skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick google search [1]. TaskMessenger.com did a write up on March 1, 2013 [2] about this very thing, which led to 8,040 page views and 6,111 unique visits. JetStrap.com did a write up in October 2012 [3] about this very thing, which led to 20,000 new users. http://shkspr.mobi did a write up in November 2012 [4] about this very thing, which led to 30,000 extra visitors..

p.s. Getting on HN front page is hard! These people had cool topics and a bit of luck. Do no be surprised if you post and you get 1-2 up votes and that's it.

[1] https://www.google.ca/?q=hacker+news+front+page+stats

[2] http://taskmessenger.com/blog/index.php/google-analytics-aft...

[3] http://blog.jetstrap.com/2012/10/20000-users-in-a-week-hn-fr...

[4] http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/whats-the-front-page-of-hack...
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> Antibiotics are a recent human invention

Fungus could tell another history, about how they design, make and use exactly the same compounds since thousands, maybe millions of years for the same purposes.
All reasonable gripes, except "CSS that changes the hotlink colors". Everyone with a stylesheet does this. I understand the value of standardizing here, but the default colors are a bit garish, and in any case are unlikely to harmonize with your design. What are you going to do?
You are completely missing the point. None of this is about hard work. They all worked extremely hard for their whole careers, and the ones who are still alive continue to do so.

The point is that they all established a tidy fortune by focussing on short term projects before they took on more ambitious projects.

That's why most entrepreneurs aren't focused on major world changing projects - they are trying to satisfy their needs for security first, and that is the general rule, not the exception.
I always thought that referred to the "set of chips" that were integral to motherboard operation -- during my enthusiast years these were the bios and cmos, HDD controllers, then northbridge and southbridge controller, and eventually audio and network integrated circuits.
And then we enter into a massive deflationary recession, you lose your job, people go hungry, etc... all because there's been massive demand destruction for 'shit'. Doesn't sound so great.

Or just let people decide what's worth buying for themselves. If they decide they'll get utility out of it, great. If not, then they don't have to buy it. No need to foist your desires on others.
I strongly agree with #1.

If you really don't want to live in a society with insect-sized drones doing, well, whatever they want, you're not going to have much choice in a couple of decades (at most).

#2 would be nearly impossible to enforce.
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Interesting question is why academia/research is treated differently from the OSS community. Think about all the money being funneled into research from government and non-government agencies and this is never considered penny pinching / charity. Why isn't there a similar channel for companies / government agencies to sponsor OSS projects?
Big web app? Compile it
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>But if you were able to contain a golf ball of sun, the heat it produced would be able to power far more than a reptile's brain as its heat was transfered to the environment...

It is you who is misunderstanding the concept here. A golf ball of Sun produces heat only about as much as the reptile brain. In other way - if you put as many reptile brains in one pile so that the pile will be as large as Sun, you'll get the pile radiating with Sun's black-body radiation temperature and intensity. The trick here is that amount of energy produced is proportional to volume, while radiating surface is just square-proportional, thus black-body radiation temperature (i.e. frequency, ie. energy of a given radiated photon) of a pile of reptile brains (or golf-ball sized chunks of Sun) would be much higher than that of a one brain or the same set of brains (or chunks of Sun) spread around with significant distances between each other.

Edit: it isn't to say that fusion power can't be used as a practical source of energy on Earth. It is just some forms of [stationary] containment are ruled out, mainly by bremsstrahlung (Sun overcomes it precisely because of volume to ratio being big enough). Dynamic forms of containment are proven to be working (net-positive) at least by H-bomb.
No, it's the government (or more specifically, taxpayers [today's or tomorrow's]) giving straight cash. It's also the only reason Goodwill exists.
Your link totally screwed my computer (Win7, Chrome).

I tried it twice (I'm a masochist, I guess).

It somehow took over all the computer time (realtime priority?), and chrome wasn't even using 100% of the CPU time in Task Manager.

Everything froze up except the mouse, which moved like it was underwater.
FWIW according to wikipedia there are 9.9 million Kims and 2.9 million Smiths. Kim is the most popular Korean surname and Smith is the most popular English surname.
Would anybody speculate that the popularity of MVC and agile development has exacerbated this issue?

I'm working for the first time on somebody elses code and with a group of develpers, and it seems like the answer to most problems is 'just add another model'. I stay away from that as much as I can, and try to make existing models fit new features and functions.

Maybe it's just my current workplace, but is this a more modern problem?
After using the autosave plugin for notepad++, the need to manually press ctrl+s in excel or word annoys me. Why can't I tell these programs to autosave when they lose focus? Instead, I get weird "autorecover" options that usually take several minutes to restore my file.

