skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks Isammoc!

With the service you're collecting links for your own purposes. It's to help you save and curate them into collections to be revisited later by yourself, or by anyone that you choose to share them with. Can you clarify what you mean by "What will I see (screenshots, demo page ?)".

You can currently only sign up with Facebook, but you can connect your Tumblr and Twitter accounts as well. That's what we're referring to when we use the plural for social accounts. We've thought about letting people sign in with Twitter as well.

Home within the context of the service is your profile - which you can get to by clicking our logo or by clicking "My Profile". Is this counter intuitive?

We use your email to send you updates about your account, but you have the option to turn these off via your account settings. We don't use your location at all. We could definitely clarify this a bit better on the permissions page.

On the Legal page, that section refers to content that you upload manually to Fetch.Me (not brought in through your social accounts). You can't currently do that with the site, but it's something we've thought about allowing you to do. You wouldn't have any problem with links to content hosted elsewhere, regardless of it's IP status. We might want to remove that section for now haha.

Thanks again for your feedback. This stuff is highly appreciated!
You are arguing that Aaron was an idiot. He was many things, but not an idiot.

He knew that MIT was trying to stop him from being on their network, and he continued to evade their countermeasures and get back on the network.

How do I know this? Because I know Aaron was not an idiot.
The White North - It's Great for Seed-Stage Startups
is it opensource? It would be great if you could share
>It comes down to time.

>If he was paying for my time and I wasn't delivering then there's a problem

No, he's paying you to deliver and that's it. Your time is required to do work. Your time is worthless to them, what you produce is, however.

Robots require less time to do many tasks, and they can accomplish more of them. They're paying you for output, not time.
See also, http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o... - along similar lines, even if it's not a 2x2. It's doubtless been on HN numerous times, but if you haven't read it before then it might, at the very least, pass the time.

(The ribbonfarm guy likes 2x2 diagrams as well: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/04/20/how-to-draw-and-judge-q...)
Well the alternative (dynamic loaded libraries) have their issues as well. After "DLL hell" and various issues on Linux in the past, I'm not convinced one side is fundamentally better than the other. 3 gig is nothing these days.
Because it's not a problem for private applications. You actually do want the key in your VCS in most cases since it should be stable across deploys. Rails will log out every user and throw an error for each active session when the key changes because it suspects that the session has been tampered with.

The handling for OS applications is a little more difficult and I must admit that I know a couple of mediocre and no good solution to it.
I am 22 and I am really really interested in startups. I know have a good job and don't feel like chaining it but if I would I would go for a startup.
There were a lot of them around the holidays in 2011. Not so common now, but from time to time they occur.

The unofficial purpose is to provide a mechanism for people to give something back to the community. So the value proposition should be heavily skewed away from the offering person - e.g. free goods or services is obviously consistent, market rate goods and services are obviously not. Anything in between may be seen one way or the other by the community.
I'm also 23 and working on startups since I was 21.
Not yet. The threshold is 100K signatures per petition now.
Why To Do Lists Are Failing Us
The article is about writing better code. My guess is that the PHP developers who do want to write better code would probably take the advice.
Is your point that nobody should ever suggest that PHP developers write better code?
Defining the Ops in DevOps
You need to start somewhere and with someone and the assumption that the person who last changed the line has at least some knowledge about the problem is better than spamming everyone.
The question is, would the Chinese firm have been willing to work so cheaply had he not been funneling them confidential information. There could easily be ulterior motives here, it depends on the company in question.
But you haven't told me why you booted me, so I can't know for sure that I'm not welcome again.

Because Aaron is not an idiot, he knew exactly the reason he was being booted from the network: because he kept on abusing it to access JSTOR.

Courts, for good reason, have very little sympathy for the "duuuhhhhhh, they didn't explicitly tell me not to do that" defense for adults.
yes they do.
My God, the Chinese people will take away our jobs!
Thank you for the links.
I know Michael Hartl's ruby on rails tutorial, and it's nice written, but when I read programming books and come to parts like data-structures, then I think - "Oh no, I already know that stuff" and skip this part. But in this section you really learn about string handling…
I probably should just read everything and keep on learning..
... what are you responding to?

I linked to the part where multiple people report Hubbard said religion is a good way to make money. The only mention of the BBC and protests is Scientology making wild claims about the BBC.
They're all aesthetically pleasing, but it'd be nice to see the highest-converting and find out what makes them successful.

Some landing pages look like shit but convert like the Spanish Inquisition, so I'd rather base my inspiration on those than a pretty but poor-performing landing page.
A redundant array of inexpensive contractors. At 1/5 takehome pay for each you could at least afford RAID, err, RAIC-1 mirroring.

