skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, bad example. Ignoring it, I would counter-argue that the only people I've ever had introduce themselves with their school appended to their names were tier-1 school grads.

I'm unsure of your definition of "elitism", "arrogance" and "snobbery". Your examples do not demonstrate any of these three on the part of the tier-1+n people.
I'm constantly reading TechCrunch and Engadget online, and Entrepreneur and Fast Company in print.
It's actually when they mouseover any link, and it's mostly thanks to a nasty bug in the Python markdown implementation.
I use Chinese pinyin phrases, then substitute some numbers for good measure. Example:

The phrase: "How are you" is 你好吗？ Romanized, that becomes ni3 hao3 ma3. So a password might be ni3hao3ma3 or n13h403M43.
"MS could sell a mono-related patent to someone who's willing to attempt to bankrupt a mono-using company"

Pardon my ignorance, but does this really work this way? I was under the impression that the patent usage has to do with who owns the patent at the time it's used. What prevents companies from reassigning patents for nothing more than the intention to destroy competition?
Anyhow, I just wanted to point out that when I think back about my life so far, the part of it that scares me, was when I took my religion and decided that I had to take it seriously and do something.

I'm not sure you'll see this, but bringing this up should be fine now the thread has died.

Why do you feel that way about that time of your life? My experience has been exactly the opposite. When I was in high school I began questioning God. I attended a small church school with poor academics and being average and not knowing how to study in school I spent a good deal of time questioning the moral instruction I was given. (There were better reasons, caused a crisis regarding gods existence at 10. Fun.) The only difference is that I didn't accept that the reading the Bible was necessary. What bothered me most, and still does, was the apparent hypocrisy. Plenty of people in church, but none of them seemed to hold the traditional beliefs my family did. It was the little things, as well as boyfriend/girlfriend sort of things.

But, even now, after rejecting Christianity, I still have the greatest respect for those who really do believe. My grandfather who took his family to Argentina to teach college as a missionary and founded a chain of christian radio stations is probably the finest man I have ever met; my grandmother is similar. My ex-girlfriend spent last year teaching children in India. A sweetheart I wish I was with.

Due to my experiences I don't see why you were scared of the time when you sincerely followed your beliefs. To me this should be lauded, even, if I believe it is a false belief.

So, why do you feel that way?
Citation? 3-strikes laws are for felonies, and marijuana possession is a misdemeanor in most (all?) places in the US.
Allegedly it's a problem with reddit's Markdown implementation. It's also worth noting that reddit does not use the standard Python Markdown implementation, but has its own.
Ask HN: Please review our site: www.tempimages.com
Hi HN,
we are long time readers and past YComb applicants and now first time posters.

tempimages.com is somewhat like drop.io for photos.

-no registration and no signup
-upload photos and get a slideshow
-share w/ friends & download the originals

Please let us know what you think. We are just releasing this now so you are amongst the first to see it. We'd like to get the feedback from you guys first because we appreciate the genuine feedback from the community.

Thanks,

Nik & Rob
It's amazing what people pay to go to school. I've known people who did their entire undergrad and master's programs for what someone might pay for a year at a top school.

Even figuring in the higher starting salary, the pay gap closes pretty darn fast for that pedigree to be worth it.
We should use an orange dot, the opacity of which goes up based on the score, with alt text. This isn't a console. It was refreshing to be able to check scores with hardly a glance, even at the cost of seeing exactly how well it scored.
Apparently this is where it started:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/9oopj/heres_what...
Environmental Imperialism.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Somalia+AND+(waste+OR+dump+OR...
Yeah, it's not exactly cross-site, but cosider XSS as a paradigm shift

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting#Background
Turn both on. The dot will allow people to skim, the score will inform the overly curious.
If not the most important certainly worth a read. Here is a link to the actual paper.

http://www.uoregon.edu/~joet/PDF/bridgham-thornton-nature200... [pdf]
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HyperCard was really cool at the time. Pure genius.

