skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stupid is a harsh word. But it's short and simple and easy to understand.

"Assume the user is stupid" isn't really being mean to users. It's just shorthand for "make everything as easy as possible. Sane defaults; great design; remove ambiguity; correct documentation; and so on."
Why Social Aggregators Are Biased Towards Short Articles and Cat Pictures
Why must this stupid shit appear on HN as well now?
Great. Another thread turned in a discussion about Apple.
For page views of course. It made it to the top of hacker news, after all.
No offence intended, but I just sicked up a little in my mouth
And the results are priceless^. Branding is sometimes worth
the extra few dollars. :)

^: Or should have been given the lack of quality.
"I would argue that working hard on your YC application is working hard on your company."

This is exactly wrong. There are two types of questions on the YC application:

1) the ones about you as founders, and
2) the ones about your business

Spending time thinking about the first type of question (e.g. "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.") does not help you build your business -- not in the least.

And if you spend time building your business (i.e. talking to customers and building your product), then you'll be well prepared to answer the second kind of question.

You have it backwards. Working on your YC app != working on your business. Working hard on your business, however, is the best thing you can do make your YC application successful.
I wouldn't consider it a hijacking. You're opting in.
I understand where you're coming from, but my point wasn't "I don't want an iPad", but rather that I feel like these prizes specifically cheapen the feel of the jam, especially considering how big github is. I don't know, I guess I've never participated in a game jam with a prize. But seeing as Ludum Dare pulled >1000 participators last jam, it doesn't seem like game developers need too much of a monetary incentive to jam.

In any case, I'm happy that this is happening; prize or no prize :)
On behalf of everyone who uses your router which, depending on where your router is, might be rather a lot of people.
was on here a few hours ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4697530
Brittany Laughlin is working on this for the tech sector with her new company Incline (http://inclinehq.com).
The prevailing argument against regulation is usually cost. "It would be expensive to implement this! MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!" and to the uninformed outsider this has a ring of truth to it. However any cost figure would be largely overstated as facebook and other big providers are already complying with European data laws. As such the fundamental architecture and implementation have already been done for a non-trivial segment of the internet population. All it would really take is rolling out that infrastructure to the US. Not to say it would be a completely painless process, but they already established a lot of knowhow.
IPredators: Cyberbullying to cyber-harassing troll cop from hell
Ext4 data corruption trouble
My thoughts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ
Marissa Mayer Makes Her First Acquisition
Qvimrc - vimrc setup tool
very simple and modular vimrc builder with a setup tool. uses vundle to pull plugins. still in development. needs and waiting for contribution.
As a designer, this makes me cringe so hard I'm worried a blood vessel might burst. $5 is not, I repeat, is not "hiring a designer". I'm glad that you found a solution that was satisfactory, but seeing people continuously take this route (on both sides of the equation) is well... I'm not quite sure how to describe it at the moment.

> Logos are a trap. Let me explain that statement: they are a place many startups get stuck. A logo is what identifies you. It's the symbol that takes up space in a customer's mind when they think about your company. There is no symbol that is more connected to your company than a logo. This traps entrepreneurs because it drives many of us to want the perfect logo.

If I hadn't just started eating (and replacing my chopsticks– the tip of one succumbed to the aforementioned cringe) I would love to go more in depth with this statement, so I hope another reader will tune in and maybe have something to say (whether they agree or not).

Edit: also, I didn't mean any funny business about breaking my お箸– it actually happened. Since you're ohashi... and... oh, well.
LOL, it looks like a $30 logo.
I'm going to make a plug for Calagator here. https://github.com/calagator/calagator

Calagator is an open-source community calendar project created for the tech community in Portland, OR. Here it is in action: http://calagator.org/

It's a straight-forward Rails app (2.3.5/1.8.7 last I checked)

I'm not on the team that created it, I'm just a fan. I customized and deployed it for a project last year and it was pretty easy.

I'm astounded more tech communities aren't using it or something similar.
And DSL speed tops 1Mb outside Buenos Aires (only 30km away)
Thoughtbot's online workshop on Design For Developers
Instead of taking place in our office over two days, the online version takes place over the course of a month. You pick a project of your own. This can be anything from your personal site, to a side project, to something you’re working on at your job. Each week, we release a pre-recorded video on a design topic and give you a workshop to apply to your project. Throughout the week you work through the workshop, emailing us questions you have along the way. We then hold office hours via group chat, where we have a group critique of your work.
That's fine. I didn't like a lot of the results, but I am quite happy with the one we chose. For $30, it was a really low risk experiment to begin with.
I guess one counterexample might be the Navy SEALS--anyone can openly apply to enlist in the Navy, and once enlisted, a sailor can openly apply for SEAL training.
You know, I hope you're dead wrong here. Because unless its generality somehow stops at AI research, or we somehow find a way to guarantee it will do what we ultimately want…

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

Eliezer Yudkowsky
It looks like FB is really unhappy about people stealing their profits, selling user's information.
If you are afraid that your idea will get stolen, don't participate. If its that good, it still will be stolen at the end.
Megaupload Can’t Come Back Online, U.S. Tells Court
Yup! I already use it - I have templated config files so I just create a symbolic link when creating a new Django app.

