skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing to see the range of colours there, and yet how grouped into colour ranges most logos are. Even more so when sectors (e.g social) group predominately around one tight colour range (in the case of social, blue)
Awesome Twillio is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Yeah, I agree and use them extensively. They have a particularly good area for Admin templates.
What you had in mind sounds a lot like DryDrop in case you're interested : http://drydrop.binaryage.com
Sorry - should have added link to company that created infographic and their post about it:

http://www.colourlovers.com/business/blog/2010/09/15/the-mos...
That's quite clever. I'm impressed at how you can composite fairly objective views from special interest groups.

As mentioned by others, you seem to have a (lack of) data issue. Perhaps you could also work with public voting records (http://www.votesmart.org/) to help mitigate that.
This is particularly bad news when you couple it with the Flash vulnerability that's gonna be open for a few weeks.

You exploit a couple big OpenX installs, put some Flash ads in there and infect a whole lot of users.

On a sidenote, are there any less complex, preferably open-source, alternatives to OpenX?
Yes. For most SaaS/Web Apps the pre-login site is a sales site, not the actual product. (see basecamp, salesforce, kissmetrics etc.,) and you may be spending too much time before you launch the landing page, preventing you from getting feedback quickly from your MVP/Dry-run.

In a second phase, you can go back and do it from scratch, when you have more time and resources.
Maybe in the future - right now it's quite enough for my tiny brain to wrap my head around the process of applying for one of these accounts.
There's absolutely no description anywhere on those pages about what it is. I happen to know what Diaspora is, but if this link gets passed around outside of this community people will be confused and immediately form a negative opinion of the service.

At least put up a "What is Diaspora?" link to their homepage or Wikipedia or something...
Oracle cant't really kill OpenJDK. Not more than they can kill MySQL.

What Oracle can do is to split Java and make the JDK 7 implementation proprietary and incompatible with OpenJDK. They can kill Java, if they are dumb enough.
The Architecture of RSS
How do they get around the SEC's "sophisticated investor" regulations? Ignoring them may make follow on rounds extremely complex -- if not impossible. Also, having a polluted cap table makes subsequent raises far more difficult. [Edit: By polluted, I mean having many, many investors.]
I agree, It has nothing to do with Reddit. It's all about how Digg managed, as if by miracle, to scuttle its own boat in a few hours.

Digg didn't feel like Digg anymore after the change so I looked for something that felt like digg and found Reddit. It's obviously not the same and there are things that almost make it unbearable (I love the analogy that Reddit is 4chan lite) but I'll stick around there until something better comes around.
Isn't the point of the MVP that you're putting the cart before the horse on purpose? The $2,000 on design should come after you've found if there's a market for your product.

I agree on using caution with a technical audience though... perhaps using a cheapy $30 template with a little customization so you don't have to have an attribution link and it doesn't look like everything else?
What problem would a paid diaspora host have in releasing the source code of diaspora itself.

AFAIK AGPL does not stop anyone from making money. It just stops taking others work as the base and building closed enhancements on top of it.
“but until they demonstrate they've changed their ways,”

Which is exactly what they’ve been doing the past two releases. IE7 was a sincere attempt at catching up in the CSS department and get with the program on web standards adherence/compliance. IE8 was a sincere attempt at getting up to speed with the JavaScript side of things. IE9 is a sincere attempt at getting up to speed with HTML5 and CSS3, and whilst they aren’t yet including some of the things we may personally wish to see most (e.g. CSS Transitions), claiming they have yet to “change their ways” is nothing more than an unhelpful attempt at putting Microsoft in the “evil“ corner.

Microsoft themselves have long been trying to get people to upgrade from IE6 and Windows XP. Sure, part of that is just for their own business purposes, but at the same time they honestly want to help the web forward—the current state of affairs hurts them more than us, these days. There is no chance they’ll ever go back to dominating the industry like they did in the late ’90s and early ’00s, because of the steady “re-mergence” of the Mac and the myriad mobile platforms we’re collectively shifting to. All they can do now is to provide a browser on the Windows platform that isn’t so far behind on things that it becomes a compelling reason for people to leave Windows itself behind. And to do that, they know they have to play along in the standards game, which has long taken over the industry.
Thank you for pchristensen for a proper demonstration of a straw man.

We don't know that avoiding 20 years of "frustrated tech entrepreneurs" means that this just got missed. Who knows what was loss by Gates' destructive policies. Maybe tech would be so much more advanced by now that 6 billion would be wealthier.

We can't know such things. All we can know is what actually happened. Things turned out ok, just as they always do, but that doesn't mean it was the best possible outcome and it certainly doesn't excuse what Gates did.
I think what Twitter added on top of blogs was just the following/followers lists. They were there to an extent with the blogroll, but blogrolls are very cumbersome to use.