I used it to make a full-featured offline mail reader for a BBS I used to frequent in a few hours. Anyone remember offline readers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offline_reader)? :-)
Users are not there just for their single-unit purchases; on the net, users are also part of your marketing team. Sivers' friend would have been better off mailing 500 CDs for free to influential bloggers, online socialites, media critics and other influential people.
yeah that's what I meant, the rolling trash can happened across town, and the cops used that as an excuse to crack down everywhere else
Ted you say that you didn't get paid on some jobs?
What advice would you give someone who is thinking of
starting to freelance with respect to getting paid?
Any insights from having gone through the process yourself?
Thanx
But this would average out to be (slightly) more accurate than no votes at all.
Clickable link: http://www.tempimages.com
Art of the Long View - what will media companies look like in 2020?
IE8 isn't vulnerable, if you want to check it out safely.
The free CD is a promotional tool. Fans who come to the concert, specially small under-advertised shows, are some of the most hardcore fans, and for that the most influential among their circle of friends.

Even factoring the cost of the media into the ticket sale can encourage people to come see your show.
Thank you. What I wrote was, in fact, what I meant.

It's precisely the success of the civil rights movement and other popular movements that have prompted the development of weapons intended to disperse demonstrations that don't create martyrs or inflame people who aren't actually present at the demonstration.
Engine Yard hosting was free. I don't think it was about cutting costs necessarily, but rather it was for improving the performance of the site and opening opportunities for scaling rapidly in the future.
I'm not following you. What is wrong with the content of the article?
I'd argue no, at least until you have as good an idea of what your needs are as GitHub did.
Yep. Alternative phrasing: it's not about how much you work but how immersed you get. That's what you have to optimize for. If it was just about how much work you get done startups would get done in twice the time if you worked at half the pace. But the result qualitatively changes if you never get immersed enough to find the important insights. Hard work is just a means. If it takes real work to find immersion, don't mess with that.

The danger of saying, "I don't need to work too hard," and scaling back on things that seem like dead ends is that they impact immersion. Dead ends are often useful in intangible ways.

Trevor Blackwell calls this tinkering (http://tlb.org/busywork.html)
EY told them if they wanted to continue to start paying and they said it was a different by a huge amount.
Plan = What to accomplish in your life
The move to Rackspace will bring about a new backend architecture and a lot more servers, leading to a much improved user experience for everyone. - TPW from Github

I don't believe that cost was an issue for them with EY. It was about their system's needs regarding server resources.
kijiji? Really?
The opinions of people who have resources are always going to matter. That in itself is not a bad thing. The bad thing is ill-informed opinions.
I like the graphic that suggests using it for kijiji/craigslist. Obvious idea that most people miss.

A couple of things:

1) Step 1 is cumbersome. Perhaps start with an autogenerated name or make this optional?

2) UI made me expect the image to start uploading as soon as I selected it. Whether it should or not is another question, but the "Current Progress" bar is confusing in this context.

3) Once they've uploaded the image, perhaps you should indicate the step 3 button visually (perhaps going from partial opacity to full opacity). I expected to be taken to the gallery when my upload finished, and had to think. Don't make me think.

4) Offer embed codes
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the app was not 'censored' by apple. they are free to approve or reject any app they want, for any reason. the article posits that the author's views are being supressed, and that's just ridiculously wrong. it's like news.yc commenters having their comments [dead]ed for flaming, then claiming that they are being 'censored'.

the author is free to take that position, i guess, just as i am free to stop reading any article that talks like that.
An analysis of the post: http://blog.smellthedata.com/2009/09/analysis-of-pollster-fr...
The 20" iMacs have far worse LCDs than the 24" ones though.
It is a felony where I live...in Arizona.
Leech is the new black.
Is it heresy to suggest thinking about 2 columns instead of 1 for comments..? Looks like there is plenty of space to do this.

