skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I want for Photos-Are-Broken Christmas is a plugin to take a Dropbox folder and display a nicely formatted gallery on a Wordpress blog.

It also wouldn't hurt if Dropbox would stop trying to wrap image links in a gallery page. Anyway, here's a picture of a robot's shadow on Mars.

https://photos-3.dropbox.com/thumb/AADVCsDpEacRaKHkyoPhQUU86...

Uploading was trivial. Sharing was a bit harder because they made it harder.

Anyone want to make and sell that Wordpress plugin? It would make sharing trivial for a broad audience with a habit of paying for useful plugins.
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> without Michael Moore, there would be no "Citizens United"

That seems backwards. If reversing that SC decision would harm speech like Michael Moore's then it would make sense to say that without "Citizens United", there would be no Michael Moore.
Oh, sorry for making this an example then. I was sure I'd seen it with a more contextual headline earlier, and assumed it was changed by moderators, but I must have misremembered.
As a user who's been around for over a year, I've recently decided to get more active in the commenting community here on HN as I've found it to be incredibly valuable and wanted to make meaningful contributions.

I quickly learned that comments based solely on humor tend to fall flat and get downvoted.

Also, being overly negative and not offering something productive to the conversation will get you downvoted quickly.

Overall I've found the feedback of downvotes to be helpful and it's directly responsible for me raising the caliber of my comments rather than writing the funny responses that I initially think of. I tend now to just write them in the comment box, chuckle to myself, delete them, and then (try to) add something worthwhile to the conversation. Everyone wins!
No, that is not precisely the same security gaffe. Github (for instance) is itself not as likely to be compromised as my link to Github is.
Hanlon's razor, modified:

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by algorithms.
Calling them academics is a serious stretch outside anything but the field of political science.
Cutting ethanol would just delay the Malthusian crisis.
Adrian, I finally watched your talk. Thank you for the link. It was a good talk. (Note to self: keep a few 40 minute talks handy in case the next discussion goes into a general area of interest :-)

My specific complaint will be that the talk occasionally digresses to what UX is, how a designer should be a good citizen, and how developers can be nice, etc. I am not familiar with the context of the talk, perhaps the general track had to have such discussions.

Nobody would argue that there would be no need to update the interaction as the product ages. However, that does not warrant the persistence of a designer in the middle of the development process. I am not referring to small changes to accommodate UI conveniences, about a design that did not fulfill its promise in the first place. A product design should not go out of date before it is released. A major revision is another story in itself, and that should be taken as a design update, and should be planned accordingly.

It is true that software is the most malleable product material ever, but the temptation to count on that malleability instead of focusing on good design only brings about frustration both on the side of developers and eventually on the side of designers, and most importantly on the side of customers.

Perhaps there is a bit of distrust between designers and the developers, as the developer has the final say in what is going to be done and what will be ignored, in addition to the need to update the design a little bit as the real usage data flows in. Or, perhaps the blanks in product requirements is a lot bigger in startups vs enterprise in a way that would effectively get the product change drastically every 3 months. I have only seen iterative design work well in indie games and small-time mobile apps, but those really do not count, as they would only be considered as prototypes in an enterprise environment, and you'd probably go about doing that much prototype while designing your framework.
Showing them "everyone else's salary in our company" is a pretty strong approach. How well has this worked out? Curious.

(Note: founders should still keep total comp #s fair for everyone, but there's a difference between that and revealing everyone's salary)
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There has always been regions or unrest all around the world at the same time. It is not because you do not hear it in the news that it does not happen. Somalia, Nigeria, Rwanda, India, Pakistan, China (China itself has thousands of riots every year in the countryside that noone talks about), and I am sure there are probably a lot more that I am not aware of. You just see the tip of the iceberg.

Just open any newspaper from 20-30-40 years ago, you will see a picture of a world full of conflicts and disorder everywhere.

This being said, I do believe there are "triggers" that may help people to riot, and the price of food may be one. By the way, food pricing and "hunger" are two different things. Noone was suffering from Hunger in Egypt when they rioted. Let's call a cat a cat. I love when people write about "Hunger" while they live in a world where noone around them have experienced hunger once in their lives. Don't USE words you do NOT understand.

