skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That one bothered me too. For someone so focused on the experience, it seems narrow to think of focusing on one platform that admittedly, might not even be used. Shouldn't you be focused on building the best experience on the intended platform?
Around three years ago I postulated that websites will soon start to develop their mobile version first and not second. Little by little I keet seeing more examples and the last year it has really been accelerating. It is an interesting time and while many besides yourself will find offense with this "rule" I would expect more of it in the future.
IMHO, you and the parent are probably both missing the point of the submitted article. The points being that (1) contrary to what people are saying, this is not a triumph of the "free markets", and (2) more importantly, fiber in general may be unviable without govt. subsidies.

I thought that was newsworthy. YMMV.
Ask HN: What is the consensus on Hacker News?
A thread currently at the top of the Hacker News main page includes comments mentioning issues on which most Hacker News users agreed a few years ago, and other issues on which most users agree these days. Users are speculating about HN's "broader sentiments" and others are mentioning "fanboys" or "echo-chamberism."

As far as I know, no one reads Hacker News exhaustively. I certainly don't. I miss hundreds of threads each week now, not even having time to lurk in them. So I'm not sure if Hacker News today has any consensus points of view. What do you think? Within the scope of the site's guidelines (which were recently revised) what are the issues on which most users here agree, and what are the issues on which there are vigorous debate?
So, is it fair to say that you agree with everything except that Apple's way is better for the consumer?
How are you pulling all of the headlines?
> and frame the public good not as rich internet, but as rich internet access

Which is exactly why the $300 one timer almost seems to good to be true. I would almost be willing to actually participate in my local city council if it meant we could leverage the "free" package to enough neighborhoods for free wifi coverage. I really really want everyone to have uninhibited internet access, and I feel that free access to information should be amended into the bill of rights. Google seems to be the first company to actually be able to provide a solution for this, big brother worries aside.
I can't resist mentioning a favorite algorithm of mine for solving a related problem. It generalizes the algorithm for the classic problem of finding the majority element (one which occurs at least 50% of the time) with a single pass over a stream, using a constant amount of space, and a second sieving pass. It's one of those simple gems you wonder why it took so long to discover.

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/el327/datamining2011aFiles/ASim...
A lot of the PC users I deal with believe if a device is showing you ads, then it has a virus. Computing devices are pretty much in the same category as other electronics for a lot of people. I pay for it, I don't want to see ads.

// a humorous take http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/04/13
Regardless of the amount of screen real estate available to you, there should always be one main purpose for your website/app - one action (usually the most common action) that the user should take. Designing with the mobile-first approach makes it easier to determine what that main purpose is and aligns the design of your site with that purpose.

This does not mean that you don't include all the additional functionality, just that you prioritize the main objective of your site.
It seems to me his problem is was not so much with the Apple posts (except Gruber's which he calls out specifically), but rather the quality of the comments in Apple related discussion.

(I cannot say that I have noticed an increase in the number of Android posts here, but there does seem to have been a change in the tone of discussion.)
It's not dumbing down, it's simplifying. By designing mobile first, you force yourself to think about the priorities in your UX. You can still add all kind of things on top in the full web interface, but that's on top of the core experience.
I've been around for 2,017 days. Number of comments has gone down steadily, but I agree with mixmax as for the reason.

Would any old-timer care to use the open-source HN code and create a vintage HN by automatically inviting anyone with an age of >N days?
I feel like this is closer to the root cause. People start out and everything is new, and they have this huge sense of wonder about what is going on around them in the valley, and then after a year or two you realize that bigger picture moves more slowly, a lot of people re-invent the wheel, Etc.

But the conversations are actually nearly the same quality, they are just re-hashes of conversations you already know the answers too. Sometimes you'll get someone who is quite disgruntled from the it and that will be a pain until they stop but for the most part it seems to be ok.

That said, if every submission only had one comment 'see link to previous discussions of this form' that would be pretty boring too.
Are there any good subreddits for "patio11-esque" content? Not hard CS, not vc startups, not /r/SEO, but kinda the marketing/small-online-business thing?
ANSI C is a near universally portable language, C# is not. His boss wants it written in C, and his boss is the customer. Of course, his boss is specifying global variable names, so said boss is a micromanager... A no-win situation here really...
It should cost a user Karma to down-vote and up-vote.
This is great. I'm excited for the CL version so I can integrate it with Alfred.

By the way, I knew exactly what this app did 2 seconds after page load.

Cheers.
And will leverage Symfony2 Components as well [1]. Great to see the different camps working towards interoperability.

