skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be that many things are counter intuitive, but it seems calling out doors as something that has ever been intuitive is fallacious. Perhaps they used to be more consistent, but it doesn't take a lot of effort to find horrific accidents that happened years ago because doors weren't designed well.

Not to mention, watching my kids learn different doors has been amusing. I would think intuitive is the wrong word, so much as simple determination will get you through most any door.

It seems more likely that around 50 years ago the technology and literacy rates had finally advanced enough that push/pull signs could be easily attached to commonly used doors.
Makes one wonder how the entire Lean Movement first appeared at manufacturing...

Yep, the advices on the Lean Startup gides is quite directed at software, but it is an specialization of a more general idea.
neat idea, useful for travelling groups or work sessions on the go. What's the catch tho? Facebook login? Suspect. Ads popping up on every hotspot user's web browsing? Or does paying for the device cover them
Please change the title. It doesn't talk about how people change but how to change people.
Yet he still supports Apple in the most egregious ways. A big example when Apple started banning apps that had in app purchases that didn't pay Apple 30%, like Readability apps, ebook apps, Kindle etc.: http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/dirty_percent

TL;DR Quote; This is what galls some: Apple is doing this because they can, and no other company is in a position to do it. This is not a fear that in-app subscriptions will fail because Apple’s 30 percent slice is too high, but rather that in-app subscriptions will succeed despite Apple’s (in their minds) egregious profiteering. I.e. that charging what the market will bear is somehow unscrupulous. To the charge that Apple Inc. is a for-profit corporation run by staunch capitalists, I say, “Duh”.

If it was Google or Microsoft which did the exact same thing, Gruber would've raked them over the coals for blatant profiteering and restricting developer freedom.

Not to mention snark against Google, Android, Motorola, Nokia, Amazon etc. like calling the pink Lumia lipstick on a turd. Only increasing his readership and RSS ad costs though.
How I got a YC interview as a single founder and blew it at the final hurdle
To be honest I think my biggest complaints about lego are cost and that it is hard just to get a big bag of basic bricks.

However I think the 'Friends' thing could have been better handled with modest tweaks. Why aren't there any boys/men in 'Friends'? What if boys want to play nurseries or tea parties.

When I was young the lego characters were mostly gender free but it seems increasingly that the 'boys' lego increasingly has male characters (even outside the branded Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings stuff). All the Firefighters and Police seem to be men when they could have been much more gender neutral (or mixed genders) without loss of fun to boys or girls.
you can easily bypass the paywall with a little javascript.
Just thinking about:

Couldn't it be that software is heading a paradigm shift in the economic model?

I would enjoy dealing with indie carpenters but still can't find them :)
It's weird that HN is now a thing to be gamed (in this case, poorly). I remember when this was just a forum for people to post links and talk about stuff, and wasn't nearly influential enough to be worth astroturfing and manipulating.

It's not just this post either - I've seen first-hand other startups try to manipulate HN. It can be as mild as getting your colleagues to upvote a story, and it can be pretty loathsome like astroturfed comments.

Re: the list though, I see a lot of FNACs here (Feature, Not A Company). I love a useful product as much as the next person, but are products that have no visible revenue potential really startups?
Even though we're in this list (HeyCrowd), I don't get why everyone gets so angry when seeing a list of startups and calling them "junk". It's just a lazy thought process to do that. It's true that most of them will probably fail anyway, so what's the point in destroying them when they're trying their best to bring a vision to life ? Personally, I have discovered a bunch of interesting products there.
Microsoft Security Essentials Fails AV-Test Certification
Didn't expect that "How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network's Password with Reaver" would be the top guide for lifehackers readers
http://lifehacker.com/5873407/how-to-crack-a-wi+fi-networks-...
When you talk about the cheapest brake pads available, are you talking about consumer price from a retailer?
they are? news to me
Tears in my eyes after reading this, seeing the "What it is is beautiful" commercial and remembering. Everything.
Bicycle frames last for 20+ years

That's conservative - my mom has (steel) bike frames hanging in her garage that date back to the 1970's that are in great shape and they've barely been maintained in the interim. I'm guessing a well-maintained frame could last for 50 years.
Should saying "most sites use HTTPS" be the way to explain security of this set up?
Introducing RiskDB: a centralized repository of security vulnerabilities
Risk I/O, a vulnerability intelligence platform, recently launched RiskDB. RiskDB is a free, centralized repository of security vulnerabilities sourced from vulnerability databases.
I have one of these and it is hands down the most practical smartphone case I have ever had.

