solipsist

...and even more restrictive than that.

"You must be over a certain age to use this feature."

Whenever Blackboard is mentioned here on HN, the message is very clear. Almost everybody agree that it is a piece of shit.

Doesn't anyone think that this is the perfect market to be entering these days? The market has a ton of potential (as evident by all the money that is being spent on it) and the satisfaction with the current leaders is seriously lacking.

Are there any YC companies that are tackling this area?

Congratulations! Iconfinder.com is a site I use about every other day it seems. I've introduced it to a handful of other people and everyone loves it.

Thanks for making such a great site!

Not that you may care, but posting photos of Google search result pages is now a dangerous thing and comes with a bunch of privacy concerns.

Search result pages are personalized based on your previous searches and location. Simply from the image we can tell where you live (even if it didn't say so explicitly in the left tool bar).

  Why aren't we just as concerned
  that there are far fewer male hairdressers than female?

CS jobs are held in higher esteem in society than hair dressing jobs. They pay more and require more experience.

  Perhaps women just don't want to get into computer science.
  And no amount of bending over backwards and trying to
  appeal to female programmers will get us to a situation of
  50% female developers.

Or perhaps they do want to get into computer science and there are a number of obstacles stopping them. Most people would agree with this.

If you're going come up a controversial answer, you better have some solid evidence backing you up.

How about giving the option of a two column view for users with a high enough karma. 'Top HN' on the left and 'New HN' on the right. As a result, the people with high enough karma to flag would be more inclined to scan the 'New HN' pages and further improve the quality of HN.

Whenever I see a piece like this on Hacker News anymore (one that is going to provoke discussion), I am expecting a comment like this one. One that is equally as provocative in itself and taking the opposite stance.

People upvote these comments and they tend to make it to the top. This says something about HN.

What's wrong with comments like these ones is that they are being overly aggressive and argumentative for the sake of being overly aggressive and argumentative. Sure, being critical of others' opinions is a good habit to have, but disrespect is not.

In this comment, you tell the other site users to not waste your time on this and that this might just be an elaborate joke or sarcasm. That's pretty harsh for something that someone wrapped up together in their spare time and evidently put effort into it. Whether or not you agree, at least try to find the light in the piece of the work.

I know that a lot of people would be more inclined to read and accept an answer if you made it into less of a one-sided argument. Acknowledging both side and taking time to point out the strengths before the weaknesses go a long way and add to the overall politeness of the comment.

  Popularity has nothing to do with news

If you've been on the internet before, you'll know this is not true.

Why wouldn't I? Plus, Raphael suggested that Google's action would lead to people lying about their ages - which hinted that their was a way for people to change their ages on their Google accounts after the fact. I was simply responding to that question.

But this seems like something they would have known before. Why did Google Wave not have similar restrictions?

Not exactly. I am under 18 and have found no easy way to make my way around their age requirement. Your age is tied to your Google Account from the moment you created it and there is currently no way to ever change it.

I upvoted you, but the point you bring up is not unique to Google +. You should of instead asked:

>Why is there so much discussion about what might be the success or failure of products/services/companies/etc? It's all noise.

And the answer to that question is quite simple. If there are people out there willing to read it, then there are people out there that are going to write it. Online journalism and blogs have made these types of articles the norm.

From what I've read, Sony Ericsson was not taking part in the bid. Sony and Ericsson, the two individual companies themselves, were though.

You can send and receive emails using your domain with Gmail's interface by going to Mail Settings in Gmail and then Accounts and Import. Then go through the processes of Send mail as: and Check mail using POP3:

Yes, this is another HN resource that I forgot to mention. In fact, I just discovered last week and decided to sign up. I really enjoyed it - keep up the good work!

But didn't Gmail start out as invite only? Look at how it turned out.

Missing from the list: Google Wave. While people gave it an especially hard time, there were some fascinating ideas and technologies in it that could have taken off if only Google had waited 5 or so years to release it. Google Wave's biggest problem was its target audience. It required its users to have a significant level of technology literacy. At the time that was a minority. However, based on the current trend, it would be a perfect fit in the coming years.

Here are some of the various HN tools and interfaces I have collected over time:

hckr news - http://hckrnews.com/

Sortable HN - http://hnsort.com/

hnvue - http://www.hnvue.com/

HackemUp - http://www.mrspeaker.net/2011/04/11/hackernews-bookmarklet/

Search Y Combinator - http://searchyc.com/

WWHNS (What Would Hacker News Say) - https://github.com/marcua/wwhns/

HNSearch - http://www.hnsearch.com/

Visual Search - http://hnsearch.heroku.com/#h

Hacker News Resources - http://hnresources.com/

Kalimba - http://hn.embed.ly/

The Best of ... Hacker News - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of

HackRSS - http://www.hackrss.com/

HN Trends - http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/ ;)

I think it may ignore the #, ++, along with various other symbols. See this link (you may have to refresh once or twice if it doesn't work the first time): http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=c%2B%2B%2C+c%23%2C+c-%2C+c...

Oh yes, I forgot you were using the HNSearch API. By the way, I hope you win the API Contest (don't they decide tomorrow?). You for sure get my vote!

These trends are fairly interesting...

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=y+combinator

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg%2C+tptacek%2C+patio11%2...

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=2007%2C+2008%2C+2009%2C+20...

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=android%2C+iphone vs. http://www.google.com/trends?q=android%2C+iphone&ctab=0&...

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=show+hn%2C+ask+hn%2C+tell+...

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=mac%2C+gruber%2C+steve+job...

Don't forget thought that these trends include the user's own comments and submissions in addition to mentions of them in other users' comments.

suking, this is truly awesome. It immediately joined my bookmark folder of favorite HN tools. I'd be curious, though, if whether or not it would be possible to filter out user names when counting how many times a word has appeared on the site. Or would that be too much of a challenge?

I'm not sure, but this thread might be of help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4310953/invalid-date-in-s...

None of the data points are appearing on the chart when I look at it. I'm using Safari 5. Sounds like a cool idea - but right now it's a pain to have to keep downloading the PDF to see the chart.

I think it may be a little too late to be looking for summer internships in June. I'm based here in the Bay Area and have talked to people who recommend getting started with internship searches November/December or early January/February. There are a ton of opportunities here in the valley, though, so people may be able to snatch some last minute internships if they try hard enough.

Thank god it's not just me! I always found finishing a game to be extremely difficult - to the point where I have stopped making them all together. After being done with 90% of a game you still seem to have 90% of the work left to do. kylemaxwell is right that this happens with many endeavors but it seems to happen with games the most.

Thanks! This was a very helpful comment.

You mentioned a good point about JavaScript. By sticking with Java, it'll be easier for me to get started and yet I will still learn a ton on the client side with new things like JQuery.

However, I read that the Play framework might be better than Groovy on Grails[1]. Have you heard of it and, if so, what do you think about it?

[1] - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1597086/any-experience-wi...

I agree with you on all those points, except this:

> As such, I don't mind my frankness being a filter for who I do or do not hear from.

Even if you're are trying to filter out a certain group of people, it doesn't call for being borderline rude and arrogant. From what I've gathered through your other comments, you are neither of these. Therefore there is no reason for you to give people the wrong impression.

...or a spin-off of Ludus (latin for game)

I think he meant, TL;DE (To Long; Didn't Expand)

;)