skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A way to sort by ratings would be a good addition, or atleast a link that lists that most popular candidate in each category will be useful.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
-- H. L. Mencken
Thanks for noticing!

Fun fact: I originally coded that "by hand," i.e. manipulating the DOM in pure JavaScript. Then I decided to rewrite it in jQuery, which I had heard about but never used. Then I realized that I will never voluntarily write JavaScript without jQuery, ever again.
I attended a "facebook app" meetup, where one of the game developers mentioned they get most of their money from users in europe. This backs that up.

I am surprised South Korea is at #7. i thought Korea was among top 3 in internet subscibers/usage. they already have 100mbs for domestic subscribers(evident in the graph)
I won't argue the conclusion, just introduce an anecdotal observation.

When it is spitting or raining very lightly, sit in a stopped car and watch the rain on the window.

Now, speed that car up to about 80km and see what happens. Disregarding spray from other vehicles, odds are that there will be more rain on the windshield in the same amount of time.

Like I said just an observation.
People aren't taking much notice of stories like this but I think they should. Because these stories represent something a lot of people have been waiting for.

Namely, we're finally getting to the point where developing Windows only apps is no longer viable.

Even Microsoft essentially knows that now. Silverlight is basically WPF for the web. It's still has limits but MS is obviously trying to get Silverlight up to speed as quickly as possible while WPF (technology which only replaced Windows Forms in the last release) seems to have been all but abandon.
LOL. Foxweb.
His other pieces were aimed at his readers. These two are reprints of a memo he wrote internally, where that kind of tone was called for.
In other words, running in the rain gets you more wet, given that all running is doing is reducing your exposure time.

(Yes, sometimes that exposure time can result in you coming out ahead, but it's not really answering the question)

EDIT: What the hell's with the downmods? What is this, reddit?
Doh!- I forgot I have AdBlock Plus running on this machine... Sorry for the confusion.
You need a link to go to a site after reading about it! In the listings there's a "go to site" link for each site, but if I click on "Read more" to see the full review, there's no link from there to the reviewed site (or at least I haven't found one after skimming the page several times).
It would be good if you could filter out already taken names.
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Great letter by the UX guy, but I feel like Dustin completely missed the point. I know it's tempting to go the 37signals route and turn this isolated example of [what he considers to be] a poor website into a rant on how big businesses just don't get it, have bad taste, hate their customers, etc. The problem is that it's just not true. It might be true for AA, though I'm not convinced, but there are lots of examples out there of big profitable companies with terrible websites that have lots of customers who love them anyway. This whole fiasco feels like another case of a web professional viewing the world from inside their bubble.

Have you ever stopped to consider that perhaps you're just not in their target market? A lot of people who commented on the last post seem to really like them for frequent business travel...just because they don't cater to the casual market doesn't make them a bad company. On the contrary, focus is good.

Oh, and this was my favorite line:

Companies like this just float along, in the background of capitalism, exchanging goods and services for money.

Yeah...turns out that exchanging goods and services for money is kinda the foreground of capitalism. You might think it's about having a pretty website...it's not.
Sure, but where is the download link?
Yes - people do not read the right bar downwards and then go back to the top to 'Go' - it is a strange workflow.

Move the right column to the left I think.
I think there is a simpler way to picture this. Imagine a volume of water suspended in the air - the height and width is the person's cross section, and the length is distance to be travelled. All of that water is going to get onto you regardless of how fast you travel. So speed is not relevant there. But for the water hitting the top of the cube, it gets wet only with respect to time, and not to speed.

Conclusion: if the rain is falling straight down, it always makes sense to run.
It's not stable enough to download at the moment, sorry.
> Because when you do that you realize the sacrifice these CIOs are making to let their data out.

It's not "their data". It's OUR money.

Various interest groups already have access. The only thing that changes with "open data" is that the folks providing the money will be able to see where it's going.

CIOs who have been captured by interest groups are going to be in trouble. Since that's basically all of them....
I don't know if this counts: After a really long stretch of coding, I once tried to drag the mouse pointer to click a physical button, CD eject button on desktop tower, and was confused that it didn't work. In my defense, the tower was right next to the monitor. My friend teases me about that to this day.

By the way, have any of you thought that talking to someone is interacting with their repl?
No. Someone whose job requires them to plan ahead and think rationally might end up carrying those traits over to private life.

