skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't let a few bores discourage you; the open source world needs more tastefully done over-the-top humor. Most of the times I've seen someone try to be funny in a landing page or a pull request, it's either obnoxious, cringeworthy, or lame. This page made me smile enough to read the whole thing, and I don't even own a Mac.
For me, the iPad is uncomfortably heavy at times -- especially if I try to hold it in one hand.

I mean, yes, it seems like splitting hairs -- but at some point, a device goes from being 'heavy' to 'light'. Same with thickness -- at some point a device stops feeling 'chunky' and becomes 'lithe'. I just don't know where those thresholds are :) (but I'm sure that industrial designers put a lot of thought into it).
I totally agree with your devils' advocacy. The problem occurs when the people making decisions are not able to differentiate the UI(can be changed anytime) from the UX.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to assume the lock screen is only shown shortly after locking and right before waking up, like every other tablet. (And for the e-ink Kindles, it doesn't seem like much of an issue. E-ink devices already all use screensavers AFAIK and still get months of battery life.)
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Where Are Your Keys: learning as a game
I currently use netvibes too.
to customize rss feeds.. i use Yahoo Pipes. You can provide bunch of feeds to pipes, then add custom filters, sorts, terms and generate a custom RSS address. Add this address to netvibes.

and with this process, you will hardly ever visit any of the homepages except netvibes.

Nice project though.
Am I the only one who hasn't noticed this huge drop in quality that has everyone bitching and moaning lately?

Possibly. I posted some examples here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/commenting-communit... and here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/comment-when-you-ha... , with the latter discussing how I try not to comment unless I have something substantive to say or ask.

Neither post is arguing that there aren't still some substantive comments on HN. There are. But I've noticed a lot of posts that aren't trolls but that don't add anything valuable. Those, in some ways, are the worst kind: not quite bad enough to ban / delete, but not good enough to add real content.
I've run a couple small startups as a solopreneur. Currently I'm running the Birdy - http://thebirdy.com. It's been online for about a year, and I just recently quit my job to work on it full time. The only thing I've outsourced so far is the mobile app development (still in progress). It's ramen profitable, so not sustainable yet, and I'm hoping to grow it to a lifestyle business or better.

For validation, I usually turn to my users. I do a lot of user surveys and collect a lot of feedback. For automation, I use a lot of services out there - supportbee, google doc, build my own internal apps...

Motivation is a tough subject. Even tho I've been lucky enough to see continuous growth of the Birdy, it's hard to stay interested, focused and excited about it. I take breaks, I try to find related projects that interest me, and I talk to a lot of people about it. I try to present it publicly as often as I can, so new people hear about it, and give me feedback.
[citation needed]

If I recall correctly, there have been studies comparing Wikipedia and "proper" encyclopediae that suggest the error rates are about equal, and quite low in both.
It's bad when Facebook does it, but the FBI… That's perfectly OK!
Advertising is one of them. I wonder if google/facebook/apple will go that path someday. Actually, is more matter of "when" than "if".
If there were an easy way to determine the time required (or time box allotted) for every task, then this seems feasible. Asking the user without being cumbersome may be difficult though.
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Very cool, looking forward to trying it out.

I would start versioning your releases—even if you start at something like 0.1.0. Then add a changelog to the site and drop tags in git corresponding to each release.
I'm already intending to do this with traffic cameras. Freedom-sniping, I'll call it.
I've increasingly been wondering whether it'd be better to have editors split comments sideways ala docco: there's been a huge trend towards wider screens and using that space seems intriguing, particularly if it avoided discouraging longer comments when a design decision wasn't simple.
Dropbox API now supports CORS
To play devil's advocate, how much innovation is needed for toothpaste? It works, it's safe, and it's not unpleasant to use. Maybe consumers benefit more from having cheap commoditised toothpaste than they would from paying extra to stimulate innovation.
At least you're not signed in by default like you are on the Kindle.
It depends on the underlying representation. I know it's almost never anything except IEEE 754 now, but it could be different.

When I was an undergrad doing the ACM programming contest, one year we had this triangle problem where, given the length of the three sides, you had to print whether it was an equilateral, isosceles, right, or not a triangle at all. Lots of naive programmers (including me) just checked if (aa + bb) == c*c for a right triangle. The kicker is, for the (secret) test data, that worked fine if you used single-precision floats and failed if you used double-precision floats.

That educated a whole region of ACM contest competitors on floating point representations.
Do weather forecasts really suck less than they used to?
It does not mean HN gets worse and worse, it means you extract less and less value.

Maybe someone (me?) should write "HN: The Book." Chapters might include:

1. Silicon Valley life.

2. Structured/conventional education versus self-education.

3. What you do with your tools is more interesting than the tools themselves, and many people have used bad tools to make cool things, though that in itself isn't an excuse for bad tools.

