skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After a point, its no longer a problem you are solving - it's saying "you/I am a problem"

You could learn lots of tricks to be a better conversationalist, you could practice and make habits. But at some point you won't move the needle and you won't be changing.

And if you've never seen the wreck of a human being that shows up when you define your natural (normal) inclinations as a problem, then you are fortunate.
Sounds like Cappuccino?

http://www.cappuccino-project.org/
Accessing Tumblr sites directly is for "legacy support". A very high percentage of Tumblr impressions are through the Dashboard where all style/themes are removed from the content.
Didn't actually have it in my HN profile until this post prompted me to add it, but my username here is my pseudonym of choice on the web and I own the .com so it's basically 1:1 for my real name if you know how to Google.
I'd settle for 13 - "The ability to finally, once and for all delete old app IDs from the portal." That fact I can't shits me no end.
I did it. It totally kicked my ass. It was great!
I was just providing it as one example.
In a real stream fish aren't forced to swim single file.
It'd be nice if they'd fix multi-monitor in OSX. It is a pain to work with if you multitask frequently, and its also worse if you frequently use full screen apps (basically disables all other screens).

Seriously, if they announce that they fixed multi-monitor in 10.9 and thats the sole only feature in it over 10.8, I will buy it.
How many of these sorts of acquisitions by yahoo have resulted in anything other than destruction of the value of the service?

Geocities was the tumblr of its day.

Buying a shiny popular thing without reasonable and specific plans, getting bored with it, and then shutting it down or just letting it languish is not a good use of capital.
IntelliJ IDEA is the base for Android Studio, the new IDE for Android developers
Short exercise routines are a hit in today's world of busy people. I love this thanks. Still feel sad that we have to opt for these things in order to get our asses up.
No doubt this is a wonderful list...as sad as it is to say, though, it would take far more than this list to 'appease the internet'. I'm not trying to be nit-picky on just one phrase but since it is your thesis to an extent, you must realize that even such a long and accurate list will not succeed in 'Appeasing the internet'. In fact, nothing should ever appease the internet. The 'beauty' of the internet is that there is and always will be a desire for more.

I once heard a neat metaphor and I think it applies quite well here (I've adjusted it a bit for this context): Imagine the x-axis to be representative of appeasing the internet. Now you must understand that every service/company has a graph that is asymptotic to the x-axis. So services like Apple and Google are pretty close but they will never truly be able to appease the entire internet.

I guess I was nit-picky but some food for thought nonetheless.
I visited my developer account this morning and I was able to delete app IDs. You need to select the app ID, then click on "settings" and then you will find the "delete" button below the form.
No. Just please NO!
From last 3 days I was thinking about this only. Instead I thought of doing it as Android App. Cool.
I'd delete Facebook if it weren't so damn useful...
After having said something out-of-school ~10 years ago as "patio11" on a forum and having someone track that down via not-so-difficult Googling (since I use "patio11" approximately everywhere), I resolved to eliminate the ambiguity and assume that anything I post under any patio11 account goes on my permanent record. Ironically, while it certainly didn't feel like it at the time, this was probably a net win for everyone, since I'm a much more pleasant person to be around on the Internet these days and my Internet reputation has been frequently useful professionally.
I love everything by James Gleick.
I recommend Faster, The Information, and Chaos.
Because there's no cerebral solution to that problem short of going out there and making yourself look like an idiot until you don't looks like an idiot anymore.
It seems like you would be opening yourself up to lawsuits if you take this course of action and are successful. Not that I might not do it if I believed in something, but I'd want to be very careful.

If you're out of money it might be hard to pull this off as I've heard seeking funding is a full time job (or two, as your cofounders have shown) so the product has to be mostly good to go (for at least the time being) if that's going to work.