I didn't have to configure Emperor mode on my new Ubuntu machine - it has a directory where configs are stored. I remember 8 or 10 months ago, you had to configure emperor mode and set the "vassals" directory, not anymore I guess.
Meh, the interface makes no sense without a touchscreen.
Details:

Instead of taking place in our office over two days, the online version takes place over the course of a month. You pick a project of your own. This can be anything from your personal site, to a side project, to something you’re working on at your job. Each week, we release a pre-recorded video on a design topic and give you a workshop to apply to your project. Throughout the week you work through the workshop, emailing us questions you have along the way. We then hold office hours via group chat, where we have a group critique of your work.
Show HN: WebGL vs iOS vs Android (MMO Game Framework)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4698446
Startup pack gives away $10k worth of tools to new businesses
You should have the designer rotate the signal pictogram slightly clockwise. Here' an example: http://i50.tinypic.com/2mfgody.png
maaaybe.

We've only had our copy of eclipse for a short while, and since it's a big commitment to get a group to spend 4 or 5 hours together we've only managed 2 games so far. Roughly 10 hours for 100 bucks seems expensive, but what if you divide that across a group of 5 people? Then it's already down to 2$ per hour.

Every time the game comes to the table it looks like a better investment. All depends how you account for it, and how many plays you get out of it before you move on to the next new thing.
Parse opens windows to developing Windows apps
Who's going to pay for web advertising anymore if just anybody can install a browser extension able to block ads? We should boycott Firefox.

What kind of world is this where I can't fund companies by learning about the best kind of paper towels or being retargeted about a product I already bought?

I recently saw an interesting thought about the state of piracy, and it being a symptom of a flawed business model. What's to say advertising in its current state is the future of Internet business models?

If enough users don't want to see the current kind of ads, don't they become far less effective?
The only problem I see with that is that was true when fast reliable communication required presence. Now China could be the economic center of the world, but no one foreign would have to show up.
Thats interesting. Thanks for the link. Yet that is different, because it's teaching them a brand new skill. There needs to be something to help them transfer the skills.
Revisions = 1

Good to hear you're realistic here.

I always feel bad after hearing about people asking a designer from elance for 50 revisions to make it just right.
I'm not very keen on those two-factor approaches like this that use text messages to your phone. The text message often does not arrive. And in some places you have to pay to receive text messages so it can cost money to log in.

It would be preferable if they could just use the Google Authenticator app like a few other sites do.
Meant 2011, mistyped on the phone.
The USD is backed by a lot of guns. Noone else has comparable power to beat down anyone who threatens their currency.
If you switched projects four times, I can only assume that the last company, the one that YC accepted, has the most potential... otherwise, you would have continued working on the other projects.

I think it's way more than serendipity. I think the YC staff is extremely good at identifying where good teams and good products meet.
Shale Hacks Diesel Using Gas-to-Liquids Plants
Exacerbating this is the fact that Windows 7 is arguably at full stride right now and has almost no points that I really want changed. Why then do I give myself (actually, pay for) a headache with this new release?
The announcement is for people in the press who want to hear how the product compares (and will complain if it's not brought up), and secondarily people who love Apple enough to take the time to watch the announcement. You will not see a single mention of the competition on Apple's site or in any of their promotional materials, because of exactly what this article explains: aspirational brands do not compare themselves to those brands beneath them, because it would tarnish the brand.
DHS Makes Changes to Cybersecurity Office
As a fellow designer, I always cringe at stuff like this too. What if I hired a programmer for $5 to write a few web services that could scale to infinity? Luckily, I've taken the time and still take the time to improve on both of these qualities in my own professional development. Quality matters, and I'm trying to provide that across all creative outlets I partake in.

The logo IS important, very important, but it's just part of a web of important shit your business has to do. Having a great logo with a terrible or unready product means it's going to be even harder to acquire new people if they already recognize you by your "symbol" as not executing, or almost there, or the idea's good, etc.
Windows, reimagined: A review of Windows 8
The Travis Plans
Windows 8 Pro upgrade for $39 dollars ($15 for newer PCs). [1]

That's... reasonable.

I might consider buying a copy of Windows 8 Pro at that price and then waiting until it hits SP1 to install it.

I might even spin up a VM to try it out.

I like that the $39 upgrade applies to anyone with Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7. I think they're realizing that a lot of people don't upgrade OS because they don't want to upgrade their hardware.