1. http://www.thenerdary.net/post/30859565484/laravel-4
Here's a proposal. Add the ability to filter out users based on their membership date. You could theoretically use this to associate yourself with people who have been around HN as long as you have. Even setting a minimum threshold to something like 100 days or a year would definitely reduce a lot of noise in the "new" section.

One of the best parts to me is the data is already stored and it has a very high cardinality, so it would work exceptionally well as an indexed field.
Could've just been a random test. New parents are such insanely profitable customers they're worth a bit of risk/expense to acquire.
One thing I, as an entrepreneur, wish more designers knew: I can't do everything, and I have to make tradeoffs based on cost-benefit analyses, and you will influence me more if you speak in that language. All but one of these 29 things (in fact, there are 32) are additional things this guy thinks I should spend my limited resources on.
The color scheme on that page is so washed out that my eyes did a double take. That's one thing I wish a designer knew about users - not everyone is using a crisp iMac to view a website. I'm on my already washed out PC and their color scheme makes it even worse.
I love this. The only thing I might like as an addition would be the ability to reorganize and change the font. No login / account nonsense just save my ordering and font choice in a cookie or something.
Right, but the point of LFS is to learn how Linux works, not how Gentoo happens to have set things up.
Lambda the Ultimate is pretty good. If anything, I'd say the quality is higher than HN.
RSS/xml.
Microsoft lance un blind test pour comparer Bing et Google
Actually that is a different issue. Windows doesn't restrict the user in installing softwares that they want to. Hell, it even allows user to keep using their product and subsequent MS softwares with sufficient independence even after realizing that the OS is pirated. What you are pointing out is the behaviour of OEMs which is rightly called out as obnoxious and degrading.
They will be killing a lot of third party plugin too, a good example would be the wordpress plugins, a lot of them use the jsonp stuff.

Seems weird to mee, but hey, anything to make money in the end I guess
Kytephone brings the Kindle Fire's time limits to all Androids
More Evidence For September 21 Ship Date For iPhone 5
Reorganizing would be a tough cookie...but changing the font is possible.

Any particular fonts in mind?
If I am looking at an address and want directions to it clicking on 'My places' only shows me "my places", it does not give me any obvious way to get directions from the current address to one of "my places". Clicking on any of "my places" will change the map to view that place, causing the user to lose the address of the place they want to go to/from.

Edit: I see that "my places" now has a "Home address" which isn't pre-populated with my google account confirmed home address for some reason.... But if I set it and then try to get directions and type in the first letter of my address my home address pops up in the auto complete. This is a big improvement, but of course auto setting the home address from your google account and remembering the last five in the auto complete would make a lot more users happy as that would work by default v.s. forcing the user to do something, most of which will not. The number of people that will set their home address is probably only a bit larger than the number that were using my grease monkey script to add a home button.
Honestly I thought about it and wanted to check but many brands have been bought and sold so many times :). The idea was that each unique car has their own look and design and that sets them apart from the rest.
Thanks for replying, but this one is not for me.
I had a secondary thought. Does this page auto refresh? Can I just leave it open on a separate virtual desktop... or do I need to refresh it?
EDIT: Just to be clear, because I missed it, the app doesn't HIDE other applications it aggressively CLOSES other apps. Including some background processes, system preferences etc. Luckily it doesn't shutdown dropbox and backblaze. If you want that functionality (and can live with bug below) this might be useful to you but I'm no longer interested.

So, the app crashed while I was configuring it. It shutdown ever app I had added to Foreman, unsafely, and a few others I hadn't yet added (like Terminal! WTF?).

DO NOT USE. It's a nice concept but not ready for prime time.
Reddit actually has extremely high quality subreddits - it is just the main tags that have degraded.
Here is a solid book about mobile first development:

http://www.abookapart.com/products/mobile-first

It's a good (and quick) read, even if you don't agree with it, as are all of the A Book Apart publications.
C# isn't as portable as C but it isn't totally unportable either. Mono allows you to target iOS, Android and Linux for example.
I was quite surprised not to find a "I'm available, hire me!" tagline at the bottom, great points but I kept getting distracted from them.
I've been away from Haskell for a while, it's great to see interesting things still being done. Wondering what the use of type-level naturals in Haskell is though? I dabbled with Agda a bit where they're used to satisfy the termination checker, is that sort of thing being done in Haskell now?

Also one thing that always gave me pause about Haskell was the record system, and the inability to have fields with the same name in the same module (especially when the fields are generated from a database). Has there been any progress on that front?
It's not really "full price" when a "retina display" tablet with 32 GB of storage goes for half the amount the same storage iPad goes for ($300 vs $600).
Chinese College Students Reportedly Forced to Build Apple's New iPhone 5
You are seeing the quality go down because YC requires applicants to join HN so now you have thousands of applicants who would have never joined if YC didn't required it. I believe this plays into the quality going down but I could be wrong.
One typically has to pay to seek remedy from a court.
Yes, but the headline is still funny. "Evolution could explain the placebo effect" is a fantastic understatement - evolution almost certainly explains the placebo effect. "We could have found the evolutionary explanation for the placebo effect" is less snappy, though, I guess.
This must exist! Meatball wiki has "insincere goodbyes" (http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/GoodBye), they also have the life-cycle of wikis (http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/WikiLifeCycle).