Using the product you already built with company funds is almost definitely off limits (IANL), so I'm not quite sure how that strategy could be feasible.
Actually I suspect a not insignificant number of people aren't even aware of Facebook's edge-rank shenanigans. I have lost count of the number of times I have had to point out, even to techy friends, that you can reset the sort to most recent (over and over, thanks Facebook). This normally comes after people complaining they didn't see some post or another from a friend/family member, because Facebook decided it wasn't "popular" enough. Then again most of my friends are the kind that only friend actual friends, if they had feeds 800 people deep I suspect Facebook culling most posts would be appreciated. The only thing that annoys me is constantly having to reset it, you'd think after N times they would take the signal of "your edge-rank trimming is abysmal", but no.
Creative coding and interactive installations? Try http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_us if you like those sorts of things.
I already sent 2 on separate occasions. I just send the third ;)
It's going to be really interesting if (as rumoured) they make major UI theme changes in iOS7. Until now Apple has reaped the benefits but not really had to pay the true price for the relatively inflexible approach with the UI. If they update the UI to look different, every app that hard coded images, colors, dimensions or other facets of the UI is going to suddenly look broken. It'll be really interesting to see how it goes.
Social login buttons aren't worth it
This post answered my question: http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/05/15/intellij-idea-is-t...

"You can see the updated Android support in the Early Access Preview of IntelliJ IDEA v13 that is opened today...This EAP build includes all of the new features of Android Studio except for the new project wizard and the AppEngine cloud endpoints integration. These latter features will also appear in our EAP builds in the coming weeks."
So, opportunity to add advertisements?
I use the same pseudonym that I use almost everywhere. On many sites it's directly linked with my first name.

I think it's basically the same as my real identity, but I wanted to keep my entire Internet "trail" easy to follow. Searching my username almost solely comes up with links for me.
What was wrong with it? I haven't used ASP at all (outside of some tutorial a decade or so ago), so I don't know. Curious to see if there are any pitfalls we're headed for, and if they're avoidable.

In the meantime, I'm quite excited by the idea of web-components, though the implementation is staggeringly unpleasant to look at.
I prefer open source social networks. And decentralized with that, such as Diaspora.
I am thoroughly unimpressed by Marissa Mayer at this point. Yahoo is doing nothing but keeping up their 'trend' of buying too early or too late.

Tumblr while a great asset is going to be FAR to expensive to pay off for Yahoo at this point, and a lot of the junior assets they have purchased have no or little direction.

In my opinion Yahoo is on a quick slide towards 'AOL territory' where they have to slim down to their 'core' to make any money and will likely suffer innovation starvation until they are almost totally irrelevant.
I have to SIGN IN TO READ? Once again, please do not post links to quora.
This is what I do. I'm 'blowski' on here, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, email, etc. It's a handle which stuck years ago. So although it's not my real name, it's pretty easy to identify me by it. My profile page also lists my real name and job.
For Sale: A Video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Smoking Crack Cocaine
What will her Act II look like? So far, we've seen a few questionable acquisitions and some fluff policy changes. I don't get it.
As long as we're dreaming, let's build a larger drone that can swoop down on the annoying guy's drone and grab it from the top, then fly up and deposit it in the top of a tree. After dropping a net over its rotors to be sure it can't take off again.
Why does he think people newly entering the workforce will listen to an album of motivational business music over going to Quora or Harvard Business Review to read about business?
Another with rotation:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,0,2,0,1,2,3,1,3,3...

And another:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,20,1,10,0,0,10,0,0,...

I wonder if there is a simple explanation for this phenomenon.

And just for fun:

http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,6,1,2,2,2,1,0,0...

http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#8,3,2,2,1,5,2,1,0...

http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,6,1,3,0,0,3,3,2...

http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,7,2,3,2,1,1,3,0...

That last one will surprise you.

More ...

http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,7,2,6,3,2,3,3,1...

Wait for it:

http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,6,0,1,0,1,3,2,2...

http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,6,2,5,2,1,5,1,2...
IMO, people like hype, and a lot of the time, they are not aware of what better alternatives exist. If Go did not have Google or Ken or Pike as names behind it, do you think it would have gone anywhere? It doesn't really offer anything special compared to more expressive and safer languages like Scala and Rust for instance.

