skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts.
Put a poll out there, give it at least one irrelevant/obviously inapt answer and people will click it. Not really an HN problem if you ask me...
It's not a given that the interestes of the shareholders are to "maximise profit over everything else".
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Compare this with Rubygems - the only test results I see for that ecosystem are the many recent remote shell exploits showing up on seclists.org.

Even Pypi doesn't really compare with CPAN. They've done good work there but the simple idea of author names and source archives on a file server you can builds tools around has proved more robust and extensible than a focus on the web services and tools upfront.
I use google now's voice search almost daily, and some other voice-command like "what song is this?", "set a timer...". Personally, I wish my desktop had google now and voice search.

I've especially found voice search to be the more socially acceptable way to search for something when conversing with a group of people. For instance, during a discussion about movies at a bar with friends, to tap the phone and ask it a question fits into the dynamic far better than putting your head down to tap it into a keyboard and wait for results.

Asking the question aloud shows everyone that you didn't suddenly start texting someone or checking facebook mid-conversation, but rather searching for something in order to add to that conversation. Same goes for "what song is this?".

I almost forgot my all time favorite while driving (whether alone or with a car full of people): "Navigate Home"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517039 -- 5 years ago it didn't.
> However, it's an ill wind that blows no good.

I never heard that phrase so I looked it up. For anyone else that's interested: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/it%27s+an+ill+w...

"This is said when things have gone wrong; the idea being that when bad things happen, there can also be some positive results."
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extra bright colors; maybe some blink tags too.
That's the problem - you have to meet and talk with people whose lives depend on this, not with experts.
Care bears.
Translate everything to binary
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I've always found that while creating a "hello world" app does show the very very basic idea of "type in code and see something happen" a better way is to get them started on the idea that they can actually create something.

I'm not sure about MATLAB but I do know there are some very basic and easy tutorials on how to make a Sudoku for example.

The best way to teach others anything is to get them excited about the subject, when they are, people tend to naturally invest more time and effort into learning more about it.

Hope it helps and good luck teaching!
I was naive about privacy
Many high contrasting colors. Children like different colors and it could help anyone reading that has poor eyesight.
Let me guess ... You are either an aging gopher, born 9 April 1981, or you are an eleven-year-old.
I like this one more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUXc6mckGLE
No, YOU have an upvote!

Thanks!
Definitely a great learning experience. I myself had my own business. Made enough to live comfortably, but in the end, the IRS made me pay back every red cent in back taxes, and then some when it came to a screeching halt.
From the other comment:

> Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90
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Yes I'm trying to build something similar, but it will just be one small feature of a larger side project I'm working on.
Sadly, I think you're going to have to ban them. COPPA[1] makes it risky to have children under 13 on your web site without clear parental consent.

..you could let them send in a note from their parents to get unbanned :-)

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childrens_Online_Privacy_Protec...
Great point! You know, I hadn't thought of it for the more "social" situations. I was more thinking of it in a functional, individual setting.
On a tangent, where the author says "Have you ever seen anyone play Angry Birds on a desktop?", funnily enough I have. My 5yo son has played a lot of angry birds on my phone, 3 stars on all levels of space. then last xmas someone gave him a PC version of seasons. since then he refuses to play on my phone, stating that it is "much better" playing on the PC, citing the screen size and sound as the main reasons.
Looks like the ratio in CS courses. I came up with the constant 4: Either 4 or 4% are female, whichever is less.
Multiple answers, at least, would be my guess.
Limit their HN access to 20 minutes per day. When I was that young my parents enforced a very strict time limit on daily media consumption.
I've found the web becomes much better when you make Flash click-to-play. YouTube especially, since the videos don't start until you ask.
Comic Sans was made for this.
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One issue; on these charts there doesn't appear to be a link to the original HN thread. This should be there.
more than 75% are incomplete, so while a good resource, not amazing. Nice find though, and the practice quizzes and exams with solutions may help people.
> Mr Elithorn said the OFT did not want to ban in-game purchases, but wanted to be sure that games-makers are complying with relevant laws. Consumer groups or parents with evidence of games aggressively marketing in-game extras should contact the OFT, it said.

The UK has strict laws about advertising. Many reports to the Advertising Standards Authority are from competing firms. Company_A see an advert from Company_B, and they report it. Sometimes this is because they're domain experts and know what's realistic or not in an advert. Sometimes it's because they're a competing firm and they're doing whatever they can to cause pressure for the competition.

It'll be interesting to see who reports sleazy games.