Need a stand to watch a movie on a long flight: add some stubby wing pieces from my Y-Wing set.

Need a way to hold the phone on a stand for Facetime between the toddler and Grandma: a few extra pieces of lego and a rubber band.

Need to hold the phone in place on my car's dash: the studs of the not-legally-lego back help hold it in place.

The only real downside is that the shape of the hole in the back for the camera and flash (iPhone 4 model at least) isn't large enough that the flash doesn't kick off a bad reflection across any image you use it with.
Get used to it. It takes an incredible amount of work to build a "crappy" startup, but less than zero to post a snarky comment to HN that makes one feel superior.
Data Virtualization through the Looking Glass
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Sure. char is not specified to support ASCII either but it's not really a problem in practice :)

If you start avoiding all the things that are not fully specified by the standard, your C programs will end up doing very little indeed.

Now, it might be that some environments targeted by Lua have very spartan C runtimes: consoles. Anyone
have a pointer to the C runtime docs for Xbox 360 and PS3?
How an all-star team put an end to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
that's not a comparison it's at best an anecdote.
Great idea - "Lego - Conference Call Set".
Life is too short to read another half-hearted defense of a terrible language. This author lost me when he started out by only acknowledging the critiques of PHP that he could handwave away. If he actually had a coherent response to "Fractal Of Bad Design," that would be something worth reading on its own.

To the author: doesn't the fact that you have to point out all of these things to avoid say something to you about core issues with the language?
Mozilla’s Adds Facebook Messenger To FireFox Using Social API
I agree. We bought a mindstorms kit for me daughter a year ago (she has engineering aspirations).

I have to confess, I've had as much fun with it as she has.
At the same time, I can understand it was easy to underestimate the weight of the Brotherhood, with medias playing on the name of El Baradei and other secular figures. I agree with your point that it could have been a lot worse.
Super talented employee driving you crazy
Autonomy deal is a lesson for managers
more on this from the TQ:

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21567200-...
I switched to the new design beta the other day and I think I've been visiting soundcloud as a destination about 10x more than before.

Its probably one of the most effective redesigns / UX overhauls I've seen in a while

Though I do think they missed an opportunity to put more persistent player controls in the top nav - play pause, next track, scrub etc are missing unless you visit a song. Kind of wish it worked a little more like Hype Machine in this regard
I have no idea what I just read but it sounded facinating
Consider this as a demonstration of cardboard as a material, not that of a bike.

Now, if we are to prefer cardboard bikes for their environmental friendliness, we would probably want to look at what else is used to make the material strong. If it only works in combination with a bunch of toxic glues and solvents, then one will need tons of marketing to create a hype with smoke and mirrors to cover up that part of the picture.

I am excited about this project though. Because, in the end, even if we don't get a $20 bike, we might get the knowledge of converting cardboard into a cheap and easy to shape material we can play with at home for our own projects.
...PG hit me with a particular question about acquiring a particular type of user, one I should have been able to answer, one I’d practiced dozens of times over the past few days, one I had several strong answers to. I don’t understand why, but my mind simply went blank. The interview ended a minute or two after.

Sounds like an incredibly minor detail to base the decision on considering everything else appeared to go well. I've no doubt PG and the team are all about small details but that doesn't quite add up for me.

Either way Steve, you did great to get as far as you did and a YC rejection is only a minor hurdle along the way so best of luck bud.
Yes, I exaggerated on artistic license, maybe a bit more than the anecdote could carry. That doesn't change the fact that a door that adults in a civilized country needs written instructions to operate is completely and utterly broken.
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5 Signs You're Sucking as an Entrepreneur
This is interesting - but I'd like to see some reviews. I can get $10 for a GB with my Chromebook, but it does expire at the end of the month...
Does free speech on the Internet actually exist?
Bringing sexy back? Myspace is released in beta
Great post, but your choice of colors make reading it incredibly hard on my eyes (it's the end of the day here).
> What's the catch tho?

I don't see one. It's pay-per-gigabyte 4G internet plus a referral program that pays a commission of 100MB free data usage per user.

> Facebook login? Suspect.

That's to prevent gaming the referral program. Linking to a Facebook account means you can't give yourself unlimited data by continually changing your device info before connecting.

> Or does paying for the device cover them

You pay for the device and the data.
I was a huge LEGO fan when I was a kid. I didn't have many themed boxes but the basic bricks were more than enough for a kid with a lot of imagination.

As a grown up, seeing all those incredibly detailed scenes and models created by fans pop up every now and then on the net has been fun to watch.

As a father, accompanying my kid through his discovery of LEGO was a treat and a great occasion to get into the "zone" for hours… with him.