I know I prefer to process information looking at a grid instead of a single column.. but maybe that's just me =)
There was something similar going on earlier with a bookmarklet-style virus on proggit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9okv7/ok_whoeve... (note that this link also has the XSS worm in it, take caution)

Today is not a good day in redditland.
What does this do that you can't quickly do in Interface Builder?
Certainly not. In theory, any self-replicating molecule that can operate with random errors in the replication can support evolution, and therefore eventually lead to something vaguely like life.
Couldn't you use an HTML file upload thinggie or at least one augmented with JavaScript? I just don't understand why flash is necessary in here.
Ugh. Nothing stinks more than when somebody feels wronged and starts throwing around the the c-word. In order to be censored you need to have a right to express yourself in the first place. And when it comes to Apple's private app store, ya don't. If you want to express your views on single-payer health care (a cause with which I agree, btw) without fear of censorship, go demonstrate peacefully in front of your local courthouse.
I really don't get the "calculator keyboard" thing on the newer MacBook Pros. That astounds me. I do not see how it is possible to type on that.
Reddit, oursignal.com, facebook.
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This guy suggests some firebug code to run to delete all your comments from a page (in case you were hit by the hack):

http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/9ooif/has_someone_cr...

I have not tested it myself.
I remember posting once on a friend's wall that while I appreciated her passion in supporting gay rights, I couldn't help but think gay rights parades were obnoxious and hurting the cause.

That's exactly the position that King's letter rebuts. Where do you think his reasoning starts to go wrong?
You need some disclaimers on there, and at least some sort of privacy policy.
Ouch... do they have a three strikes law there? By the way I just went to Phoenix and I really don't like the speeding cameras. I am curious though, do they work to make the traffic overall smoother? When I was there I didn't see any traffic.
Sorry I wasn't able to complete an upload to the site. I was uploading two images (2mb) and the progress bar failed at 24%.

I use Safari 4.1 on OSX.6.5 with a slow internet connection (768kbps) currently.
That's why I have serious respect for anybody that makes it work more than once, those are the real entrepreneurs. For the rest it really is mostly luck.

I agree with your suspicion that luck is often involved. But twice- or even thrice-successful entrepreneurs might also be lucky as well as good. I think an anecdote about the great physicist Enrico Fermi is in order:

My [Carl Sagan's] favorite example [of the non sequitur fallacy] is this story, told about the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, newly arrived on American shores, enlisted in the Manhattan nuclear weapons Project, and brought face-to-face in the middle of World War II with U.S. flag officers: So-and-so is a great general, he was told. What is the definition of a great general? Fermi characteristically asked. I guess it's a general who's won many consecutive battles. How many? After some back and forth, they settled on five. What fraction of American generals are great? After some more back and forth, they settled on a few percent. But imagine, Fermi rejoined, that there is no such thing as a great general, that all armies are equally matched, and that winning battles is purely a matter of chance. Then the chance of winning one battle of one out of two, or 1/2; two battles 1/4, three, 1/8, four 1/16, and five consecutive battles 1/32 -- which is about 3 percent. You would expect a few percent of American generals to win five consecutive battles --- purely by chance. Now, has any of them won ten consecutive battles...?

(From The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan; http://tinyurl.com/yeprpx4)
It's not that simple. EY's filesystem stuff is designed for read-almost-always, as you would expect for most Rails sites. GitHub does a lot of writing. Growing GitHub's setup would have been a huge undertaking for EY (from what I've read of their posts) and you just can't do that stuff for free, or you run out of money.

