skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome idea. Lame that nobody's really signed up yet, though. Here are some suggestions:

First, get a new name. It should be something short/clever. SitesInCommon is a bit cumbersome to say, probably because of the fact that it's three words. Words usually imply stops between them, making it verbally funky.

Your style is not that styley. Reminds me of the New York Times, which is probably not what you want to associate with. That's business, this is meeting people (presumably) for friendship. You, probably, were already going to fix this.

Your add script is buggy. Of four sites added, it froze my Firefox 3.0.10 twice. On XP. (I'm just telling you those in case you need to reproduce.) Then, it doesn't add them to the bottom and gets rid of the add button. Perhaps you can add an add suggested sites thing on the profile page for ease of use?

What you really need to attract the users is some kind of side use that they can use as soon as they've entered sites. Maybe you can let them rank specific pages within their sites? I've always wanted to do that. Tagging and searching for webcomic archives is also something I've wanted to do. These aren't your original goal, but I think they could help bring in users and make the site much more fun to use.

Finally, I can't figure out how to make your site work! I.e., I can't figure out where it tells me who lives around me and reads the same sites.
It took a while for the page to load, look into YSlow or that new Google PageSpeed to optimize it. Also took a couple minutes to grok what it does. Once I did, I immediately wanted to get it but was hesitant about how much it cost. I didn't see any mention of price anywhere. If it's free, be sure to mention that somewhere (preferably in big bold letters).

All in all, it looks like you guys have done quite a good job. Good work and I'll be one of your users soon enough (once I get home and can open port forwarding).
Both. You should use the philosophy behind the product to distinguish yourself from the other similar apps out there.
Last year's news.

It's frustrating that these commercials continue to this day, thus mitigating some of the impact in the public's mind that the company is, indeed, guilty of various forms of fraud.
Crocodiles are eating my emu...
It's true. The better you program, the worse you are at breathing. The essence of programming is to not repeat yourself. The essence of breathing is repetition. In, out, in, out. QED.
Miscommunication and bad programming are definitely tied together, but that says nothing about the link between good communication and good programming.
It's OK for me, but you want a fair bit of personal information. Do you need to know my age? No. Add a privacy policy.
actually tonido is also a platform. it comes with a set of applications currently. can build apps on top of it. thats why we are not sure what message is appropriate (platform or functionality or apps)
A hundred million mistakes: Microsoft's Bing search engine
The essence of programming is to effectively get an automaton to do repetitive tasks for you. In the case of breathing, that is exactly what the autonomic nervous system is for.
For the record, "smilin' Bob" is not played by the founders of the company (which is what the headline made me think). That actor's name is John Larson (http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/ic/blogs/channelsurfing/...)
Giant graphic obscures your info. I didn't really want to scroll down to find out what. Otherwise home page is good.

I'm not sure what it is you're offering that I can't do with, say, OpenOffice. What makes your apps different from/better than existing desktop software?
Commmunication is a layered cake, the first layer is being clear about exactly what it is what you want to say. The second layer is knowing how to say it. The third layer is knowing your audience, and how to communicate to that particular brand of people.

Communication is an extremely hard discipline because it requires you to both be knnowledgeable about whatever it is you have to say, being linguistically proficient, and having a good knowledge of people and psychology.
There's more to communication than being clear in your own head, which was the point. I've often failed to communicate by applying cold, rational logic where a little empathy and patience were really needed.

I once had a boss who was brilliant at learning other people's idiolect and then speaking it back to them. He never failed to get his point across.
Love the product, but yes, the site could use some work. Target functionality in big bold, philosophy on the about page.
You'll find that philosophers talk to each other in much the same way that programmers talk to compilers. Philosophers invent and define new terms all the time, try to make the most general true statement possible, and spend an interminable amount of time debugging each other's arguments.
If you enjoy this article, then I highly recommend Nathaniel's Nutmeg:

http://www.amazon.com/Nathaniels-Nutmeg-Incredible-Adventure...
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I went and picked up a $200 PC this week, primarily to run the TellTale games. The engine is wonderful- It's precisely what a modern Adventure game should be.

If you can try the W&G demo under VMware, it might work for you, depending on your setup.
You weren't kidding. Fascinating
'They' in 2. being the people who controlled the alternative money supply, ie the gold. C'mon, don't you think there might have been even a little bit of self-interest at work there?
You can access the apps from anywhere. It has a p2p built in capability that allows you to sync your workspace, files and photos
Has anything changed since the last time you posted this?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=537576
Agreed... beautiful

FYI, when I see nothing above the fold, it's a bit discouraging.

Screen: http://www.imagecabin.com/?view=24423358607dd118227aaef6e
Good summary of Portuguese vs Chinese sea exploration.