I must say that I wasn't convinced by their Hero Factory stuff; thinking it was too inherently violent and left too little room for my kid's imagination. Now that he has 6 or so of those and spends hours combining their parts (adding LEGO elements here and there) into gigantic — and horrific — figures I can say that I misjudged them.
Guys sorry about not joining the monthly haters' meeting here but to me it looks like a nice list. I agree it's too much Betalist in style thought.
Where is that better resolution picture? All the ones I've seen look fake to me. And not because of lighting. The image of him just looks very flat. No depth. And the angles of his head to body look like a picture was taken of him at a slight angle, printed on a flat board and then placed straight to the camera.
Work from beautiful Colombia: Feb-Mar 2013
I prefer the OpenGarden model for this, which is entirely software based, and thus only needs an Android (and hopefully soon iOS) phone to accomplish the exact same. And as speeds and phones get faster and more pervasive, their distribution model is far better than Karma's.

(Disclosure, I'm an investor in OpenGarden)
I love the new interface but the infinite scroll made me a bit nervous - I didn't expect my computer to be able to handle hundreds of multimedia canvas tags on the page at once. But I just scrolled through several months (200+ mixes) of the excellent Boiler Room mix archive - recommended to anyone who likes techno or other electronic music, btw: soundcloud.com/platform - and didn't notice any sluggishness or other problems.

(I'd still probably prefer to view a user's mixes page by page, but I understand that I come from the pre-infinite-scroll generation and a good chunk of Soundcloud's target audience does not.)
For an example, see this summary of the baseline for warranties in the EU
http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/shopping/shopping-abroa...
I suppose the reason why the software industry gets around this is that you can't buy software but only license it.
Inspirations and writing: How to overcome the “writer´s block”
Quote:

Vice Magazine reporters are indeed with me in Guatemala.
Yesterday was chaotic due to the accidental release of my
exact co-ordinates by an unseasoned technician at Vice
headquarters. We made it to safety in spite of this
handicap. I had to cancel numerous interviews with the
press yesterday because of this and I apologize to all of
those affected.
Readmill and Gidsy are also Berlin based. I know of txtr too, but only because they share an office with SoundCloud :-)
These are very good news indeed. I started to wonder what good Elon Musk's colonists and tourists will do on Mars upon arrival. And it appears that they shall be able to buy some grocery! Isn't that wonderful?
Are multiple devices connected to the same hotspot able to communicate? I don't want any random person in the coffeeshop to be able to access my machine.
Personally, as a child, I would have loved the tie-ins because of all of the new specialized pieces that they make for them. The original sets never lasted for a super long time before it was all just component parts for building whatever I was building.
Open the link in porn mode.
Cause astigmatism: http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/10/13/why-light-text-on...

I absolutely hate reading websites that do light on dark.

I use this Chrome extension and it works great. http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/chang...

I used to use some extension on firefox as well, can't recall the name.

EDIT: Perhaps this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/color-that-si...
When it's raining in the city, it's snowing in the mountains! If you enjoy snow sports, it's hard to get upset about the rain. The snowiest mountain in North America is within a few hours of the city. The Seattle Grey is like the Seattle Freeze -- it only bothers you if you believe in it.
I understand what you mean but there is a lot of cliché in this homepage, pinky stuff, girls, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that friendship is for girl and construction is for boys.

I'm just saying that Lego Friends universe use some stereotype marketing

I would have been much less negative, if they included boys, girls, because, boys likes animals friends, pink as well as girl likes blue.

Lego: Please skip the stereotypes
Mind to show an example? Does the new method have a meaningful name? Are they smartly structured in a hierarchical order? I find it hard to believe that too much methods are harder to read than bad variables or indentation.
After the story of you flying over to doorstep a hedge fund manager, navigating the many layers to get there and ultimately solving the problem, I don't see YC saying no to be a problem.

