skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Having feedback that the vote counted would be helpful as well. When I was getting used to my new tablet I'd select them, so they'd vanish, but moving or touching elsewhere would show the buttons again. Odd.
I don't understand why the cities would give so much free stuff to Google for them to set up their fiber network instead of just... setting up their own fiber network that's then actually owned by the public.

Because cities don't have the first clue about running a fiber network. As is the case with most of the other stuff they get involved in.
They don't. But let's say you click and buy another app or IAP within that 72 hour window, the affiliate gets a cut.
Ask HN: What type of creative are you?
"Create More, Better, Different" by Jason Theodor examines the Eight Creative Types in more detail, and helps you build your own effective Creative Toolkit.

Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVgvBKDBNoM

The Creative Type Test: http://createmorebetterdifferent.com/test
CSS3 Columns and Paged Reflowable Content
This reminds me of Needlebase from ITA before they got swallowed by Google. Needlbase had a bit less magic and a bit more data modelling, judging by that little demo.

Video tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Gzlq4zSDk
Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership
Especially on a core component.
Isnt this pretty much a version of Johnny Castaway? Which I have to add was, all those years ago, a lot more interesting and engaging. At least Johnny had a goal.
There are privatized "public" roads in the US. They are called "tollways"
I started coding after watching "War Games", and this still works for me
I think everyone on HN knows by now that the patent system is horribly broken, but that is not in any way exclusive to seeds. I can get in just as much trouble doing similar things with natural ore and carbons.

The reality is that, from a farmer's point of view, nothing changed. You still go to the same vendors, who supply seed same as they always did, and you plant them just like any other. It is not a practical issue, and never would have seen major use if it was.

The RR1 patent expires next year. That means we've been growing the stuff for almost 20 years now. The only problem I have heard of come as the result of the patent in all that time is the guy who got in trouble for spraying roundup on his "naturally occurring" roundup ready crop.
google apps isn't an upgrade for gmail. it's setting up an account in a separate infrastructure with different features and limitations, where features are developped and rolled out on a different schedule. even most google faqs advise that you should set up a separate account for your google apps business needs, because migration is a pain, and you win some lose some.
Hmm, that's an interesting point. I wonder if it could be adapted for secure online voting somehow? Perhaps we could finally have a system that's anonymous but prevents double voting?
It's not an assumption, it's averaging, for every few people that wouldn't need support, there is one that would need support three or more times.
Instagress — Twist your life on Instagram
AppGratis and needless middle-man apps like it are a plague and Apple was good to get rid of them.

One thing I love and respect Apple for is their enforcement of the "spirit" of the App Store, rather than enslaving themselves to the letter of their contracts. Reading that "appeal" from the AppGratis CEO would make you believe that they're a benevolent company helping the entire world, when really it's pretty easy to read between the lines and see that this was a spammy company whose intention was to skim revenue off the top of the huge AppStore pool by harassing people who download the app.

People think that the App Store approval process is so fickle, but really, it's easy: make a good, original app that stays sandboxed and that makes people want to use it rather than you pestering the user, and it will get approved.
One of our apps was rejected for poor UI design. We reworked the UI a bit and we got in.
More counter-productive than odd. Since most of us are already used to using tab in browsers and forms.

But yeah, it sucks to write a real amount of text in a texbox that doesn't let you use tab. Of course you can always write in another editor and then put it in the textbox.

Even easier if you use something like this:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
Whether Google should offer support, I don't know. But I'm not convinced by your argument.

The companies you name generally have low-skilled workers. Google support would have to be high-skilled and expensive.

Also, this is not just greed vs empathy. Everything has an opportunity cost. Google can spend $X staffing support lines for Gmail, or it can spend that money on developing features and bugfixes. This is a strategic business decision; either answer may be better for Google and its users.

Of course, they can spend the support savings on Olympic-sized swimming pools full of pudding. But you seem to be assuming they're doing that.
seriously, did this come on HN front page? HN is sometimes crazy or biased i don't know what to say..
The Gap Economy
We simply cannot predict consumer behavior, we cannot say we want to create that perfect blog people want to read because we do not know. So a planned approach cannot work. But what is with an opportunistic approach and why do some blogger have done so much better than other? This brought us to some interesting observations: I want to call it the Gap Economy.
Can You Patent a Steak?
We simply cannot predict consumer behavior, we cannot say we want to create that perfect blog people want to read because we do not know. So a planned approach cannot work. But what is with an opportunistic approach and why do some blogger have done so much better than other? This brought us to some interesting observations: I want to call it the Gap Economy.
The Human Moment is disappearing
Sounds like they generalized (weakly) the much older and popular language learning site, LingQ (http://www.lingq.com)...
Comparing Google to other monopolists and mega-corps with bad customer service is unfair to the latter.

