement has come from HOAs, I've heard of various people having to remove their listing for that reason. [1]

Now it appears, according to the article above, municipal authorities are pushing back. Could this be a result of lobbying from hotels? Vacation rentals is not a new concept, and couchsurfing has been around for years as well. It seems that just because couchsurfing/vacation rentals are getting a wider audience that it's now suddenly a problem.

I personally don't want my HOA or government telling me who I can or can not have over to stay. Their place is not in my home.

1: http://betabeat.com/2011/05/airbnb-takes-manhattan-with-2k-b...
Where do you entrepreneurs find out about problems to solve?
Apple's habit of killing off technologies before they're dead is inconvenient
FATAL: too many connections for role "ruwdncbzdkulsh"
I'll change the title to be a bit better.
Softception!
The Ebook Cargo Cult
Following the comments here - Is there really a large untapped market of people that will only use CDs to install Chrome, which Google needs to convert from presumably IE/FF or are they just spending random money? Also, does the installer coax you into starting a Google+ account?
Can anyone explain how they only will be able to pay back 18¢ on the dollar? I understand that the company was heavily over-levered and therefore became insolvent but did their assets really fall that much relative to their debts? The market has recovered since the crash so I would have thought that their assets would be worth much more than that.
Is that legal? If you don't make any changes the copyright date shouldn't change.
There is a FAQ entry that attempts to address the question "OK, great, but what exactly is this product you will be delivering?" Are you unsatisfied with our answer in the FAQ?

UPDATE
I appreciate and agree with the feedback that we could explained things earlier and more clearly. Updates to our page coming soon.
There is also the case of fire/flame retardant.

It truly is a shame that a very legitimate word (retard) with a very legitimate meaning (to delay or slow progress) that had been used in legitimate ways for years was co-opted to insult people with diminished metal capacity. (While technically true, it is mean. Much like calling me whitey is technically true as I am white... it is generally an insult.) If not for that, the use of phrases like "well that was retarded" would still be legit uses since it is in spirit of the original meaning and not too far from saying "well, that was stupid". One could even argue that in a slightly less PC world we could still be using it to describe things and actions... just not people. But that is wishful thinking. The damage has been done.

Side note: It is some what also the case with the word "gay" which used to just mean "happy". Although, when people say "well, that was gay" they are generally not meaning "happy" so we've pretty much departed from that. I don't know the whole history of the N-word, but I don't believe there was ever a non-hateful use of the word (even taking into consideration its origin).
Metafilter comments sections are still very often worth reading, but the lack of threading means the conversation is always moving somewhere, and going back to reply to someone 15 comments up is less likely. The upside to this is that it favors newer comments, unlike reddit/hn, which favor upvoted comments (which are often the oldest).
US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Will Roll Out Gradually
You might be referring to Ricochet Wireless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service)
HOAs make me want to puke. Why did you agree to join anyway?
Pretty cool (and fast) domain search tool.
I am loving this app. Google should've come up with this product ages ago, but luckily for end consumer, these guys did. Woot!
>> I love the way Apple does business. They focuses on creating products that almost perfectly fit my needs.

This can also be interpreted as: I don't care if they make products that are not as environment friendly as some of the others in the market because their products are shiny and cool. Thanks for caring for the planet.
Just about every year for as long as I can remember, my family has taken a summer vacation at a beach about 300 miles away. We always stay in a hotel.

Over time, the beach has gotten tacky. Big billboards. Lots of nightlife. Amusement park rides. All kinds of things that reek of Las Vegas, but not so much a relaxing family vacation.

So this year we decided to try something different. I got onto VRBO online and picked out a beach house 1000 miles away in Florida. The owner included pictures, and there were lots of references and reviews for me to assess risk beforehand. I sent them a check -- which they could have cashed and absconded with -- and we drove down on the day scheduled.

It was the best beach vacation we've ever had. In addition, it was half or a third as much as our previous vacations.

Vested interests can fight as much as they want, but this is a done deal: people own their stuff and they're damn well liable to do what they want to with it. If I can sell you a 8-passenger airplane without warranty, you can certainly come stay at my house for an night or two. Laws which were used to increase the quality of hotel stays back in 1890 have extremely little applicability today.

I don't know if we're going to use the same house again this year -- the owner was magnificent, and I'm not about to share where it was! -- but I know that we'll be sticking to this model for a good while.
This is a classic example of anti-competitive market fixing, masquerading as a "regulation to protect consumers" or somesuch.

