skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I already have plans for some future lazy sunday. I'll probably add "last 24 hours", "3 days" etc. graphs for a better grip.

Unless ofcourse pg fixes the downtimes - that would kinda pull the plug on my little pet project here.
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Great advice but... so? What do you use?
You're missing the point: the audience for an iPhone app is much smaller than the whole internet, and the apps are more ephemeral than what 37signals creates.

If your iPhone app only gets 20 paid downloads a day, you're hosed -- unless you've got dozens of apps in the pipeline.
License to stall
Silly rhetoric lacking a clear argument and evidence to support the argument.
I'm really sorry for not making myself clear: I meant that I would start using Chrome if it had such a feature.

And yeah, Firemacs is awesome. As a matter of fact, it does allow for navigation using some vi bindings by default. Even though I'm an Emacs guy, I find using hjkl a lot more comfortable than C-b C-n C-p C-f. I've heard great thing about vimperator, too.
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You probably should have titled this with the traditional "Ask HN: Review my startup ____" ... since I was expecting something different.

Anyway, seems like a nice, simple to-do list app. The shifts are a neat idea, but I'd be concerned that once they're hidden from view, I'd forget about them. Might be cool to have a ticker on the bottom that randomly displays something from the shifts page every time I load up the to-do list. That way I might be "accidentally" reminded of something I shifted a month ago and then forgot about.
Yes, I meant mainly that it doesn't cover Ruby 1.9 or some newer libraries. While the Ruby landscape has changed a little since it came out, The Ruby Way still covers the core language and many still relevant libraries quite well.
Beer is hacker news on Sunday, so my answers:

* USA: Sierra Navada Pale

* Australia, in order: Little Creatures Pale (on tap, at the brewery), Coopers Sparking and Coopers Vintage Stout

* Belgium: tripel karmeliet, duval or hoegaarden (too many good'uns and styles, can't choose)

* UK: Anything from Meantime is pretty good, but I'm fairly nonplussed by british beer. Especially 90% of cask ales - rubbish. Oh, I forgot Cobra which is an excellent, excellent lager.

* Germany: Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier Dunkel
#2 is not true. Stories posted automatically via the API won't show up in friend's newsfeeds. But apps can popup a "feed form" which allows users to preview the content the app wants to post to their wall (this can include an image or embedded swf). If the users posts it then that content will show up in all their friend's newsfeeds. I think this format is actually much better for apps.
Can people putting up stories please consider those of us that use the
site's RSS feed? All you get for this one is

<item>
<title>You&#39;re calling *who* a cult leader?</title>
<link>http://lesswrong.com/lw/4d/youre_calling_who_a_cult_leader/</link>
<comments>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527064</comments>
<description>
<![CDATA[<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527064">Comments</a>]]>
</description>
</item>

which makes it a bit hard to judge whether to read it or not. Improving
the title would be good. Especially since any explanatory text given at
the same time as the title doesn't make it through to RSS.

I'd like to think if it's worth posting to news.yc, taking up the time
of all those that consider reading it, it's worth putting some effort
into a good title. If it isn't, perhaps it's not worth posting?
Google is really no better than adware from the old days. Sure the service they provide is useful, but it's still adware in another package.
On the other hand, title 'improvement' carries the risk of editorializing or missing out on important points. Using the author's original title at least ensures that you're in line with the author's intent. This is a pretty complex article which touches on a lot of different points regarding pg and public figures in general, and I don't know if a few words would adequately describe it.
I could never get myself to use that; it's possibly because I refuse to remap one control key to the caps lock.

I usually navigate by searching for some substring of the link.
Well, I did go, and it was very invigorating. There is a "Silicone Valley North" and it is in Waterloo. Who knew? Now I REALLY have no excuse!
You should give me a better reason to sign up than just saying it's a minimalistic to-do app. A screenshot, a tour, anything.

Oh, I see you have a link to a nice screenshot buried under "Help". If you were to bring this link out into an introductory sentence before the sign-up form, it's look much better.
To add my voice to the chorus: Nginx, hands down. It's a great piece of software - simple enough to configure, small and efficient, and it just works and keeps working. I have literally never seen it crash or do anything it wasn't supposed to do.

As for lighttpd, I messed with it a while ago and while it has its advocates, I found it fiddly to install and configure and quite old-fashioned. The arrival of nginx means you don't really need to consider lighttpd, IMO, it's kind of the older, worse version of the same thing.

However ...

