skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was just a random unfeatured sheep in the slush pile, and it disappeared from the site after he mentioned it.

I guess now that you're employed by Google you won't have to make such compromises for funding.

You really need to be extremely careful about profiting directly from the users' work -- not just their CPU time, but the design of and selection pressure on the sheep themselves. It's especially awful to curate the work of users for private / limited edition works, especially if reserve that privilege for yourself.
Maybe you just work with the wrong designers... ? No sane, professional designer I know, works like that.
I'd bet that it is. I can't think of a fair way to adjudicate that, though.
Those descriptors are very true. But Drupal qualifies as "internet-based, dumb tech" because a lot of places still use the custom, desktop-based online publishing apps that were created between 1998 and 2004 or so. There are companies out there still charging an arm and a leg to create custom enterprise CMSs for publishing companies. Meanwhile the Wordpress folks are offering hosted "dumb tech" to VIPs for $500/month/blog and Drupal's founder just launched Acquia, which aims to do the same thing for Drupal.

Compared to some of the CMSes I've used (the one at Slate.com is incredibly complex, for example) Drupal is dumb tech.
Lazy Programming + Dates = Time Travel
The Next Generation of Electric Lights
Very cool "virtual hologram" advertisement from GE
As far as I know, there's no tickets for the $0.50 downtown zone. Just drop two quarters in. There may be a way for the wireless fare card (Go To card) to pay that, but I don't know. I just get a roll of quarters from the bank when I need it, and I walk to/from work half the time.
I think it's supposed to be avant-garde.
But it's pretty easy to one-click-install a mediocre site with multiple kinds of pages and baroque threaded commenting everywhere.
I'm not exactly a search connoisseur or even pay much attention to startups but wow. This is one of the first search innovations I've found that was any good, in fact it's great.

I've just replaced my google FF keyword, 'g', with duckduckgo link. I'll try it out for a week or so and see if I still think it's as awesome as I do now.
If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up after 10 hours of sleep. If I go to bed at 5am, I wake up after 7. If you're really looking to maximize your waking time, it's not about getting up early, it's about finding your most productive pattern. My work output doubled once I realized this and stopped setting alarms.
TB is usually a final stage disease that people with AIDS get. It is one of the most common ones (AIDS only destroys the immunity). When you hear someone who died of AIDS or lung infection in a high-AIDS country (e.g. South Africa) you can be fairly sure that it is AIDS.

TB can almost always be cured in healthy adults. The point being - even if you rescue 10 million people form dying from TB - 10 million would probably die of something else.

The best focus for anti-AIDS programs is probably things such as mother to child prevention (i.e. preventing an unborn baby from contracting AIDS from his mother, and providing formula milk to new mothers). The effects of this is measurable.
Did you just redesign your site? I swear it looked different a few hours ago.

"Or, as Joe Clark more bluntly put it in his post Google Smothers Designers, “[t]his is, after all, a place where usability head Irene Au recapitulates her own math nerds and derides typography as something twee designers fiddle with to make pages “breathe.”… Welcome, Irene Au, to the title of Worst Enemy of Web Design.”"

That's awful. Typography is the largest part of the average web site. Text takes up more space than anything. It's worthy of extensive focus.
I don't get your point. In one case, the data object get's created from the description in the database, in the other case the database schema get's created from the description in the data object. Seems to me both times the same amount of creation is going on.
Thanks for the feedback, I darkened up the text a bit. But if the blue is looking that dark you might want to check your monitor's settings, it's been readable in my (admittedly) limited testing.
The structure of phd programs highly discourages doing important research. Important problems carry high risk of getting scooped, but do not offer proportionally higher upside. The rational course of action is to choose the most irrelevant and obscure topic possible so as to protect your 5+ year investment. Real research is the job of tenured professors.
Nah, redesigned it last week in an effort to motivate myself to get back into blogging.
It's the natural byproduct of the growth of a blog.

I don't get why they don't just delete stuff like that. With TC's reputation, it should be no problem for them to hire a couple of interns to just patrol their comments and delete stuff like that plus the tons of spam that I've seen there lately.
"In fact, it wasn't the risky part of our original vision that had to change. It turns out that people really will pay good money for virtual goods. By discovering the other problems with our concept early, we were able to preserve our larger long-term vision. And, most importantly, we were then able to prove that it could work."

This was a big cliffhanger. I was very disappointed that the article ended without discussing "the other problems" and how they were discovered.
Thanks! Please email me your thoughts after the week--always looking for real feedback from real users. Also note we have a FF extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10536
Ask HN: Do you feel guilty about getting paid for bugfixes?
Well, I wrote an app for this company; the app passed all the QA tests on functionality it needed to do. However, after deployment in the real world, bug-reports have started to come in.

Of course, it is my job to fix them for hourly pay but I still feel like I haven't done a good enough job in the first place, to allow all these bugs in.

