skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I completely understand the issue with Twitter account credentials. That's why I kept it with minimal requirement - provide it only when you want to Post, Retweet or Reply. When I say we don't store your credentials, I do mean it. That's why I ask it every time it is needed. But as you said, once Twitter fixes it using OAuth or so, definitely I'll support it.

3. My idea was to keep the domain name short and find the one which is available :). So its' mix of Tweet + Thought = Tweeght.

4. I've seen many people just post their insights, interesting observations, inspiring quotes, etc. So is the idea :)
Even if I concede that it's a damn fine start, it is not research sufficient to jump to the conclusion that (a) CSS layouts are overcompensating (based on a "hypothesis" taken out of thin air) and (b) people who believe using tables for layouts is bad are wrong based on said research.

Edit: He also managed to not even properly conduct this simplistic research considering that many of the tables used on the sites were used correctly, e.g. for tabular data.
Sorry if I offended you in any ways. I used Vista for one year before my laptop died. Although the graphics were nice, I found the entire experience less rewarding then using XP.
I'm actually less shocked that they're bringing criminal charges than that it's illegal to post a video making fun of the mentally handicapped. It's clearly in bad taste, but I can't imagine living somewhere where even the poster of the video had committed a crime.
Well, they certainly wouldn't be extradited, since extradition in most of the world requires the crime they are found guilty of to also be a crime in the country of residence. I don't even think the asses who posted the video committed a crime here, let alone the guy who runs the website.
I used to exercise a lot in high school but since college I've been doing less and less. Still, I seem to be unable to gain weight, its been like this my whole life, and it doesn't seem to matter what my diet is and how much I eat. My excuse for not exercising is that I would be even skinnier then I already am :)
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Can't help it but my first impression was something between an echo chamber around the echo chamber and an interactive fortune cookie collection.

Wouldn't it make more sense to vote on whole discussions instead of individual tweets?
How often do you 'release" your web service to production?
We just launched our service and have got a lot of feedback from customers, which we are fixing daily.

I would like some feedback on the pros / cons of releasing bugs / new features as they happen VS. a preset schedule VS. release dates (V2.0 in April, V2.3 in June, etc.)

How often do you release your web application?

We are a subscription (paid) service BTW if that makes any difference.
What does "pure CSS" page offer in terms of usability and accessibility that a mixed-use table/css page wouldn't?

View you page using a screen reader, then ask that question again. There are valid reasons not to use CSS, but accessibility is a clear win against tables, hands down.
I love exercising, particularly weight training, and do it daily. I stopped for about a year, but now that I've developed the habit again I remember how amazing it is to just... feel good about my body and my health. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I think the author's point was if you analyze the content of the major websites out there, you'll find that because there is obviously "no one methodology", those who are zealous should now be called "trolls". Enough is enough.
don't get too exicted, most demographic info people enter online is bullshit. lots of adclicks are bogus. etc. why not just become a psychologist and women will pay you to listen to their fantasies. better money than coding i will assure you.
What are the downsides to this stuff? I googled a bit and couldn't find anything particularly detrimental. It even seems have "memory enhancement" attributed to it.

http://www.delano.com/Articles/ketoDHEA.html - this was the most informative page that I could find discussing the benefits and claims against it. Seems to come out on top as being safe and effective though.
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I would be more inclined to be sympathetic to the cause of the author, and the ridiculous amount of people who upvoted this (wow, demographics change on HN, pg wasn't kidding) were he/she to show more than a three hour understanding of CSS.

Obviously, when you can produce something like this: http://www.csszengarden.com/, showing how a single html page can be manipulated in an infinite number of ways, it isn't CSS that's lacking, but your knowledge of it.

I'm sorry if this isn't the popular opinion on this board, but as someone that coded tables and then made the transition, I can assure you that css is a much more powerful medium for web page layout, despite its quirks.
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which made each machine a search engine, and used a protocol to request from all engines. Developed in the 80s.

Peer-to-peer search is alive and well, though:

http://sixearch.org/
It's a shame that the best teacher still starts at $50k, especially when the worst teacher at the same school will make $100k at some point. If a star teacher could make $100k from the start, it would be a lot easier to attract them.
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I used it as a guilt trip, not as an effective tool.
I would make the last point number 1 on your site. Before I care about how to sign up, I want to know what on earth its for. Once I waded through all the different ways of interacting with tweeght (which I'd never do in a real site, but I did here), and found out what the idea was, I thought it was really cool. The voting is whats important in my mind, since you can already retweet and quote people with vanilla twitter.
No--not only are the faces fixed, but the orientation of the 12th corner and 8th edge are dependent on the previous 11th and 8th corner and edge respectively.