(This is just what I've gleaned from comments. They parted ways amicably. Don't stir up drama.)
Doesn't Vala handle that? Not to mention it runs faster and with a lower memory footprint.
I've heard that the three strikes law in Arizona is supposed to apply only to more "serious" and "violent" felonies with only certain felonies counting as "strikes". Does marijuana possession falls under this category? http://www.kvoa.com/global/story.asp?S=4808026 [It'd be crazy if it did?]
Next to probably a ThinkPad keyboard (which I haven't used in about 4 years), the Apple external/thin keyboard is my favorite. I haven't tired it in a laptop though so I don't know if it's the same thing or not.
Yes, but you can't say if they stayed at EY it would be free.
Ask HN: Please review my webapp - AwesomeVocab.com
Hi,

To take a break from my serious startup attempt, I decided to spare two days for creating this vocabulary webapp which my was simply dominating my mindshare. This is the link to the webapp - http://www.awesomevocab.com/

Main idea was to remove distractions from learning vocabulary and then providing realtime feedback on the progress. Things that I am considering adding to the webapp: a) adding more vocab packs (SAT, GMAT, languages other than English) b) Monetization? (I'm not sure if people would pay for this app) c) iPhone/Facebook interface

I will appreciate if you can provide feedback on it. Thanks.
Here is the clickable link - http://www.awesomevocab.com/
The Limits of Measuring Performance (1997)
I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if this was just a clever PR stunt by the developer.
An application promoting single payer health care is not even remotely comparable to a flame comment.
this isn't cool. in the last ten years civil rights have been diminished.
Online services let cities bypass the mailbox
Best strategies for small retailers struggling to compete with Walmart
Apart from the 6-bit color gamut problem, the viewing angle and contrast on my macbook pro is really good...
I wish it weren't this glossy though...
Drudge and the like are news sites with heavy biases, not just a political statement-type app.

For what it's worth, though, there's a ton of apps that are more politically charged (IMO) that were accepted - as an example, Conservative Talking Points is pretty bad.
"communist and republican" ... lol those kids got brainwashed!
can you give it a button to get another word without having to refresh the page (or just make it refresh the page for you)?

You'd be surprised how many people won't know how to get another word.
Coherence (expensive) does this very well.
Ugh, finally managed to read most of the article at the link. I would have preferred putting my hand in my garbage disposal.

It's an absolutely accurate portrayal of what's wrong in the world with respect to the reputation that top-tier schools have and the practices of top-tier corporations. Mr. Guo, in a few areas of self-reflection attempts to strike a reasonable tone in the parts that don't sound like a brochure for these name branded schools. But then we get to the section titled, "Take-home messages if you went to a normal, lesser-known university" (actually the title, I'm not making it up) and it's a fast ride downhill from there.

This kind of trite, patronizing, condescension is hard to find out in the public arena. This honest externalization from an elite is only confirmation of all the worst fears of what these folks are really thinking about you. The joy of it is not that Mr. Guo rails against the practices he so accurately describes but that he shrugs his shoulders, utters "just accept your station in life state-school", and ends his piece with a section so unbelievably arrogant, so paternal...we get this little pat on the head "be realistic state-school, you could always open some rinky-dink business in some small town that's never heard of Google".

Here, I'll not paraphrase anymore, I'll just quote:

"If you are like the vast majority of people who didn't attend a name-brand university, then I want to stress the importance of perspective. Realize that the deck is stacked against you...To try to buck the system will likely result in disappointment and dejection."

"Another aspect of perspective is the importance of realism. It's healthy to have dreams, but you must at the same time have a realistic career plan."

"Being realistic doesn't mean being complacent, though. For instance, starting a small local business is a great outlet for those who are aspiring entrepreneurs. If you are the town expert on Topic X, then you can form a small business without fear that some Ivy League brat will infringe on your local market."

Are you kidding me with this "why even try, you'll just end up disappointed" rubbish?
I like the jailtime app, helps me to decide whether to shoplift music or just download it.
They might as well add a iLawyer app, with a virtual lawyer at your side, who needs to spend money defending yourself against the RIAA?
This is not a guess. This is factual evidence as publicly admitted by many people like Conan O'Brien.