All of these companies still have a huge staff trying to give customer support. Google isn't even trying.
Ask HN: Faking it, in the hope of making it...
I am not a coder, I design location-specific scavenger hunts and themed games. I was recently asked to design such a game for a mall, and when asked if I could put it on a mobile device for people to download, I said, "Of course!"

Oops.

SCVNGR is shuttered, and I don't know of another platform that will easily support the kind of content I hope to design.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Critiques?

Much appreciated,
-s
Original: http://www.lefthandedtoons.com/245/
If I had ~10k nuclear weapons, I'd no longer have political problems.
Except for the god-awful vote buttons. They're even still image files as well.
Agreed. I'm hesitant to buy any app from Coda for any price. Even free I'd take a second look.

And the reason is Code 2. For those of you who "had" Coda 2 you know exactly what I am talking about.
Google aren't closing their main product offering though (Search). A better analogy might be if they decided to give away little biscuits for free for many years and then one day stopped it... point being their main product is subsidising the other 'free' product as a way to get people to use Starbucks.

A real-life example might be their 'free WiFi'. They are well within their rights to stop doing this tomorrow if they choose to. Good luck to anyone who complains because their business is affected because they chose to base themselves out of a Starbucks!
> The default website, icon, and theme are ugly to say the least

I find the default icon better looking than the one the author is using, so I guess this is just a matter of taste. Same goes with the color scheme.
Just don't try to use EFnet or QuakeNet from them.
isn't lulu a self-publishing service?
aaccDD: CRAZY
Also known as the Wildcard, the Crazy is the most expressive (and strange!) of all Creative Types. Original ideas are as natural as breathing oxygen, but the challenge for the Crazy is to focus and to channel their ideas to the task at hand, to make them relevant to others. They may also need help getting past distractions and just getting things done. A Crazy benefits from tools in the Action and Connection Toolkits to continue to evolve creatively.
A. I can't believe this article is on HN and no one yet has argued about this: "Or as Dr. Loudon said, “It would be our greatest hope that ultimately this could develop into something that could help with this horrible problem.” Already, she said, she and her colleagues have a patent on the technology pending. It has, she said, been optioned by a commercial company"

2. Also, why did few of the Eastern Europeans who found this to be a miracle cure for generations not mention this when New York was going through its bed bug panic a few years back?
Top porn sites 'pose growing malware risk' to users
Downgrade Galaxy Ace 2 From Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean to Gingerbread [Tutorial]
How on earth did you manage that? We pay for our business Google Apps, but I never even got as much as a reply.
Allegedly, Samsung is pursuing tizen as a browser based os for their devices[1]. This seems accelerated after the Motorola mobile acquisition. I'm guessing they are looking at that as a technology to incorporate or a hedge.

[1] http://m.cnet.com/news/samsung-to-release-high-end-tizen-sma...
Glasgow, Scotland - Summer Internship

We are looking for an energetic and fun, aspiring Software Engineer to join us for a Summer Internship, starting May or June.

Hey Jimmy is a software startup and we build business software products and (in the future) products for motorsport.

You will be working closely with the Founder of the company, coding, testing, providing input on design and development – you’ll be part of the team.

You will ideally have your own machine and be great at coding in PHP, Java and Objective C. There might be some C/C++ required from you too. Are you experienced in web technologies like JSON and GAE? Great!

We have an office space in Pacific Quay and we will sometimes be working remotely.

This internship is initially unpaid but if things go our way at the end of the Summer and we both agree that you joining us will be awesome then a compensation package will be drawn up. You’ll also get a great reference from us in any future job hunts.

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IMHO, Google should make support liaisons (more) available. They have people who work closely with developers and then thousands of developers do the work for free and just interface with liaisons. Support should be this way, too. Give us easy access to some liaisons and provide a solid system for helpful volunteers to support the family of products.
The orange at the top seems way too bright and the fonts are a tad small in my opinion.

I switched to Hacker News Enhancement Suite https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
That's a narrow and one sided view of history.

I don't see much point in any further derailing of the discussion, but I don't think you picked a great topic for your humor.
Really? On my computer it's the exact opposite. The HN design looks like the font is around 8pt; the redesign looks like it's around 11pt.
On the iPhone it ends up in the same place anyways, on the desktop it's just really annoying.
Being Wrong - how we make decisions
Getting a Brain Boost Through Exercise
I had a problem with my Nexus 4, the FS got corrupted and wouldn't recognize any sim card, no amount of reset to factory defaults or flashing the rom would help. I had one small hitch getting ahold of their support, you had to call. My cell is my only phone so calling them was problematic. I had to use a friend's phone to do it, but once I got past the gatekeeper, I just interacted with the techs via email. After some very simple troubleshooting they emailed me shipping labels whilst shipping me a new phone. I've never had a company ship me a replacement before they received the dud, that was quite refreshing.
Mathematicians Predict the Future With Data From the Past
This CEO and his 45 employees now have the freedom of using the money they spent to scam users and devs to create an app that actually adds value to the world.