Also, it integrates the reader with the publishing tool.
Thanks. The Wikipedia descriptions reads like Sword of the Stars could be the real sequel to MoO.
Great Idea.

I just tried to sign up and got this error

Internal Server Error

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Internet is like that.

You can go to the home page, or shout at us.
At $10/month there isn't much value in providing refunds as a matter of policy.

At $1000/month a refunding is more appropriate.
This just linked to a password protected page. Am I missing something? Maybe not ready for the influx of HN readers?
Sorry about that. Fixing.
"I don't think IE 9's standards support means "the web wins" in the long run, since IE is still tied to Windows for strategic reasons."

So what? How is the Web threatened or at risk or even _impacted at all_ by IE9 being Windows-only? With IE9 supporting standards so thoroughly, it very directly means that IE9 being Windows-only doesn't make a lick of difference anymore.

The game for the Web is standards. With all major browsers supporting standards, browser and platform themselves are irrelevant factors for the Web to prosper as a platform and a medium.
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"Before Google Instant, probably the most infamous example of Google's design-by-testing approach was the "41 Blues" --- Google's engineers apparently couldn't decide on two shades of blue for showing search results, so they tested 41 of them to see which attracted the most clicks. (They eventually settled on a blue that is basically the average of all the blues used in hyperlinks across the web. Duh.)"

I don't see why this would be subject of cricism. User testing is the one and only validator for good design decisions. Every designer knows this, especially when the decisions closely pertain to User Experience.
Thanks, I will check it out as it has been about a year. I think about 80% of my preference was simply familiarity.
Really bad, specially considering that openx.org has been offline for a while and we are seeing many attacks in the wild.
Google's Knol as a plagiarism magnet
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This is what the index page of a diaspora install looks like.
tl;dr: Reddit didn't have to do anything. Just wait for digg to kick its own.

More like how a bowler gets a wicket in cricket. Bowl consistent line and length and wait for the batsman to err.
> Can you build code that only touches memory with explicit malloc/free (or equivalent) calls?

Yes you can. There is a package called 'unsafe' that lets you do pointer arithmetics and turn pointers into valid go types. It requires a bit of finesses, pointers from your own memory obviously wont be counted by the gc etc. Plus you need to make sure you only allocate with your own functions.

That said, the gc is getting along, it's hard to say when it hits a spot where you can use it for soft realtime applications. We just started doing high performance server coding in Go at Tinkercad and I used it while I still was at Google.
> The goal with IE9 is to provide Windows with a as good as possible browser.

That doesn't ring true. We already have four other excellent web browsers on Windows, as mentioned by the article. All are relatively similar in terms of features and under active development by great teams. At best, Microsoft could only hope to very marginally improve on what already is available for free. So a nice standards-compliant IE9 will not make Windows any more or less attractive an OS than it already is.

Browsers are expensive and onerous to create. What could Microsoft's motivation possibly be to produce one for free, besides embrace-and-extend?
Google instant is the reason why my NoScript whitelist no longer contains an allow javascript rule for google. No javascript, no instant. No instant, no distractions while I'm typing in my search string.

The single most important factor Google should be concentrating upon is the quality of the search. If the search returns exactly what I'm looking for at the top of the first page, then I'm happy. I don't care if it took Google 3 seconds longer to produce that quality result. In fact, if by taking 3 seconds longer, the search result quality were to jump by 2x or 3x, that would be much better than trying to flash results in front of me as I type.
Gates was just the person in the right place at the right time. It was the computer industry that's made all those billionaires and millionaires. You think we'd have stayed at a standstill for the last 20 years if Gates hadn't stepped up? Come on.
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>Windows promised Mac compatibility with Silverlight, only to yank our PowerPC support in v 2.0 just a year later (leaving ~half of Mac users in the cold).

The writing was on the wall.

Apple stopped supporting PowerPC six months later.
> With respect to the finer control over memory allocation

I think you are understanding it wrong. Go lets you control memory layout, think deciding how things are laid out in a struct. In Java you get indirection and pointers instead. System programming refers mainly to this ability of layout out your data in memory. This makes a world of difference when you are doing high performance code and can control cache locality.

Edit, found the link: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=124111702609723
I like the magic mouse. It's quite possibly the best mouse I've ever used, although the battery life does suck.
This looks pretty awesome, and I think it fills a needed gap in the ecosystem. If I had a web app to publicly host, I'd definitely be giving this a try!
You are wrong about Go lacking exceptions. See panic/recover/defer in the spec.
Interesting how your investors see you bringing this guy on board as an asset but only at a price that they are comfortable with and that might have brought a multiple in value. Makes me wonder how they'll feel about dilution if you ever need to go for more capital.

