skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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when the site loads, the facebook buttons need some time more to load (of course). but they don´t seem to be in a container, so some elements jump when the buttons are rendered.

the signup button is very hard to find. you could make it much bigger "web 2.0" style and with green background (which is good for conversion rates).

i´d replace "watch the video" with a big play button in the middle of the image. this way, more people will watch it.

the signup form:
i´d mask the rest of the site when it´s showed, to make clear that the user can´t do anything else right now.

the captcha is centered now, but the text fields not. i´d right align the captcha.

when first opening the signup form, the error message for the full name is shown in pure red. for me the error should only be shown when the user tries to submit the form. and you could use a more decent color for the error messages.

add a * to all required labels (and "fields with * are required), so the users knows which are required. right now he has to wait for error messages.

the checkbox and notice texts (at the bottom) would look better if they were all aligned with the text fields.

i´m not quite sure, whether purple is the right color for the notice text.

for the checkbox: it´s a lot clearer if there is first the checkbox and then the label for it. (i personally try to always use wordings with I instead of you. feels better somehow)

i like the js validation when the user inputs the needed information. - well done!

hopefully i was not too hard to you :)
martin
Notes on Game Mechanics
I supplement my NetFlix with Hulu. I personally use Boxee to build a media center like computer and it automatically pulls from the many different websites, like NetFlix, Hulu, CBS and others.

Makes my life simpler since I get one interface that just lets me view my TV shows.
No they usually don't. Because the "didn't work for us" is usually not conclusive proof of the contrary.

It does (rarely) happen in Physics where everything is expected to be repeatable, and results from one experiment carry over to similar experiments. It almost never happens in medicine, where the bar of acceptance of a hypothesis is already ridiculously low.
I can't remember names well at all, but I do treat everyone with respect. Acknowledge them, hold the door for them, be polite, etc. I go out of my way to do this for service workers (maids, waitresses, etc.) as so many people seem to be jerks toward them. A human is a human no matter what they do for a living.
I think I got it now. Don't read this if you are afraid of possible spoiling.

We are looking for a graph with highest possible minimum vertice count for any single node. The answer is 6. This graph comes from simply making a hexagonal tiling with node on center and vertices going trough edges. Any tiling with more angles does not produce a planar graph and we'd have to insert polygons with less vertices and thus less neighbours and therefore lowering the smallest edge count.
It's too bad that Canonical has, in effect, surfed the wave of free software, but refused to be a integral part of it, as they really could be. It's disappointing that they are "open-source" but not free.

Including Adobe Air and Flash in their repository is really disheartening, but so is UbuntuOne.

I'm not exactly pro-Red Hat either... http://tinyurl.com/27x6c59

No bias here folks, I'm using Ubuntu right now! I also use Fedora, Trisquel, and gNewSense, but Ubuntu is my "main" OS. I also like how they've cleared up some of the cryptic messages in their software center (Licence: Unknown to Licence: Proprietary).

I'm just very concerned about free software.
I agree that a message needs to be communicated clearly and that whatever aids in the message's clarity should be used (or left out).

The example from your literary agent makes sense only in the context of scheduling a meeting--the day, time, and place (or medium) you have suggested. This goes, it seems to me, to a message's completeness. Sure, your agent is efficient as long as the agent's confirmation is held in the context of your request. But on its own, the agent's message falls short.

Grammar and punctuation should aid in concise and complete communication. I love the way many authors can skirt good grammar while achieving better communication. So I agree with your conclusion. Tim
I would expand/reword Gannes' point as:

You have to work past some initially misguided, romantic illusions.

I saw this theme in (at least) three of the talks.

Andrew Mason spoke of moving from the abstract, wishful-thinking, crusading original vision of the ThePoint to the concrete, feedback-enhanced, tangible-returns model of Groupon.

Dalton Caldwell, founder of Imeem, contrasted the wide emotional appeal of remake-the-music-industry startup concepts with the hard numbers and legal environment that makes those same dreamy businesses impractical.