The quoted number is known to be fairly standard amongst cubers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubiks_cube#Permutations has a decent description of why.
"For TwoSmartDogs, an Internet start-up in Los Angeles that was building an online hub for adult education classes, this sudden pullback was disastrous.

"In 2007, the company raised $715,000 in its first round of angel financing from eight investors. When the founders approached current and new investors for more capital in September, they were met with silence."

Why did investors think this

http://www.twosmartdogs.com/

was a good business opportunity in the first place?
This is a line I'm hearing more and more lately:

Kimber said he would "love to conquer Australia one day" but for now the focus was on Asia due to its significant growth prospects.

"The US is largely saturated, Europe is becoming saturated," he said.

"The next billion users on the internet are going to come from Asia, they're not going to come from Europe or America."

Our business has had an office in China for about a year, and Bangkok and Manila for several years. Anyone else on HN expanding into SEA or China?
This can't happen soon enough. I'm working on a web app right now that requires ie6 functionality. This browser needs to die but I think it's still got a ways to go.
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Actually, I think the basic idea has a lot of potential and could be a fine business. There's several different revenue models and the costs could be pretty low relative to a lot of other types of startups.

The bigger question is why they needed to raise $715k and still needed more.
That was really the thrust of my question. Why was that amount of money to start up a good investment?
What are the downsides to this stuff?

I don't know of any downsides to 7-Keto (7-oxo). However, I know that DHEA, on the other hand, has many downsides. It is important to note that 7-Keto (7-oxo) is not DHEA. It is a metabolite of DHEA. For a complete list of studies and abstracts, including the latest, I would search PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&term=... (7-Keto search; 14 hits.)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&term=... (7-oxo search; 47 hits.)

There was an LEF (Life Extension Foundation) magazine cover story on 7-Keto (7-oxo) in the May 2005 issue: http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2005/may2005_cover_keto_01.ht...

Scientists have documented DHEA’s wide-ranging benefits in numerous clinical studies. DHEA helps to retard the effects of aging and promotes enhanced longevity, exerting a multitude of effects through its conversion to some 150 metabolites, each with unique actions within the body.

One of the most important of these is 7-Keto DHEA (commonly referred to as 7-Keto), a hormone metabolite that can safely boost immune function and help reduce body fat. Unlike DHEA, however, 7-Keto does not convert to estrogen and testosterone. Because DHEA and 7-Keto have separate and unique functions and properties, it is important to understand the differences between these two popular dietary supplements. [...]

A study with mice suggests that 7-Keto can boost memory as well.17 In this experiment, researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison trained young mice in the use of a water maze. They found that a single injection of 7-Keto (at 24 mg/kg of body weight) reversed experimentally induced memory loss. The scientists then fed 7-Keto or DHEA to old mice that had learned the maze. They discovered that memory of the water-maze training was retained during a four-week test period in the mice receiving 7-Keto but not in those treated with DHEA.

The article includes 18 references.
Why do people use mispellings for their domain names? It's not a good idea.
1) I might find it more useful if it was limited to tweets from the people I follow or where the votes were from people I follow. I know that is much more difficult data and that it requires much greater adoption to be viable. But I think that would make it useful for me. (you could also use favorites as votes if you can get the data).

2) The design and performance seemed fine. The icons seem less harsh on twitter.com because the row height is closer to the icon size. Also, maybe only display the instructions the first time I visit the page. Go from Popular to Recent and back to Popular. The instructions get in your way.

3) I guess I rolled this one into the first answer.

Now, it sounds like I may want different things from twitter than your target market since for me it is more about ambient relationships than insightful commentary.

Congrats on your launch!
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Or

3. You just don't care.

which is by far the most common explanation in all
situations of this type.
I think the problem is that doing good frontend is a skill like any other programming skill. If you don't practice you aren't as skilled.

I get sick of people complaining about doing thing right being too hard. You wouldn't say someone taking the time to use a relational database is wasted if it meant they didn't try to serve web sites from CSV files.

Everyone sees different aspects of quality, and some of us have spent our time learning how to navigate the inconsistent waters of browser implementation to find the benefits than can be had. If that makes me a CSS troll, then I can live with it, warts and all.
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The attack took place on January 14th, per the blog. The patch was released on January 29th, per this:

http://www.phplist.com/?lid=274

Based on that, they very well could have been up-to-date when they were hacked. As such, to chide them on it seems inappropriate.
Not all investors are smart. Maybe they were tricked with a really slick powerpoint presentation. With comic dogs and everything.
I suspect he was serious, and he has a good point. If IE had supported "display: table" et al, coding CSS would be a hugely different and less confusing/frustrating experience for both the novice and the expert.
I support this decision 110%.
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Ask HN: What kind of support do you offer for your web app?
Recently I've been taking a look about how to cut down on support emails and I asked myself what would be the best way to provide self-service support to my customers. Right now I just have a simple FAQ and that's it other then email and our phone number. I've looked at detailed FAQs, Forums, support via phone/email/chat, and I really like Tender (http://tenderapp.com/) from entp but don't know which one would be best.