RAIC-5 contractor array is the traditional "I'd like nine women to successfully cooperate to produce a fullgrown baby in one money"
Only one person is responsible for a suicide--the person who committed suicide. This realization is a very important part of the healing process for those left behind. Otherwise it's possible to torture oneself thinking "if only I'd done more."

Logically, if it's partially Steve Heymann's fault, it could also partially be the fault of those close to Aaron who did not sufficiently help him. Or at least, there is a danger that those close to Aaron could feel this way--it's very common in suicides. But ultimately, Aaron chose to kill himself, and it was solely his decision to do so.
So... basically "start a business"?
Developing iOS applications with Ruby
The employee, an "inoffensive and quiet" but talented man versed in several programming languages ... six-figure salary ...

Hey that's me in a nutshell. Why don't I earn a six-figure salary?
If there is one thing that can be learned from this...

Use DuckDuckGo.
How Dr. Dre Made $300 Headphones a Must-Have Accessory
If you're wanting/demanding a meeting or call the next day and that's your main decision making point, I imagine that you might be a high-demand customer.

Also, maybe KISSMetrics make themselves this initially available to everyone - which is why they have the time to respond quickly to you initially, but then backend support is slower. Or all levels of their support are good because they're an older company and have had time to evolve to that.

You can't really know.

MixPanel did respond in the same day, they just weren't available immediately.
I also take issue with the name of the site.
I don't know where you've been but Techcrunch has always heavily promoted Facebook. In fact, a couple of years ago I thought they single-evenhandedly pushed the Facebook valuation from $20 billion to $100 billion in a matter of months.

They were writing an article about how Facebook gained another $5 billion in valuation every other week. Who else writes articles about valuations of a (still pretty random at the time) company every 2 weeks and about each incremental rise? I don't think I've seen that ever before, even on BusinessInsider, and they do a bit of that, too.

I may be exasperating a little, but Techcrunch was a pretty powerful force in the tech world then, and I do think it influenced valuations and put them on a feedback loop just by writing about them every 2 weeks, on how Facebook's valuation grew another $5 billion, and then that would influence investors and help it gain another $5 billion. Not to mention TechCrunch was also one of the very first sites to use Facebook comments. So although I'm not reading TC these days, I'm not surprised that you've noticed that.
11 A/B Experiments to Try
I like this a lot. It wouldn't be HN if I didn't have a nitpick to contribute: dragging the textareas to the right takes it past its right border (Chrome 24 / Mountain Lion).
You can actually still go in the cockpit on commercial airlines, just not during the flight. Before or after the flight the pilots are usually happy to show you the cockpit.
Thanks iurisilvio!

We're definitely seeing a common theme here, it looks like we're really not telling or showing you guys enough up front to explain what the service is / does / is valuable. We're definitely going to have to work on that.

Basically when you sign up we pull in your links from Facebook (and if you connect them; Twitter / Tumblr) to your FetchMe profile. From there you can organize them into collections. The idea is that we're taking your existing activity on the social web, and making it more useful by helping you curate it / find it later. I encourage you to give it a shot, as I'd love to hear what you think about the service itself.

We'd actually just discussed yesterday whether the sign in button / call to action was clear enough, so your point on that helps a lot.

Thanks for the feedback.
I can't think of a better example, so this:

Imagine I have a land that is for pissing. I.e. people are free to piss on my land. You piss. I don't like the smell of your piss. So I put some boxes where you piss and so I try to block you from peeing. Are you in the wrong to pee on a different part of my land?

Wouldn't a better recourse be to require people to sign up before they pee? Or to find you when you're peeing and tell you in person that you can't any more (then if you do it again, it's trespassing)?
No one is using the like button?

I assume you mean "No one is clicking the like button", but of course they are, and even when you don't click the like button Facebook still knows exactly which page you saw it on, and that gives them plenty of information to mine..
it seems abandoned..
Love it! I signed up but I guard my inbox like a fortress so will probably make these skip the inbox then set a weekly reminder to read over them (alternatively, you could offer a weekly digest :) )
I hope Verizon promoted this guy to dev lead/manager. He showed that he could get the highest quality (at least by VZ's standards) work done for a fraction of the cost. I'd promote the guy and give him & his team (internal and/or outsourced) more challenging projects to see what they could do.
I ask friends and family around my age (23) and their like yea will do it...but it seems like they all loose focus cuz if school or their job.
Microsoft's Bing Wins With Facebook's Graph Search - Or Does It?
This depends on individual agreements between employer/employee at the end of the day and also on the nature of the job.

There are certainly situations where it is advantageous to have your employees sitting at their desks in your building. So you know where they are if some emergency situation arises or if you need to ask them some questions or even just to make the place look big/busy.
...and I haven't come across a recruiter yet that could tell me the difference between javascript and php.