I really dont care about Apple's rules--all they really do is spell out the obvious intention of the App Store to idiots who need things spoon-fed to them.
Yes, lulu.com is a print-on-demand service. This seems to be a different Lulu ... I was confused too.
I can't help feeling that the people who use such an app to date and rate deserve each other.
This is the second most upvoted comment in this thread? Wow.
I had to double check I'm not reading Reddit.
Link for the curious, follow link to public mailing list:

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/google-backslides-on-feder...
In response to your second paragraph: Are you expecting people who paid for support and didn't use it to chime in? What are they supposed to say?
Samsung Galaxy S4: Magic from Design to Use
Introducing "x-default hreflang" for international landing pages
NOOO, it's too bright.
It may not have done it for you, but it did it for me, and others in this thread have confirmed that it did it for them.

For reference, I don't have any browser extensions installed, and I haven't used any labs features, so neither of those suggestions is correct either.

And forgive me for being blunt, but your reply seems to be similar to what happens when a problem is reported to some "support" services where they say "Works for me!" The clear underlying text is "So you're an idiot, and don't matter."

So thank you for your suggestions, but they're wrong. And it did do it for me, and I double-checked.
Ask HN: What do you think about my first coding project?
I've been teaching myself to code over the last couple of months and finally, this past weekend, decided to put my mind to actually trying to build something! So this is my first little project, Clearli a quick and simple weather app.

Please let me know what you think!

http://clearli.herokuapp.com/
Well, combustion engine in my car is not very conventional either by XIX century standards. Maybe we should ride horses?

Why you make assumption that bombs must be delivered to space vs constructed there from resources mined in asteroids?
Write a polar opposite. Push it through the same channels. If someone has it taken down, cry "sexism!" and demand the same for "Lulu" (an idiotic name, anyway).

UPDATE: Or perhaps not. After looking at the web site, it seems that this service, and a bad review of my person, is precisely the thing to repel exactly the kind of women I've never wanted to have anything common with.
My app was rejected for too little functionality. The reviewer thought I was loading a UIWebView and just pulling content into it. Never mind that that's a totally accepted practice, but I actually had everything done in native code (using TabBarController, CollectionView, TableView, NavigationController, etc).

Although I was told I could probably just resubmit it and get through with another developer I took the free advice and added more features. It's not sitting happily on my hard drive unsubmitted to the app store with 20 more hours worth of work into it.
I can't imagine they would get away with this in the EU. One data protection request and subsequent slander case would destroy them in an instant.

I find the whole idea objectionable at every level and about as innovative as "rate my poo".
Lets not act as though this is in anyway revolutionary, people have bitched behind other peoples backs for as long as there have been people.

Bitterness, anger and jealousy are unfortunately some of the strongest traits we humans have, especially when it comes to our interactions with one another, this application, while on the surface immoral, is simply providing a means for this to happen online.

I don't in anyway agree with this application or the practices it supports and the tags come across as misandric but people will be people, if they don't bitch here it will be on more public venues, such as Facebook or Twitter, at least here I don't have to see the self absorbed whinging simply by virtue of never visiting the app.

That aside, I hope the creators provide some means of men removing themselves from the website or there could very soon be some kind of law suit coming there way, regardless of their contrived TOS.
As much as I hope this to be true, it isn't:

"[Apple] risks a massive walk-out of developers and investors in mobile companies from the Apple eco system"
I mostly agree with you, but AppGratis and apps like it point out huge problems with the app store. Discovery and marketing sucks. We have an app with IAPs (not coins, but content) and there is no way for our IAP content to be discovered through the store. Simple app discovery is a mess. Trial apps do not exist.

Don't even get me started on the mess that is customer communication. If someone gets a return on your app, good luck finding out any sort of reason. As a developer I want to help each and every customer and make sure they have a great experience, but Apple makes that hard or impossible at every turn.
I built and published an app for a client (a local band) - their requested features were quite minimal and Apple rejected it.

It took about 4 more major features to be added to the app before Apple accepted it.

Lesson learned, some projects might be too small to take on.
The issue is men don't use the app. I downloaded it on my SO's phone and was able to find most of the college age guys I know on it. None of them knew they were on there.
When are you going to start beta test?
The main issue with those stats is that they are comparing sqlite3 opened liked this:

status = sqlite3_open(file_name, &db_);

Writing to a file, with full ACID completeness and everything been put on this disk to some in memory key value stores. Completely different thing.
Why wouldn't it be safe? Nuclear bombs don't just explode by accident or when they are hit by something, they need to be deliberately triggered, so I wouldn't estimate the danger of this to be very big.