Brian Chesky of Airbnb showed that even with their basic concept in place from the start, and a series of creative launches and early media coverage, getting both their offering and messaging just right for eventual hypergrowth took lots of detours, time, and tweaks.
Cablevision (their Optimum Online service) is both an ISP and a Cable TV provider. Fox wants more money so in an attempt to put pressure on Cablevision has shut off Cablevision's access to Fox content on both the internet and on cable TV. Or more aptly, to Cablevisions customers...
The two percent of researchers who aren't in agreement deserve to heard. But they do not deserve equal time in the media. Imagine if you owned 98% of a business but your less-knowledgeable partner with only two percent had as much sway as you. It's a ridiculous way to approach business and a ridiculous way to present such an important issue.

This gets on my nerves -- science is not the same as running a business. I'm pretty sure that a large part of the said 98% are dogmatically accepting the view of the majority and are too afraid to test any hypotheses...
I’m not sure what you want to tell me. All that might be true but if I’m parsing it correctly it doesn’t mean that you will gain weight if you eat for example 1000 calories of anything per day. You will still lose weight. And you won’t if you eat double or more than that.
Yes, but most of the buildings have the same small crew. That's how it was at my university.
tim.ww.com -> timothyandrew.net ?
Are you a new yorker?
Last night a friend of mine was watching "How I Met Your Mother" and decided after hearing about the rules to tell when you're a New Yorker that there needed to be a site dedicated to them.

I was then ordered to start doing the HTML while my friend did the back end with Google App Engine. It ended up finally getting me to relearn CSS and modern HTML (I hadn't done any web work since about 1998).

The timeline went a bit like this (All times PDT)

6:15pm: SymKat watches the episode
6:30pm: I get drafted to do the front end work even though I don't know what I'm doing, at this point we think an hour or two is a reasonable time frame for getting it done
8:00pm: The HTML is in a usable state but doesn't look that good. SymKat claims the back end is ready.
8:20pm: I suggest some feature creep for the backend so that it doesn't look like I'm taking forever. I struggle to the layout to look just right.
9:15pm: Coding on the back end for rating things is done.
9:45pm: Pagination on back end is coded and tested
10:15pm: HTML and look is in a usable state.
11:10pm: We discovered that neither of us knew anywhere near enough javascript to make the rater work right. I begin looking at jquery tutorials.
11:20pm: We scammed a few of our friends to try to help us, they looked but didn't produce anything.
1:00am: I manage to finish the rating code.
1:40am: We wait on the DNS to flush from our ISPs so that we can actually see the domain properly
2:30am: More feature creep, hiding things that have a rating lower than -10. GAE doesn't like this, if you use an inequality in a query you HAVE to order by it. NO MATTER WHAT.
2:35am: We just delete them instead.
3:35am: Put a up caching proxy on it for the static content to speed things up. http://symkat.com/118/introducing-sympullcdn/
4:20am: Final version pushed to GAE.

That took a hell of a lot longer than the original time frame, but we still got it deployed. You can check it out at http://www.notanewyorker.com/
This seems like a proper opportunity for SVG, not Canvas, considering SVG is actually designed to represent vector graphics. I'm not sure about this, but I think Illustrator already includes SVG support.
Why would think Mint.com used code from Wesabe? It was release only in June this year, towards the time Wesabe left for the deadpool.
Is there an 'official' list that's better? Seems a useful thing to have.
I'd like to hear this from the other side.

Sure, maybe it makes rich people feel better about themselves to know the names of the folks who clean their offices. But I want to hear what the folks who clean the offices think. Do they want personal relationships with us, or would they rather ignore us as we do them?
Google only updates PR every few months afaik, how long have you existed? Also is it a fresh domain or was it in use before you had it.
FaceCash Turns Cell Phones Into Student IDs
This ranks Google searchs.