Anyone else feels/felt this way?
"If you're building a business you want something approaching an industry standard, because the more people working on and with a technology, the more developers you have available to hire, and the more tools they have to help them work faster."

If you honestly care about that (which is BS btw) then Drupal, RoRails and Django are non-starters. You have one choice, Java.

Is RoR really all that used/popular (esp outside of startups)? I'm gainfully employed as a Django dev and my industry, news companies(oka newspapers), is dominated by Django. So, I'm probably sample biased. Still, I see lots of Django usage, I see Django jobs, I see Python being much bigger than Ruby.
The seasonal changes are interesting. More work in the valley during the summer. More work at the ski areas in the winter.
Sure. It seems an odd choice to allow unmoderated anonymous commenting.
I love Rails!

I have been programming my whole life - more than 20 years. Rails is the most amazing framework to work with. You can do nearly anything with it - and pretty quickly. And you can get a LOT done in just a few hours of work!

Besides all of this, though, Rails is what got me to learn and truly appreciate Ruby. And Rails would be nothing without Ruby. Rails is fantastic, but Sinatra, Merb, etc., are other options that I am exploring more and more depending on the needs of my project.
I've always been the kind of person who loves sleeping in.

I've got several alarm clocks strategically placed in my room so that I can't simply turn them off without having to actually get out of bed and because there are several of them, the resulting dissonant noise is usually enough to wake me up.
I have been looking for a digital camera that is just as simple as the Flip video camera for my older parents. It is impossible to find one (any recommendation is welcomed). I think there is a market out there, for very simple devices that just do their work with no frills.
Burst Engine Demo (Javascript/SVG based animation)
"dark greed" != good

(sorry! could not resist)

Such an odd distribution of 21 - 30 % unemployment counties. I guess if California were an island, living in a "landlocked" county would mean especially bad news.
There is lots to play. People make games. People play games, http://slgames.wordpress.com/ There are active RPG groups. Star Trek, Harry Potter I've heard about. Basically virtual world LARPing with kick-ass interactive props that don't need to obey laws of physics.

There is nothing stopping anyone from creating games in 2nd Life. It's exactly what you asked for mod tools. It's all mod tools. It's all up to you.

Games esp mmo's are mostly socializing.

It's just a world. Geez, only a world. Like saying its just reality there's only sticks and rocks here, no games. Pick up the damn rock and hit it with a damn stick.

Have a modicum of imagination.
>While really nice for basic CRUD apps, as soon as you try to do anything advanced...

And what is there exactly so advanced that you want to do? You have a problem domain object model that you have abstracted as database tables. Is there anything Rails-specific in there? No. Your call, your design.

Then you have to present the objects to the world. Rails gives you REST. You may take it, or you may chose to increase complexity by adding your own methods... Hell, you can even put logic in the controllers, do as you like.

What is exactly bothering you with Rails? Rails just marshals http requests to database and back. Sinatra does the same, but then Rails have more community support and much more of those little snippets of code that just make your life easier. Nobody prevents you from writing your own helpers, if you don't like the Rails' ones.

Rails is just replacement for all the mundane, repeated and brainless tasks of handling those http calls - it lets you focus on the business logic, that's all. I challenge you to invent anything 'advanced' for which Rails (or Django, or Sinatra) are not good enough. The thing is - they are not there to make anything 'advanced'. They release you from managing infrastructure of your app. And 'advanced' stuff is completely up to you.
I agree that the color choices aren't great, but the simplicity of the design is quite nice. (So many of them end up being Flashy nightmares.) I'd like to see more info graphics like this one, which communicate trends in a clear new way.
I was shocked at the concept of acceleration for this very reason. I thought there was just velocity up and velocity down because I got my notions of physics from video games.
I disagree. Running is pretty damn exciting, even more than video games. Don't believe me?

Go on track, run a lap in under 1:45. Now imagine you can run at that speed for a long long time, without getting tired, in the trails, near lakes, on the tiny bridges -- running rules.

Once you actually can run (not jog like many do: took me a year or so) it is great.
John Gruber touched on a similar point today, quoting from a NY Times article from 2003 (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/magazine/30IPOD.html):

“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” - Steve Jobs

[edited formatting (thanks unalone)]
This is hardly limited to private schools. I went to a state university and they do the same thing while simultaneously taking money without my direct authorization (taxes; still in the state).
IIRC, Microsoft used to release localized versions of their IDEs (not the compilers themselves), but they weren't very popular as most people outside English-speaking countries perceived them to be somehow substandard. I believe they were also shipped after the English versions, so early adopters were forced into the 'merican way.
I think I'm starting to sweat up as I'm thinking about that pressure. Hate the pressure.
UB engineers prove that carbon nanotubes are superior to metals for electronics
Interestingly, I had similar thoughts inspired by the same comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524212
My experience with her was far from professional. She printed unfiltered digg PR in her book, including attributing words to me that I never said without any attempt at verification. She'll fit right in with the other PR people at techcrunch. A journalist she is not (I've worked at a newspaper so I've met actual journalists).
Sniffing keystrokes via laser, power lines
This is just the nature of the software business. When I worked at CMU a good portion of the app I was working on was fixing bugs. The more complex the software, the higher the expectation that there will be bugs to fix (and unexpected behavior caused by fixed bugs, sometimes!).
It is erroneous to judge the entire Rails community based on your experience with one person.