(like my old Win XP laptop that I use as a VNC terminal to other machines).

The only reason why I wouldn't want to jump in with two feet is that I have a general dislike for the Xbox dashboard and I suspect that Metro would be very similar to it.

[1] You can use this tool to check that you have a genuine version of Windows http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012

[2] Windows OEM licenses are transferable if it included the hardware

http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/...

[3] Windows retail licenses are transferable

http://www.microsoft.com/About/Legal/EN/US/IntellectualPrope...

Here's a direct link to a PDF for Windows 7 Home Basic in English

http://download.microsoft.com/Documents/UseTerms/Windows%207...

[4] Windows Anytime Upgrades are pretty much considered to be OEM

17. TRANSFER TO ANOTHER COMPUTER. (retail)
a. Software Other than Windows Anytime Upgrade. You may transfer the software and install it on another computer for your use. That computer becomes the licensed computer. You may not do so to share this license between computers.
b. Windows Anytime Upgrade Software. You may transfer the software and install it on another computer, but only if the license terms of the software you upgraded from allows you to do so. That computer becomes the licensed computer. You may not do so to share this license between computers.
18. TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY. (retail)
a. Software Other Than Windows Anytime Upgrade. The first user of the software may make a one time transfer of the software and this agreement, by transferring the original media, the certificate of authenticity, the product key and the proof of purchase directly to a third party. The first user must remove the software before transferring it separately from the computer. The first user may not retain any copies of the software.
b. Windows Anytime Upgrade Software. You may transfer the software directly to a third party only with the licensed computer. You may not keep any copies of the software or any earlier edition.
c. Other Requirements. Before any permitted transfer, the other
Boarding pass barcodes 'can be read by smartphones'
I have.

The interface is freaking unusable.

It is like Microsoft decided to exit the desktop market with a bang.

"We are failing, and we are taking Windows with us".
The article is from Jan 20 2011; since then we've designed our own.
And it shows...
>> Exacerbating this is the fact that Windows 7 is arguably at full stride right now and has almost no points that I really want changed.

Sounds like another anti-innovation/change comment on hn. If this is not, please tell me how?
1) You aren't looking hard enough, go look through their app gallery. For my part, I've deployed Parse in Gaia GPS, StopWatch+, Shark Net, and it's saved me mountains of time. Gaia GPS is the highest grossing hiking app on the App Store, and Shark Net was downloaded a bazillion times as part of Shark Week.

2) Why would developers stick with Parse? Well, because the price is just negligible for what you get - there will never be a good ROI to switch away. You can use Parse at the Pro level for literally years, and it doesn't cost as much as a week of effort from an A-level developer.

Parse = $4800 for two years

Awesome Developer = easily $6000 for a week of work

3) I love Parse for how easy it is to whip up server-side stuff, where I'd like some flexibility in how it's implemented. Before, I would write features and have to ship new versions if I wanted to make a change. Now when it occurs to me to make something server-configurable, I don't heistate to use Parse - it just doesn't add any time over using strictly client-side stuff. And the web interface makes it simple to "admin" and tweak the features.

Don't even get me started on how easy Parse makes it to do Push notifications and how well that works.
Proof that you get what you pay for.
Hmm. Because of that horrible thing Blogspot does where they change the domain suffix depending on the user's location.

I'd delete the post if it had gotten any discussion before, but since it didn't, let's leave it for now.
what's wrong with preferring low-average learning curve text editors?
Enterprise Piet has also produced the rapid deployment of a Leanpub feature, enabling a synergy between books in this genre and books in a more traditional genre.
That depends on how much you play them =).

I own about 100 bucks in Ticket to Ride Europe + 2 map packs, but we've probably played it for 100+ hours now...

On the other hand Battlelore sits unused because my friends don't dig it, so I'm at -$50 there =P
My issue with it is that it's silent. Unless there is some landing page that tells every new MAC address once "Listen, some content is being replaced", they are SILENTLY manipulating peoples' web traffic and presenting it as canonical. That rubs me the wrong way.
The Windows 8 upgrade install experience
I experienced this when teaching beginners. Some students had great difficulty seeing "code in motion," as I call it. I think they see it as declarations, as in math. It takes them time to learn to "see" what the code will do when it's executed.
nice thanks :)

for anybody interested: 8:30 demon costume
> The yuan is displacing the yen as a key currency in Asia

FTFY (well, at least fixed that for the Economist headline writers)
True.

The better use-cases for separate keys are:

- Use a key specific to a given client system from which you connect. E.g.: separate keys for your work and personal machines. If one or the other is compromised, delete entries for the compromised key in your authorized_key files.

- Use shared keys, where necessary, for group infrastructure in a work setting. Examples might be an AWS login or other systems for which a single key is permitted (really, such cases should be rare).