They must have something to describe the continual suggestions for a "fix".
To be honest, I got it from Barack Obama's AMA on Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam..., so the endorsement of the website comes from the POTUS himself.
The same kind of thing is happening right now in Singapore:
http://www.ida.gov.sg/infrastructure/20060919190208.aspx

It really is the tried-and-true model.
Why is karma any significant to the quality of a post?

It already costs enough to create a post (in time and effort); if that doesn't have any effect on the quality, it is not clear why an additional cost in karma would make a difference.

HN is not a personalized news feed. If a story has been upvoted sufficiently to float up the ranks, that means there is sufficient community interest in the subject. Given the way HN works and the size of its audience, there is simply no way you can magically fix the posts to fit a particular definition regarding the topic, quality or the tone without strict monitoring; and if you do add admins, etc. that wouldn't be HN anymore.
Apple cuts Samsung memory chip order
Yes there is but within the scope of this problem I don't see that it makes much difference.

You talk to your manager and recommend something but the buck stops with him and you do what he says. He is essentially in charge.

If you can't accept this then leave, you have no respect for then, why would you want to work with them. If you need the money they get on with it.

Programmers need to be more professional. As a professional you give your professional opinion but that isn't gospel. You note your protest and then get on with the job you are paid to do to the best of your ability.

BTW I am a programmer. I've been junior, lead and manager so I've seen it from all sides.
Actually this whole discussion doesn't belong on HN.
Very nice, thanks! It might be too similar for a post all of its own, but I think it'd be a worthy followup to this post.
Agreed, I think lot fo the stuff here, it's his job to educate others about it.
€8bn Activision Blizzard sale 'still under consideration
There's another reason. C + threads + computer science students maintaining it in sequence over the course of years is a recipe for disaster. Drop any one of those and it can be made to work, but not that trifecta.

That said, the right answer is probably still to deliver it in C as requested, and walk away. The customer has spoken, and seems to broadly know what he is talking about (ie, it isn't a nontechnical customer who is asking how "cloudy" your solution is, it's a programmer), so... well... OK... if that's what you really want....
You might like Irving Kirsch's book The Emperor's New Drugs. It's all about the placebo effect as it relates to antidepressants, but also more generally. I know with depression specifically the difference between placebo treatment and no treatment is actually quite large.

Also, that skepdic link is severely flawed. There isn't one placebo effect, but rather a series of placebo effects. There isn't any reason to think that using a sugar pill to treat pain would have roughly the same efficacy as using gardening to treat heart disease, which is what the skepdic article basically claims.
Can you post some more information for the author to address / fix this? OS version? Hardware?
But how long until the campaign ad stating "Councilman Smith voted to subsidize porn coming into your house and corrupting your children!!!!!"?

Or the MPAA asks how the city can be subsidizing piracy.

Then they'll need to implement a few filters. You know, since the government is paying for it and all.
It is an interesting choice. There was a time when every television you bought was a conduit of ads. Think about that for a minute, here you had companies like GE, Panasonic, Toshiba, Magnavox, selling you this television for some price, and the only content you could get for it had un-skippable advertising injected several times an hour. There was no 'rev share' agreement with the TV manufacturers, they had to live or die on their hardware margins.
Every new GHC release is like a little Christmas morning! The pace of new feature development impresses me.

I'm particularly interested in the new type-level literals (which seem like they will make it much less cumbersome to express certain static constraints) and the convenient new syntax for multi-way if expressions (I've long wanted Lisp's `cond` in Haskell) and case analysis on lambda arguments.
Any "currency" that requires this an explanation as complicated as Bitcoin will never achieve widespread adoption.
Yes, you can skim more easily with images, but those images are leading your eyes to what? The best articles or just a random article with images? I say it's the second one.

I'd argue title words are much better at showcasing an articles potential value than a stock image of a carrot.
Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started
Yes it does. Laravel 3 already has some Symfony components. No need to rewrite when there are already great libraries out there.
Wow, great idea!

I haven't tried the app yet, but if it immediately shuts off other applications when switching to a group, I think that needs to change, or at least provide a setting to just keep all the apps running but hide them from the tab switching menu some how (i know it could be a memory killer, but for my own personal use, which usually doesn't require a lot of apps running, i think it would be perfect).