And this article is BS anyway, since the author throws some global warming salt together with some "evil speculators" pepper. Making a link between drought and global warming, maybe, without any clear explanation ? Droughts have ALWAYS happened in History, even when we did not produce carbon. Strange huh ?
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Thank you, but I don't think you owe me an apology. You brought up an issue that, relevant or not to this submission, I thought I would address as far as it applied to this thread.
First off, Occupy professes non-violence and does not riot.

If you are reading these words, and you are a parent of young children, I want you to conduct a thought experiment: Imagine you have no food in your home, zero. Add to that you have enough money for one meal a day to be shared with your kids. Your children are hungry and you can not feed them. Add to that everyone on your block or neighborhood being as hungry as you are. Got this picture? Now answer this question:
Is there anything you would not do to feed your hungry kids, stop them from crying?

edit: World food prices in total rose 25 percent in 2010.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/jan/23/foo...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-24/speculation-swings-...

I don't have kids, but I did a fast of only juice for a week so I know a bit what it is to feel hungry. It makes you to strange things.

edit: why the down votes?
I assume that any awesome product that's free can sell ads, since people will be looking at it.
I agree that it is more chat than forum, especially because of the limited (that is, non-existent) support for threaded conversations. (The only thing I could find was a hash-number style referral shortcut).

Personally, I also disagree with removing timestamps. Although HK (presumably the author) is correct in that people can tend to ignore 2-year-old posts, this is an entirely n00b tendency, as old-hands know that there is gold in older content. That said, old-hands can very quickly filter for relevance when hunting for timely news. Removing timestamps removes that facility.
I think the main point being made is that the design shouldn't be distracting unless that is the point of the design. For login forms to be hanging from keys, and paper to be hanging from bolted glass panels is nonsense, and a distraction. Unfortunately what different people find appealing, others find distracting, but that's what usage metrics and testing are for- to help determine what does and what doesn't work.
Johnson or Stein? One or the other (could be) a more principled vote (I don't know what your full "checklist" is, although you clearly differ from Johnson on healthcare, at least).

Johnson looks very likely to be on all states' ballots in November (Michigan is the least likely, but still very possible) and Stein should be on the ballot in the majority of states.

Except for a few states (e.g., Colorado) it looks quite likely that any effect Johnson has will favor Obama's electoral prospects over Romney's, anyway.
I would be wary of throwing the word censorship around. This is nothing of the sort. Instapaper deciding not to interact with a particular website (whether foolishly, in this case, or maliciously) is hardly censorship. At worst it is simply sticking your tongue out in the general direction of someone you dislike.
The irony is that no where near 99% showed up, it was actually far closer to 1%.
Even so, I can't help but side with Arment. Users were still free to read 9to5 via any other method.
Marco was entitled to do this. And we were entitled to say why the decision was wrong and to encourage people to stop paying for his software.
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Oh so like Mysql "\G" command.
I would not even call the Black Bloc rioters. They use guerrilla tactics, hit and run.

Occupy protests are not riots despite all the police in riot suits standing around sweating.
There is http://weekplan.net which have some similarities with Trello (lists of tasks).
My mistake. I didn't think of those ones until ten seconds after my comment.
Those were barely riots. A whole lot of college students killed some grass on some public parks. For a noble cause.
I agree with almost everything you said, but being leery of a startup because it has stiff competition or regulatory hurdles is not the same as reacting with a "WTF?" to the basic idea like PG did when Facebook was new. It was an odd example for him to use.
I found the formulation of the theorem difficult to digest, but the wikipedia version was much clearer:

For every ε > 0, are there only finitely many triples of coprime positive integers
a + b = c
such that
c > d (1+ε),
where d denotes the product of the distinct prime factors of abc?
...I don't, err, get it.

I have a couple ideas but I'm not confident enough in them to assume veracity.
Cool, I picked up a copy! What technology did you use to write the book in? AsciiDoc, Markdown?
From what I hear/read, open discussion of salaries/income is not very rare in other countries (outside the USA). I think this open discussion only benefits the employee and should be more commonplace.
Good to know. In truth despite being close to them I don't know a great deal about their business model, beyond that they seem to be quite successful.
No, at the end of the article they specifically say that they had previously incorrectly said it was tensile strength.
Your cons are all about the cons of email client supporting HTML. My intended question was, given the existing support for HTML email, is there a reason for a sender to not take advantage of it?