After using an autosave plugin for minecraft server, I'm annoyed by the need to unfocus notepad++ to get it to save. I would almost rather have my changes written directly to disk automatically. I don't want to have to think about if my file is saved or not.
Exactly the same as the comments that I was replying to: zero. I posted it to illustrate this, since they are exact opposite experiences and now we have two statistically insignificant data points contradicting each other.
ah.. web rings.. I remember babylon 5 web rings... Nostalgia's a hell of a thing.
> the business units are so disconnected from engineering they don't even realize the costs of what they're asking for

In software you get this at all levels, including in the freelance/consulting world - people have no clue of the costs of what they're asking for so when they can't even make bad guesses, they go with "how hard would it be..." for a big feature request or "can't you just..." for what they see as a small one.

I always prefer honesty over this - if you have no idea about even estimating the cost for some feature, just ask "How much will it take and how much will it cost to... ?", don't fuddle around with the "how hard...", "can't you..."... these are just weasel words for when you need to overwork and underpay someone because you really know you need something done yesterday and with almost no budget, but you really need it so maybe someone will just shoot himself in the foot to make it work for you if you ask nicely enough :)
Given the insulting price offered by Half Price, I just started giving all my books to my local public library. They mostly auction them to raise money.

I may check out the Amazon Trade In option mentioned upthread.
You have to love Belgium. They have created some serious munitions: rijndael, belgian malinois and anything from FN.
It's different in that it's embedded in your application (like SQLite). It does not require a separate process or server running Mongodb. There are certainly appropriate use cases for this module, and since it has a Mongodb-like interface it can be swapped out for Mongo at any time.
They're not. The baseline probability of profitability for these types of companies is incredibly small. However, the potential profit that you might make for any one of these companies is extremely high (usually by selling the company, not by the company's inherent ability to turn a profit) - so invest in multiple companies and if you're lucky the 'big one' will beat your losses many times over.
"an otherwise horrible reading experience."

What's horrible about the article? It's straightforward, conventional typography of the sort used in printed books for a long time.
Agreed. The internet is essentially about information. Words are a subset of information transmission. What we can take away from this page though, is that information should not be obstructed by cruft. I agree with that.
Because nobody here is going to log into a service that requires Facebook, which makes it pretty damn hard to comment on it further.
You think Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen work for NSA?
So does this mean there is some truth to the "magic healing power" of silver water?
Yes please... Anything to get past crappy mobile websites. At least most mobile websites with apps (or is it baked into iOS?) are smart enough to give you an option to open an app after the page loads.

And from a retailer's standpoint, how could you not use this? You basically bring someone exactly to where they asked to go and exactly to where you want them to go.
RIGHT ON, BROTHER!
They have a free plan, the onus is on you to stay within those limits or upgrade.
I'd love a good epub or mobi version of this, if anyone's got one
Inanimate objects can't be evil.

Guns don't cause crime, cars don't cause accidents, and nuclear weapons don't kill people: their (usually) negligent operators do.
Their CEO is not the asshole in this situation; your assumption about dictionary words is not correct. You're using their brand, their logo, and their listings; to call you instead of suing you immediately was a kindness.
It's only Times [New Roman] because that's what your browser is set to use by default.

Imagine: a world in which you could choose your preferred font for reading websites! Sure, most people would choose Comic Sans, but that would be better than making people download some super-thin font that looks great on (and only on) the designer's Retina display.
Yes; that's it exactly!
Pilot Lands Plane With iPad App, Help Of TSA Agent
Congratulations James and Andrew, from a long-time user of Envolve (the precursor to Firebase).
Leaked docs: NSA can keep inadvertently acquired data on Americans for years
Regarding 1, how high, vertically, does my private premises extend?

Is it the 500' described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_rights ?
To be clear, the author is talking about simplicity which comes out of years of dealing with complexities. The better I get at engineering the simpler are my solutions.
In the end 'content' is what matters, and even though the oop (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5913381) phrased it as 'words' if you replace it with 'content' he has a point. IMHO in essence he was trying to say design should start with content, not with shiny buttons, orange icons (remember web 2.0 anyone?) or flat ui. And I agree with him.
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I'd have to side with Thiel, with one caveat. Innovation of important technology is slowing down. How many animated GIF/photo-filter apps does the world really need?

I'd like to see more companies focusing on the big problems that have the potential to impact the way we work, live, and survive.
Your feedback sample is HN; of _course_ these guys are going to dislike signing in with Facebook.

Fact is, for normal people (think: your mom, aunt betty, cousin Joe) Facebook login is easier and looks safer to them.

It circles back to the ancient proverb: Know your audience.
or Salesforce Chatter?
You're putting way too much baggage on to "how hard". It doesn't necessarily carry any implications of "yesterday and with no budget"; it's a scoping question.