You can see it right here in the comments: someone said that Go is a memory safe language. It is not any more safer than Java is in that regard. We need languages that are safer than Java and Go.
I switched from the multi-column to the single column as soon as I found out I could switch back. And I agree, the single column is possibly even more hideous than the multiple panels (but easier to parse).

However, this is not the same view as the previous interface. This was the (very) old:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tUWGu4XpE2Q/UVj5I-YMCQI/AAAAAAAAAi...

And here is the most recent old:

http://cdn.dejanseo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Google...

and the new (single stream):

http://www.wojdylofinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Scr...

Since the sides were filled (with random stuff that, granted, you mostly ignored) the whitespace wasn't an issue. With those things removed, the vacuousness is much more noticeable. Also, the color of the whitespace wasn't that ugly gray that screams out "I'm not doing anything! Fill me with something!". Unfortunately, reducing the window size doesn't help because the chat panel will now overlap it. Speaking of which (and this is a change that I'm actually quite upset about), it is now much more difficult to determine which contacts are actually online.

I stared at the panel for a bit, tried to figure out why the people at my contact queue didn't seem to have any green indicators (they were all offline), then tried to determine who _was_ online (difficult since the indicator just blends into the photo, and clicking on a user's profile doesn't always reveal their status). Looking again today, it's still difficult to determine who is actually online.
Please stay far away from the startup scene. You're toxic.

Edit: since the downvotes from assumed sycophants are pouring in, I'm not afraid to defend my position: the story of the Groupon pump and dump is well-known here and criticism has always been widely upvoted. But once the man is right here in our midsts you retreat. This is essentially the same behavior we see over and over of society promoting the psychopath. Others might have short memories but I don't.
All I really wanted was for Preview to be able to open epub & iBook purchases.
Why would the increase of the stock price increase Yahoo's available capital? Are they making acquisitions via stock swaps? Is their cost of capital decreasing?
Shut down all the things
>but not only that, Tumblr's social interaction model is not as addictive as it is on Twitter and Gacebook...less interactions means less data.

I think the tags people use on their posts could go a long way to serving relevant ad content in dashboard or outside of it. Also from looking around on some blogs on tumblr,I see that people seem to mostly focus on a core group of topics they're generally interested which I can see going a long way with serving relevant ads.

Engineering wise, since blogs are so customizable that may have some challenges, but I can see an automatic "ad-injector" take the same format as the posts on a persons feed (that can't be edited in the style editor), and insert itself (based on w/e factors such as how many posts, page views, type of content,etc). From talking with a recruiter last summer, that may be something much more fun for devs to tackle than trying to redo their backend.
I don't know what to do about your startup dilemma. It would have been wise to set a deadline (and communicate that to your partners) at the very beginning; hopefully you can do that next time. If you do leave, you said you "don't want to work for a big corporation again": if you'd prefer to consult for private clients, I've found oDesk to be a great place to find them. Just be selective in which jobs you bid on.
Show HN: My latest work for the Google I/O '13 Keynote
Err, lots of people would also like to see:

iWork apps for 2013,

iLife apps for 2013,

Logic Pro X,

Aperture 4,

Final Cut Pro 10.5
Geordie's (Dwave's CTO) rebuttal: [1]

"The majority of that post is simply factually incorrect.

I used to find this stuff vaguely amusing in an irritating kind of way. Now I just find it boring and I wonder why anyone listens to a guy who’s been wrong exactly 100% of the time about everything. Update your priors, people!!

If you want to know what’s really going on, listen to the real experts. Like Hartmut. [2]"

[1] http://dwave.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/first-ever-head-to-hea...

[2] http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2013/05/launching-quantum-...
I've seen that leaked PHP code before... does anyone have a link to the full story to go with it? Was it really only last year?