It can be used pejoratively, but plenty of jobs require some very desirable characteristics. Someone who goes into sales and ends up being cheery and outgoing wouldn't be a disaster.
what makes you say that WPF has been all but abandoned? the upcoming visual studio 10 release has a WPF based editor.
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Adobe has issued a DMCA removal request for a protocol they promised to open
We evaluated all of these, as well as some less-known (free) learning management systems (LMSs), and they are all quite painful and unintuitive to use, compared to current web apps.
Yeah, I heard about this one guy who dropped out of Harvard to run a company even though he didn't own the companyname.com:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050318022700/http://facebook.co... when the company had just raised $13M).
Takeaway : Think twice before you date a hardworking urologist.
Jorgem,

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Only so long as said soldier thinks that said colored bit of ribbon is thought meaningful by fellow soldiers.

How many of you think that HN karma is meaningful?
A value "pulled out of thin air" is still better than "almost certainly zero via bankruptcy". And even if Corvettes rather than Teslas are still on sale 10 years from now, that might not mean any value flows to current GM stockholders.

The most likely discontinuity ahead for GM is a zeroing-out of all current stockholders. For Tesla, there are certain discontinuities -- such as acquisition for technology -- that pay off stockholders even if the nameplate disappears.
You can't make up a loss on every vehicle through volume, except maybe by being "too big to fail". And even that is unlikely to help the GM stockholders (as opposed to the staff and unions and warrantyholders).
Good point. I'd still rather they were optional though like in js.
It could be they're acting as an affiliate for weebly.
I was highly amused by searching for wordoids containing 'fuck'.

On a more serious note, I am trying to find a business name with a partner, and would have liked a link to a given page of results, so that I can share them.
Nice work. This is a useful service and I'm bookmarking it since you've provided some neat naming ideas.

Only gripe, mentioned by others, is that I was a little confused by (a) the custom settings on the side and enabling them properly and (b) I initially missed the pagination/next button at the bottom - probably b/c it's below-the-fold. You should make that clearer, I initially assumed I only got 10 results back. Maybe add a results count at the top of the page and clear next/previous buttons at the top as well as the bottom.

Good luck!
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Great design - a favicon.ico would be a nice touch and make your site easier to find with multiple tabs open.

I submitted http://www.browseology.com and we'd love a review!
yummyfajitas, this feature is on my task list.
There will be either a combobox or a small window with registar suggestions.
Ah, sorry. I thought you meant who within the company is responsible.
Then why are you using JSON? JSON is for best practices. Requiring quotes so that some interpreters don't get confused is exactly the type of thing JSON is for.
they're still useful. they provide a good exercise for the designer, and although it may not be something that can be implemented/will be implemented they can experiment with ideas and present new patterns or just a particular arrangement of them. design theory work, i suppose, as opposed to designing for implementation.
In Spanish is also a common expression (at least among some professionals)
Exactly. The situation he describes (capable entrepreneur at big boring company) is probably not all that common anyway.

And even if there were a lot of capable founders not realizing their potential, I think many are the same people who end up being early employees at startups - a necessary condition for startup success.
I disagree, I don't know how much we can learn from these stories. If it was a small company building the technology in question and needed it to work to survive, we may be able to draw a conclusion, but when it's microsoft and its still an early release we cannot draw too much from it.

Sure people are not using it now, in a year or two from now the technology may be better than the Flex/Air paradigm and then we'll have stories about people leaving Flex for silverlight.

As for your other point: "Developing windows only apps is no longer viable" -- I disagree, there is still a huge market for windows only apps, hell the tools to build flex/flash/air really only work on windows.
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Good site, but too wide for my netbook. You could try reducing the width just a bit...
Doesn't this seem really, really low? Most of the non-iPhone phones out there don't have an easy way of purchasing/installing apps, and the market share of the iPhone is so large that I would think this number would be _much_ higher.
The js spec says that quotes around property names are optional. Obviously they're needed if the property name is a reserved word.

I don't think it's a good argument to include needless quotes in a data format just so some bad interpreters don't get confused. Fix the interpreter - or just don't use reserved words, or enclose those in quotes if you use them.

Everything adds up. Imagine you were sending a few billion JSON objects a day. Requiring quotes on every single property name is wasteful and unnecessary. It's redundant useless information.

A hack around would be to regexp a replace to add quotes, and then JSON.parse it, but then you may as well just continue using eval, or a parser that doesn't care if you omit quotes, which is a shame.

IMHO, JSON.parse should function exactly as eval does for de-serializing js objects.
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I wonder how much this is people who passionately like Angel vs. passionately hate Blackboard.