When I started to use RoR around 2006 it was quite difficult to find good documentation. So you had to use Google quite a lot to find something useful. Nowadays RoR is better documented and you can find everything you want to know in a few central places. So people may have to search less to find what they want.
"Including Adobe Air and Flash in their repository is really disheartening, but so is UbuntuOne."

I have never tried UbuntuOne...but if you want to reach more than geeks you have to have an easy way for Joe and Jane Public to get at those. Otherwise, you have lost.
Because even the CEO couldn't get his job done if there wasn't a cleaning lady.

Sure he could -- he'd just have to do it in a dirty office. Or maybe clean it himself once in a while.
Classic Philosophy: What is it like to be a bat? (Nagel - 1974)
Stay up late while you can. It pays off
Sometimes it takes time for Google to realize your worth. I'm sure in a few months you'll have a nice PR you'll be happy with.

But personally I think your product is more important than your page rank. :D
the next page/previous page thing is confusing
Does Fox have a business model where ISPs pay for Hulu and then their customers get it bundled with their internet access?

I'm sure Fox would love to have something like this, but right now this isn't how Hulu works. It's paid for by advertising on the television service (or premium Hulu Plus subscriptions paid by individual consumers), so cutting this off is really just sour grapes on Fox's part.

ESPN does run such an arrangement with their ESPN3 streaming service -- it's only available if your ISP has paid ESPN, or if you're a user at a university.
2011 Cadillac CTS SRX ESCALADE DTS STS Wallpapers Pictures Reviews
Rate my startup: Scheduling and Gantt components, built in JavaScript/HTML/CSS.
Assuming you're in the United States, this is really only an issue on a state-by-state basis. To avoid paying duplicate corporate franchise tax and registered agent fees, you should just incorporate in the state where you are physically located. However, if you have other considerations (like raising funding), this may not work.

Depending on the state you incorporate in and the number of shares outstanding you have, there may be fees on a per-share basis that you should check into.

Payroll taxes vary from place to place, but there's not much you can do about it--you have to pay them for the state where you're located. California currently has four types of payroll taxes: income tax withholding, unemployment insurance, the employment training tax (ETT) and state disability insurance (SDI). (See http://www.edd.ca.gov/payroll_taxes/rates_and_withholding.ht...) You can deduct SDI you've paid for the year on your 1040.

The type of corporation matters, too. The California corporate franchise tax rate for S corporations is 1.5%. For C corporations it's 8.84%. This only matters for startups that actually are bringing in revenue--otherwise you just have to pay the $800 minimum--but if you are actually making money it's a pretty big difference.

I'm not a CPA, just for the record.
You are completely correct. This is the worst kind of American materialistic sentimentality and myth-making. None of them ring true, and sound like synopses for some old, bad, country songs. You should never give charity (or act charitably) expecting a return, or hope for one by some kind of miraculous lottery pay-out.
Check the date on the article.
Would be consistent with the tendency of majority of programmers to select the crummiest possible language because some platform that necessitates its use fluked into popularity.
> Do you really think it's worse than PhotoPaint, Paint.NET or any of the other names out there?

Yes, I think it's a worse name because of the minority of people who know nothing about it, but who get offended anyhow. We can argue all day about why they shouldn't, but they do. Not to mention the fact that nothing about the name tells you what it actually does, something the rest of your examples manage.
Toolbar PR!=Actual PR.

Toolbar PR updates are done on a rolling basis, so you never know when it will update. Don't worry about it, the number means nothing.
You could easily do that - check out Ocsigen.
I second that. DNSMadeEasy use to have a home membership option (3 domains) at $13/year. Great value. But it is no longer offered. http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/pages/price/dns.html Does anyone know any alternatives at that price point?
Correct, but we also must have ethics. If we throw those out with the trash, then we've lost a helluva lot more than money. I'm not against someone installing Adobe Air on their Ubuntu machine (that's their business.) But when we start encouraging people, and go out of our way to encourage people to use proprietary software, then that's not just a free boost for the company that owns the software, but it's also a step backwards to the days of no alternatives or free software.
This is why it's so important to be genuine about it. The people I've made contact with in this way seem to appreciate being treated as people, and not invisible machines/slaves/robots.