Other than that, it's a great little app, put it on the AppStore for some cash :) (and add a screencast)
An interesting idea.

I'm not sure how well it'd cope with vote rings.
Show HN: MongoDB + open source e-commerce = Forward
This is not about enhancements but about the patentability and prior art of common concepts
In the interest of fairness I've tried a couple of times.

On Lion, this is crashing consistently and automatically closing all the apps added to Foreman and some random apps besides.

Is this a troll or trojan? Why is it closing other random apps that it shouldn't even know about?
I'm sorry that happened to you, Ensorceled, and I hope you didn't lose any work.

The way it's supposed to work is, if you click on a horizontal row then it opens all the apps in that row (if they're not already open) and closes any apps that aren't in that row. So, for example, Terminal was closed because it sounds like it wasn't in your app group.

About "unsafely" - it should behave just as if you had hit command+q in the app. So if you have unsaved documents, the application should prompt you to save them.

Sorry again for the frustration it caused you!
yes

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.servo/nJJx...
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Wouldn't those URLs be easy to steal, though?
libuv was created by the guys that make NodeJS to make a cross platform IOCP layer for Windows and Unix
Oh, great. Thanks for the info. This is his web site:

http://poetpainter.com/
Developer/founder of Forward here, happy to answer questions about what it is, why, how, and take critical feedback.

Devs complain endlessly about the rigid, complex mess of e-commerce software. I'm trying to change that with a platform that is easy to understand and customize by developers. We've had a lot of success so far with early projects like http://jellyfishart.com.

MongoDB has been a huge help.
I am new to Hacker News. I have to say that I too despair at some of the comments posted on the site. I believe that open discourse and communication is great, but when someone posts in jest it belittles what we all desire from a community like this.

I find myself filtering comments on HN. I still go and read them (as opposed to Reddit where I don't read comments), but this is a location where comments should be meaningful and less of the "Herpty Derp" we get on YouTube. I don't believe HN is comparable to YouTube, but at the same time I can see where content in comments could be improved.

I would be in favor of a system that taught new recruits to listen and watch the community before commenting, much like what this article suggest.
And what might that "n" be that lets the last man over the bridge?
Does not auto-refresh right now. Reasoning: I wouldn't want to see a title, then see it vanish before I get to click it.

Potential solution for V2: Toggle switch.
Do all calls to the Twitter API require authentication now? It used to be that some calls (like search) did not require authentication, and I would assume those would still work with JSONP?
You somewhat focus on being a jerk at user groups, but you're perpetuating a story from a blog post of a third person account that simply speculated about how someone might have felt without giving almost any context to the situation or first hand information from the speaker or Yehuda. I've been part of a Java usergroup where interrupting the speaker/presentation was not only acceptable but often the norm. Without any context you can't really say how that behavior was received.

Sometimes I think that Ruby's "drama" is equivalent to Rails' "magic", i.e. weak criticism perpetuated more by detractors and not really considered a problem internally.
HN is definitely still a great place for discussion. I think the main problem right now is how impossible it is for the average user to get good feedback on their startup using HN. Many people on this site remember the old days when anyone could post a 'Show HN' and it would almost surely receive some really thoughtful, interesting feedback. When it comes down to it, that is what people are truly lamenting.

Today, 'Show HN' posts quickly fall out of the newest page (buried beneath an avalanche of a lot of useless link spam).

See my post yesterday, which fell off the newest page in under 10 minutes:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=opscotch

Or when people do comment on these posts, sometimes it is done so in a passive-aggressive way, more like a 'take down' than a thoughtful comment with advice and constructive criticism. This is not always the case, but it does seem more common than it did in the past.
If you agree with point 27 (questing for Minimum Viable Product/Experience), then rule 14 makes a lot of sense to me. He isn't saying not to design a full web interface (which as you point out, can do more). He is merely saying by doing mobile dev first, you are essentially forced into discovering your MVP more lucidly. You can then add features to the full web interface from there.

>A full web interface can always do more and the challenge should be converting those features to mobile as opposed to dumbing down the design for the lowest denominator.

I think that this sentence gets to the crux of his point. Terms like 'dumbing down' and 'lowest common denominator' to describe the mobile experience seem a little loaded to me, and imho, this is exactly the type of situation where deving movile first could provide surprising insight into your MVP. I'm talking honest to goodness slap in the face reveals.

I think it's safe to say we have different opinions on this point, but man...I simply can't count the number of "Hey check out my startup" websites that I've clicked on and just kind of had my jaw drop at what was going on. I'd honestly say the majority of the ones I've seen could have benefited from this approach. That's completely anecdotal, I know, but it's the impression I have.