Bad extrapolation into modern space exploration. Also, there's an artificial distinction between publicly funded space tech. and publicly funded military space tech.

Military spec tech. is funded from our taxes just like the shuttle is. And while it may serve as a deterrent, there also may be much cheaper ways to get the same peaceful results. Like for example changing foreign policy to be less interventionist.

I think it's important to remember that Columbus was funded by the Queen of Spain, so it wasn't all private efforts.

It's also important to remember the modern day trade restrictions on space tech and flight restrictions imposed due to military needs.

And that's what's common between us and ancient China, it's not the public funding, it's the public restrictions.
Who's your target userbase and how do you plan to make money (assuming this is a business venture and not a non-profit) ?

In other words, are you being realistic by hoping to sell "no server dependency" to an average Joe, the Flickr user ?
So... uh... where's the source code?
I can see how this could make some people's lives nicer, but I honestly find these kinds of updates pretty scarce.
Great idea, beautiful site, and the software looks great (haven't tried it yet). What's your business model if you don't mind me asking?
I'm here to announce my skepticism that the less than three round-trip circuits people take daily on a flight of stairs will have anything but negligible impact on their health.
Some interesting points, but obviously a coder bait topic.

I'd argue that the best coders express themselves to humans and computers both pretty well: with clarity and brevity, and without introducing unnecessary new concepts. And they cover their corner cases. :)
plan to sell premium applications. differentiate business and personal apps.
They call it a side-by-side comparison of the results.. that at least would make sense. These windows are too small to make doing a comparison easy and it's one on top of the other..
Well, it's true that they're different means of communication; programming is like math. But if the title of the article were actually true, then super-clear writers like Ka-Ping Yee would be terrible programmers, and good programmers like Larry Wall or Linus Torvalds would be bad writers. In fact all three of those people are expert at both forms of communication, and that's typical in my experience.
They picked a layout that would encourage people to only compare the first result or two.

Side-by-side would be a more useful layout for comparison.
http://www.commandlinefu.com

CommandLineFu is a much more generalized command-line collection, has a few clever ones. Not just web developers, but anyone who uses *nix in general. Specially the top rated ones

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes
Well, you could start by founding a school that pays teachers $125 000 a year and then getting a press hit in the New York Times.
Yeah, guilty. I was quite incensed at the time, as it seems the many people are now. At least this time, they've issued a fix for it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=...
This review very quickly worded things so it was clear what was going on:
http://www.webchicklet.com/cool-web-sites/my-vote-for-best-a...

Ideally they find a way to word the home page in terms like what is used there.
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I see the point of the article, but it's sort of like saying that if you only sell bland tasting food at the supermarket, you'll make people stop eating as much. And they'll be healthier! Sacrificing the accessibility/ease of use of a building to "fight obesity" seems interesting but not a sacrifice I'd be willing to make if I were an architect.

Forcing people to take the stairs by making "legislative" and architectural changes is not the solution to the problem. The solution is to help people change their habits.
Well, I meant in the context of communicating with submarines, the subject of the Wikipedia article.
freemium. but we need to get traction first. plan to sell the domain server for enterprises and create new business apps for SOHO segment.
Thanks! I can't wait to load Day of the Tentacle onto my iPod Touch!
looks nice but i dont know what it does. i read pretty much the entire front page and i cannot tell exactly what it is. looks like a professional site though!
This is purely my intuition, but it seems like anyone who would develop for the platform is pretty used to digging around a website for information. The people who are just syncing photos, videos, etc. are more likely to be scared off by the first line on the front page.

If it were me I'd put up a simple explanation on the front page then give developers an obvious place to go for more information on the platform.
YouTube - Google I/O 2009 - Google Wave: Under the hood
if you are interested please sign up in the developer mailing list. we will send the notification.
google was able to figure out exactly which city i am in, bing was not.
oh dear god help me if you turn HN into twitter i will smite you so hard...
It's different in an investigative story vs. an interview. If they're just cherry-picking quotes for a story, you probably won't get to review it. If they're trimming down an interview, then I don't see a real conflict since it's being presented as something representative of what you said.
i think your intuition is spot on. thanks
reminds me of: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mojave-experiment/
Remember - who is in the best position to shape perceptions of the press? :) Most popular journalism has the same relation to truth as screenplays. Professional ethics has never really been a barrier to massaging the story.

A few journalists have even told me that when they really want to needle someone they will quote absolutely verbatim, down to every "um", "ah" and mistake but carefully out of context so as to make the subject come off like a raving idiot.
"That was the verdict of... Microsoft’s top software guru"

This may be kneejerk, and I don't know anything about Mr. Ozzie, but try reading it this way: "Google's new web thing denounced by maker of competing desktop things."