There is no legitimate justification to infringe on a contract between a willing buyer and a willing seller, but to actually fight these crackdowns you have to spend lots of $$$ on local political campaigns in every municipality. Easier said than done. Unless that massive lobbying investment (or at least a publicity campaign, like SOPA boycotts) happen the entrenched interests win by default and lots of peer-to-peer transactions will move to gray/black market.

Prohibition always creates speakeasies and the organized crime to protect them.

EDIT: To address "devil advocates", yes, most regulation mandated and enforced by government is a terrible imposition. Self-regulation that preserves consumer choice is a much better idea. You want to pay extra $$$ for a better level of service / protection /etc? Make it an optional line item with explicit cost.
Stanford working on the future race car -- 150mph, and no driver
Since the author didn't feel compelled to even sketch the economics of how Amazon could do this, we have to assume he has no idea if/how this would even work. Given that, why not also assert that Apple and Google and Microsoft could give away smartphones free with unlimited voice + data?

In a world where unlimited voice + data + low-cost phones can profitably be given away free, why would Amazon be the only company able to do so?
How sexism hurts men, too
(Ironically this is exactly what I was doing as the language I was using didn't/doesn't [actually rather annoyingly] support decimal types natively so I have various currency types which have different levels of precision and I store BTC as "natively" as possible). That and my code never progressed terribly far and it would have had many more (qualified) eyes looking at it from a number of angles (security, financial data, integrity, replication, etc) before it would've touched the Internet.
Reddit/Digg/HN were never about aggregation for me. I use RSS for that. I come to news sharing sites to talk about the news. Prismatic doesn't look like it enables that.
The combination of Wolfram's awkwardness and intelligence/accomplishments results in what seems like hubris, but I think he is just trying to state things plainly.

In this instance the "left to me" phrase simply means this is what he is now working on, not that he is the only one to fix dumb ol' Turing's mistakes. And he mentioned exactly how Turing "got distracted" in the next question: Turing jumped from project to project. This was something Wolfram described as a sometimes enviable trait. He's not disparaging the guy.
For me it has not that hard if you have a lot of passion for what you are building. dworrad's post the other day is a great example of how he does it. It feels like a bit of a obsession - check it out.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217985

I am starting to think I have some sort of OCD with this project. Maintaining motivation is the hardest when you get discouraged.

For me I had to give up all my other hobbies. I take care of my family (including 2 kids) do the best I can for my job but try not to work much more than 40 hours, and then its my side project after the kids go to sleep, from 9-1am at least 4 days a week. Wake up early or stay up late. If you are obsessed like I am you will wake up with no help at 4am, which is a great time to code.
Sorry Brewster, no millions for you. Now, delete my account.
..the takeaway here is that the services provided by SourceForge/Github are too important to its users to be ad-supported.

Why muddy the waters like that? The takeaway is that the incentives a company adopts are consequential and will define the culture and the product.
Maybe AirBnB's solution to this is some kind of timeshare setup for cities with the time-limit laws.

You purchase the joint right to use the house x/365 days a year, but your "lease" is a month/year long.

Might not get around the safety type laws though.
At least some economists agree: http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/06/economists-demonstrat...

I think robbers know that, too. Bank robbing is old school. Robbing Gas pumps also has gotten too risky to be worth the trouble; they keep way less money around than they used to and they have video recorders everywhere. So, nowadays, your best bet is mom and pop shops, at least that is what I read in the papers :-)
I agree with some of this...with a key proviso. They are not 'die-hard unfettered market proselytizers'. For instance, they strongly favor "Obama Care" - maybe not in its entirety and in the EXACT way that it has turned out, but they generally favor the idea of a government created program that creates an exchange for all insurance companies to compete for everybody. They also acknowledge, as the law does, that in order for more people to get coverage and the cost of health care to be tamed, the number of uninsureds has to be decreased significantly - including using fines and subsidies.

That stance is quint-essential Economist, based on my experience of reading them cover to cover - weekly - for the last 5 years.

They do have a free-market, lightly-regulated bias...but they are pragmatic when they need to be, and for that I love them.

Without getting into too much politics, people tend to forget how nuanced the 'Iraq War' decision was at the time. Obama has done a good job of summarizing it into a nice 'sound byte'. The war in Iraq is a "dumb war". The notion there that the outcome was so obvious that it shouldn't have been chosen. What many forget is that post-9/11, the intelligence community was indeed split. The UN SEC actually voted in favor of stricter sanctions and harsher actions against Saddam - if he didn't publicly state that he had no WMDs.

It's easy to say Bush knew there were no WMDs in Iraq and he was going there just for oil, but that's a cynical (and non-nuanced view) of the context of the time.