Also, advertising codes are easy to find. It's not so easy to find a list of rules for in-game purchases aimed at children.
The doctor's creed is "do no harm" or "never do harm", even though it's impossible for a doctor to never ever cause harm. They have this oath because they want to be held accountable for their mistakes.

Doctors don't go around saying just "don't be harmful" or that as long as they have good intentions some harm is okay.

The simple fact is that formulation "don't be evil" is intended to avoid accountability. You can overlook some evil because you perceive them as having good intentions. Maybe you should consider that an advertising company may have put more thought into their motto and how it affects your perception of them than you realize.
It's really great to see how down to earth pg can be on here sometimes. Definitely great to be a part of a thriving community like HN, even though I've gotten on later than what may have been its golden age.

Times like these are what really get me pumped about the great community I'm diving into surrounding tech.
Isn't this basically a virtual panopticon?

With all the distractions and unnecessary meetings to make certain staff feel functional?

This is basically all the disadvantages of working in an office projected on home working.

A management dream!

EDIT: perhaps I'm just cynical and an isolationist :)
Some commenters are referring to specific prices ("Silver and Gold plans are definitely not cheap at $799/month / $1599/month ") - well, unless I am missing smth, right now the pricing page does not have ANY numbers.

Bug?
more than 75% are incomplete

are you sure?

not amazing

I would appreciate if you share the free resources you find amazing
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Is the next answer "get over it?"
How about an animated hacker mascot that provides helpful tutorials for features, complete with colorful highlighting and font changes to indicate important UI elements?
Enjoy your blinking high-contrast giant fucsia text.
Man, I feel your pain. I have developed the most awesome products the world has never seen 4 times now. We had a "build it and they will come" attitude too :(

We decided to ask ourselves one question: How to we validate an idea before wasting months on an idea that only we seem to think is cool?

So we are creating WillThisFly? to ask that very question... it's a site that allows you to try out your ideas and projects, get feedback and refine them before committing resources to it.

Shameless plug: http://willthisfly.net (Just launched last night)

Only thing on there at the moment is WTF? itself.

All I can say is, it has happened to probably everyone at one stage in their startup career... don't give up, refine your ideas, create MVP's and keep trying...
thanks, I'll check them out
Well said. LinkedIn is also useful if you want more information on a company (if, say, you are considering working there). Search for the company and see who works there. Checking out a few of the profiles of people working there to get a sense of who they are (what they know, where they worked before etc). If you know any of them, or are linked, it's an extra bonus.
Why? Learning new stuff regularly is right up there in my definition of success.
Sorry if you took my comment as a dig at Christians, I was merely stating an observation based on the data we collected. I personally encountered a handful of Christian musicians who stated our use of vulgarity and drug references were the reason they were not interested in our product. For example, we also had some female musicians who were not excited about our video because it was geared towards guys. not a dig at female musicians
And please, PLEASE, reinvent that horrid thing called Google+. Even the name sucks.

How about Doubleplusgoogle? Or maybe MeinGoogle?
People don't seem to be aware of https://startpage.com/

They anonymize your search data and then send it off to Google search.

I tried DDG a few times, and as much as I want to like it, their search results weren't as good as Google's.
Wonder who the oldest reader/contributor is? Anyone want to start that ball rolling?
In graphs: http://infogr.am/HN-age-poll-12515/

Went from a couple hundred answers in 2008-2011 to +3000 today, and counting.

The distribution doesn't seem to have changed much other than the current fool answers, hard to tell since the charts are not in absolute scale. Would be cool to aggregate all the years for comparison, but I have no idea how to merge the age ranges.

Script used to get the data: https://gist.github.com/ricardobeat/5370218
What makes us feel good about our work? (TEDx Talk)
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to wrap the same fucking point in euphemisms. What a tragedy.
It's also an issue that you can give multiple answers to polls. I attempted it just to see if the poll enforced giving just one answer but now I've given multiple answers to this poll as an experiment.
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So then... is Kickstarter the only true way to validate a startup idea?

You throw up a cool pitch with some videos and vague promises, and watch the cash roll in. If the cash does indeed roll in, then it's a good idea!

Then you get to work, and hope no one remembers in 6 months that you promised to deliver them some amazing gifts. :-)
Do you celebrate birthdays or time_t milestones?
Interesting, I hadn't heard the theory of gold causing depressions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Great_Depression#...) . It seems that it's still a topic of much debate.

The incentive to mine more gold is, IMHO, not a good or sustainable thing. Both gold and Bitcoin are a limited resource, and increasing value is an incentive to mine more of both (look at the sales of ASIC miners).

On one hand, gold has practical purposes (medical, electronics, etc.) but on the other hand Bitcoin doesn't involve digging enormous holes in the ground.