And I should add that I also went to a top school, so its not like I am making this stuff up.
Ask HN: Reccomend an interesting and fun book to learn electronics.
Preferably with an emphasized hands on approach.
Both posts are very well thought out. I always mistrust polls and any statistics that don't publish details of their methodology and raw data.

Sometime back I spent some involuntary time in the army. We had to take a number of tests. I answered most of them randomly.

On the IQ test, I really tried h a r d to get all the questions wrong, in the vain that they will think I was an idiot and they let me go (they never did and no-one ever gave me a strange look).

I sympathize with those Oklahoma kids and understand that there many ways to tell a grown-up a 'fuck you' ;)
Not just that, but they also had a decent keyboard. I took out my old one (pre Lenovo) and was just amazed by how good the keyboard was.
The Cost of Business Ethics
Hmm.. I am not sure I understood your comment completely. What do you mean by refreshing the page? The flow is Word and list of options -> click on one option -> correct answer is displayed -> click on next work -> next word and options is displayed

Where do you need to refresh? Perhaps it is a browser issue?
There is no brandjacking here; Squidoo is very clear that they are not affiliated with the brand.

There is no extortion here unless Seth is flat-out lying about how the site works. He states that all of the content on the page is algorithmically generated [1], and no human has editorial control.

The lack of editorial control also applies to the brand. Even if they pay the $400 / month, they only get control over the left-hand column [2] and nothing states or implies that they have the ability to take down negative comments. In fact, it seems very clear that they cannot take it down.

The main use I can see for this site is for people doing research on a purchase--e.g., checking to see if a Canon PowerShot XS10 is a good camera for them. Even then, I would probably go to something more focused, like ePinions.com.

[1] "Each page collects [online content] about a brand. All of these feeds are algorithmic... the good and the bad show up[....]"

[2] And once [Squidoo builds] the page, the left hand column belongs to you. [...] You can publicly have your say right next to the constant stream of information about your brand[....]"
I don't miss offline readers [:-)], but I still get sad every single time I think about the demise of HyperCard. I wish someone at Apple would make it a priority to build a modern version and include it for free with all new Apple computers. If they could make a cross-platform version, or one that could also create iPhone apps it would be absolutely killer. Accessing the Core libs in a tool like that...

Some people don't know the fun they're missing...
pg - please revert to the no-karma-mode. I thought this helped in bringing down the mass voted comments.

for example (bad examples- all i could search, but you 'meet' a lot of opinions of the one liner kind which in the recent times have got decent karma):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=847571

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=847008

and at a odd time like this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=842627 (i can't speak fo if fact vs otherwise in this particular post, but sometimes a 'slightly' upvoted comment from a regular gets pushed up and it rides the karma wave)

For those who didn't like - I suggest keep the new version for few days - they will love it. thx.
We all may know what a slideshow is and looks like, but how about a demo of what YOUR slideshow looks like? Does it make sense to describe your product using your product (have a slideshow that guides me to how to use it)?

Also, for a site that deals with slideshows and images, I would expect more care to be put into the design.
Your logo is very pixelated, you have a square color behind your buttons, etc.

These may seem like minor things, but I think you'd be amazed at what some care in design can do in attracting users.

You don't have to go out and get a designer and spend lots of money, but maybe get a theme from themeforest (under $20) or try to find something free.
You can just watch it online via the website. Sometimes, there's just a simpler solution ;)
In that case, you've to make it a lot more clear that this is a quiz.

Start with adding "a.", "b.", "c." etc. at the start of each answer choice.

Btw, I have an offer for you:) Added you on gtalk.
Well - and I'm not implying that you necessarily subscribe to that justification, but - I don't buy it.

There are already laws that grant the authority to shut down a town if it erupts into riots. I can't cite those laws, but I bet the LA riots or Hurricane Katrina would be cases where they were used.
Horowitz and Hill's "The Art of Electronics" is the category killer. It's very in-depth and hands on, supplement it with "fun" stuff.
http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/advantages-of-name-brand-s...