I used to have much of the same beliefs as you about Rails; Rails is not fit for highly specialized applications, a framework is overkill for very simple projects. It is only after I got further involved in understanding Rails that I understood that the framework is flexible enough to fit complex, simple and specialized apps alike. I challenge you to give me an example of a web application which is too advanced for RoR.
TwitterAuth - Complete Rails OAuth API Access to Twitter
What am I missing here? I'm a guy in his mid-30's with a wife and a couple of kids. If I go out on a weekend night, the last thing I want to do is go to a loud bar/restaurant. It's stressful and keeps me from enjoying the company of the people I'm with. However, dance clubs are full of "young" folk who like the atmosphere, hook-up potential, etc. If I asked one of them how much they liked the new club that just opened up, they'd probably have great things to say. This doesn't mean that I'd be at all happy.

Conversely, I'm happy to ask others how they like their X's (TV, phone, etc.) before making a purchase. As experienced device users, they know what questions I ought to be asking about myself (Do I have fat fingers?) and my needs that I probably wouldn't have otherwise considered.

Did I not understand ScienceDaily at all?
I recently wrote some image-manipulation routines in Python which ran 71 times faster with Psyco. Without Psyco, this kind of computation isn't really feasible in pure Python, so I'm also a little surprised Psyco hasn't had more influence on C Python. But perhaps its just a matter of time before PyPy is bequeathed Psyco optimizations.
I was going to suggest: get a cat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ffwDYo00Q
It's a lot more interesting when Jobs points out that Microsoft just copied Macintosh
Why? You and the client jointly agreed on a certain quality standard and you met that quality standard. This should have been indicated by a client sign off. The only way I'd say you owe them in some sense at this point is if you clearly didn't meet the agreed upon spec... but the tests (both code and user) should have hit most of that. After that... well, they need to evaluate the cost/benefits of changing the software.

Also, do not fix bugs for free -- certainly, people have done a (very tiny) bit of work for good clients, but you don't want to train clients to expect free stuff. You'll find that clients also try to slide features in as bugs -- the best way to keep a cap on this is to do a good job, meet your agreements, and then force them to decide on whether any further work is worth your hourly rate.
Find people to work out with and establish a time to meet early in the morning. Make sure they will be pissed off if you don't show up. Rowing is ideal for this.
Your line stretches out this page ridiculously.

EDIT: That's one of my favorite Steve Jobs quotes. When I was younger and making my first web sites, I thought design was all about making things pretty. Turns out, pretty has almost nothing to do with design (and, in fact most of the design I like the most is aggressively minimal and stripped away). Design's about how things flow.

(I'd also say, speaking as somebody who takes a lot of interest in design, that this makes design incredibly fun once you figure this out. It means that every page you make, even sign-up pages, are wildly different and interesting. I've made something like 6 iterations of my site's log in page, simplifying and condensing it each time, and I get a thrill out of that similar to the one that comes from making code better and more elegant. Not to speak of the notadouche sign up page, which was very very fun to design.)
Too many ingredients for Heyzap's taste. I am going to try that out without the garlic and bouillon.

Though I did find a Chinese supermarket in Mission with cheap pre-chopped garlic.
Would it be impossible for webapps to just have different interface versions always available? Like if I really liked something about the very first release, I should be able to roll back to that version and use that. We should all be able to use the interface that we like the most and upgrade as we see fit.
If you aren't going to use bullion, sprinkle some MSG on, umami is essential here.
The Giant iPod Touch Theory: I Don't Know if I Buy It, But I Like It
no, you just don't buy in to the underlying averaging of all experiences that socialism entails.
No matter how many ways they come up with of saying that you should be doing what someone else tells you, the underlying assumptions are wrong.
No, it signals the maturing of the market and a diversifying into many niches.
A completely mature market will have products at many price points serving many different needs. Most tech markets are not yet mature which is why there is so much room for entrepreneurs.
As soon as all extensions are ported there is no reason not to use Chrome.
I've seen them delete comments before. I guess the comment patrol is on a break
Its not like somebody will pay me if i get up early :)

I say stay up as long as required and try to get as much done as possible. But one important thing is to maintain atleast a 12 hour overlap with other people in your team if you are in a startup. An added advantage is, there is somebody to monitor the servers round the clock ;).
New Hitwise Stats Show How Bad Hitwise Data Is
A major flaw with this logic: strong user passwords are much harder to crack from a stolen database, and most users re-use passwords.
Chrome sandboxing doesn't rely on things like address space randomization and NX, so the Mac vs. Win32 different --- while probably still present --- may be less pronounced.
Venture Capital Investment Thesis Myths
Drupal is "dumb tech" in that if you're looking to MODIFY and CUSTOMIZE things, it's the easiest way to do so. It's not a "dumb blog" or even "dumb CMS". It's a "dumb site builder." You can use Drupal to emulate the functionality of nearly any site with almost no time.

