skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like — and by "like" I mean "am vaguely unhappy" — that this post and most posts like it are written by a person or people whose idea of web design is slapping a light color on another light color, adding padding, and then @font-facing in something that looks vaguely elegant. Is this design, meeting priorities in the simplest and most boring way imaginable? Is design simply matching proper lineheight to a fontsize, declaring it readable, and calling it a day? Is design making a vaguely pretty blog without also applying serious thought to what the contents of that blog will be?

When was the last time you saw Jon Hicks or Elliot Jay Stocks or Jeff Zeldman or Shaun Inman write vapid entries like this about the definition of designer? When do the designers at Twitter or Tumblr write entries about how they define the word "design"? They don't, because they know that talking about words and positions and statuses like they mean something is silly. Words are what we make of them. They're especially dolled up by people who don't have any toys to play with but words.

Designers can be anything and do anything. Same thing with "advertisers" and "artists" and "engineers" and "rockstars" and whatever other terms people decide to throw about themselves. Designers can write. Engineers can build web sites.

EDIT: I see that the guy who wrote this post is on HN responding. Fred, I hope you can forgive my irritability and frustration — I really don't mean this as a jab at you. But I'm bothered that you try and define design in the basest terms — "a designer does X, Y, and Z" — and refuse to discuss the goals that design can achieve. You're talking about design like the whole point is to make a company a quick buck. I know a fuck of a lot of designers who'd really hate their jobs if that was all they were doing.
My personal gestalt of the word "design", such as it is, is that it is the second step of the creative/problem-solving process: to come up with good solutions, you first generate novel connections between concepts (brainstorm); and then evaluate those concepts, and sort them on, how well they solve the problem, and prune the ones that sort "badly" (design.) You then connect together the ones that sort well (brainstorm again), and prune those, and so on. When someone says that a product "lacks design," it means the bad ideas have not been pruned from it. Good design is minimalist, because it has been pruned incessantly. And so on.
I just keep thinking about when eBay bought Skype.
I wouldn't mind just going to the Scribd page and clicking the green 'download' button if they would just let me have the file without extracting my personal details (facebook connect).
Coming with an auth component vs something that provides pre-done models, views and controllers are two different things. Having something provided out of the box with some common defaults that I don't need to configure would be much handier for rapid development.
Travel Ad Network Acquires TravelMuse
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And then you have to trust your partner/computer to respond to it.
Considering the downvotes, Poland and HN...
I want to get together for a drink with HN'ers at the conference. Email me if you'll be there. mail at awarner dot com
I think the main issue there is that the trunk is not stable, not that people forked off unstable points.

We only land tested, verified code in the trunk. Each trunk revision is pretty much a separate release. Features are developed in feature branches and multiple features are merged into an acceptance branch for testing. Once accepted, they are merged into the trunk and put in production.

This is using SVN though. I wonder how it compares to a git workflow.
Most developed nations have extradition treaties with the US - and Assange has a good chance of independently pissing them off in the future if he leaks info on them.

Wikileaks has already leaked private bank memos, which the Swiss in particular don't take kindly to.

Ecuador is no fan of the US, and it tends not to be a very interesting nation from a leaking perspective. It'd be a better choice than most developed nations.
Just being curious, are you comfortable doing serious coding on a machine with such a little keyboard? I can't even imagine using Emacs efficiently on a device like that. Don't you think a small netbook would increase your comfort and productivity without a considerable loss of portability?
Access to all those otherwise unavailable, expensive or hard to get data and APIs seems to be the second biggest benefit of applying to YC.
The first one would of course be access to know-how and network of VCs.
Evolution of build systems
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"You're really only very small, and life flows on within you and without you."
Another benchmark source...
http://www.yiiframework.com/performance/

Take with a grain of salt.
I think it could be said that "solving a problem for someone other than yourself" is semantically equivalent to "communicating with someone."
I sort of agree with you - if you need twitter type scale, you will need to rewrite.

Most frameworks are bloated (not setup to REALLY scale) out of the gate.

CakePHP is very flexible, and if used correctly can scale for 99% of workloads. Especially if you leverage some of the php5 only nuances (cake 1.3 has been developed to support php4 and php5).

CakePlate can steer you in the right direction - but is not an end all. It helps turn your idea into reality quicker. If your idea twitter scales, then you have cash to throw at the (good) problem.

If you give Cake an honest shot, I'm confident you will like it.
It matters if you want a career in a 'professional service' i.e. politics, banking, law etc and to some extent the business world purely b/c these institutions not only offer you a brand name education but the opportunities (work experience, public speakers from a range of industries, extra-curriculats etc) on offer are far far superior to lower ranked colleges.
Ah, didn't know about that, thanks.
What has changed in science and what must change.
So far the storage is minimal since it only archives one page over time. It also transforms the page to extract only the stuff it needs to display, cutting down on the size further. Archiving a whole site with all the media (pic/sounds/videos) would take more storage. But disks are cheap these days. It shouldn't be too bad.