On another note, did you put it to a vote? Do you still hold a majority?
In this context systems language is difference from having access to the operating system. A systems language lets you write things like device drivers or operating systems.
The book seems very readable. I read one of the sample chapters, and if you aren't an agile guy, or are "feeling around", this seems like a useful book. I'll probably get the digital version after reading a few more reviews.
Web to News but not Back Again
Sorry for the shameless plug, but we are working on a similar service for Ruby projects -> http://www.buildcop.com
But if you're measuring via proxies you lose causation. Have those gradual changes that immediately increased conversion or upsell by 2% over the last 3 months cheapened the brand and site, causing long-term damage to its perception in the market place? Has the move to weekly newsletters, that brought that burst of business started to make people think of you as irritating and spammy? A/B testing isn't going to tell you that but those blessed metrics are going to start going south down the road and you aren't going to be able to A/B test your way out of it. Perceptions last, brands are ephemeral and empirical, careful testing indicated New Coke should have been a massive hit.
The Magic mouse was the one big disappointment when I moved to the iMac. Far, far too small to grip comfortably... but I do love the trackpad scrolling.

I wish I could get a "magic" logitech (thumb) trackball. I saw yesterday that Logitech are releasing a new version of the trackman wheel which I bought 7yrs ago and now use with my iMac. Unfortuntely, it looks like the only difference is a blue ball instead of a red one
Digg kicked its own arse. Reddit was just around at the right time.
I may be sometimes an Apple fanboy, but it's true that Apple mouse sucks, and hard.

Luckily the magic trackpad is now my input device of choice, but I spent a to much time cleaning the small ball of my mighty mouse (without opening it): [http://www.brendanfenn.com/cleanmouse.html]

And then again, if I have to use a three button mouse I've to choose a better mouse, something like a Logitec or, argh, Microsoft mouse. Both of them are cheaper and better than any Apple one.
Me too. You may want to consider integrating Code Antgem badges too as part of a user's profile. Email me amber@codeanthem.com to discuss.
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"gem install docsplit" gives me this:

-bash: gem: command not found
In other words, just like Digg.
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ah, only for US residents :-(
"How do you know that Apple's designers aren't also testing their designs with real world users?"

Having worked there, I can vouch for this. Apple employees (and, most notably, Steve himself) are the real world users they test with. Every important or critical product only ever sees internal testing, but much more important is that the rationale behind Apple's design process is that of an actual designer thinking about solving problems from a user’s own perspective, whereas Google's "design process" is based entirely on trying to solve problems from an engineering perspective.* Often, they take it so far that they only solve engineers' problems, not even general users' problems.

* That's bad because the vast majority of people on this world are not dedicated engineers.
1. Lay out the problems caused by the current architecture. Not in developer terms like "tightly coupled" but rather in terms managers will understand - the real cost per client. Prove that a cleaner architecture will lead to faster turnaround and therefore reduce the overheads - leading to more clients and/or higher profits.

2. Design a cleaner architecture. Look at current and possible requirements. Maybe not too much detail, but perhaps a basic database schema, class designs, etc (whatever is appropriate to your language/framework).

3. If you are using MS tools, read up on the lastest developments there - ASP.NET MVC for example - and show how using new tools would improve the design.

4. Perhaps get yourself involved more in the management side of things. Learn more about the business as a whole, why decisions are made. That will make you sound more informed on the technical side as well.

If all else fails, then look for another job by all means - but bear in mind that the situation you describe is all too common in non-technical lead companies. In an ideal world, the business-savvy techies would be in charge (and those that are - Google, Gates-era Microsoft, etc - they are) but those companies are few and far between.

If you are otherwise happy at the company then perhaps start a side-project - commercial or open-source - to keep your skills fresh, so you'll be in a better position for your next job.
As someone who was using "AJAX" quite extensively using hidden IFRAMEs and then in 1999, XMLHttpRequest -- long before a Johnny-come-lately coined AJAX, I had to comment on this-

http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/How-I-Came-To-Despise-AJAX...

It was first added "to" Internet Explorer by the MSXML team (by a guy sneaking in some functionality for the Exchange Outlook Web Access team). It was actually a great example of the power of modular "ActiveX" (which in that case was abused to mean simply COM) scripting -- they didn't need to release a new browser to support it. Of course there are endless downsides to reusing a plug-in structure that had little controls or security, however it did have some merits.
One note about their recommended mouse, although i think logitech make excellent products, he writer seems to think the abundance of buttons is a good thing, i do not.