4. Problems with politics.

5. Commenting on commenting.

Actually, I started this list as a joke, but I'm starting to wonder if it shouldn't be. . .
Excellent work. Congratulations on shipping. If I could find a good Twilio alternative for other countries I might do something similar for another another country.
This is much too simple. E.g. he could be wrong but thinks he is right. Or he might be right and thinks he's right but for the wrong reasons. etc. He could be an Android fanboy paid by Samsung or Google. Who knows? Who cares?

I'm only interested in facts for his argument as I thought to myself 'In 3yrs HN looked like a very anti-Apple site to me. But there are obviously people here who came to the conclusion that this was a very pro-Apple site.' And I'm interested why this is the case and we got very different feelings from HN.
Five things Desktop Linux has to do to beat Windows 8
Can someone summarize what the "penalty for posting too frequently" is these days?
> they need only be open to everyone

The word "only" makes this sentence completely wrong.

In startup terms it's like saying that to make a successful product you need only make something useful and put up a web page offering it for sale. It would be great if it was that simple!
Should we allow male only events?
I never stated the viability of the entire thing, just that many scientists do consider themselves religious, regardless of compatibility. I personally don't think they are completely compatible unless you are looking at your religion as more of a cultural identity than a book of 'truths', or if you are Buddhist (http://tricycleblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/einsteins-quote...).
In what sense? The data structures behind it? The capabilities? Boost.asio doesn't do filesystem watching (last I checked). The API? At the end of the day, if you're using Boost, you're probably going to prefer Asio; libuv is somewhat more powerful.

It might have more to do with whether you prefer C++ or C.
When naming an application I tried doing some wordplay and consider its domain availability. Like my current app, I'm dealing with texts, like web articles. And I'm extracting important sentences in it to serve as its preview. Preview of movies are called teaser. That's why I named my app TextTeaser (and TextTeaser.com as its domain). It's a preview for web articles.
Good. JSONP is stupid anyway.
We are never going to stop the technology being developed and used. And nor should we - the benefits can be enormous.

But we must put in place legislation that prevents abuse - and I think it needs to be broad and overarching.

I suggest

1. All monitoring of individuals / crowds in public
and semi-public areas must be clearly notified, and
the raw output of that monitoring must be made
publically available within a short and reasonable time
frame

2. All access to that raw feed and subsequent
processed feeds by government officials must be
audited and made available in raw form

3. Exceptions can only be made through warrants
signed by civil courts

Frankly, there are face recognition, laser scanners and more. Getting away with a crime in a public area will be almost impossible in 20 years. That's the good news. The bad news is that if only the police have access to that information, they will abuse it. Because they are good people mostly.
There exist algorithms for estimating emotion from facial video. The accuracy is kind of hit or miss, but it's enough for "he's experiencing anxiety during the security search, he must be a terrorist."
Personally, I think that the funding success for ADN is showcasing that there could be a market for non-freemium and non-free services. Another contender here is the economist, which is one of the very, very few journalistic products that makes money with a pay wall. The reason, again, being that they offer very high quality.

I would also pay for an online newspaper that lacks advertisement and employs really good journalists to paint a picture that is as close to the truth as possible. The less ties between a newspaper and any industry, the less the chance that a story is pulled because the company in question places lots of advertisement in the newspaper.

It's true that most people wouldn't want to pay for a community, many people on Twitter only use it to read what celebrities are up to. However, I don't think that a social network needs to be as big as Facebook anymore to be successful - or Twitter, or Instagram. As long as there's a vibrant community, that is dedicated to the service, and solid growth, everything is fine.

Especially since Facebook (at least for me) already satisfies the 'friends' kind of social network. I have all my contacts there, so for engaging with them, I go to Facebook, I don't need another service. If I join another service, then because the value proposition is not about friends, but about something different. Badoo is a success because their value proposition is about dating, and Twitter is a success because they offer many-to-many friendships and open celebrities. Again, Instagram was a success because they changed the mapping, instead of friends -> content they went for content -> friends.

As long as a network doesn't compete with Facebook on their core values, i guess they're fine.

On Twitter, I don't care if there're 10Million or 100Million other users, I can only see so many. So as long as there're enough users on ADN I'd guess that I'm happy there.