Your reasons 1-3 above don't apply because I won't do those things. But what would be a con is if, because of those dangers, enough recipients reject HTML email out-of-hand.
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Updated title no longer matches the content of skeu.it, which displays extreme skeu, not just skeu in general or quintessential examples of skeu.

Also, skeu.it is really about textures and fail skeu, not actual skeumorphism, which is about retaining obsolete details from a previous form, not just pleasing textured imagery.
IT support is quite a bit different than software development.
It's not the normal way, but it's worked out just fine for us. We've all run our own startups before and we've all been burned before in one way or another. Building trust with each other is paramount.

Right now is one of the toughest talent wars I've ever seen. We've brought together 9 people all capable of running their own companies--you can't do that by doing everything the normal way.

But aside from all that, it just feels right to us.
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Yeah, he should charge $9 or more, $9 is the new black.
That's true. Even Ebay started as a pez dispenser trading site.
I recall the day I didn't stop thinking how to break a problem down. I kept chipping away till each bit was dead simple. It was absolutely magnificent! It could be applied to everything! But within a month, I'd lost what I took for granted: knowing the dots would connect. (Thank you, wtvanhest; that quote struck a chord.)

I would chop up a big problem into beautifully simple tasks, but partway through executing them, I'd begin to worry about another task. Maybe it wasn't the best solution. Maybe it would be better this way, or if I changed dada-dada... I would take the simple solutions and mangle their limbs, building another big, complex, can't-fit-in-my-head problem, while still retaining the notion I was being effective.

I solved this problem (for me) by keeping a "complex problem" journal. I write roughly what the problem is and why it's a problem. I write how I'd know the problem is solved. Then I break it down into bits, writing a few sentences on how the bit connects to other bits. Sometimes it takes an hour, other times a day or a week. But once it's obvious, when my replies to any question are "yes, the sky is blue" and "it's because fire is hot", I need only reread the journal (often) to keep it fresh.

I accomplish this through delegation. If you leave your keys in a bowl near the door, you're prone to walk right past it, because you need to remember "my keys are in the bowl" every time. And you will remember it, but sometimes you won't. I leave my keys hanging on the door handle, so it's impossible to forget them -- they fall when I open the door. I don't rely on my faulty memory, I rely on my senses and the ability of the universe to trigger them.

It was a wonderful article, and I'm always thankful for whatever tests my assumptions and manner of doing. After all, the nicest thing anyone can do is knock you off your track.
What are examples of experts who, in the end, are really not experts?
One time pad. Inefficient, but guaranteed secure by mathematical proof if the key is secure. Google it. QKD is far from ready for last-mile networks

The very term QKD as "Quantum Key Distribution" implies that the system we're discussing is good only for distribution of keys much shorter than the message.

So which is it?

You're not impressing me with the claiming of "one time pad security" for a system that's not actually a one time pad. This is classic snake oil jargon.

Your arguments against it are the same that were once applied to transistors or lasers.

Yes, I'll admit there's an element of reactionary conservatism here. The difference is that lasers were demonstrably doing something new and transistors were doing something existing (amplification) in a way that had radically better economics.

QKD is taking something that we're already doing now (non-intrinsically authenticated key agreement) and claiming that there's a need to do it in this new, expensive, complicated, and fragile way. Forgive me if I don't just take your word for it.

It would really be cool for those saying "really, your (EC)DH will be broken in 20 years" to put it where their mouth is and tell us what attacks they have in mind. Otherwise, it's just FUD.
Thanks for all the detail. But your automatic rejections seem kind of stiff. What happens when a friend not yet on your whitelist sends you html email? And you treat all emails with a link as spam?

The fact that you have a whitelist says something, doesn't it?
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How old is your blackberry model?
Why I believe in YUI
Unfinished product has no value so finish it for 2 reasons

1. Probably you will get good number of users which might boost your motivation again.

2. If #1 does not happen then you can always sell this product to someone else(flippa.com) which will at least pay for the time you have spent on it rather than totally throwing it away.
Sorry, I don't see how this has anything to do with HN, so flagged.
Bankers drove up food prices. Do more research. Ethanol is a red herring.
There is already a system in place for this - it's called the United States Postal Service.