Personally i find the forward and back buttons on a mouse to be highly irritating, whenever i use a mouse with them i always accidentally press them.
The iPad's orientation lock became a mute switch
Far out!

I recently finished "What the Doormouse Said" by John Markoff and it went into depth about this era in Silicon Valley. This is something you will want to read if you are into the history of computing.

http://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Pers...
How to write like Groupon...
How does one guarantee that a site provides objective candidate information?
His rant about the magic mouse are unfair. He's making claims about it that sound like he hasn't even used it.

> The most innovative mouse in recent history - the top is a touchpad. The problem is it is difficult to hold the mouse and perform the two finger scrolling necessary. Clicking doesn't give you the feedback you would like and again there really is only 2 buttons available (left and right). It is difficult to use a touchpad on a device intended to slide around your table, and tough to click a mouse on a touchpad.

You don't need two fingers to scroll. One is sufficient. Clicking is an audible and you can very well feel it with your finger. It's not a touchpad nor is it intended to be used as a touchpad. It's just that instead of scrolling using a tiny nudge on the top you can use way more surface (anywhere in the top 2/3 of the mouse) to scroll in any direction you want.
So many questions (and so many places this could have been fixed).
a) As soon your dive buddy saw your air gauge was that low he should have gone into the share air procedure. Parent's idea of letting him have your main reg while fumbling for the spare is also a good idea (although I don't believe most training includes that step).
b) The divemaster should have been proactive about asking you how much air you had. It is really easy to suck down a lot of air quickly (especially your first few dives) and asking the group how much air they are using early on can indicate if someone is being aggressive with their air.
c) i can't believe you guys were spread 60-70 (in total) away from each other. That's pretty far.
d) If you were that low under where you ran out after 10 feet, the DM should have taken you up. Remember you also need to inflate your BCD on the surface, you don't know if the boat is going to be there, lots of things can still go wrong.

I've been in a really similar situation. 100 feet down, my dive buddy was someone who hadn't dove in 5 years. It was a drift dive and he was trying to take a lot of pictures. 20 minutes into the dive (the DM queried, he didn't volunteer) he revealed he had roughly 500 PSI left (some believe that's the level you should be at when you get out of the water).
Our DM sent us up together, we shared air ... but it was still touch and go.
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Do you use and like it, then?
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Has OpenX been suffering from security vulnerabilities for awhile now?
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Thanks, that sounds great.

One more question. You wrote: "If you want to make your application match your Wordpress theme (not sure if that is necessarily a good idea)".

Now, say I want to put up an MVP of some application, which is just a landing page. Shouldn't I include some kind of screenshot of what the application will look like?

If so, what design do you use for screenshots of the application itself? Do you use the same theme? A completely different design?
"If Jonathan Ives submitted a design for Google Instant, and his design was better than the "obvious solutions", then it would test well. If a better solution tests badly then, by definition of the word "test", you're not testing it properly."

Innovative products rarely test well, overall. If you test it to a group of visionaries who are comfortable thinking outside the box, then yes, it'll test well. But if you test with a group of regular / casual computer users, non-techies and the like, many innovative or important design decisions may not test well.

Take, for example, USB. The technology came out and was sparsely added to new computers, but always in addition to COM and Parallel ports. Apple saw that USB was the future, so they made the iMac which—gasp!—only contained USB ports. No COM, no Parallel, just USB.

You think that decision would have tested well with users?

"I can't use my existing printer?! That's stupid!"

Except… it was this very decision that made USB successful in the market, because it forced all peripheral manufacturers to make USB devices if they wanted to sell to Mac customers (a large enough market to be worthwhile for virtually all of them).

And so, USB succeeded in the market. But it wouldn't have if Apple had used Google's test-driven approach, because that decision would have tested quite poorly.
This is a good idea, but on the flip-side this is only really meant for people in the know. I can also reason logic where confusion tends to not leave much of an impression at all, thus merely confusing people about what this is is only slightly damaging, while also forming a natural barrier to keep them from figuring out how to sign up and finding a 404 page every few minutes because it is all still buggy. But still, a bit more info on the default page is a good idea. add it to the github stuff?
Canada and Israel have a ton of excellent coders too, you should let them in as well.
Unfortunately it's a bit more than a theory. In a real, documented sense, it has been Microsoft's modus operandi with regard to internet technology for over 15 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
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First line says "Abortion issues: Pro-choice"

Now, putting it like that already causes a bias in the reader, the opposite bias that "Pro-life: YES,NO" would cause, of course.

My point being: is very prepotent to say your site provides objective information. And you're probably pro-choice, right?
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I know for me not having to boot up VirtualBox to test that everything works fine in IE would be a boon not a problem. But yeah I'm not seeing where it really benefits MS here at all.