I've been worried about this and paid close attention to it. I think that if you're genuine, it's appreciated.
The section on "Types of Players" is based on the Bartle Test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_Test), which is worth checking out in it's own right
Zuckerberg's Barriers To Entry
I'll admit there is something troubling about surveying only Climatologists in that they've built an entire industry around Global Warming. If someone could prove man-made GW didn't exist you'd probably see 2/3 of the available Climatology grants disappear overnight.

That said I think there's a bigger flaw in this survey and that's the question itself. The question, as stated in the graph, is "Credibility of Evidence for Anthropogenic Climate Change". Not "Scientists who believe Climate Change will cause a cataclysmic change in our environment"

I think everyone agrees that our presence on Earth is having some impact on the environment. It seems insane not to believe that. The question is to what extent and that isn't addressed in the survey.
I didn't realise Jobs used to be a hippy with waist-length hair who ate only fruit. I have something to aspire to.
If you could get it to read MS Project files you'd be on a fantastic winner. I quite like how it is, but MS Project is the de facto standard, and if you could render that a collaborative and shareable resource it would be great.
Technology Lock-In with the DC Metro
i like that u posted the time line. very cool.

maybe you could make a platform so anyone could make a site thing like this... it's similar to FML or texts from last night... if there were a platform anyone could make this type of site... hit me up on gmail. i might be interested in helping.
OCaml is a pretty decent imperative language, actually. It's intentionally multiparadigm rather than pure FP, though.
Another one chiming in to say thanks. Backbone is really intriguing and this post does a nice job of walking through the basics of how to use it.
Lol is our video player that bad you need to watch the direct flvs ?
To save some clicks, it's from 2004.
The danger of individuals with vast pools of funding is that they can afford to cause havoc in the community & their bank accounts for years before finally giving up on ideas that are simply unsustainable inside the ecosystem we have grown&cared for for so long.

Something to be said for a profit-imperative to keep conversations honest & feet on the ground.

Canonical has grown a strong brand in huge swathes of previously Microsoft territory.

They would do well to follow RedHat's example and trade on a reputation for competence&quality rather than trying to place their faith in various recipes of secret herbs&spice.
What? I'm not crying. It's the bright lights
I personally got the impression of being nice, selfless. I don't see how 3rd and 5th stories implies what you are saying.
I'll have to look up the specific direct references I saw that the Lua authors made to NewtonScript which prompted this: though note that the sole reference to Self in Programming in Lua is made in the same breath as NewtonScript. At any rate, I very strongly disagree with you about the 18n. Let's say you're making a video game. Let's call it, oh, I dunno, how about "World of Warcraft". You've decided to craft much of the level design in Lua so you don't have to write it in C++. Now you want to port it to the Mongolian market, complete with Mongolian storyline, instructions, character dialogue, you name it. All this stuff was in Lua strings in English. If you had a decent 18N system in your scripting language you'd just type Mongolian in those strings instead. This is a real problem.

> I disagree with you about whether metatables are annoying, but it's a matter of taste.

I didn't say metatables are annoying in and of themselves. I said they're annoying as a hacked-together substitute for a true proto OO.