I'll look into that. Thanks.
You have got to love the "WTF is Maven?" arrow!
Well, that is not an exciting story. I used Django. And, oh yeah, its on shared hosting... for now...
Go back and look at recent deals, 150x$15 is quite small. In my city there was one for 1189x$110 this month. That's $130,000 in one day in just one of 250+ markets.
I wonder the same thing. I was considering developing an app for the finappstore but I just don't have time at the moment. Currently all apps plugging into Yodlee must be built on the Adobe flex platform.

One interesting thing is that the developer forums on Yodlee site like pretty desolate. Here is part of a message posted on 8-26-2010 which has zero responses.

"There are almost 200 of you that have gone through the full developer registration process and have access to building and testing applications inside of Yodlee.

There are five applications that have gone through full certification and are available in the Yodlee FinApp store in BETA with another six applications in the process of certification right now.

The forum has been quiet with questions recently, so what are people working on? What's blocking you from moving forward?"

I wonder if people just don't know about this or if the flex platform is deterring developers. It seems pretty cool.
Unfortunately, Accelerando looks like a fortunate accident. I have browsed several of Stross's other books in the store and his blog, and nothing else looks remotely as interesting.
I think Nokia is already capable of producing phones cheaply, in good quality. For all I know, they even might have some factories in China already.

As an Android fan, I can only say: all I want is a really good Android device. Some are good enough (Nexus One), but there is still room for improvement. And Nokia probably would be able to pull it off. It is very unlikely that they'll go that route, unfortunately.
Red Hat Acquires Cloud Application Platform-As-A-Service Makara
I'd love to buy a podcast player
Consider Kohana, then, which forked off from CodeIgniter years ago and learned from the many mistakes CI made (most notably being a complete inability to adapt), and was designed with PHP 5 in mind from day one.
Yes. Never rebase unless you are absolutely certain that branch has never been published to anyone.

Whenever you want to rebase your branch on top of some other branch, just merge into your branch instead.
Family and health.
Fortress code is still a linear stream of characters in a grammar that gets LR-parsed into an AST, though. Many other approaches are possible if you start with a different data structure—a digraph of tokens with node-identity, for example.
I can't see the whole text, but I've been in a few pretty good crashes. Once (http://is.gd/hZVO2 ) shattering a few teeth and my maxilla after being edged off the road by a motorist. More recently (http://is.gd/hZWdH ) I ran over a moving deer while traveling pretty quickly for a bicycle (~35 MPH before I saw the deer, no clue how slow I got by the time of impact). Both times, the bike helmet spared me quite a bit of damage.

Without submitting to The Paywall Of Doom, I have no idea what happened to this guy, but a good bike crash can be pretty scary.
Build it then it will be more logical to ask for review. Ideas and Coming Soon pages are of no value.
My guess is that many of the active, non-Oracle developers have a significant financial interest in the project's continued success and open-ness. Either they themselves make money via Hudson (consulting, add-ons, etc.) or their employers have many projects depending on Hudson.
I see. I didn't look through the JS, nor have I used Quplo so I just figured i'd have to trade correct syntax for ease of prototyping using this.

I asked myself a couple of times why you'd wrap <html> in <page> lol.
What do you want us to review?
> You shouldn't judge a people by the actions of their leaders.

That becomes a difficult argument beyond a certain point. Especially if the leaders are (in theory, at least) representing the people.
Maybe YC W11 has some finance-oriented companies in it and YC's taking care of business ahead of time. No doubt this would've been helpful to InDinero over the summer.
So, does this mean that Comcast is no longer merely a content provider since they are now actively filtering/determining what content is allowed on their network? If so, then Comcast should now be held liable for any and all illegal/pirated content sent across their network.

RIAA maybe you should find a few Comcast subscribers downloading and sharing illegal/pirated music then go after Comcast (who actually has the money to pay the fines) for not actively filtering said content out of their network.

Comcast, you are walking on a rope next to a slippery slope.
I don't think your definition of 'true rebel' is really that robust. A rebel is not a someone who refuses to be apart of anything. A true rebel is someone who acts of their own convictions, and those convictions happen to conflict with the hierarchical structure the person is acting within.

I was definitely a rebel for a big part of my life; my convictions haven't changed, but I can barely call myself a rebel now.

I was a raging atheist in an east-texas public (read: baptist) high school. I was a catalyst in the conversion quite a few kids away from their church, and the catalyst for many dozens in getting high their first time. I didn't do it because I hated the establishment, though I did hate the establishment. I did it because a) I thought religion was bad, and b) I thought getting high was good.

I was a successful rebel in that regard, not only in my endeavors, but I benefited socially from it as well. I had hot girlfriends and got a superlative at prom, people liked me etc.

Now, ten years later, my convictions are largely the same. But I live in the northeast. Atheism is boring when everyone around you isn't a raging theist. Being a pot evangelist doesn't really make sense to me anymore.

However, my convictions with regard to politics and science are often severely removed from the general zeitgeist. In that regard I am still a rebel. However, since I don't actually function in any visceral way inside a hierarchy that those convictions conflict with day to day; I don't really feel like or consider myself a rebel like I did back in the day.