I use Drupal to mock up web sites and get a feel for how they work with it. So it's dumb in that regard (and highly recommended, too).
I think the problem is that it sounds like you're talking not about the submission, but about his comment saying it's weird.
There's a reason you have to be convinced to learn emacs or vi, the user experience is horrible until after you've finished climbing a learning cliff. They work differently than just about every other text editor in the world because they're so old that they don't by default use modern hotkeys people are accustomed to.

Any debate about them being better really misses the point, it's the dvorak querty argument all over. Better doesn't matter as much as familiar to new users. Textmate is immediately useful to a new user and feels like a modern editor. Emacs and vi look and feel archaic and require too much effort to feel productive in.

That's my two cents anyway after many attempts to use both. Can't stand vi, can get by with emacs just don't really dig it. For quick editing in a shell I just use nano because it's usually just editing of config files.
This passed my "does this not suck?" test. Good work. A search engine that does not suck and is not named Google.
Since the rules change (i.e. become easier) each day, the day number gives you some indication of the relative difficulty in performing the exploit, even though the exploits themselves are prepared in advance:

http://cansecwest.com/post/2009-03-18-01:00:00.PWN2OWN_Final...
She might be a bad journalist in your opinion, but debating whether or not someone is a journalist is like debating whether or not someone who programs is a hacker.
If you can test A and B, you'd test 2 colors. Or maybe 3. But when you have to test many things (not just shades of blue) and you run tests of A, B, C, D, and so on, all the time... I'm sure they could test HUNDREDS of shades if blue just as easily as they can test 3.
It's possible but you have to jump through quite a few hoops to do it. The web isn't built for this unfortunately...
I don't think that argument holds up for a second. Lack of integrity is obvious to even the uninitiated - many journalists have been exposed for fabrication. Lack of programming ability takes a certain amount of expertise to expose.
First off, what you should know about lithium is that it’s not actually rare.
Get a kid, particularly the infant kind. They'll wake up at 5am without fail everyday for the first several years and are impossible to ignore when they're awake. When they start sleeping in late, get a another one.
The Big Bank Fix
When I first started programming I was also an auto mechanic. I never felt guilty for maintaining cars or programs.
I don't see integrity as something specific to being a journalist. It's something specific to being a good one. Just like it's specific to being a good...anything.

She could well be a terrible journalist. I disagree from what I've seen, but you've seen otherwise. Cool.

But saying she's not a journalist doesn't make sense to me. She's paid to be a journalist by Businessweek. Therefore, she's a journalist, in my book.
Anyone else find this disturbing?

Tetris has without a doubt been a huge leap for the puzzle-genre.
But that was 24 years ago.

Should ID software be allowed to sue all other 3d shooter makers because they build on the Wolfenstein idea?

And how do you determine a clone, where do you draw the line? Is Dr.Mario a clone? What about the zillions of Bust-A-Move and Jewels variants (basically tetris in reverse)?
I could come up with an example like this for nearly every real-life object I own, and every piece of software I use.

Same train of thought here.

Most of their criteria could be applied to almost any 2d puzzle game in existence.
1) I am sorry that you have been misinformed. The only genomes I ever pulled was a group of about 6 about 4 years ago, a group that I selected exhaustively from about 100000 myself to make large format prints. And the archive pages for those sheep still stand, including their ancestry. I don't know why your friend thinks otherwise, but I'm sure it's a simple miscommunication. If you can point at the "hole" in the archives, I would be more than happy to take a look at it.

2) My work at Google has nothing to do with it. If anything my time is worth more now because I am so much more busy.

3) You are right I have to be extremely careful. And I have been, and my user base is quite happy as a result, both voters and designers. My big problem is server overload. We just did a survey and of the 836 respondents, 98% would recommend Electric Sheep to their friends, and only a fraction of a percent objected to me making money from it ("making" is a dream, for now I just want to recoup my investment). Nearly everyone recognizes that I have and continue to put an inordinate amount of time effort and money into this. Donations have spiked with the traffic I have received from this announcement. Because people love it and they support me.

I hope you will reconsider.

Thank you, -sp0t