As Peter Bergen pointed out in his latest book Man Hunt, the decision for Obama to go to Abbottabad for Bin Laden was based on more circumstantial evidence than the decision for Bush to go to Iraq. Granted, the operations were different in scale - but that alone speaks to the fact that the decision to go to Iraq was supported by faulty intelligence.

Assuming that Bush had mal-intent and "knew" there were no WMD in Iraq - but was going just to avenge his father or w/e other story (disregarding everything else) is ridiculous at best.

One simple question I always pose to people when they make such statements about Iraq is...if Bush knew there were no WMDs in Iraq, why would he use that as a pretext when he would obviously be either right or wrong? It's not as if they can "plant" WMDs. It's either they will find it, or not. There is no middle ground.

So either he will be a hero, or he will be zero. He staked his entire presidency on that decision. He knew that when the presidency is done, he would just have his legacy. His entire legacy would be defined by that decision. There is no way, any rational president/person would make such a decision lightly and frivolously.

He would have been better off using the fact that Saddam has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Kurds, or something else that is more 'ambiguous' that he can't REALLY be held accountable for.

Finding WMDs is a key tangible accountability metric.

So the fact The Economist was also a proponent of the Iraq War is just further proof as to the ambiguity in the intelligence community at the time of the decision - and how difficult such a decision was.
An icon to access the sort menu would make the interface a little easier to use. Context meus are nice, but they should be a shortcut to an action rather than the only way to trigger it.

I also noticed that the search box only searches document titles. It would be nice to have it filter document titles as you type, and then perform a full-text search when the user hits enter (like Google's online Drive search).

Awesome app, keep up the good work!
My submission would be for:

http://lesswrong.com/

A lot of the main sequences of material (http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences) there were written by a Hacker News member, Eliezer Yudkowsky. But it's also a great living community (like here), with new stuff constantly being added.
Why is it free? Take money for it.
Agreed. The groupthink mentality here is almost as bad as reddit from what i've seen (say...50 to 70% of the way there); however, i think some of the show HN thing have been interesting to see (and I don't think i would've found them on metafilter, reddit, etc.)
I agree and Javascript Web Applications by MacCaw
They don't even need to play the free card, if they can come up with some kind of bundling deal. 50% off a decent smartphone with $30/month unlimited web & text with 1000 free minutes could be a dynamite deal for most folks. (Even if it's throttled after a gigabyte or so.)

You don't have to be free for the strategy outlined in the post, you just have to be too good to pass up. (Much like: A decent tablet for only $200.)
... telling me who I can or can not have over to stay.

They aren't telling you who you can or can not have over, they are prohibiting you from having temporary guests that pay.

Why? Well, an establishment that houses temporary guests traditionally has to answer to health & safety codes and regulations. Under-the-radar AirBnB rentals circumvent that system.

You'd probably get similar kickback if you tried running an informal restaurant out of your home. "Who is the government to tell me who I can and can not serve food!" Well, restaurant health codes, that's who.
>The CDs were in really cool plexi-glass cases held together by magnets. The Chrome Expert also gave us the cool idea of using the case as a picture frame after we were done using the CD.

Actually that CD and case does looks quite nice. I would want one myself!

I'm also curious about a Chromebook but I doubt they will arrive in Romania anytime soon. The new Samsung model doesn't seem to be available not even on the German Amazon!
Well, municipalities have had similar rules for awhile, though more often to be used as a stick against people engaging in arguably socially harmful behavior. And at least in the case of HOA, more often than not a contract was signed in the beginning that explicitly forbids that type of arrangement.

Which sucks, but it is the free market. Just goes to show that contract rights aren't enough to ensure freedom.
No. Money does not give you control of my life.

Did you read his whole 2-sentence post? When taxes are involved, either I control you (by using your money how I like) or I control you (using my money how you like).
The ToS could be open to interpretation...

It's possible the ToS may be saying the link text itself should be nice, etc.

So you could say something like, "The Olympics games are [insert your term here]", use the link text "Olympics" and you could be in the clear.

Use some derogatory text in place of [insert your term here], resulting in a visit by the link police who will extradite you for a long 'vacation' to some island in the northern Caribbean Sea.
> During the recent fires, checking the news with my iPad, I was often confronted with a notice that I needed Adobe Flash to view a video. Now when it’s in the course of everyday technology kerfuffles, it’s an annoyance. However, I can see how a family, trying to view local news and weather in an emergency, when confronted with such a notice, would be outraged.

Maybe it's time to mandate that mobile platforms support flash, since it is so vital in emergencies.
In 1890 it was not uncommon to rent a room in one's house to a stranger either.