Even if he's right, it just doesn't sound objective.
Yeah and bing also fails miserably looking for digital cameras, giving top two completely irrelevant non-english results by default (japanese and greek sites)

I mean, for a pre-populated set of queries I'd expect them to blow google out of the water, not be worse.

Next.
the philosophy would be the main drawing point for me; it's precisely the reason I still keep all my photos, calndar information, files, etc. on my local machine, even though web-based access would be very nice to have. With you app, I can have both, wich is very appealing, although I'm slightly worried about bandwidth consumption if several people start streaming from my music collection, for example.
Related to this (possibly), what exactly about the functionality of your app is p2p (that wasn't clear to me)?

Nice job altogether; I will definitely check into using this...
he hasn't built a complex system and had to refactor it in order to scale

You've heard of the C3 project?
I don't know if the layering is all that clear.

If you're a believer in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (or just agree with Orwell's Politics & The English Language), then it follows that your ability to think clearly is somewhat mutually dependent upon your ability to communicate clearly.
the p2p functionality is used in sharing photos and workspaces (similar to backpack app). P2P is not used for jukebox (more like ur own personal music station).
looks very nice. Who designed the site? Graphics? Logo?
I call bullshit too.

What programming to a computer and speaking to another person share in common is the ability to resolve ambiguities. Communicating effectively requires sufficient skill in listening.

I used to be big on being DRY in my communication. It bothers me when I have to repeat myself. I'm not bothered by that as much anymore. Introspecting, it used to bother me more because of two reasons:

(1) Just speaking to a person requires coming out of my shell. I didn't want to.

(2) When I do speak, I get irritated when I'm not listened-to. It doesn't feel as if the other person get what I'm saying. This frustration usually reinforces the shell and encourages behavior (1).

There is simple (though not necessarily easy) fix: learn how to mindfully listen. This is a skill that requires practice.

(1) Mindful is the opposite of mindless. The part of the brain that triggers, "wake up, this is a new experience, pay attention" is the exprience of mindful. The part of the brain that sas, "oh, seen this a million times, ignore it" is the exprience of being mindless. Driving into an unknown city for the first time and taking in everything is mindful. Zoning out on the drive back home and suddenly finding yourself at the front door without any recollection of how you got there is being mindless.

(2) Mindful listening means paying attention to the other person as if it were a new experience for the first time. You accept whatever comes in without judgement or forming any opinion. This allows you to not only take in the person's words, but also his tonality and his body language.

(3) Mindless listening is the common state of typical social interactions. It takes a lot more energy to mindfully listen than it does to listen mindlessly.

People with long-standing verbal fights usually go through the song-and-dance. They are not really listening to each other. You can often see the pattern in which they engage each other. Sometimes, you can catch one of the participant's facial expressions saying, "Geez, I know I just keep repeating this same pattern..." yet at the same time looking competely helpless in changing it.

(4) Interrupting usually means you stopped listening. Making a comment in your head even if you do not speak it out loud is a form of interruption -- you listened to the subvocalized thought in the head instead of the other person.

(5) People talking do eventually wind down.

(6) Mindfully listening is the most effective method of gaining insight about the other person. Those insights allow you to communicate much more concisely and effectively with the other person. Sometimes, you can even say something once if you have gained insight and speak at the opportune moment.

(7) Mindful listening is a skill that transfers to programming. You can use it as a form of introspection to resolve ambiguities and shape the the code. The technique of speaking to a person and programming a computer may be superficially different, however, the skill of mindfully listening is the same in both domains.
I can't recommend "How To Get Rich" enough. Don't be fooled into thinking it's another get-rich-quick type book by it's title. This is perhaps the most down to earth and honest book about the subject I've ever read.
Puppet with RPMs in yum repositories. Python scripts push individual RPMs to the development repository, then to staging, and finally to production.

Also a few custom tweaks to restart the Puppet daemons when they die, which they do frequently.
This is a great story. Even though SF screwed up in the beginning, I'm glad they handled it well.

We do need more citizens like this. Times get tough, and for some a hell of a lot tougher. The thing is, he had the resolve to get off the booze and try to make something happen. Not trying to sound all sappy, but this should be a motivating story for a lot of homeless people.
We used systems Hungarian notation for LotusScript because older versions of IBM Lotus Domino Designer had limitation (b) along with some other problems. It was actually helpful in understanding and maintaining complex code. But we always understood that we were doing it to work around editor flaws rather than because systems Hungarian notation was a good idea in general.
Ok. I did. Will you send the notification? Better yet, since you're open source, just post a link here.
It seems Bing is still Live Search on most countries. You have to click on your country name and chose United States to get the full interface.