The code is scary in so many ways. I assumed it was from Tumblr's early days and they long since fixed it up.
Launching the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
Critical Linux Exploit In The Wild
I've read a bit about high intensity training (tabata, hiit, crossfit, etc.) and there seems to be quite a good bit of evidence supporting their utility. The 7-minute workout may well fit in that same category.

However, as an old fogie, I recall a craze back in the 70s and 80s called 5BX, which stood for 5 basic exercises, created by Swedish aircrew iirc. The reason I recalled it is the mention of rapid-style jumping jacks and push ups in the 7-minute workout. 5BX had increasingly quickened routines for jumping jacks (from a crouching position), sit-ups and push-ups (with claps thrown in as you completed each push-up).

All of this worked very well in terms of actually toning your body, getting a good daily cardio workout, and a sense of fitness... until it did irreparable back and other damage to quite a few people. So just be careful, especially if the high intensity and the 7 minute time limit drives you to a regimen that gets anywhere close to a 5BX style work out in terms of quick, jerky movements.

Personally, I've reverted to playing basketball like I did in my college days, with high intensity worked into it with repeated lay up, jump shot routines, etc. It's working great for cardio and overall body toning. I would like to do weights as well, as there is a body of evidence pointing to its value, but basketball is plenty far for me at this stage.
> I am appalled by the lack of respect Andrew Mason gets on Hacker News

It's almost like you haven't been paying attention to a single thing about Groupon for the last couple of years.

You could start here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupon#Reception) but somehow I think that wouldn't matter to you.
At first I thought you were suggesting that comments should be limited in length. I think that would actually be a nice idea. Bad short comments are easy to get passed. It's much harder to dig through bad long comments.
Yeah. I have a doctor friend who provides heart surgery for truck drivers and construction workers. On the weekends he takes classes in big rigs and hammers so he can provide better medical treatment for them.
You reminded me of an old favorite. Thanks!

"AOL Acquires Time-Warner In Largest-Ever Expenditure Of Pretend Internet Money"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/aol-acquires-timewarner-in-...
Love this guy. Accounting issues aside, concept to IPO to goodbye letter was such an interesting journey to watch unfold. Can't wait to see what happens at YC and the new startup. Welcome to the bay, Andrew.
With interval training you try and do as many as possible within the time period, not a specific amount or to the beat.
So I've heard. It's perverse. All the styling and theming is atrocious, but good news: on this blogging platform, nobody actually looks at the public facing pages! Everything looks great (if you think completely unstyled text and images and no externally-hosted content == "great") so long as you log in to a view only you can see.
Adblock Plus: Internet Heroes Or Banner Ad Shakedown Artists?
There was a play on Radio 4 a while back, where a guy orders a sandwich but it never arrives. Deciding that leaving would mean wasting the hour he's already waited, he stays in the cafe for years, waiting for the sandwich to arrive.

Read 'Eric Ries - The Lean Startup'. Your time at this startup is not necessarily wasted, if you've learnt stuff, networked, and somehow helped you get your next job.
What according to you is the biggest problem with MOOCs?
No, I think it would be pretty hard to convince me to pay for a service when Gmail is already so easy to use.
"Please cite something in the scientific, engieneering, or hacker literature showing this."

http://www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html

Really, you can just try this yourself; it is entirely safe and causes no permanent damage to anything. Take a handheld laser pointer and aim it at a webcam from some distance (say, down a hallway). If you do not have a laser pointer, take your camera of choice to the supermarket and point it at a barcode scanner.

"Because I think silicon detectors and solid state optics are a lot more resilient (and easier to repair) than human retinas."

Well I'm not going to recommend that you shine a laser into anyone's eyes, but like I said, it is easy to see the effect a low-power laser has on a typical CCD camera. In simple terms, what happens is that electrons "spill" into neighboring pixels, which causes more "spilling" to occur (the technical term is "blooming"). The more light the CCD receives, the worse this effect becomes; lasers are an extreme case, since all of the energy is focused on a very small area. There are technologies that reduce this effect, but it is all relative: a cheap cell phone or webcam is easily blinded, whereas a decent point and shoot will still capture at least some of the frame (but with a big circle surrounding the laser dot).