Maybe there's a real fear that if Bitcoin becomes a viable currency, then gold will be devalued somewhat. The a fore mentioned gold standard may be replaced with a Bitcoin standard. But, I'm no economist, and I have neither gold nor Bitcoins, so I almost certainly have no idea of what I'm talking about.
Single page:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/04/...
What a false dichotomy. So people are either buying Bitcoin purely for its use as a currency or purely speculating? You're missing the forest for the trees.

Do you want to see real political and economic change in your lifetime? Campaign finance reform: not the answer. Term limits: not the answer. Voting Libertarian: waste of time. "Balance the budget": too little, too late. Political activism: occupy my asshole.

The only solution: flip societal power structures upside down, and let us geeks take the reigns.

Now, you may argue that everything is Hunky Dory like tptacky, but I'd beg to differ. We need real social and economic change, right now, to ensure our continued prosperity into the forseeable future, and we're just not getting it from Washington. Make excuses or justify a Big Brother Statist tyranny driven by propaganda and ignorance all you want, ultimately none of that shit works long term and meanwhile we have a lot less freedom.

Let's play a different game now ...
Upvoted for the correctness of this sarcastic comment.
> Apples complete joke of a mobile operating system

How could you possibly think iOS is a "complete joke".. without being a raging GooGoo fanboy, that is?
My mind just got blown. For some reason, I never thought of this possibility.
You can physically speak faster than you can type, but the feedback and editing loops of typing are faster overall.
The only place I could really see myself using it would be in the car; as much as I love Google Now the only time I use the voice commands is when I'm showing someone how great they are.
It doesn't sound like they care much for their workers. if someone's upset about something that happens within the company, aren't there better ways to resolve it than to just fire them?

There seems to be a bit of a contradiction in this article between the 'hire people who will grow into your culture' and the 'fire anyone who falls out of line with your culture' points being made.
Agree or disagree with peoples reactions, agree or disagree with the idea that research papers should be delayed for these reasons, but don't just pretend like research, press and progress are unrelated.
What's the purpose of your comment? Are you concerned people might browse xahlee's pages and find some useful information there?
There is a lot that Twitter can easily cross reference that would be more work for Last.fm

Also, Twitter has many more users. But I agree that those more enthusiastic towards music probably already use Last.fm
PPC + Landing page works wonders.

Avoid the confirmation bias of your peers, and target people actively looking for your idea.

Build a fake checkout that collects no data, and thank your 'paying' users for signing up to be notified when X goes on sale.

(You should also probably tell them that no financial information was actually stored.)
> The latter is just evil. Suing farmers cause crops were contaminated through unwanted pollination by neighboring farms

I already acknowledged that this view exists in the comment you replied to. However, I suspect this view stems from farmers talking to the press, and not from the careful reading of court records. See for example this quote from your second link:

> The judge also called the farmers' claims that they could be subject to patent-infringement lawsuits "unsubstantiated" because "not one single plaintiff claims to have been so threatened."

The Wikipedia article on Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser does mention that he was convicted without having used the pesticide, but the court did not believe the contamination was accidental in any case.
I don't know if it's crazy, but I wouldn't say that site is the answer. Yes, it has the open source word all over it, but have you spent two minutes to look at the content? Most of the "relevant" stuff is just to comply with third party OSS licenses (read: non APSL projects).

Although not exactly the same, it looks to me more or less like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

OSS is about community not just a website to release files (aka "code dump"). If you had pointed to http://www.webkit.org/ or http://www.cups.org/ ; well, that would be different.

EDIT: typos
>Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90

It's called second childhood. May you someday be eligible, but yet escape achieving it.

As for the fonts, you can be sure the octo- and nona- hackers will have long since implemented suitable user scripts.
Programming Arduino boards from an Android device
I wrote on my blog about programming an arduino board directly from an android device. I'm in the process of making it work via bluetooth instead of OTG cable. Would you guys be interested in something like this?
http://www.hstam.com/blog/?p=29
From my own experience of learning to program, teaching and learning from others, something that I've seen to be very valuable is choosing any project, doesn't really matter what and just working on it. It doesn't have to be something new or sophisticated, just something big enough that you can immerse yourself into and build out over time. A project I worked on as a teenager was building a paint program (hardly innovative or new) but it was a big enough a task that I could work on for a while and on the way learn to incorporate other people's code, use books to deepen my knowledge, constantly add improvements and show my work to others. This was 15 years ago and I still remember so much about that program. I enjoyed building it and learned that I liked programming and from there began moving to more complex things. This may only be applicable in specific cases or for a younger audience, but I just wanted to share.
Yes, yes, you're right about discipline and the "overly-simplistic" point. I was being sarcastic.