- Use separate keys to make use of forced commands. These keys are single purpose, and are used to run a single command on a remote host (or set of hosts). They aren't general-purpose login keys.
That is why I found the Win 8 announcement so weird originally. Why let it compete against Windows 7, which is to me the best version of the OS by a wide margin.
$5 for a logo design, wow.

I'm sure if there was a post saying "how I built an iphone app and backend rest API for $100" we'd all be screaming.

It's interesting that more of these crowdsourcing / task based websites are appearing with very low prices. How long before we see contract writing for $50 and medical diagnosis for $100?

It will be interesting to see what will happen as professional skills are driven down to commodity level.
The iPad mini margin is definitely more than $129.
> and has almost no points that I really want changed.

Most of the wealthy people in Europe probably felt that way in the 18th century about their society. But it's a good thing that this particular opinion is silly and holds no water, right? Something existing to your level of liking is perhaps the best reason to change it.
You've obviously not used the meetup site. More likely, Notepad.
Windows 8 upgrade: your hardware and software options explained
Well, here are two plots from the data earlier today showing some patterns:
http://i.imgur.com/q2Qc0.png

Left one for the data ending with "f200000000", right one with "50000000". For these I just assumed the numbers were 64-bit little endian integers.
If you visit msn.com in metro IE, the tiles have a tilt-click effect that emulate the real metro tiles. I think skydrive.com does this too to some effect. It would be nice if Microsoft could release an official open source library.
There is no way out of the "metro" interface?

Clarification:

I assumed el_cuadrado was refering to metro being "unusable".

Is that true?
It doesn't necessarily need to be a full API. How about a database dump, or even a .csv? Just some way to get the data out of one system and into another.
Cloud archicture will impact IT transformation approach
There's also a PAM module that will forward sudo authentication requests over your SSH authentication socket.
Mostly I watch TV at night, after 7pm or so. So I suppose it's possible that the local ads are played during an earlier block like the local news.

I have a feeling though, that the presidential campaigns are buying a significant portion of the available air time.
It's surprising how many times I've seen tech companies use an 'i' with a signal symbol at its top.
How does this work? They have an android app.
I guess that connects to your router to change your DNS. (which then resolves their IP for some ad hosts). But how does it set their DNS in your router? Is there a standard API for that? Or did they make a scraper-app for lots of routers?
How is changing the desktop we currently have, which works for most people and everyone is used to, for a completely new system that is clearly meant for a device other than the PC, innovation?

Change != always good.
A more apt headline assertion would be, "Why Apple doesn't care about price competition."
> What if I hired a programmer for $5 to write a few web services that could scale to infinity?

No developer will work for $5 in the first place, whereas there are plenty of designers who will work for $5 on logo design.

For small Saas businesses, logo may not be as important as how designers see them to be. Why is it hard for designers to accept that there are plurality of opinions on the value of design?
> Realistically, how many people repair Android or non-Apple phones? How many iPhone users would, when faced with a broken phone, try to fix it themselves rather than take it to the Apple store for repairs?

Not enough, and that's the problem. iFixit's purpose for existing is to get people repairing their things (electronic or otherwise); this is why we make guides and sell tools and parts, why we make all our guides freely available under a Creative Commons license, and why we spend a lot of time and effort convincing people that yes, they can repair things.

So when a corporation makes a visible effort to discourage these same people, we get frustrated. Yes, most Apple consumers don't want to repair their iDevices. But they never will if Apple continues discouraging them.
Those stories are about culture, which is why it's still important even if the majority of guys don't do it. And you are not being charitable in your characterization of them.
Please don't post that kind of comment here. It's against local custom.
Could you elaborate on your comment a bit? I have no idea what you are referring to by "replicate" and "triangulation". (obviously i am not asking for definitions but rather what they have to do with BT4LE lol).
"Can foreigners trust that the Chinese courts are fair and neutral and unbiased?"
My question: Can foreigners trust that the US courts are fair and neutral and unbiased? Please look at the most current cases of Apple vs. Samsung and Cisco vs. Huawei before giving your answer.
How the new Digg digs up its top stories — without your help
That is really all startups need.

Startups will either have a product that is so awesome that they get popular on their own merit and can fix the logo later (Facebook),
Or their technology is desired by someone else and they get bought up by someone who doesn't care about the logo cause it'll just go away (Many startups),
Or they'll be a semi-successful company that fades into the obscurity of the semi-successful startup army in which case a solid but not stand-out logo is just fine.
This type of snarky comment diminishes the level of discourse here. Please stop making them, and please encourage others to stop making them.
4 Reasons Gamification Will Fail at Your Company
Complexity-wise, comparing an ethernet card to a GPU is like comparing a bicycle to a commercial jet.

The funny thing is that the article specifically trash-talks what you're describing in defense of this practice: NICs that do TCP offload also tend to suck (at least according to Dave Airlie).