Furthermore, nuclear weapons have been sent to space before, both for regular long-range missiles and for EMP-like tests.
I don't think it's a dating service. I think it's like an anonymous 'man review' site. You might be on there ...
I think it's hilarious and a brilliant idea. Everyone knows that dating is a lemons market, what's wrong with trying to fix it? And presumably you can rate things how you want... so if people want to put #Big.Feet or #AlwaysPays, that's their choice.
In recent times I've gotten the impression that their is a double standard going on regarding certain (not all) services and events that are only targeted to women.

If this had been an app for men rating and alerting them about certain women all hell would of broke loose.
Slashdot, big time.
> food has grown and can grow naturally

It most certainly can, but it hasn't for tens of thousands of years. People have been genetically modifying food and growing it in non-natural ways for as long as we have had agriculture.

If we could somehow turn to clocks back to a pre-agriculture food supply, do you feel that it would be viable to keep the current human population alive? Keep in mind that the crops we grow today didn't even exist back then, and only came to exist through thousands of years of genetic modifications.
[HN Meta] Comments aren't ranked by upvotes. The stuff at the top has a combination of upvotes, recency, and a poster with a high average comment rating (discounting their most recent X comments). So if someone who is typically insightful posts something inane, it will still appear near the top.

(Edit: not that I actually think the original comment was inane. Forgot context when I wrote this -- sorry!)
You can't substitute a cheaper intern for a full time employee in the US for the same reasons you state. It's even questionable to have interns working on anything that adds to the bottom line of your business.
I recall visiting my grandparents in Wales many years ago. Something that was astounding was that they paid every time you lifted the handset (a dial-tone access fee?). And then paid some more, depending on where you called. International calls required booking in advance.
Clickable: http://clearli.herokuapp.com/
I can build "my own Google Docs" with a series of many different document store databases. Why would I have a proprietary API back-end I cannot host myself as an alternative to Google? Let me host my own live text editor, text, editor, and all, xthxbai. The irony is pretty funny though.
a quick glance on the gmail support forums will answer your uncertainties. (hint: most of the serious ones are about loosing access and/or sec issues)

when I got locked out of my account with 2-step auth (a specific set of coincidences led to it), seeking help took over a week, 3 or 4 threads on the group, almost stalking a moderator (they are the ones who handle the support, and then contact the real google) so I got attention, after which for a few days I was in a dance between questions of doubtful relevance and requests to repeat the recovery process for the n-th time, etc. in the end, the guy was very helpful, and you should keep in mind they are the only ones that can actually rush somehow your process and you are at their mercy. needless to say, the overall experience with google support is terrible, painful and very frustrating.

I'd really pay a few bucks so I could message google directly explaining my specific problem and seek direct help instead of trying to convince a volunteer on a forum for a week, rewording the same problem for 10 times. and yes, my problem was specific enough so the automated process couldn't cover it and I actually needed a person, not a bot.
Intel wants to kill the traditional server rack with 100Gbps links
How does this even work?
I assume it's a database that you search by name and location but then there's going to be all kinds of collisions. Or does it pull data from social networks?

I imagine the signal to noise ratio will just be horrible, bitter ex girlfriends will just spam guys with negative tags even if they aren't true and it's information will just lose all value.
Really loving the design here, it's truly beautiful
If you think about it as art, does there need to be a punchline? I would actually be disappointed if there was one. In fact, if this were still continuing years from now, that would be truly amazing and definitely worthy of be called "art".
HN has a really nice hacker-ish design feel to it already so it's great. Just that it is not very tablet and mobile friendly with the really small buttons.
What I like about this extension over the OPs proposal is that it gives emphasis to the title, not the metadata like author and comments. The font family and size choices are much better as well.
Then we've basically been on the moon for centuries now. Just because we can theoretically build something with known physics doesn't mean we have e.g. the material knowledge to actually construct the spaceship. Also, there's this issue of slowing down, and of how to get that spaceship with that much fuel out of the atmosphere, and how to get that spaceship back.... I would say we have a long way to go before claiming we "have" a fusion drive in a spaceship.
New version is hard on the eyes.
gasp you mean you have to pay for something to expect support??? I'm glad you commented, because you bring a bit of reality to some of the other commenters who chime "Google doesn't offer support beause they don't have to." Umm, no, they don't offer support because only an idiot would offer support to customers who aren't paying for anything.

I get so tired of people who get "free" (yes, i know Google monetizes their use with ads) stuff wanting support. If you want support, you have to pay for it. The skilled person wearing the headset in the call center doesn't work for free.