Your other option is of course just sticking with Apache. I don't know the details of your server (maybe should have said?) but it doesn't use that much memory! For many common scenarios using it could be quite a bit easier. Well, it would likely be no work at all actually, since it's probably already installed and running fine. There can be a tendency to over-optimise up front; why not take the path of least resistance, get something up and running with Apache first, then switch if and when you need to? Just a thought ;)
I'm a fan of Belgian-styles ales. At the moment, my favorites are La Fin Du Monde (actually made in Quebec), Golden Draak, and Gouden Carolus d'Or (Red). For more regular bottled beers my favorites are probably Leffe, Hoegaarden, Blue Moon, and Paulaner Heffeweisen.
Well, that's the point of multi-level A/B testing. You try all of the combinations to isolate the impact of each varying feature, but you are always testing 'wholistically'. They don't just throw a green bar up there on its own and see who clicks on it.
This essay hits close to home. I was commenting the other day about how my laundry list of skills on my resume gets shorter by the year. It's not that the dog can't learn new tricks: the implicit message stated by a skill on my resume is deepening. Sure I did a semester of Prolog in college, but I can't in good conscience hit the ground running on a project, so it's dropped. Core skills, the things that define you as a hacker, are what lives on your resume "etched in stone". During an interview you can wax about how awesome Forth is or the time you developed a VRML site.
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will todos auto shift to the next day if it doesn't get check off before the end of today?
I dig this actually and I am going to try it out for a week or two. The shift feature and stats page are definitely cool features. Maybe add a simple #tagging option so you can color code or filter your lists? I don't know if that is breaking too far away from your minimalist approach - but as it would just be "extra text" you can add "if you want" rather than more interface/gui I figured it would be a nice addition.
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Ask HN: Review my relaunched startup
Hi Hacker News,

This past week I re-launched my new web project called mostrecent.net.

I'd done a small launch for feedback in December with mixed results. I got very little user interest but I did get some good feedback. Overall the site needed to be easier to use and their needed to be more of a "hook". In this case the hook is being able to use Adsense to make money.

The basic idea of the site is to let you, as an expert in your field, build a news page. On this page you can highlight whatever it is on a particular topic that you know to be important. This is different from a blog (where posts quickly disappear off the page) and different from a social news site (where you may post the most relevant article, but the mob decides what gets exposure).

The pages are Drudge Report style portal pages and are edited using a very simple drag and drop interface.

I'd be very interested in getting peoples thoughts as well as suggestions for future versions.

http://mostrecent.net

Thanks!

Ian
Thanks! I have plans for hashtag-style support, definitely. Keeps things simple, but also is a somewhat intuitive (esp. for Twitter users) approach.
Thanks for the feedback - I've updated the signup page to include some basic "what is this" info and a link to learn even more.
Asahi Super Dry. It's just got this really clean, pure taste. I like quite a few others, of course, but .. ASD's the one I always "come home" to.
I wonder why people don't use PLT that much. It has libraries, docs and tools, and its scheme(maybe thats the problem?). Its a cool environment, I like it very much.
When is the right time for accessibility?
Auth.net is what we use at servee to setup subscription services.
Apologies for the title. I'm a bit new to HN, and was unaware of the titling styles. Should I edit the title?

Thanks for the feedback. The shifts actually are pushed back into your list the following day. I'm planning on a "shift for N days/weeks" feature to delay that longer than just 24 hours.
I like the SMS integration, here's a suggestion: use twitter for free SMS. Basically create a Twitter bot, ask users to follow your Twitter bot. Then all they need to do is to tweet their Todos, DM or @, both ways should work just the same.

This saves you on paying for SMS while adding a really cool feature - adding todos using Twitter.
Agree with the Dunkel. While I wouldn't want to be limited to any one beer, it should definitely be included in a list of beers to try.

That's part of the fun -- so many different kinds, many special each in their own way. And for me, at least, often specific memories associated with the different kinds.
I'm not really a huge beer drinker, so I don't really know the specialty brands that well.

From the ones I tried so far, I prefer Heineken the most
The calculation of the "paid-app" to "free-app" downloads is clearly flawed; This ratio would be higher if the application was offered at 99 cents when its popularity was still on the rise. They tried setting a price long after popularity had reached its peak. Still an informative article though.
Indio, XX Ambar, Victoria, Bohemia Oscura. We don't know why Corona is so popular outside Mexico.
Is that a good metric to track? My intuition is that not all applications are equal. A good metric might be "if I had N copies of the team, and unlimited money, how many of these would I accept?"

You can get 2X the applications, and 0.5X the acceptable applications - depending on the pool.
Coors Light.
Sacrilege! Around here, beer is hacker news every day of the week.
And such start the trend of measuring metrics. The next logical step is to measure when hnstatus.net is up/down.
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Quick notes:

The design is a turn-off.

The demo editor does not work. I gave my page a name, but none of the link or text buttons work.

Posting a review request at noon on Sunday limits your exposure.

I don't quite get the value prop here -- even if making a page is "easy", it's not easier than writing something on my own blog.