What I want to know is what kind of direct support do you offer your customers (i.e. email, phone, chat) and what kind of self-service support do you offer?
The paradox is that CSS was not meant for precise layout. It was meant to only vaguely suggest a layout. That's why it deliberately excludes the ability to force elements next to each other the way tables can and spread them out evenly. It's not for generating pixel-perfect PDFs. It's for saying, "Hey, put some content here, make it kinda look like this, and if it doesn't fit, let it flow to the next line. No big deal."

Yet the people who are so gung-ho about how it's superior to tables are...get ready: the people who think CSS is for controlling every pixel of a layout. Those people should really be using tables not because they're easier for what they want to do, but instead on principle!

Instead we end up with some horrible, disgusting hybrid. Pixel counters for whom tables work perfectly instead abusing CSS to force a precise layout all the while gloating about how they're doing something noble and difficult and looking down their nose at those who do it the "easy way."
I can't agree with this enough. Spend a little time on your candidate projects and the right one will emerge.
Linked in is about smaller numbers of genuine business associates and contacts. The site is setup in such a way as to make it difficult to simply friend people whom you have no real connection with on a whim. Slower growth would be expected given those factors.
Learning CSS and taking the time to do it right has other benefits also: Redesign is faster since there are fewer elements to manipulate; 98% of (newbie) cross-browser issues arise from excessive markup that's ignored by FF and interpreted correctly in IE; fewer elements also means less "mystery meat" when you start seeing IE vs. FF alignment issues.
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I love this post. As a hacker myself I can relate. I did not do much while at school - that pretty much took all my time. Also, "regular" sports did not appeal to me. I started taking up martial arts as soon as I started working and it has completely changed my life. It clears my head, keeps me fit.

I never liked the idea of hitting the gym just so you could have a "beach body". The idea of learning a new skill (or set of skills in my case) appealed to me. Having a fit and healthy body was a side effect. The inverse wasn't true, - lifting weights at the gym wouldn't yield any additional skill so it definitely did not appeal to me.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you find the physical equivalent to hacking - whether it's rock climbing, free running, or doing wushu - it's fun and will also keep you in shape.
People have more opportunities to stay in shape than they often realize. Walking helps a lot, and is very easy to do; for instance:

- park really far away, every single day at work

- find excuses to walk over to talk to people instead of calling or E-mailing

- use stairs instead of elevators

- when walking from point A to point B, choose an indirect route

- take a walk around the building every day after lunch

- a few days a week, walk around your neighborhood for half an hour

- every time you drive somewhere, walk inside (no drive-throughs)
Exactly, everyone with their knives out end up going for the biggest target. Same story with McDonald's, which gets dissed at every turn [1] while Burger King doesn't have to deal with any of that baggage and can happily, you know, sell burgers.

1 - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28967905/
In my case it was a combination of factors, including a doctor advising I urgently make lifestyle changes to avoid premature death. Because nothing concentrates the mind like a well-written bug report with Issue: Programmer Dies flagged at the top.

The actual changes turned out to be fairly simple. I bike daily now, pay a bit more attention to what I eat, and have 45 minutes chiseled out to exercise approximately twice a week. (I really wish I had discovered the Hacker's Diet about, oh, 16 years ago would have been great.) I've never felt healthier, never had objectively better readings on my annual physical, and my personal Trac shows Bug #666 closed.

(Although I'll confess I have Feature Request: Abs still pending.)
First, http://www.csszengarden.com << for a reminder of why I might want to use CSS

