skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously you've never seen the entire threads which get downvoted into oblivion by the hit squads of the "small and powerless" group that is SRS.

No one cares about comments, you just downvote and move on. You can't even properly lurk in a thread where SRS has been active though as the whole point of downvoting ends up being so badly subverted.
It's a staff of college educated folks who sign an NDA. For this, I use a service called Premier by my friends at MobileWorks. https://premier.mobileworks.com

They have staff from all over the world. I know I'm not a credible review of this service (since I made Draft), but it's really been awesome. :) I sent my last blog post through Draft, and was thrilled to have the results.

You pay for it, when you click the Ask a Pro button. A credit card form powered by Stripe pops up.
Excellent book! Must read for anyone who deals with data visualization.
dmiladinov is right with the book. I bought it half a year ago, actually I also got pointed to it via some HN post. I only read a few dozen pages at the start and in the middle yet, but it is certainly interesting I think. IIRC the reviews on Amazon are very mixed though.
Hm. I had version 1.6 or so installed so I headed over to https://www.dropbox.com/install

As usual with linux they provide downloads like "dropbox_1.4.0_amd64.deb". So I went to the windows and mac os download page to look at what version the blog post was about (the blog did not say that it was 2.0).

Then I tried the link they have for the command line install: https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64

This actually downloads a dropbox that is versioned with 2.0. At least there's a file VERSION included that has 2.0.0 as its content.

The "gui" (tray context menu I guess) of course hasn't changed, it's still the same it was a long time ago.
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> I think it was valid critique. (Something I am sure you give the companies you fund.) It's not always easy to provide critique without knocking the cause

I always think about saying it to someone as I talk to them.
I'll look into this. I've been making apps for so many years, and I'm always humbled by how much browser testing I have to do, and what is still broken after testing in like 8 browsers already. :)
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Sure. I didn't want to put a how-to manual in this thread on the day of the attack though.

HN has a big table of closures representing actions a user can take. Loading certain pages, such as the reply link on a comment creates more of them. They time out after a while, which will get you "unknown or expired link". Intentionally creating a few million of them ought to fill up the server's memory and would be a more effective way to to impair the server's functionality than simply requesting the home page a few billion times.
Chrome Windows 7 ends up rendering them all as boxes. The lack of whitespace prevents line breaking. The problem is that it forces the container out to 1400px wide, rather than responding to browser width.

I really don't like trying to read 1400px long lines of text.
The main benefit doesn't seem to be in the editing of Your Document, but in your collaboration with others and version control of the document. There are specific pain points of using Google Docs or git which this seems to deliberately address.
I don't think it's dismissive - it's a valid question, it was the first question that popped into my head too when seeing it. "What's the point of this?" I simply didn't (and still don't) understand it. That's very different from a dismissive "What's the point of {launching some startup}" which is often not very helpful.

I think, however, that this was a genuine question, and one I'd like answered since I have the same question myself. Which is why I upvoted it. Maybe there's a meaning I don't get, maybe there's a clever trick I'm not seeing. If there is I'd love to know so I can appreciate it.
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Your page looks great. Did you design this yourself or hire it out?

That said, unless it's a term widely understood by your audience and I'm just not part of that audience, you should ditch the word "mail merge". It may be hard to do, but I really had no clue what you were talking about til I saw your page. That may not be an issue for you right now if you plan to get your customers via direct sales but if you have any intention of scaling your customer acquisition by trying to get some search traffic etc, you'll want to make sure you find a way to describe what you do the way your non-technical customers would describe it. This may be difficult but I'm sure you'll figure it out. Seems like a great start!
What? I think you might have some issues there. These render instantly on my phone and on my Nexus tablet.
From this 2005? Toyota manual, 20mA average or less, up to 50mA is considered acceptable: http://home.4x4wire.com/deddleman/photos/elec_parasitic_load...
Show HN: Tiny Guitar - Free on iOS App Store
This is still my favourite example of long-form done right for the web (also NYT)...

https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4950054
My advice would be to give people something for signing up. For example, let them start playing without email, let the save, and then ask for their email address to send them a unique url to their new account. This has the added advantages that (1) more people will play with the app and hopefully talk about it! and (2) those that sign up are more qualified leads as they know what they're signing up for.
I have used hg for about four years now and have basically transitioned over to git. It's hard to explain why, exactly. Yes, network effect, but it's more: it's like git integrated deeply into the underlying model rather than trying to abstract over the model.

I would call myself a power user - I am the clearcase->hg transition guy in what I do, I've designed/maintained an enterprise hg extension (guestrepos, look 'em up, they are amazing), use mq, etc. But I think that the fundamental win for git is that they don't abstract, and this allows clearer understanding of what is happening when things go pear-shaped.