When you fill out a change of address card, it goes into the National Change of Address (NCOA) database. Many companies, from "junk mail" all the way up to your mortgage company, subscribe to services that routinely update their databases with NCOA data.

It can take two to six months for the NCOA stuff to filter all the way through the system, though, so even if you do fill out a change of address card, be sure to contact any company or organization whose correspondence you must get in a timely manner (e.g. mortgage, rent, bills, etc).

Still, for the truly lazy who don't mind a late fee or two, they will find you (for the most part).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Change_Of_Address
I would like to see the correlating data regarding the increase of ethanol in gasoline with the rise in food prices/riots as well. I seem to recall that just before the Haitian riots in 2008 there was an increase in ethanol mixture of gasoline.
That depends how much you trust your corporate or government funded researchers :)
Except, thanks to the current electoral system, changing your vote to a vote for any but the two most likely to win candidates is essentially half a vote for the other guy.
How likely is it that significant numbers of people are going to go from "able to feed their families" to "can't afford a dollar box of noodles" in a single year?

I just don't see it happening. There is a long long way to go between the current living standards people enjoy and literally no food.
S/he could ask him at 10:15 each morning while he eats a snack, like any executive assistant does.
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I know in Australia much of the grazing land will not support growing crops. And it is also worth considering popular crops too that use significant amounts of water like rice and cotton.

So while livestock do account for much water use, it's not a simple switch to grains and the world will be rainbows.
First off, Occupy professes non-violence and does not riot.

Isn't this like saying "Anonymous professes _____ and does not ______?" Anyone can call themselves "Occupiers."

Food is pretty much a solved problem, at least in the US. It used to take virtually the entire country's labor to feed itself. Now agriculture is a single-digit percentage of the workforce.

Of course we can debate whether what's on the supermarket shelves should really be called "food," but for most Americans the question has been settled to their satisfaction. There aren't going to be any food riots in the US.
aidenn0, I explicitly addressed that in the last sentence of my remark.
Riots not catastrophe. Big difference. A catastrophic event would be something like world-wide flooding.

I suppose if the food system collapsed completely (and that is possible considering the way we grow most of our food (monoculture) - but very unlikely) that would be catastrophic. It would have to happen not just in one area, though. To really effect us all.

In that case grab your gun. And protect your own garden.

I think this study is predicting food riots in certain areas. Highly possible.
Oh, you just measure the SPH (smiles per hour), substract the SWI (swear word index) and voila, you have a number
Sounds like you want JIRA (http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/)

Each issue has an assignee, original estimate, remaining time, etc.

JIRA requires a bit more setup at the start than other systems (e.g. Basecamp), but you can really custom tailor it to your business needs. I've been using it to run Scrum in our organization for 3+ years now and I can't say enough good things about it. It's totally changed the way we work and we haven't outgrown it in any way.
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How do you access Github, if not through a hyperlink which is equally vulnerable to DNS spoofing?
You've already noted this in your previous comment, and now you've included a word that is typically used in anger.

I'm guilty as the next internet-person of over-reacting. I can see no reason to be upset about someone else doing the same, whether it's Marco, you, or any other reasonable stranger.
> I will never understand why people personalize so much what what Arment says.

The point is not in what he said, that's folklore more than anything, the point is that he crippled his software over some Twitter feud.
Thanks! Where are you getting the feed of projects from by the way? I find Kickstarter terrible for discovering new projects, its seems a lot of stuff gets buried.
Indeed, the data that correlates riots with food prices needs to be backed up with more than that study.

In addition, I found this statement concluding the article to be completely lacking support: "And it’s only going to get worse and worse and worse."

Why should we expect food prices / rioting to get worse and worse?
You don't actually know how we use it, so you are thoroughly unqualified to criticize what I've said.
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This is a false assumption as it ignores several mechanisms behind the riots themselves.

A better conclusion would be "rising food prices make riots easier to incite". The reason for the false assumption is the notion that the Arab Spring was largely leaderless or organic; it was not.

Most of the Arab Spring protests were encouraged and incited by the Muslim Brotherhood. The crippled economies were an excellent motivator for people to take to the streets - they did, after all, not have any work to do.

However, food prices were only a small piece of the puzzle that made the countries ripe for unrest. Many other components helped it along, including our country's naive actions.
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I hope these take off, because I also would love to not be staring into a lamp for hours per day.