Oh, I'm also just trying to explain what I think about where this is going, I'm not trying to defend anything, sorry if it sounds like that :)

Thanks, Appetizer is in many ways a side project right now, but it's fun working on it. Also, while we're at it, I like the OpenPhoto approach, I really want to install it once I find some time. Had it on my todo list for months now. I'm unhappy with most current online photo solutions, and having them on my own server sounds just about right. I wish you best of luck there :)
Python/Django/Fabric/Celery/Redis/PostgreSQL/SphinxSearch/jQuery/Sass/AWS/Jenkins/Selenium/etc and a lot of stress/tears/joy hahaha
I am a girl and I think this is cool. I really don't like to ask guys "what do you do and where do you work?" but at the same time, I really dont want to date guys with no jobs. When are you planning to launch?
First of all : fantastic age - congrats :)

Secondly, I know your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but that would actually be a very appropriate age cut-off for what strikes me as a remarkably elitist endeavor.
I agree with MVP and your anecdotes - less bloat, all the better, but from a UI/UX perspective, let me give you a few examples of what usually gets thrown out in a mobile first design:

Dropdown menus - Mobile first almost always means multiple clicks to get to the same place, which is more annoying on a slower browser.

Commenting system - still yet to see a decent one that I would one on a mobile interface

Flash/animations - like it or not, moving images grabs attention but does not translate well to mobile.

Page width - 1440 pixels on my shiny screen, but text is stuck in a 200px box that forces me to scroll down. Flexible width usually gets thrown out when you add sidebars and ads.

Large Buttons - Great for mobile but I'd rather see context that a sign up button taking half the page

Related content links - Especially for blogs/news websites.

Inline images - My primary annoyance with this article which is ALL TEXT. Mobile design says dont take up an entire screen view with an image. Web first design says even if the current text is boring, people will scroll down if they see an interesting image.

I honestly believe that having separate approaches will allow for better UX, time and cost permitting.
I don't think adopting a piece of someone else's best practices would.
I think that's totally illogical. How many members of your community are gay? Have red hair? Are left handed. You have no idea, and you wouldn't recruit based on those characteristics. So why recruit based on gender?
>Computing devices are pretty much in the same category as other electronics for a lot of people

While you see them as thin clients I presume?
I don't think you understand Silk entirely, it's a web browser - it doesn't 'kick in,' it's how you connect to any web site.
I'm not sure if Google part contradicted the other ideas until a few years ago. Easily available software, open-access quality services, clients available for linux (even if not open-source, it's still something), they contributed to many projects like the linux kernel, published go, worked on Android which is... corporate-flavoured open-source, etc. They were very much about geeky stuff and easily available information. Google groups were also popular with open-source projects.

Also in all cases at some point in the past favouring those companies was about rooting for the underdog... and then just continued even when they became large and abusive in some cases.
A Go Gotcha that Got Me
1. The "burn after reading" option is a must have.

2. I love the fact that every content sent through the network is encrypted. The only unsafe part is how we, users, share the URL since it contains the secret key.

3. Yaap.it sounds good.

4. No pub is good. Any limitations of size / yaaps per seconds ?
Fantastic, I think it's a rare breed that can take on the full-stack challenge like this. I would kill to hire people like you.
I probably wouldn't purchase those servers.
Your link says "external", not "extensible", and in fact seems to make no mention of extensibility.
New Theory of Dark Matter & Energy Alters Einstein's View of Spacetime
Exactly :) We are launching on September 16th. Sign up for our beta and we will send you the link to download the app
Has anyone had any success with Stencyl?
I have recently come across Stencyl, a simple game design application. It is A LOT of fun to mess around with, and the crash courses that are provided get a new user up and running in no time. I am really enjoying it! If I decided to get serious about building a full game, I would definitely be solely developing for iOS.

I've seen the testimonials on the site, where massive-ish games are making 6 figures, but I want a realistic view on the possibilities of this program.

So basically, has anyone had any success with Stencyl (iOS only please) - profits, download rates, and all statistics are highly appreciated. Thanks!
I've learned not to work with entrepreneurs who do not understand the value of design and user experience.
There are plenty of entrepreneurs who understand the value of ux/ui. My job is to design an a app that is not a pain to use, not explain cost-benefit of this.

On a side note, the op is wrong when he writes "Bring in the UX designer before you’ve attempted any UI work." Yes you want to do UX first, but UI and UX are inseparable, because from the user perspective, the user interface(UI) always has a bearing on the user experience (UX). The UX should dictate the UI, but a good UX designer will always design the UI.
+1. While I haven't got any deal out of it, I do think the ads make very good cover screen. I'd prefer them much more than an empty dull cover screen.
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Don't worry, they'll cross-reference facial recognition matches with your cell phone location in realtime. Just make sure you carry your cell phone at all times. Your brother will be identified by having no cell phone to cross-reference with, or one with a name that does not match the appearance.
Back when Silk first came out, they told the EFF that they don't send HTTPS traffic through their server. https://www.eff.org/2011/october/amazon-fire%E2%80%99s-new-b... But HTTPS obscures everything but the destination server. Even the rest of the URL should be invisible, so if Amazon is still tracking URLs, they are at least partly circumventing SSL protections.
How about the last toothpaste you'd ever have to use: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4213679

That's the problem with not innovating: you don't know what you're giving up.
Link to some of these reviews?
Just trying to be succinct: what I meant is the "render on the server" concept, which the thing that differentiates Silk from every other browser.
Kudos should go to Bert Belder and Ben Noordhuis of Cloud9 who built much of libuv and Igor Zinkovsky of Microsoft has contributed a lot of important work as well. As well many other contributors.
Ask HN: Review my startup, bcontext.com
Hi there!!