But, that's my opinion. I use both on a daily basis.
This is a really informative post. Thank you - I'm writing a book called Disruptors - www.DisruptorsBook.com

I am considering self-publishing and trying to decide between Leanpub.com vs Amazon publishing. For Leanpub, it is possible to sell an unfinished transcript which helps. Does anyone have advice when it comes to choosing which online publisher to go with and the best ways to market these online books?
How about a design contest going forward? Aka, maybe every 3 months or so have people post their designs, users vote and #1 gets used for that 'run' of t-shirts.

You could even tie the contests schedule to the Y class schedule so each class can sport it's own unique design... and also generating more awareness of another application cycle opening soon. The shirts would remain open to the public however (perhaps a unique color given to only Y accepted users).

I'd also add a Hoodie to the choice.
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And please join http://contrastrebellion.com/ and do

$('article p').css('color','#222')

so we can read the article.

bgcolor is now #717171, which is just crazy. Anything below #444 is just harmful for the eyes.
The answer appears to be yes.
Thanks Teespring, that's very generous. I'll donate the equivalent amount to watsi.org; then everyone wins :-)
All the things you list, marketing, formatting, etc, you would have to pay yourself out of pocket if you couldn't do it yourself. I hired a designer for my book and it cost me roughly $1500. I haven't paid for marketing yet but at least if I released the book myself, I would have that option, and it would be worth it to me because I would be taking in the bulk of the income instead of a publisher. The saddest part about this article is that his publisher seemingly did NOTHING to promote his book. That would be the main reason I would go with a publisher at all.
I went ahead and got a Pro plan and it appears this is the case.
The tech stack behind Close.io's sales communication platform (YC W11)
I see a lot of constructive criticism here, I want to say that this is exactly what I needed, how I needed. It works for me.
I'm about to launch a design critique site that I've been working on for months.

The truth is that it's easier to critique in person than online. If you don't know someone's personality and can't read their nuances it makes it a lot harder.

But thats a very good critique advice.
I started using repustate's sentiment analysis for a project recently and it was impressively easy to get started with, although the sentiment scores can seem a little arbitrary at times.
Interesting idea. I can see potential for 'gaming' of this service if your application becomes popular. Good luck!
Show HN: Real-time Wiki
A good example of an array operation only appropriate for specific states is Python's treatment of heaps:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/heapq.html

You need to heapify(your_array) in place before, e.g., calling nsmallest(your_array). Not saying that it's good style, but...
Ask HN: What tools do you allow journalists to use?
If you're a developer at an online media firm (be that engadget or the New York Times), what tools are you allowing the journalists or content managers use to get their pieces online.

Where I currently am, we're starting to use ckeditor for the main bodies of text but i'm wondering if anyone has extended something like Windows Live Writer to work with their own backends or other offline word processors extended for use with the backend?
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Don't use it that way if you don't want. You can read the announcement as, "kiln now supports git."
If you want music to be stored on the device, you can tell Google Music or Amazon MP3 to keep the copies on the device. This is accessible by long pressing a song or album and then selecting "keep on device". Alternatively in Google Music there's a menu to select multiple songs/albums.

> The Google-supported way is for me to put MP3s in a folder? Really?

That's the 'over the wire' method. I think that's how it should work seeing as how with iOS you need iTunes in order to do it. And then iTunes has a bunch of non-sense about how certain things can/can't be copied because of drm or however iTunes and that particular iDevice feels that day. As for once the files are in the Android file system, the content manager automatically indexes the files so in Google Music or Amazon MP3, the songs are not arranged by file name, but by album, song title, genre, etc.

> I have to do it via slow-ass WiFi and a third-party program like doubletwist? Total disaster.

The problem here is you've been conditioned to think that wifi is slow, and iTunes is superior. It isn't. When I download an album from the "cloud", I don't sit there waiting for it to finish. I get in my car and go, or I walk to wherever I need to be. The device does it wirelessly and because it is wireless, I don't care about sitting there waiting for it to finish. You're stuck in the iTunes mentality where there's a physical cable attached and you do have to sit there and wait.
I can't say I would ever trust my code to a tool written by somebody who thinks that this is a good idea:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/has-joel-spolsky-ju...

Also, calling Github a "VW Microbus" and implying they're hippie kumbaya love-ins instead of a huge, well-supported tool with the features he implies they lack… well. It stretches credibility.
As tablet and phone hardware matures, they should get faster processing power and additional memory that will make these web apps Good Enough (tm). Until that time, like you, I hope the NY Times and others keep making native apps.
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I was really sad to hear this when our company evaluated Kiln a couple months ago. Off-site hosting is not an option for our company, so we had to go with another product despite strong user preferences for Kiln and FogBugz.