My school uses Angel. As far as course software goes, it's actually pretty good. But I can't imagine being a passionate fan of it unless the alternative was absolutely awful.
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my experience is anecdotal. the opinions about "average" computer use on this site are heavily slanted towards people who understand what a UI is.
Ask HN:what are the best ways to market facebook applications?
I'm recently researching on how to best promote my facebook applications. The best article I could find is www.insidefacebook.com/2007/07/16/inside-facebook-nfo-is-the-new-seo/

Are there other effective ways?

If I want to spend a few marketing dollars to buy some seed users, what are the best ad platform?
I tried fbexchange but their server is down and stop the service recently.
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There isn't enough utility for me to bother with OpenID. This should really be integrated into browsers rather than some crazy web service scheme.
Well, since the current administration has at least made some moves towards transparency (e.g. setting up data.gov in the first place), it's reasonable to expect that the agencies who manage to do the coolest or most high-profile data releases will be rewarded in purely institutional terms.

Or, to put it another way, if I were the CIO of [generic agency] looking to move up in the federal government, getting more data out there is a good way to position myself for a higher-up CIO-type role.

It's a somewhat crass way to look at it, and that's certainly not how I'd make a public case to the agencies, but if we're talking about how CIOs are disincentivized from releasing data because it might make them look bad, we ought to also consider that they're incentivized to release some data because doing so makes them look good.
the amount of funds being devoted to actual philanthropy vs the kind of band aid charity I'm talking about is like david and goliath. charity is a huge industry.
I am not a Microsoft hater, but I still haven't installed Silverlight. I don't really like the idea of "web augmentation" through GUI tools. I don't like flash. I don't like any of them. I think they run contrary to the future of the web. I believe the web should be designed to run in the browser.

I don't like that flash is so heavily used. I install it, but I don't like it. I don't use it myself. I think it's just one more vector for viruses, malware, and little flashy, moving things that distract me from text on the page and whatever it is I'm trying to do. Of course video and audio is still an issue, but HTML 5 will solve these problems and hopefully we can stop using flash too.

The whole point of the web is that it is a standard environment. That we can build sites and applications that work for everyone, whether or not their corporation will allow them to install flash or anything else.
Cool I'm not the only one who did that before... Thanks from my ego
you're making the mistake of thinking that we're fitness maximizers rather than adaptation executers. We don't stop engaging in fitness related activities just because they dont have any utility in our current situation.
"Namely, we're finally getting to the point where developing Windows only apps is no longer viable."

There's no story here.
Both Silverlight and AIR are cross-platform. NYT chose AIR over Silverlight for purely technical reasons that all seem reasonable. Silverlight is not as far along as AIR at this point, simple as that.

The article mentions a bunch of anti-Microsoft comments on the NYT web site, suggesting that 'Microsoft-rejection' led to the migration to AIR. I find that very unlikely.
Thank you for the idea! I like it. Added to my todo list.
Yes, and the whole fact that something this important is being left up to the user is my point.
It doesn't matter if the content of the emails was public, breaking into someones email account is wrong. PG: can we ban wired articles for a while? There's been a glut of them recently that have little to do with hacking or startups.
> "What would you do if your partner was dealt all 13 spades and opened 2 notrump?"

Sorry, I don't know much about bridge, but if you had all the spades, wouldn't you just bid 7 spades?
Hey, I'm a science/math guy. I can do triple integrals in my sleep but proper english grammar is a whole other ball game.
Along these lines, I would also recommend a graphical button for the go/search/find. Large, bright and tactile or 3-D (within reason). Make it clear "this is what you push" after filling out the form. Make it inviting.

I really like this idea. I spent several minutes looking through the suggestions and bookmarked it for later.
I use Opera for my main browser, but I run firefox for app dev/debugging issues. FireBug is the best thing about firefox.

I believe Opera has the best dev team out there. Their pages render correctly more often than any other browser. If ever I wonder if something is working correctly, I check it in Opera. If IE looks like Opera, then IE is right. If Firefox looks like Opera, then Firefox is right. That's how it goes.

As I use Opera, I continue to find awesome features I really love, Their dev team is so creative. They are visionaries.

It's an amazing product. Unfortunately, a lot of websites will say, "You aren't using the right browser!" but it almost always renders correctly and sometimes they block me all together, so I just right click open in > whatever that site wants.

So awesome! I love Opera.
quick, bury this article! we can't let people know that if giant companies collapse that new companies will compete with new and/or improved products!