I can't open my own subjects without asking you? What if I don't care about the dozen languages listed?

Server went down at this point. Sorry, man. This is a nice idea but you'll need to give users more power and more reason to use it. Maybe importing links from delicious or similar.
You should try Anchorsteam.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm recovering from a bike accident, so having a marathon coding session is a bit hard right now, but I'll definitely try to build that. I can enable actual SMS for your account if you email your username to kyle AT pat.io -- should work for most countries
Negra Modelo is excellent.
What browser are you using that the editor stopped working? You can do any subject you want, in fact I may even add it to the list. I added the box on the left to give the site some initial focus.
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omg, i'm not reading that article. I only come here to comment on articles i've found for myself independently. I don't subjugate my will to that of some random internet authority figure.
Easy to Find: Guinness
Hard to Find: Bellhaven Scotch Ale
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Pandora's Bock from Breckenridge Brewery here in CO. nomnom
I will have Manny's Pale Ale from Georgetown Brewery anytime I find it on tap. It's a perfect balance of hops and malt.
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Thank you for nailing it.

While its true that Facebook users always bitch and moan about changes. This time they're bitchin' and moanin' annnddd using a very key word: confusing.

I fail to see why A) Web developers need to put down their users constantly, instead of working with them. B) Why web developers think that Twitter can do no wrong.

The elitist holier-than-thou web developer herd mentality is mind-boggling.
Yes, you can even get prepaid data time for iPhones.
I don't drink... ever. :)
It looks like the link now points there; I assume it was fixed. Shouldn't this comment be deleted now if that's the case?
Ask HN: Review My Website - Trip Reports All Over the World
Craft brews: Stone IPA is one of my favorites and Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale is great when it is in season.
Sierra Nevada Pale is great too.
It's possible (though not very likely IMO) that that could turn out to be "much better" once app writers adapt their apps to it, and people get used to it. In the meantime, though, the viral aspect of apps was based on publishing actions people take, as a side-effect of people taking those actions, and that just isn't happening now. You do NOT see this stuff on your homepage anymore.

As I pointed out, it's not just apps. Photo tagging, friending, and a host of other Facebook actions that used to be viral aren't anymore.
And you call yourself a computer guru...
Are you really comparing the new design with what was the case a month ago? You sound like you're comparing the previous design with the older 2006-2008 design.
... or that they must comment about a discussion of it on a hacker news posting of a blog post discussing it? Yup, that's the real question, I'm sure.
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I tried both FF3 and Safari3 on Mac.

Ah, I see -- I misunderstood the "let me know". I got the impression that new subjects had to go through you.

My other comments stand, though. You need an info/UI designer to go over the site, and you need to improve the value prop to contributors. There are lots of sites in similar areas -- three that come to mind are squidoo, mahalo, and twine.
it was called pHome.us. whatever though, i'm totally fine with people just calling it "start" now
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I tend to like the wheat beers. Franziskaner has a hefeweizen and a dunkel that are both fantastic. Also Hoegaarden's belgian white is delicious.

For a cheap everyday kind of beer, I love finding PBR on tap for $2 a pint in a ton of different places.
Mobile Browsers 
It's interesting to see what's been happening with mobile web browsing. Gone are the days of struggling with Windows Mobile's Internet Explorer or other basic browsers found in phones. Apple's Safari for the iPhone OSX felt like a huge breakthrough, but lacked Adobe Flash support.

It's amazing to see products like SkyFire and now Mozilla's own Fennec mobile browser building in plug-in support to bring the mobile browsing experience even closer to the desktop experience! These startups and smaller companies are truly taking big steps forward and filling the need for a better mobile browser that larger companies are struggling with.
I am really disapointed to find this featured on the front page.
Draught Bass!
If you can't get that then Marston's Pedigree or Banks's Original.

We are talking ale here of course - not that nasty yellow lagery stuff (to be fair Grolsch is not bad at all)
We started indexing trip reports from a few websites, and it's really filled out the map with information. I hope this helps someone find a hike!
ASD, but from a can - this is about the only beer I can think of that I prefer the can to the bottle.
I'm love-hate, lately, with these two "extreme" breweries: De Dolle Brouwers, and Dogfish Head

I've also been enjoying Three Floyds' Alpha King Ale.
Hansa Pilsner is the best Norwegian beer. Internationally, I'll go for a Carlsberg Jacobsen Dark Ale.
Rothaus Tannenzäpfle

(german).

But right now I "have to" drink Tuborg, Carlsberg, Ringnes.
I like the facebook redesign. I think it's snappy and I can still easily get to all the information I need when looking up contact info. Further, the AJAX loads pages considerably faster, and in many cases incrementally (e.g. pictures), radically decreasing the effective "response time" of the site.