I hope a "firewall" install returns as an option someday, at which point we would eagerly reevaluate our choice...
Teespring looks interesting. Has anyone here used it before? Does it print well?

I've been using printfection for a personal shop that does all the fulfillment (http://shop.mrcoles.com/), but the campaign approach looks pretty cool
On being a co-founder commitment-phobe
I'm having a really hard time seeing that. I use version control both at work and for side projects at home.

The only things I need to know are how to check out code, check in code, label and branch. Occasionally I create a repository. Rarely.

If you gave me a GUI that just had those four functions, I wouldn't give a rat's ass what VCS was living under the hood.
Read the article twice trying to figure out if I had temporary amnesia...
Hi all,

I'm the developer of Tiny Piano (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5289684).

Now I'm trying to capitalize on the success of the piano app and seeing if a similar model will work with guitar.

Of course, if these apps both do well, the next step would be to port to Android. I'm just waiting for Google I/O so that I can get my hands on a Nexus 7v2.

Feel free to ask me any questions!
Let me suggest that you make the leader board 160 names long. The typical human brain can follow the complex social interactions of a group size of roughly 150-ish people. It varies some from person to person but you see social breakdown in groups larger than about 150-ish people. I think it would help recreate the sense of community that existed when I originally joined which seems to have deteriorated. It would be a core upon which to add social scaffolding.
That's search volume. Parent was talking about search hits. I'd believe that search volume is more important, but I stand by my point in the context of this thread.
It's rather pedantic in this context, but "probability 0" and "impossible" actually aren't the same thing:

http://nolaymanleftbehind.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/the-diffe...
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Dropbox for Wi-Fi seems a more confusing description that just "Wi-Fi password sync".

This happens out of the box on Windows 8 (when tied to a Microsoft account) and freaked me out a little when it first happened. Took a work tablet home for some testing and found it connected to my Wi-Fi automatically. Had me hunting for security problems before I realised what had happened.
As a matter of fact I tried IntelliJ. It was nice, but it had it's own set of problems. Two of them:
- compilation times of bigger Android projects sucks hard. It's just not fast enough. I even feel that using word fast in this sentence is a misuse.
- one of the selling points of the IDE (from their website) is Jabber integration for team coding. Tried for several hours, didn't get it to work. Even filed a ticked for it, which is still unsolved (the package is unmantained for years).
Stoked to help with this. Will put my new BT fibre to the test.
I agree with you and jug6ernaut. I love the concept of the shirt, and, at the same time, I think the design could be improved. There's nothing wrong with making polite, constructive suggestions, as you both did.
I'm disappointed no one has come up with a BAD SCIENCE browser extension.
The large "Run your own ArchiveTeam Warrior!" link is currently just linking to a fragment identifier. I think you'd like to change it.
I dont really get why people want the shirt to be recognisable. To me it seems that only super brands will get a huge recognition, other brands will be left in an equally puzzling world.

Instead I prefer tees that trigger intrigue and sometimes awesome conversation. I have the 20th anniversary SDF tee, in four years of wearing it I have added a score of users to the service. Even once someone saw the DEC terminal and struck(?) up a really cool conversation about the hardware he worked on.

As an aside, my favourite conversation starter is the Double Fine Costume Quest Blueprint tee.
In my particular little enterprisey world, pull requests are something myself and some of the other bleeding-edge guys would like to work up for a workflow over a traditional branch and merge workflow. We think it's better for what we do. YMMV.
You have to consider O'Reilly's niche. I'd imagine that there is a lot of overlap with the "entrepreneurial-minded HN crowd", which you just said should definitely self-publish. If the large bulk of O'Reilly's writers would be better off without them, what does that say about this arrangement specifically, not necessarily the publishing industry as a whole? What you've said probably has a lot of validity for novelists, but O'Reilly doesn't publish novels.

Is there a way for O'Reilly to reorient such that they provide real value at a reasonable price to their current niche, based on industry evolutions like the ability to self-publish ebooks, or does O'Reilly need to start courting the next J.K. Rowling?
I am a huge proponent for constructive criticism. It is genuinely helpful when I receive it so I attempt to give it as much as possible in 'Show HN' and similar posts.

Most of the time my comments get a couple up votes and left in the middle of the thread. Sometimes the founder responds and we have a little conversation that is hopefully helpful to both of us.

The one time I've ever posted a comment that could come off as mean spirited (I pointed out a pretty glaring design flaw), it became the most up voted post I've had on HN. I felt bad because the founder responded with his reasoning and it seemed perfectly valid.

I wonder if it would be plausible to self down vote a post (that is weighted heavier than just a single down vote)? I know I didn't want that post to be the first thing someone looked at when they clicked on the comments; that was not my intention at all.