This is my first post here and I would really appreciate to hearing your feedback about our startup, bcontext.com.

In brief, we developed an iPad app that allows users to add narrative and hand writing notations to static documents (such as PDF, PPT, or any image), easily transforming complex ideas into engaging multimedia communications.

After a year of work, we think we reached the point of viable product.

Feedback on UI (app and web) would be greatly appreciated as we think is our weakest point.

Right now the product is free for social users. We charge for storage and private sharing capabilities once users upload more than 100Megs to our servers. At the same time we developed a Facebook app called "What We Do" to allow startups to describe their products for free in their Facebook pages. Please check this link http://bit.ly/OWcFOh to see our app in action and have a better idea of how the end files looks like.

Thanks a lot in advance
Your argument applies as well to Google Ventures as to Enron.

Exactly! Enron would be the equivalent if Google Ventures decided to falsify their valuation documents they were sending to investors saying they were getting much better valuations than they actually were. Then one day in 6 years they said all of those financial reports they submitted to the SEC were falsified so there is a total loss in the Google Venture line. In doing so they violated their fiduciary responsibility.

I'm sure there's a line in your head that companies are not meant to cross in serving their investors, but it didn't make it into the argument.

Of course there is, but an arm's length negotiation with CEOs of angel invested startups seeking to be the CEOs of the worlds largest, most innovative companies is well within that line.

Fiduciary responsibility is independent of ethics.

Fiduciary responsibility is the core of business ethics that should never be violated. Within fiduciary responsibility you still can't do anything illegal. Of course ethics are always a grey area which is why there is a discussion about this topic here, but I disagree where the line is clearly with you.

You can't use ends to justify means.

That is not what I am doing.

Seriously, ask yourself what you would want the VC you entrust with your money to do.
It won't? Let's assume it comes to a Jury trial and we get another Jury that doesn't need to look at prior art.

I don't mean that as a joke. If it's possible to trick a patent examiner by making complets so complicated that he doesn't understand them, why shouldn't it be possible to trick a Jury?
I'm a Mac owner. They make great products. But people don't know about great products without great marketing (the tech-startup entrepreneur's trap). Great products don't just speak for themselves, people need to know about them.

I'm tired of people thinking that Apple divined the design of the iPhone out of the ether like Einstein did for his theory of general relativity.

They iterated on some great ideas, combined them with a lot of stuff that existed before, refined them, and sold them.
In the vein of constructive criticism: there is a set of W3C-suggested accessibility guidelines that include tests for things like the contrast between text and its background (http://www.w3.org/TR/AERT#color-contrast).

This page fails that contrast guideline algorithm (258 out of a minimum suggested 500) and is a little annoying to read even for someone without a sight/color deficit.
As Lexarius mentioned, IEEE 754 includes decimal representations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point#Basic_form...
Bruce Schneier:

We're at a unique time in the history of surveillance: the cameras are everywhere, and we can still see them. Fifteen years ago, they weren't everywhere. Fifteen years from now, they'll be so small we won't be able to see them. Similarly, all the debates we've had about national ID cards will become moot as soon as these surveillance technologies are able to recognize us without us even knowing it.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/07/remote_scannin...

To me the implications are we have 15 years to make sure we know who is watching us and when.
Their ultrabooks don't look like MacBook Airs any more than other laptop manufacturers.

Same with the cell phones.

Most tablets basically look the same and function the same to the end user.
During many debates about gender (or race or sexuality etc.) in a group that lacks a lot of diversity, someone will come along and try to claim the high horse by claiming to be less sexist (etc.) because there don't care about gender, with the imitation that if you want equality, we should not focus on any group.

We do not live in that utopia yet. At the moment women in tech and men in knitting circles need more help (seriously I (a cis male) went to a local craft night and felt out of place). We should focus on people who need help. If people need more medical help (i.e. are sick), we give them more medial help than healthy people. Same with gender & tech.
What do you wish existed and build that?

Oh, it's too big?

Build a piece of it.

Oh, that's too big?

Build a piece of it.

The problem you're probably having is that you're saying, "I want THIS" and THIS is too big for you to imagine. So, just write a small subset, maybe 3% of that. Then you'll realize you can easily build this next little bit over here or over here and eventually get there.
Touché. Caps were just meant to share my frustration ... no yelling.
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'Wrongness' is an abstract concept that can't really be measured, let alone with something as simplistic as an error rate. An article can be 100% factually accurate, yet still be entirely wrong.
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