But I really wish my doctors don't count on comments on LinkedIn to keep up with "new drugs and treatments"! I hope they're subscribed to professional journals or go to conferences, etc.

The larger point being, every professional community has its specialized hubs. If LinkedIn strategy is to become the universal professional hub for all... well then that's a "frighteningly ambitious" idea.

I can't see them pulling it off but who knows -- and thanks for pointing it out.
One particular parameter of the kernel, bandwidth, can result in highly misleading visualization given arbitrarily chosen values. Here is an example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_of_1D_bandwidth...

The smoothing give unsavvy readers a false sense of accuracy. With histogram they can at least tell it's an approximation.
Did the bitcoin bubble just pop?
Yeah, that too, really, calling it jabbr... Not very nice.
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Programmer dad shouted at his kid, "End of discussion! Semicolon!"

There's a lot of great ones here: http://www.quora.com/Humor/What-is-the-geekiest-joke
That is unless you start a post with "Show HN: I am 17, look what I made..." some people seem to take offense to that :P

I think its great that people of all ages can connect on HN through a common passion for technology.
Another option would be to just use an existing mixing service: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mixing_service

Those services always reminded me of David Chaum's Mix Networks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_network)
If the First Amendment allows children to traffic in snuff films, Nazi regalia, bomb making manuals, Satanist tracts, classified nuclear information, and so forth while in a government school, it's safe to assume that COPPA is an unconstitutional prior restraint on free speech. I am astonished that the ACLU has not already handed the FTC their ass.
Definite commendation for even giving it a go.

Remember the famous maxim: "I failed a thousand times but each one brought me a step closer to stealing what I needed from Tesla"
When you Mint a zerocoin, you spend a BTC. When you redeem a zerocoin, you receive a BTC. The collective of miners verifies that you don't get rich doing so.
There are several chapters on this in Lessig's "Free Culture".
> And how is Apple waging war against openness?

This does not need to be an either / or proposition.

_Both_ Apple and Google are doing "evil", in their own way. Along with a bunch of cool stuff, too.
Google doesn't lead in South Korea and Russia either - and challenged in Czech and Japan. It is possible.
Upvoted. I really don't see myself using LinkedIn this way, but I understand that you do.

(All my LinkedIn contacts are people I know personaly. When I need to contact them I use my address book where I store their personal email address, and mobile phone # which aren't on LinkedIn. If I need to contact someone I don't know, I don't think about going through LinkedIn; maybe I should.)
IMO, there seems to be something missing from these points. I personally am more pessimistic, and don't believe people will join a startup community unless there are incentives to actually do so. Incentives like Talent/Experience and Money are a good way to keep people interested. Lacking in one or the other will likely result in a very lopsided community.
IIRC some games came with a data booklet printed in black on very dark brown, or similar, to foil potential photocopying.
Oh come on, even Microsoft has their "open source" website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/openness/default.aspx

This is marketing bullshit directed at developers angry at all their surveillance, their walled gardens, their "you can't replace our OS" and so on.
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Twitter: music Page is Live.
"[...] value for other users in being able to see what their actual friends said about an app [...]"

Problem: I add value to their ecosystem at the expense of my anonymity. Loosing my anonymity does not return the value to me in any use case.
You're thinking free software. Open source does not mean free. But you're right, open source without being free is pretty bad, as is locking your devices on your software and your own only, even for the purpose of making the experience "perfect".
PC Google has voice search, you may have to enable it.
Exactly. You didn't even post how to see the logos you want people to vote for.
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Thank you for putting 25 in the younger pool! I hate feeling as old as 30 :)
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You are so full of yourself and living in a fantasy world it's sad to watch. Bitcoin isn't a revolution, you've been duped. It's just another pyramid scheme being used by those with more power, more money, more information, and fewer morals to take advantage of folks like you who just want to believe.

Do you really want to change the system? Write blogs. Write books. Start a business. Do investigative journalism. Speak at rallies. Work on a campaign. Run for mayor. Run for congress.

There are a million ways to empower yourself and others, using bitcoin isn't any of them.

Imagining that bitcoin is the answer is about as naive as imagining that hitting "like" on your facebook feed is going to magically feed some starving child somewhere.
It still looks roughly like a bell curve. I think the genuine answers are enough to extrapolate some information from this.
Is it really random? It doesn't look random to me with both FF and 00 in it. Perhaps randomly chosen by yourself, but not rand(1,16mil).to_hex().