Kinda sucks
Air conditioning would be nice. A stairwell in the sun can easily get over 100 degrees. Alternatively some insulation and natural airflow could probably achieve acceptable results.
LSL definitely wasn't the best of the Sierra characters.

I broke out the Space Quest series again recently. Roger Wilco is hands down my favourite character in those adventure games.
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Clearly it should be both. Your business is Freedom, privacy and convenience. Sooo:

"Your stuff. Safely on your computer. Get to it from anywhere, just like a website. Share it, just like a social network."

Your pitch is the "best of both worlds."
another thought: maybe you could sell this as an app you can install on a (commercial) server of your choice, and so not have this drain your local (presumably home) bandwidth, while still being independent of google, flickr, etc.

This would also save you from having to keep your desktop computer on and online all the time..
The argument supposes that people have a single set of abilities/tendencies that they apply to everything they do. That is ridiculous: we adapt our behaviour to the circumstances. When you're with friends, you behave and communicate differently then when you are with colleagues or relatives. Cooking requires a different kind of attention than fixing your bike does.
That's not quite what I was expecting--widening stairs and lowering the slope would actually improve safety, as well. I've seen enough against-code stairs that were a positive hazard to everybody involved to get automatically antsy whenever I see somebody suggesting changing them, but this is fine from a safety POV.

It's in accordance with my experience at uni, too; everywhere that had obvious stairs would have people using them in preference to elevators, but if they're both behind doors (and the extremely industrial staircases you get in some institutional buildings don't help this) it seems like the mental effort is the same, so people wait for the elevator.
Ask HN: Gmail feature you just can't live without.
What features in gmail or your favorite email service that can't live without? What features in your email service help improve your productivity.
Also, there's no one to trade with or conquer on mars
Inform HN:  Want some Buzz Marketing... Billy 'The Billboard' Selling His Name
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This seems to be the next logical step for this micro-blogging phenomenon to take, because how else will you keep from boring your dates to death, except through short but sweet messages. Let’s consider some Twitter dating tips:
we thought about that. do you think there will be a market for it? will you pay 20$ per month for a virtual private instance to have tonido
He does begin to make a valid point - but he is stil totally wrong. M$ needed a search engine - and Bing is actually pretty good: fast, decent results and useable day to day - it WILL get market share. What they needed was mass excitment to bring people to the engine - hence the huge budget.

And look at the stats already - ok so they might not be sticky stats but that is a HUGE amount of traffic. They are pitching $100 Million on people liking what the see when they visit to check out the hype.

Bing also has very little obvious M$ branding on it - which is another good tactical move to try and avoid the anti-MS vibe affecting opinions.

in all this has been, so far, a great exercise in marketing and product launch.

The crucial thing that proves this guy has no clue what he is talkign about is in the second comment to the blog he replies to a post about how Natal will "change the console world".

> Thanks, BJ... and that's a perfect example of a good
> experience getting spread online... you're talking about
> Project Natal because you genuinely think it's good, not
>because it has a clever ad campaign or because some
> talk-show host said "Natal" in a funny voice.

As we've already seen Natal is just an engineered tech demo - all it IS at the moment is marketing hype and a clever ad campaign to swing attention to the Xbox at E3........
>> "IM protocols have barely any security" -- given that this discussion is regarding an IM protocol with a built-in high-quality security infrastructure, I don't see how this statement is at all valid.

I was talking about the main IM protocols in use today - yahoo/msn/aim.

You'd be surprised @ plain text. It quickly adds up. I do around 3.5TB of plain text IRC/http a month, and if I could reduce that, I would. If we were all using jabber instead of IRC my bandwidth would be more like 10TB. Quite a difference.

>> "E-mail has optional security for things that do matter, namely GPG/PGP for client <-> client and the STARTTLS extension to SMTP for server <-> server. Wave, as a replacement for E-mail, provides pervasive security."

That comes back to my original comment - I'm not sure it solves any real world problem users have. Users don't care about security like that.
I agree with getting rid of the signup requirement to test drive. I was about to write a review about it, but then was feeling too lazy. Maybe I'll get around to it later!
An interesting side effect of all this Portuguese expansion was the accompanying decline of the Republic of Venice, which was the former big power in terms of trade.

The town where my wife is from south of Padova is actually fairly new in Italian terms (16/17th century). Why? Because it was originally mosquito-infested swamp land. It got cleared out when the Venetians turned 'inwards' to try and make better use of the land they had when their trade fortunes started to decline. Or so goes the story, at least...
Though I am sure he is willing to negotiate his price (Price starts at $25k), Billy is willing to change his name to the name of your company for at least two years.