"How much will it take and how much will it cost to... ?" condenses down to "how hard…". You can tell they're functionally equivalent because you can give the exact same answer to both.

"Can't you just" is a whole different story, granted.
Senator: Firm that vetted Snowden under criminal investigation
I remember circa-1994/1995, our library got a book called something like "World Wide Web Yellow Pages" and it was a printed book of a couple hundred pages of curated web URLs. Even then the irony was not lost on me. Why didn't they just put it online? The answer was, well, then how would you find that?
Twitter usage map by phone OS
To be fair, this is a community of mostly non-mathematicians, most of whom will probably have no use for this work. But yeah, certainly that's the real "big deal" here.
Howdy, CryptoSeal guys. It was great grabbing a beer with you in SFO earlier this year and talking about the VPN space. GetCloak.com continues to go well. I didn't realize you were heading in the consumer direction. We should probably catch up again someday soon! ;-)
I feel like such a hipster for having used AltaVista and Dogpile as search engines.
This is really helpful perspective, thank you! (the author)
Thanks for the feedback. We need to consider a way of doing this. One idea was also that you could have filter, that would just show you all the unread posts.
What I've always found fascinating was that how much easier I've always found words to find and use than images.

You'd think little pictograms would be quicker but whenever an interface focuses on using lots of little icons I find it a mental workout to find which one I'm looking for.

For example, many people dislike the new gmail layout, but the biggest ux stumble I have is clicking the attach pictogram instead of the the link one. I thought it was interesting that in the results in the article 21% of people reported the reverse, they associated attach with the link pictogram.

In RL companies use pictograms because you don't have to localize, but the internet is dynamic and the tooltips are already localized, why not just use words?
The worst are inexperienced product managers who look at you like you're trying to pull a fast one.

If it's something small, then maybe just code it up quick in a branch named after the PM-Feature (so you can keep track). Then ask them to validate the requirement before you merge it in (hopefully you can help with this). At least this way they know that you aren't being lazy etc.

Next time that PM asks for something "simple", do a quick branch list of invalidated feature requests.
There are few enough Elon Musks in the world that I think we should be grateful for whichever ones we get
I had an insight a few months back when I was looking at djb's website (http://cr.yp.to/djb.html). I was spending far too much time playing with toys (static site generators) and not enough time actually producing interesting content. Nobody cares about your pretty blog theme, they care about your ideas.
I've frequently heard designers, developers and VPs of Engineering -- which I'll collectively call "builders" -- argue that a product should have fewer features and thus should be "simple."

But I honestly can't remember reading once when a user has said they want fewer features. Users want it to easy, yes, but they also want the features that make their lives, well, easier; see how that works?

Whenever I hear builders argue for simplicity I get deja-vu as if I'm hearing union members argue against those who might cross the picket line, or lobbyists trying to convince congress to give their clients tax breaks, or record companies complaining about downloaded musics, or, or, or,... well you get the picture.
I've been having a huge argument over colloidal silver in the family. It's hard to stay reasonable when there are family members health possibly at stake. I've kept a very skeptical stance, although I can't really say I can argue from any confidence. It seems obvious that the idea is littered with quackery and hopeful thinking. This article makes me more confused.
The people asking probably don't think they have no clue of the costs of what they are asking for, they think they have a vague idea of the relative costs based on their perception of what is involved and their past experience of other changes.

Now, these ideas may often be very wrong, and may be in fact so wrong that "no clue" is the best description, but its not, for the most part, dishonesty when people act like they have some general expectation of the cost.
Silver as adjunct treatment for infection sounds promising. I'm curious how this will turn out in the future.
Some part of it must be cultural. The entire west coast seems to score badly. I can't find a lot on "blue tickets" except to suggest that it hasn't been done since the 80s.

To go from ANC to SEA by bus you'd be taking 3 different bus lines, for a total price of ~$425 and probably a week of travel time.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+portland+...
I would go one step further, and say that while images are very popular on the internet, most are light on meaning.

The parent mentions the some large percentage of the links are to imgur, which is absolutely true. However, the actual content of those images is so shallow they could each be summed up in a sentence apiece; ironically enough, looking at the front page this very instant, half of the images contain words to convey a specific message, and the rest rely on the title of the post to convey context to the image.

The right picture may be worth a thousand words, but much to my dismay there are very few pictures of that quality to be found.
Section (3) is particularly interesting.

A communication identified as a domestic communication will be promptly destroyed upon recognition unless the Director of the NSA specifically determines, in writing, that

(3) the communication is reasonably believed to contain ... information necessary to assess a communications security vulnerability

What does this say for vulnerability researchers who happen to be American?
This is a really good point!

But even if you treat the cause, these symptoms won't disappear...
> Users want a manageable and appropriate amount of complexity. Sane defaults, reasonable options.