Just something to think about.
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Attempting to control process parameters in your car with undocumented features by trial and error? Highly advice against it. Who knows what can happen, you might even accidentally send accelerator pedal request. On the systems I've worked on you can absolutely not control the cruise control by externally firing CAN messages onto the wire. Sure, the engine would probably respond to them but it would also respond to the real messages being sent from the ecu in charge milliseconds later, causing very jerky response. You could also cause the cruise to activate at standstill or other non allowed conditions since those conditions aren't necessarily located in the engine ecu.

Something that looks like a valid parameter on the bus, by simple sniffing and correlation, might not be what you think it is either. It might sound strange but it's actually very common for a signal in a message to bounce through several devices before it is considered valid and is picked up by the receiver. For example the first device might output the raw sensor data almost straight from the A/D-converter, the second device applies an LP-filter on it and sends it in another message, a third ecu applies some condition on the signal and forwards it differently if those conditions are valid and finally a fourth ecu is used just as gateway to transform the signal into another can-message because the receiving device is from a third party that doesn't support the standard message format for that parameter type. And I haven't even mentioned gateway between multiple can-networks yet. Even with system documentation it can be hard to know what a signals does.
hg is considerably better in UI. Options are consistent, tortoisehg is uber, and the plugins are amazing.
"Risk" is a funny way of putting it.
RC4 is kind of broken in TLS
Then why doesn't everyone do it?

Why does Patrick reveal all of his financials, except for his second product? (Which, by the way, I think is a smart thing to do.)

Web 2.0 software-as-a-service is not helped too much by blog posts about how much money you're making. The site itself serves as promotion. A free trial is a much better way to promote your product than just a blog post. (Of course, you should do both.)

A training business is inherently more amenable to blogging as a form of promotion, vs., say, Google Adwords. Selling training requires that people trust what you have to say. The fact that you're making money convinces people that you are deserving of trust. Blogging is like a free trial -- it gives your customers a sample of what you can look forward to when they buy.

In Brennan's own words (speaking of his free newsletter):

http://planscope.io/blog/giving-up-a-million-dollar-consulta...
"I’m cultivating an audience who trusts my opinion and has received a lot of value from me in the past. This makes, oh, selling a $1,199 workshop exponentially easier than if I were to run a paid AdWords campaign for the same workshop, which I daresay would be a fool’s error."
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I would love to make a scatterplot and also run a few other statistical models on the data. Unfortunately, hitlab.org is not up and, more generally, medical studies have a much lower data replication standard than some of the social science. Neither the corresponding author's email--author@hitlab.org--nor his public academic email address seem to work...
As a frequent user of both the iPhone and iPad apps, I can tell you that I appreciate having articles categorized in various sections. Mostly I like browsing the metaphorical paper while skipping sections that I know rarely have articles I care about (hello Style section!).

As for articles that could belong under multiple sections, they are often actually just cross-posted in both. For instance, today there was an article about Harvard searching through staff emails that ended up in the U.S. section and in the Tech section.
I was a happy consumer of both the ebook and the lulu paper bound version. I was happy to see that the book was just as enjoyable your your classes.
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Why do developers love *nix systems? Git and unix have a lot of parallels, especially in that git tries to embrace the unix philosophy of having lots of little tools that work with each other instead of one monolithic binary.
I am wondering if anyone has tried any online intervention for anxiety or depression. Some of them have strong theoretical background (like CBT that is mentioned in another comment). Any impressions?
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I think I saw a comment somewhere about your IP being banned after an hour... anything we should do to avoid this? I'd hate to be scanning for 15 minutes only to be banned and not be able to help anymore.
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I'm pretty amped about trying Draft, but I'm wondering if SkyDrive is supported. If not, could you build support for it?

And congrats for launching this!
That's what they said about running Flash.
I am looking for a PyCon pass. If you are a hacker news reader and have an extra pass. I would buy ~20 of these for you, maybe for you to give away at PyCon.
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You're my new hero. I don't use it and I never used geocities but this is still awesome. Historians will thank you in years to come. Sociologists and such will praise what can be mined. And the lists go on...
Watch the Trello introductory video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaDf1RqeLfo
For those of us who might want to donate cloud computing time but have weak/memory-limited laptops, is there an EC2 image that we could fire up for the cause?
Galaxy Nexus (Would have the Nexus 4, but no carrier that supports it in my area)
features are on par now with Flash on all major browsers

So can we publish an H.264 and Speex encoded stream using a local webcam as the source over WebRTC or RTMP in all major browsers yet?

Right, wake me up when they do.
Makes sense, I wasn't thinking of a community with a focus on show/ask HN kind of posts. Make it happen then ;)
So did the Galaxy Nexus? That's not new :-)