Learning experiences and such, grind it out and keep going.
I don't get why music sites feel cover art is so important. It is so generic and interchangeable. Some more tags/genres shown would be much more important to me.

maybe it’s a matter of preference and the way one handles information, but i've always found it extremely important. so important that i never add files into my library unless they're tagged with some form of cover art. being, i'd say, a very active consumer of music (i.e. one who very frequently acquires/adds new music into his collection, on a near-daily basis), i rely heavily on the ability to visually identify a track or album. for me, the absence of cover art would significantly cripple my capacity in discovering, managing, and consuming music (even within my own collection)..

for artists i'm most familiar with its less of an issue (though even then, if they’re active with releases and/or have a large volume of singles/loose tracks, identification by cover art is the quickest way for me to find a track or narrow-in on one within an album).

but for newly-discovered artists and/or recent releases (soundcloud’s primary focus) i find it absolutely crucial as i’ve found artist names and track/album titles to, in fact, be generic, interchangeable, and often forgettable -- at least until some degree of familiarity is formed. filtering by genre and release/acquisition date helps to some degree, but even then you’re left with a lot of names/titles to remember and associations to make; having the visual representation cover art provides makes this all much easier to manage, for me at least.
There is a trend that cuts through the industrial design world (you can see a new instance of it pop online every few hours) - the idea that the regular market economy is missing the boat on some GENIUS idea that involves recycling / underlooked materials / sustainability, and that this genius idea can also drastically cut costs.

I happen to love the Lego-block nature of cargo containers, and while doing research on them first stumbled into this pattern: it seems that every third design major comes up with the idea to use cargo containers as cheap pre-fab houses. Well, it turns out that while cargo containers are relatively cheap, they're really not all that good for housing - they're too small, they're uninsulated, they need as much (or more) build out on the inside as a regular house, they're harder to put windows into, etc.

The same sort of pattern appears with all sorts of other materials: people get the idea that left over offcuts of wood at house construction sites can be laminated into tables or bathtubs, that asphalt shingles and be ground up and used as a flex fuel, that cardboard can be folded into bicycles, that what the third world really needs is a cheap laptop with a hand-crank on the side, etc.

All of these schemes fail in similar ways:

* they ignore the huge amounts of evolved-in wisdom that long-held solutions have

* they ignore production costs

* they ignore labor costs (the "Earthship" underground house plans are great...but they implicitly assume that a thousand hours of labor swinging a sledgehammer is free)

* they ignore the costs of ancillary features (brakes on a bike, insulation on a house)

* they pretend that some materials are "green" and others are "anti-green".

* they often assume a superior attitude to people in the third world, assuming that first world design students have better ideas than millions of third world people who actually know what resources are available and what features are desirable.

Steel bicycles have a TON of evolved cleverness in them. They are the end result of a fierce evolutionary winnowing.

If you're ever tempted to announce to the world that everything that's gone before has been mistaken and you've got a solution for other people that's a ton better, take a moment and think through all the OTHER criteria that these people might consider relevant. You may have come up with a wonderful new idea (it happens!), but chances are that there are good reasons that the idea has not already been adopted.
No. Fact is, the language is used by a lot of people who have no clue what they're doing. This article is not for them. Come to think of it, it's not for you either. It's for people who use PHP with some degree of competence.

I think PHP is to a large degree a victim of its own success. The runtime's ubiquity means that a lot of very incompetent people are fiddling around with things they don't understand. If you look at, say, PHP-related questions on Stack Overflow, you'll notice they are of extremely low quality that have nothing to do with PHP itself, but have everything to do with the person behind them not understanding the simplest things about programming.
Getting the band back together
Is the cardboard still viable in wet weather? Does it have a special coating?
Look at the forums and stuff.. They seem to speak of python as kings and ruby as a second class citizen...
It's stuff like this that not only makes consumers love LEGO, but also just gives the impression that you want to work there when you grow up.

Such a perfect method of satisfying customers while ensuring a steady pool of enthusiastic potential employees.
What's the easiest to read Tumblr theme? I'll happily change it. Sorry it makes it difficult to read.
I just bought this. Every time someone connects to your hotspot, you both get some free extra data. Also it never expires, and the bandwidth is tied to the account, not the device so I can my account on someones else's device as well. This sounds like a winner.
Darn it, I was working on this too! I guess my project will just have to be that much more original now.
Star wars game for github game off 2012
Erector sets were around long before the prurient connotations were made.
> Did you ever learn how to read code at university? Were you shown loads of different code, in different languages and different styles, and then asked to explain what the code did? I don’t think code comprehension is a normal part of the curriculum for computing science classes. We’re taught how to write, not how to read. Maybe that’s a mistake.

Dear lazyweb,

I want to bridge that gap in my education. Where do I go to read loads of code in different styles? With the emphasis on plurality of styles.
But... why not just lend regular, cheap bikes and reuse them? Reuse is a lot less expensive than recycling.

I visited a city last week (Matsumoto) that has this service, they lend cheap city bikes for free by the day. Not even an ID card needed, you just write your name and phone number and go. It's a fantastic service when visiting.
Software engineering, now with cats
Twitter doesn't scale (for conversations)
What are the ways by which I can track the space and research?
Softwares, websites