Second, http://www.nyt.com << reminder of why CSS grids are so beautiful

Then... a table on my site because I can't stand making two-column equal-height float hacks work anymore.
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This is a really useful article when it comes to actually applying SEO to your startup/product. SEO has gotten an insanely sleezy reputation over the years, and rightfully so with a lot of the practices people pull. At the end of the day try to ignore the bad rep it's gotten, because it's something you can't overlook when planning out your growth strategy. It can bring you a substantial amount of customers and a leg up over your competition (your competitors (the bigger ones) will spend a lot of money to outdo you in SEO.
How so? You'd be effectively solving the problem using both CSS and JavaScript they way they were intended, as opposed to using tables for layout, which has always been a hack around HTML's lack of any other layout support. Seems like if you're going to reject one approach on the grounds that it's too hackish, it'd be the other one.
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What they don't get is that there are a lot of startups for which several hundred dollars is not a nominal charge.
As in hacking, it helps to have a goal and a project in exercise. I'm finally losing my office gut with Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu.
It's just shortage of real domain names. And the idea was to come up with something relevant to Tweet.
Thanks for the input. I'll review it and see how effective it looks.
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The data in this article doesn't really tell me much. The decline is slow and is based solely on current versions. There are way too many things to factor. The increase of Firefox users, the uprise of Opera and Chrome. Then when IE6(or was it 7) came out, the different layout had a learning curve that caused users to switch. Then IE8 is supposedly the windows 7 of IE. There are really too many factors to just look at a chart with no significant data and jump to conclusions.
Google spends far more time manipulating data than code. You CAN unit test data.

This one slipped by. I guarantee you that a new test has been written and this one won't happen again. Save a different problem for a different day.
This is partly based on stuff said in the BB thread:

Wal-mart might treat it's employees better, but it's cut-throat treatment of suppliers forces them to cut their (the suppliers') employee treatment to the bone. When walmart might jump ship on sourcing from you (their purchasers are known to have zero loyalty) because it costs you $0.25 more per decorative lamp than the guy using questionable labor practices, you don't really have a choice on what to do. That $0.25 might mean very little to a small main-street (to beat the dead-horse) store, but to a company that does billions of decorative lamp sales a year, that's a ton of money.

So, sure, Walmart employees might be treated fine, but the people actually producing the goods walmart sells (their non-service, indirectly employeed workers) are hurting.
Thanks for your inputs.

1. For this suggestion, I'll need your Twitter login details. Who you are on Twitter. But right now there is negative mindset about giving Twitter account details. So I started with minimal requirements on user side.
Also, if you take public transport get off one stop early and walk the rest of the way.
Going to the gym after work Monday through Thursday improves my state of mind for the next working day. I've found that it has a huge bearing on my eating habits on those days, and my sleeping habits in general. I eat better and sleep less.
Me too. Except I stopped for about 2 years, and haven't gotten back into it yet. The gym is still collecting my membership fees every month. I should go back just to spite them.
This seems really interesting--- bizarre that there isn't more research on it. I've also had AMAZING success with Provigil (import from India el-cheapo). It keeps me in the zone for hours on end... with no side effects except for a welcomed slight loss of appetite. I wouldn't have believed you if you told me a drug like it exists, but sure enough...

It's almost like the FDA is plotting against us...
This raises an issue I've often wondered about: how much richer would China be if Chinese used an alphabetic writing system? I mean, they sure are spending a lot of CPU cycles on their crazy writing system. English orthography, though it may seem perverse to the typical Spaniard or Italian, is nevertheless light-years ahead of written Chinese. That has to be worth something.
>>> what are the ideas and knowledge that you have found most helpful in your current projects <<<

This is kind of a broad question.

For ideas, I usually look at the usual sources for inspiration such as my favorite applications. One of my favorite things to do is to read academic journals and try to implement some of the algorithms in a way that can be used by consumers.

>>> what I wanted to learn would be more beneficial than just doing something <<<

Well, to me this is a trade off.

If I just want to "learn things", I'd probably spend all my time in MATLAB experimenting with interesting code snippets that no one else in the world will see or use. ( I would also apply to grad school... something which I'm trying to avoid at this point ).

On the other end of the spectrum, I don't want to be one of those "web developers" who spends all their time writing the same "to-do-list" or "my own blog system" in some cool new language.

In the end, I think there needs to be a balance of challenge and practicality of the projects which I work on. It has to be technically challenging enough to keep me interested and yet it has to have some practical value so that at the end of the day, I have something to show for it. =)
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The author's point might have been better if there weren't a bunch of CSS libraries which have already solved this (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/ and http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/ to pick two).

You wouldn't rewrite cstdlib why would you rewrite your CSS framework for every project?

More over I think a lot of people neglect the real issue which is the high touch point of the Web, it's the multiple clients. You try to write cross-OS GUIs in Java and Swing and find out how easy that is (it isn't, obviously).

The reason people advocate CSS is that it presents some real tangible benefits. CSS was specifically designed to present the semantics of layout rather than HTML tables. The author doesn't even talk about CSS tables (http://thinkvitamin.com/design/css/tables-the-next-evolution...).

Again I wish people would talk about technologies they were familiar with and had even made spent time with. You don't see me critiquing the algorithmic design of search engines because I didn't choose to follow CS down that route of expertise.