If everyone gets wind of this we won't be able to justify massive bailouts anymore...
If AA is not in the business of making pretty websites (websites at all, in fact), wouldn't it be more sensible to contract the website out to someone who is in that business? They'll probably be better at it.

I mean, most online retailers contract out their shipping.
I'm guessing it is sold via charisma and connections to people who will never have to use it.
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Jim Clark. Read "The New New Thing"

BTW, the question implies PG is a role model for me. As awesome as he is, he's not.
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Umm...did you just rip the TechCrunch ads from their sidebar, or is there some 3rd-party ad network that you're both using?
Nice. A fun/rational way to look at what is at heart an emotional decision. :)

Another angle on this is that running spreads the wetness over more surface area (less on top, more on front). If you're wearing a hat, you might choose to walk, etc.
I find this very Stallman-esque.

I recently discovered I can watch many of the games broadcast by ESPN on ESPN360. Most popular network shows are streamed free from the network sites or Hulu. I can watch academic lectures in their entirety on YouTube. All on my Mac.

As a user, I really don't care what the underlying tech is, aside from the initial annoyance of waiting for Silverlight to install itself (which I did because it was the only way to watch the Olympics broadcasts).

So "video and audio is still an issue" is an understatement. It seems to be the main justification for these technologies. Once I can watch all of this content in my HTML5 browser with no add-ins, I'll agree with you. Until then, I am perfectly happy to watch video delivered through my browser by Flash, Silverlight, or whatever other technology as long as it's not a pain to install and plays nice on my computer.
You don't use YouTube?
You didn't read my post. For what it's worth, I know how to divide with exponents. I'm curious why you think converting to exponents in the first place is so much more obvious.
I am sorry for trolling.
Many Apple users don't want to use Microsoft products.

Unlike some Linux users i don't think most Mac users have a strong opinion about Microsoft. If Microsoft delivers a quality product that works well on the Mac people will use it. And Silverlight is already one of Microsoft's better products.
Yeah, government orgs are already is enough of a cluster with all the mutually incompatible demands being placed on them.
I, like you, try to optimize a different thing than the article: I want the time at which my wetness level is normal to be as soon as possible. As such, it makes sense for me to run to shelter if only because I will get to start drying off sooner.

Oddly enough, all three optimizations lead to the same conclusion: that the best thing to do in any case is to run until you escape the rain.
I'm a young guy, and all of this happened way before my time... but the ambiguous morality of the bombs' use ("Was there a different way? No, Yes, No, Yes!") does nothing to diminish the tingle in my spine when I read about this man's uncanny ordeal. I'm amazed at Mr. Yamaguchi's gracious attitude towards the Americans. He asks, "How could they do that?" and the article makes it seem like he is more bewildered or curious than angry. I hope this world--and my country, the United States, in particular--never forget the dire consequences of those brutal weapons.
If I've parsed that correctly, you're wrong. The following are true:

For a given amount of time, running in the rain makes you more wet.

For a given distance, running in the rain makes you less wet.

Running reduces your exposure time by more than the increase in rain_per_time.

Perhaps I've simply mis-understood you.
Comments from the last time this was posted (yesterday):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=621190
Yes, but for a given distance you get less rain on the windscreen when you drive fast, rather than driving slowly.
Exactly. I'm a Mac user and a Flex developer, but I was thrilled when Silverlight was released. Suddenly, I could watch Netflix movies on my Mac!
Are you looking for any writers? Would love to be involved.
The very first thing we should do when the time machine gets invented, is to send the Terminator to the past to hunt down future YouTube "inventors", and those Scribd artists for a good measure.

Edit: and this is why we'll be sending the Terminator:
http://linuxcentre.net/adobe-has-issued-a-dmca-removal-reque...
Ask HN: Customer acquisition for online stores
What do you find are the best ways for customer acquisition - for an e-commerce store?

I recently started: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=619589 and even though I haven't done too much yet, I think I'll be focusing on generating buzz above anything else.

Anyone have any good advice or experience to share?
at least, in 2007 gore won nobel prize in technology for inventing the internet

for his theoretical model on climate change, he's on the right path to win his second nobel prize ... in mathematics, no less.
> This style demanded that I project an image of rationality but not indulge too much in actual reasoning

Now that's a very eloquent description of bullshit-artistry.
It's been a few years since I last used Opera (using Safari now since I switched to Macs). Rather than the browser, what I was most impressed about them was the M2 email client. Maybe others have caught up now, but back then, it was incredible. Good search, virtual folders (think Gmail labels), etc.