It appears we haven't met before.
I think it's more an initial aversion to a lot of risk and lack of direction, as opposed to a lack of interest in startups or small companies. At my previous startup and at my current company, we have a lot of 24-29+ year olds (as opposed to 18-23 year olds) joining us. Upon graduation, they likely have some student debt, often don't know what direction to take at 21 or 22 and end up working at a large tech company or for a bank, etc. for a few years (who offers them grandiose promises of big paychecks and stability) before they take the plunge and join a startup.
Just because my door is unlocked doesn't mean you have the right to be on my property.

The law, for good reason, doesn't follow a "whatever you can get away with is legal" stance. For one, because then we don't have law anymore.
The focus on finding "who's at fault" is going to immediately put people on the defensive, I'd imagine.
AJ Jacobs did it first in an Esquire article if I'm not mistaken. Tim got the idea from him.
People wo could write better code in php have already learned how to write better code in other languages. I don't even see the point of this book. Learning to write good code with php looks to me like learning ornithology with Angry Birds
Parallel Query Execution in Postgres
I can see that
I agree with ajross' reply. The changing of MAC address wasn't the "capital offense" so to speak. You don't get pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt, but if they _do_ pull you over and you _happen_ to not be wearing a seatbelt, they can hit you with extra fines, etc.

Besides, arguing against a comment for it's attitude isn't an argument at all. The original comment was essentially a (valid) "so what?" to the article; it wasn't a refutation of fact, but expressing a frustration at the non sequitur implied by this, and allegedly, many other articles on HN.
I'm not sure I'm entirely seeing the value here. You're presenting "the best" landing pages but there is no criteria for what makes the landing page "the best". I suppose as a source of inspiration, having lots of landing pages thrown in your face is useful but I'm still left wanting more from this.

What's the goal of the landing page? Why does this design meet this goal better than if it were designed in this other way? Some analysis of the landing page and service, coupled with analytics and conversion optimization results, would make this significantly more valuable of a resource.
Coderbits adds support for Apple iOS App Store
Calling them completely ineffective is a stretch, at a minimum they create more opportunity for spreading news. Whether that has any effect is a function of the person who receives it.
Simplify CRUD in Node using Mongo Helper
Not rather poorly; disastrously. I don't live in California any longer, but when I did I voted no on every single proposition. Their cumulative negative impact on the possibility of effectively running the state far outweighs the benefit that any one of them might confer.
A libertarian-leaning magazine.

http://reason.com/
Agree on that generally for electical equipments size falls off as square of frequency, the main motivation was the light bulb flickering 50/60 times was close to human persistence of vision which allowed the light bulb to appear constant.
Surprise Walmart’s unlimited iPhone 5 data plan not so unlimited
At the very, very least I would expect a generated form to be accessible, and this is not.
Suicides in the Nazi concentration camps.
For all the comments disagreeing with calling him a fraud, here's a broad difference.

You guys are clearly impressed by the act. But truthfully, it wasn't smart to send his 2KA to another country, that too China.

He was trusted. That's the keyword here to work remotely. Idea being that telecommuting may leave him with more hours and thereby increase his productivity. What he has done is

1. Taken advantage of the trust

2. Exposed his employer/team/project to security breach

3. Missed the primary part i.e. use the extra time to enhance his skills.

Eight hours Internet browsing? Guy is a scumbag.
The Java Security Exploit in (Mostly) Plain English
>This depends on ....and on the nature of the job.

I agree in some situations, but this was a programmer. Unless he was a manager that has to oversee others, there's no need for a mandatory appearance

>So you know where they are if some emergency situation arises

That's completely irrelevant to the situation. A company does not profit when it's down for an emergency.
A litmus test of moral cowardice.
Yes, you are correct [1] - it's a very common mistake in my experience.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Element/label
The Death Of Java In The Enterprise?
This article is not actually very well written. Definitely the author doesn't understand some of the stuff he's writing about. The section describing the interlink between Japan's different power systems is especially awkward.
this is one data point regarding how initial perceptions of customer service can influence buyer decisions.
I am 22 but I've been into startups for a few years. I have launched some websites and all, but I think at this age, it is better to have a secure job which will provide you money.
Looking at Carmen Ortiz's [track record](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz) of cases prosecuting involving corruption and organized crime, seems like this would be hurting one of the "good guys". No doubt she has enemies that must be gloating about the petition
I think this is a generous interpreation.

Seems more likely that he was simply pandering to both sides, and/or trying to dodge responsibility for a position altogether. The history of political speeches is pretty rife with this sort of tactic, although seldom as memorable as in this case. Politicians and public figures who don't want to alienate either side of an argument will often pay lip service to both sides.
Hi Joss. Could you provide some examples about these last landing page with good convertion? I am really interested to see them :D
When you purchase a product or service do you ever consider how long someone spent making that product/service when deciding what to buy?