+1
async/await is on their roadmap, though I'd estimate about a year before it'll be in a stable version (I wouldn't be surprised if it'll be available on a feature branch much sooner, but with lower expectation of stability).
That sounds too long, by about 5 years.
I highly doubt the motivation of the past and current administration are "evil". I highly doubt that Bush or Obama wanted a massive surveillance state and a "minority report" type of future. The problem is that righteous and shortsighted people are rarely aware of being shortsighted. They built an infrastructure of turnkey tyranny to protect us from what may very well be a real threat, and swear that there's a system of checks and balances to protect us not because they are "evil" but because they are righteous. Their righteousness blinds them to their shortsightedness.

So, no, I still can't see them as evil. Just foolish.
Seconded.

Even after Altavista was clearly better than Yahoo for ad-hoc searches, I still used Yahoo a lot because their topic hierarchy was a really great way to sit down and learn about some topic and its sub-topics.

I was particularly keen on this while eating because you could browse the web with just the mouse very easily.
Thank you for the link. I'm going to have fun looking back through all their posts.
"Gift Truces" is my new expression of the year. Love it.
Well, the image containing the message is only ever served once. If the recipient navigates away from the email and then opens the email again, the image containing the message will be replaced with a different image (the message will be gone). I recommend reading the full FAQ and trying it out.
The number is simply based on the cost and convenience of storage. As prices continue to plunge, the length will be indefinite.
Hands Off: Apple Wants to Pull Orphion Music App Over Touch APIs
In the US your backyard isn't necessarily considered to have an expectation to privacy.

The principle in question is Curtilage, the relevant holding was United States v Dunn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtilage

The fence argument is interesting, the factors they'd need to consider are outlined in the Wiki article. It's also why a professor of mine who was a lawyer told us in DC that if we ever got a MPD citation for drinking in public on our porch that he'd take the case for free, as he felt the law would clearly be unconstitutional - and said he'd have fun doing it.
Interesting twist to the idea!
one-in-one-out is a good one; we already implemented this in our household. still a lot of unimportant stuff hanging around getting moved from one apartment to the next... ;)
sound like you're talking about patents :)
In the unlikely scenario that the app was compromised and stayed compromised, you would be correct. However, if it was compromised and the situation was quickly rectified, only sent but unread messages would be able to be read. If a service like WhatsApp was compromised, however, a much larger amount of messages would be able to be read.
Just in case you’re not aware: the Fn key, in conjunction with the arrow keys or the delete key, let you type those keys. Though that’s certainly not as convenient as having dedicated keys.

Also, you can remap different keys to those keys with the free software KeyRemap4MacBook (https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/index.html.en). For instance, you can remap \ to be forward-delete and Fn+\ to be typing ‘\’.
Now we know how things affect the environment, I'm curious on what people will do about it.
Have to check this out - thank you!
We are hoping to give people the best of both worlds, get started and opt-in to FB login.
Anti Facial Recognition Visor
I still think 1998 or 1999 to September 10 2001 was probably the best time. Shortly after ITAR decontrolled commercial crypto software, but before 9/11 and Patriot and such.
Sounds like a reasonable reason to open an issue.
I wish I could just bar code in media and books, accept / reject the prices en masse and then generate the shipping label to send it to Amazon. I'd be a lot more inclined to send in stuff if the process was a little more streamlined.

Update: apparently there's an Android app for that: http://www.amazon.com/Cash4Books-net-Cash4Books-Scan-Sell-Bo... ... wonder if it does games too.
Sorry about that. This uses WebGL, which has had some issues with Chrome on some GPU cards / OS combination. The Chrome team take these issues very seriously, and you can ping them with your specs: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/chrome/re...

More info: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1220892?hl=en
http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=visudo
And Astalavista.
I've had some luck defusing these kinds of remarks by calmly but firmly stating that "with though simplifying assumptions, anything is trivial". YMMV.
Isn't this what gittip is for? It seems to maintain the right social incentives without turning open source into a rat race.
A man can dream :)
Tried it this morning whilst waiting for my train to arrive.

#1: Wasn't obvious that you had to press and hold to record, and removing your finger from the record button pauses the recording.
#2: The app seems to crash a fair bit. And when it crashes, your video disappears. Basically, I finished recording, and was trying to select a location.

It'd be a better experience if videos that you haven't posted yet are saved somewhere (ie: camera roll) so you can post it later.

To be honest, video is not something I'm going to be doing a lot of. Maybe once or twice, here and there (if I even remember it's there).
Beautiful simple life :)
Mincome (a trial of basic income in Canada) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome would likely be relevant. Though I haven't read anything with regards to improved creativity, the effect on the labour force was minimal with positive social effects.