I really have to wonder why we're even talking about it in a controversial way instead of an analysis of the technological changes and their effect on the site. It seems this is the wrong site for a controversial facebook design argument.
Currently, advertising only works on the Internet when people don't know it's advertising either because it is not labeled as such or because a confusing term is used (e.g., "Sponsored").

If you don't want to deceive users in this way, have ads about clever products (NOT clever ads, but clever products such as the Segway, Rubik's Mirror Blocks, etc.).
I've always found Google's business model vaguely insidious, like they're using my data against me.
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Unless ofcourse pg fixes the downtimes

Sheesh - it's a free service on the internet, used (amongst other things) as a vehicle for the new language he's working on. I think you're setting your expectations a bit off.

What does the graph really provide? We know when it's down -- Just seems like griping for me.
> think that's like trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon.

The problem is this: either something is a crime and the police enforce it or something is illegal. Just because it is difficult to enforce a crime does not mean that the crime should not be enforced.
I have not talked to David much about this, but the early indication was the applications and quality were much higher this year.

Certainly, that was the theme from TechStars for a Day.
Terrible article. The author put his foot in his mouth to talk up a numerically successful 24-year-old taken by the old to be an emblem of our generation, even though most within our generation just wish the guy would go away.

This is going to sound like it's borne out of resentment, but I don't intend it that way: Mark Zuckerberg's problem is that he never failed, and that he never was in the position where failure was remotely possible. Before Facebook's rise, he had ridiculous amounts of PR handed to him, and then got absurd VC investments-- again, literally handed to him. So, the end result of this is that he can't take success gracefully. This is why he pisses people off, and it's also why Facebook is such a mess. If he can't handle success well in the public, why would we expect him to be any more humble and attuned in private?
10 for Boulder and 10 for Boston.
> You know what the "best" language book I've read is? K&R

I also loved K&R. I like concise and precise books about languages. For me the fun part is the ability to make you "feel" the language by practice. I like when I can do something, and do it in a new way in a project of my own.

Recently, the best language learning book I read was "Real World Haskell".
This was my point. It's an unanswerable question, because the costs and benefits are too individualized.
The best thing about "X for Y" is that it is 3 words long. If there is a more descriptive 3 or 4 word phrase, use it. Tipjoy could have been "Digg with Cash" but both "Makes micropayments work" and "Simple, social payments" are more descriptive.
Definitely agree! Half the appeal of ASD is its crispness, which really needs a can, or even better, on tap. And, needless to say, it should be the domestic product - there's this awful Thai version floating around which I've made the mistake of buying once or twice.
> If it's a "mild inconvenience", surely you won't mind paying for n instances, for non-trivial n.

For all crimes there is a false search rate. A good example is a normal drug "bust" or a stolen property bust.

And yes - with the enforcement of most laws there is an inconvenience. A good example is a traffic stop - they check your license, check if the driver is drunk, check if the car is stolen, check for outstanding warrants of arrest and they may search the car.

What is the right number of car stops by police to enforce the law?

CP is more difficult because people can do this without going outside the home. That just means that the police should occasionally check inside the home.
Yeah same - sometimes these diversions can be the most interesting dialogues. 's killed now either way.
I disagree strongly that the connections are the source of the value, at least for undergrad. You're assuming that everyone who goes to an elite college is rubbing elbows with the wealthy. In reality, the people who are able to utilize college in this way are those who are already from wealthy backgrounds. Upper-crust kids don't go to Ivies looking to be "connections" for middle-class strivers.

I think that an elite college degree is worth $150k for most people, but I don't think it's the connections that add the value, so much as the prestige of the degree, the recruiting opportunities, and the information learned (mostly outside the classroom) about how the economy and society actually work.
* Australia, in order: Little Creatures Pale (on tap, at the brewery), Coopers Sparking and Coopers Vintage Stout

Absolutely with the Little Creatures. If you can get down to the brewery in Freo, it's a top spot.

On the UK side - there are a lot of CAMRA pubs around that generally serve some pretty top beers. http://www.camra.org.uk/
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I seem to often see the site, but when I click threads, I get nothing. Or sometimes on the homepage I get just one story.
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That's not true at all. Advertisements succeed or fail based on the nature of the ad. I've clicked Google ads before despite the fact that they're very obviously ads (different-colored backgrounds, text saying ads are ads). I've clicked Facebook ads, which are put in a special Ad Zone of the page.

Clever ads don't make me buy things, but they get my attention. Clever products? It's not a matter of clever, it's a matter of what I WANT. I would never buy a Segway because of an online ad.

There is one tried-and-true method of making an ad work, and it works every time: you make something people want, you find where you can put an ad that the right people will see, and you make sure your ad describes your product well. There's nothing "clever" to that, and there's no "confusing term" tricking people. It's a simple matter of finding a customer.
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