As for power levels, I have done the above with a red laser pointer that emits roughly 1mW. To my knowledge, there are no recorded cases of any permanent eye damage from such a laser. There is a reason such devices are considered safe even for indoor use.
I'd also add make Siri better, I feel like it was barely touched in iOS 6.
A cheap solution is to have a server sitting at your office/home that runs a nightly cronjob to rsync backups off your EC2 machine to local disk. Copy that data to external drives and keep a copy at home. Store another encrypted copy on S3. Or use Tarsnap to handle the security for you.

Every few months back it all up to some external drives and store it in a safe deposit box, or use a service like Iron Mountain.
I used to participate in a forum with a ten character minimum. For a time, I was one of the mods. I and other people figured out how to make a shorter reply and add invisible filler to get around it. Since most of the people doing it were moderators, some folks thought it was a mod privilege (to use fewer characters -- they didn't realize the hack). Other members would just add visible filler, like the phrase "10 char".

It seems pretty dumb to me.
> Instagram was starting to cannibalize the facebook youth userbase

Tumblr, too, is doing exactly that, if you believe this January survey:

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/11/business/la-fi-tn-tu...

Another survey, this one from December and including all Americans (not just teens), showed people spend more time on Tumblr than Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn combined:

http://www.marketingcharts.com/wp/interactive/in-december-am...

That seems to suggest Tumblr's worth more than Instagram.
Medium seems like a much nicer acquisition target.
What about my Retina macbook air!?

(oh, and a pony)
I'm 5'3", it is an insane disadvantage. Even if that's false, no amount of words will change the belief -- it's experiences that change that.

But we both know that, no matter how fucked up you are, there are girls who would consider you "good enough". Your job is to go out and find out what those girls are like. One of two things will happen: either you're fine with those girls; or you'll suddenly find a massive motivation to improve yourself (for an endgame of what's possible, see Seth Green)

Your only problem right now is ignorance. Go out and change that.
Vim hall of honour
I wish i could up vote this more than once...

Seriously, does no one on the OS X dev team use multiple monitors!?
They don't "need" to do anything on that list. That is a wish list of features.

They "need" to sell things.
I'm a big Apple fanboi but even I'm getting discouraged. If you watched Google I/O, they clearly are looking like the innovators at this point while we Appleistas are stuck looking at photos of some new doo-hickey part in the forthcoming iPhone 5S. Apple needs to stopping being evoluationary and get back to being revolutionary. And a 15" MacBook Air would be nice too.
In the first post the other day I got no responses. ZERO! Today I got 2. Both were legit options and companies I'd seriously consider. I mistakenly did not mention originally in my post that I'm looking in San Francisco and one of the replies was from a company in Santa Monica which is too bad. The other is in San Francisco and I hope I we can at least sit for a chat soon. Might be something good.
Reading your description of all the things you can learn about your own breathing reminds me of a line in a Seinfeld episode when Tia the model turns to Jerry and says: "I've never met a man who knew so much about nothing"
Come on man. Is this necessary?
I just want the iOS simulator to not leave zombie processes behind every time I run it.
Smart Drive App: Drive Smartly with Smart Drive App
Congratulations, stunning visuals and audio.
Basically, the UI is shiny but awful - really, really clunky.

You can't compose content within the view of your own blog. Settings are kind of strewn about the dashboard and blog view. The themes are poorly organized, a lot of them have broken links outright (!), and in general, there are just a lot of WTF moments with the interface.

Sure, everything's glossy and animated, but use it for any length of time and you get the distinct feeling that it's a hack.
That is strangely true for many new features: They all all already been there at one point in the monopolistic Internet Explorer. e.g. CSS expressions from IE will now have a comeback, RSS was Active Channels, IE had HTML tooltips that went beyond the window, a fullscreen api (much abused), localstorage was domstorage, shadow DOM were behaviours, css filters were directxfilters...
In what terms?