Imagine someone saying something like "That Toyota Car is exactly what I'm looking for, but I know that the workers at the GM factory spent way more time building the GM car, so I'm going to buy that GM car instead."
Apologies in advance.
<cranky rant>
I am so sick of these democracy doesn't work, the powers that be own us, utterly worthless statements. Worthless is the sense that all they do is justify your own inaction.

So many people take the fact the government doesn't work the way they want it to as evidence that democracy doesn't work. It's a fallacy. What they have trouble understanding is that while we may largely agree that certain problems exist (very few people are in favor of corruption in government) we are incredibly divided on how to solve those problems. My (imperfect) solution would be publicly financed elections and a complete end to campaign contributions. There are many people who feel passionately that campaign contributions == free speech. There isn't enough public support for one solution or another to override the institutional inertia that was built into the constitution by design.

It isn't evidence that democracy doesn't work, it's evidence that your position doesn't have enough support.

But when positions do gain support, things really do change. We've passed constitutional amendments outlawing slavery, giving women the vote, and instituting civil rights. Jesus Christ, do you understand just how hard getting each of those things passed was? Do you understand how many entrenched and powerful interests had to be overcome? Do you understand just how little shouting that democracy doesn't work would have accomplished when faced with moral injustices like that?

If your solution isn't getting passed, work on convincing people that it's the right solution. But don't scream democracy doesn't work when it doesn't get passed because not enough people care about it or agree with it. That actually is democracy working exactly how its supposed to.

Change opinions. Don't rant about how they don't matter.
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How cleantech tarnished Kleiner and VC star John Doerr
Good idea, but unfortunately that product is really hard to establish because of the learning curve it introduces to everyone involved. I find it to be highly effective for beginning phases, but to transfer that information to another platform has been the determining factor for my version. :3
In this app's case the setup.rb is an ideal candidate for generating a new secret_token (and raising an exception on startup until you've generated a token).
That was a horrible example in many ways.
Just because I have something that is open to the public doesn't mean I lose the ability to kick people out. I don't have to put security guards at every door to keep that person out.

It was crystal clear that MIT did not want Aaron on their network doing what he was doing. (This doesn't mean, of course, he should be in jail for 7 years.)
He should have setup a US workstation with a webcamera for the Chinese developer to log into. The webcam could show a live feed for the RSA token. So now he can still use his RSA token, while giving his outsourced worker access to it as well. Not that I would do this....
It's besides my core point really. In fact, it reinforces it since that's pretty much what I mean anyway.

The reason why I bring time into it is because, as I've said, if there was absolutely nothing to do, I couldn't just get up and leave mid-day. If there's nothing else to work on, stuff will be found for me and I can continue to use that time productively.

In my contract, I'm obligated to work 5 days a week, 7 hours per day. My income is worked out based on my value and the number of working days in a month. This is what I'm getting at - I'm obligated to spend that much time in the office, delivering.

If you rework what I said about outsourcing my workload so that it removes time and is replaced with delivering, it'd still make sense. Now that you mention, I prefer the sound of it:

My boss pays me to deliver. If I outsourced my workload, I could deliver more. My employer will then increase my pay.
I would argue otherwise. There is at least one political movement that is currently sweeping through the country that was first passed via a California ballot measure because no one in the legislature would risk the political capital for it.
Computer security, at least while attached to the Internet, doesn't work that way. When all it takes is one attacker anywhere in the world to write a worm that compromises everyone, everyone needs to secure their systems.

Some problems really are best solved using technical means. If we stop building systems that can be exploited by arbitrary outsiders (yes, this is possible, and probably not that expensive in the long run if we standardize a few good protocols), then we can should be able to reach a point where a certain baseline of security can just be taken for granted.
Brain fart: AJ Jacobs was the first to do the whole outsource your life thing. If I recall correctly, his experiment was published in Esquire magazine. Tim openly gave Jacobs credit for the idea.
The right way to get in the digital space with your business
I'm not contesting the 80:1 ratio (although bornhuetter makes some good points against this argument as well.)

I'm contesting their Android-bashing on ease-of-use and technical merits. I use and have used an Android phone and an iPod touch for the past 4 years.
Im not taking a shot at patio11 here, because he clearly is a standout member on HN & knows what he is doing, but http://www.bingocardcreator.com/ is a good example.

It doesnt follow any of the "design trends" you would see on dribbble or have the modern look that the sites on land-book do, but I would guess it converts much higher than most of these sites.
ah, I would love to see HK's levels..
Yes downvote me php people, but have a look at php code on github "https://github.com/search?q=mysql_connect&p=1&ref=se... and tell me what you're thinking about it.
Dotcom: Mediaworks pulls plug on ads
I find our nation's lack of interest, disturbing.