Lua has many good things. But 18N and a usable OO ain't among them.
I don't see how them not being true diverts from the main point of the article which is to be good to people in general.
This comic offers a similar lesson: http://www.viruscomix.com/page486.html

Also, that second story reminds me a bit of a classic (and somewhat racist) urban legend. http://www.snopes.com/racial/mistaken/hitfloor.asp
Also the class date sorts by month first then year.
Why Do Hackers Watch Anime?
Imagine a special key on the keybord which, while held down, would cause a clickable positive/negative graphic to be overlaid on every onscreen element, be them in apps or the OS itself. The results would be magically packaged and routed to the appropriate developer.
I realized after making this comment that some people, swannodette included, were not aware of ES5, which my pointing to Harmony overlooked. ES5 support is almost there in the latest browsers:

http://kangax.github.com/es5-compat-table/

It does not fill some of the big gaps left in JS (no module system, that's coming in Harmony), but it helps and it got the standards committee back together (sans Adobe).
If I don't watch anime, does that mean I'm not a hacker?
Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode: or, How Not to Design Authentication
if you're selling code and actually shipping that code to the client AND it has open-source material (with a license requiring it, a la GPL) then you have to open source all of your material as well.

if you're running it privately theres no need in most cases.
What is, in essence, the real difference between free and open source?
ZACon InfoSec videos up
ZaCon is a community driven infosec conference. The aim is to build a better community of hackers in ZA, and provide a platform for up-n-coming speakers while still getting some inspiration from the greats.

Targetting neither industry nor acedemia specifically, ZaCon exists without funding (on purpose, don't offer) or any frills that would make you want to attend other than a passion for infosec.
Trying to read the IRC logs, I'm not able to find the description for the conflict of interest? Does this mean that you can't be a member of two free software organizations working on the same code base or doing similar works? It makes no sense. By essence,if the code is free software, you can contribute on both and be part of the two. Now, if one of the organization wants to avoid free software, we could see the future "conflict of interest"...
I don't think they are encouraging it, they simply make it obviously available to those new (often not tech savvy) Linux users.

The adamant promotion of strict adherence to FSF beliefs is fine, but it's not going to help the platform grow to anyone but geeks.
Wargames ("hacking" games). I like that they are much harder than normal games, and you learn a lot of useful stuff playing them.

Web based:
http://bright-shadows.net

Console based:
http://www.smashthestack.org/
Check the bottom left corner.
Lua "strings" are raw byte arrays with a saved length. You can store JPEG data in Lua strings. Storing Mongolian is not a big deal. You'll need a lib to e.g. calculate UTF-8 lengths, but all that needs to happen is the Lua community (or a project's company) agreeing on a specific Unicode library. There are no technical limitations there.
Check bottom left corner.
That and wasn't Nat King Cole a guy?
I do agree with some of what you said. There are still people who have never heard of Gimp. Tell then that it's an alternative to Photoshop and they say "What's Gimp?" or "What's Photoshop?" followed by a lengthy explanation, tagged with questions like "What's GNU?" "Isn't Microsoft Essentials free?" and so on. It ends up with "Well... I don't know... hmm..." long silence "Oh, well it's free so it must be worse." and "Adobe made Flash, so Photoshop must be better."

IMHO, the name does imply that it has some sort of flaw in it (like a real gimp) even though it does not. I like "GNU Image Manipulation Program" better in that respect, but it's of course much longer. GIMP is much shorter, and when you hear the full name, not just the acronym, it makes more sense.

And in no way am I saying it's a bad program. Quite the opposite, actually. :)
I've been using EveryDNS for a couple of years. I did donate the $20 to get unlimited domains and records.
"(2) the fact that I can't reliably play the videos on my Ubuntu boxes since they use Flash"

Hulu Desktop the flex app and hulu.com works great on all my Ubuntu systems. I have an Ubuntu box connected to my TV and Hulu Desktop is one of my main apps. I'm surprised you have problems with flash videos on Ubuntu.

Netflix would have been a good alternative but Netflix streaming doesn't work on Linux.
Just food for thought, I added in django to the trend comparison:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22asp.net+mvc%22,+%22ruby+on...
That being said... I resent my school using (almost) only Java for its curriculum. When I started learning JavaScript, Scheme, and Common Lisp this past year and discovered languages with first class functions and closures, my feelings of resentment only grew.
http://notanewyorker.com/
Illustrator does support SVG, and Canvas supports vector drawing. It looks like Ai→Canvas is capable of outputting vectors when its necessary.