With regard to seeing a lack of rebels here; I am not surprised at all. Not because I don't expect self-directed people here (as all true rebels are), but because of what is being discussed. Computer science especially doesn't leave too much room for rebels. Sure there are design elements that people don't like (I love web2py but pyhtonistas seem to hate it); but that is hardly 'rebellious.' Computer science is such an objective `thing` that if you disagree with 'everyone' you are probably wrong, rather than a rebel.

As far as employment: ???. There are more people per capita here than nearly anywhere with people taking an alternative approach into making money. How often to you hear 'degrees are worthless, if you can code you can get paid' on here?

Social networking, I have to somewhat agree with you here. I am somewhat surprised by the lack of foresight people show with their willingness to divulge their lives to facebook. There are however many of us who opt-out; I'd guess a larger-than-average population here than elsewhere do opt out.

But in general, a rebel is not one who is 'not part of a large group.' That is a loner. Or a nihilist, or a pariah. A true rebel is one who exists within a hierarchy and acts in ways that defy the implied or explicit authority of the hierarchy. Not being part of a majority is only incidental; a true rebel who convinces 51% of people to be on their side no longer has anything to rebel against.

tl;dr: I used to be a rebel but not anymore. People don't come across as 'true rebels' on here as often as they are due to what is being discussed.
Thanks a lot for the suggestions.
Agree on the first point.

Markdown formatting I actually did implement, but commented out for the first "release". It will be a somewhat restricted markdown, along the line of reddit.

I am not sure what you mean about the branding. If you could elaborate, I would be greatful.

The feedback button should go, I agree.
Thanks again! I decided to follow the "let users tell you what they want" strategy, so it is great to get feedback.
Valid points - although I certainly didn't expect my words to be taken at face value and judged by the layout of the site itself, which I decided should be as simple as it could. My work is not this blog, I am not a writer, so when I write, I keep things simple (much like I like them when I read). Also, sometimes I'm just lazy when working for myself :-)

I appreciate that you named a few people I'm friends with and whose work I respect. I also know they're not writing pieces like this - which I see as a problem. I do think awareness to the shifting role of the designer is necessary at this point. I've been in this industry for over 10 years now and design and designers are still undefined. Years ago I used to joke that everyone is a designer. Now that I'm taking less of an engineering (and design) role in companies and more into investing/advisory, I feel entrepreneurs and designers SHOULD be aware of what the market needs (and will expect soon)

To answer your main point, which is that I didn't say what design should achieve. I didn't indeed - not in this post (check the previous posts for that). I am CERTAINLY (and this is where we'll disagree on the interpretation of my words) not saying design is a way to make companies a quick buck - it is a differentiating factor in the success at startups (and I've seen quite a few in my work, trust me). I would really hate my job if that was all I was doing. My other posts may be more interesting if you're looking for actionable stuff.
> prosaic

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Apparently detailed reports of the US spying on its allies, or reports that the US deliberately concealed the civilian death count in Iraq to make the war look better, is prosaic? Because I find shit like that very interesting.
I recently and very reluctantly switched from Ruby+Rails to Python+Django. I really preferred Ruby's syntax: to me, it's just prettier and cleaner than Python. I really preferred Rails' organization: less flexible than Django means faster development when my projects fit into Rails' organization...

... but YKatz's article gives me comfort that I made the right decision. While you can accomplish many of the same bits of magic in Python, it's much harder to do so. Clearly, I'm not a Ruby ninja, but I am someone trying to get stuff done and the pervasiveness of monkey-patching in Rails bit me a number of times (track down some function only to find out that I was looking at the wrong, un-monkey-patched version). I hadn't really realized how much I don't miss Ruby until reading through YKatz's article on how Ruby 2.0 will handle monkey-patching. How about just making monkey-patching harder?

Python has plenty of complexity, but you don't need to know about it: you can use Django just fine without paying much attention to the richness of Python. Ruby also has plenty of complexity and you need to know about it: use Rails or add a plugin to Rails and you'll quickly be reading through complicated Ruby classes that monkey-patch Rails.
It is a shame, but I'm not sure how we could fix that situation. I'd much prefer to type λ than 'lambda', but my keyboard doesn't have a λ key!
eBay did not loose much money on the Skype acquisition. They were able to sell for what they bought it for which not a bad deal.
Indeed. If you can't communicate. It's a dead end.

But speaking of designers, they are also scientist. They just don't communicate what they want to but hello loads of other things.

Visual communication amuses me no end. That's why I'm a designer - and that's why, IMO, every designer is a designer.
Open languages are not required
Exactly. Some of the best designers I've ever met were absolutely terrible at interpersonal communication and were completely dependent on the project manager to talk to the client and figure out the communication problem.

There's a lot of iteration and specialization going on, and a lot of times I did a complete UX overhaul of what the graphic designer made while keeping his visual styling entirely, working almost exclusively with the art director and PM.

Slightly off topic; As a designer, I find it fairly interesting to see things from the other point of view on this board. It's this kind of boy/girl mutual insecurity where everybody thinks the other side is completely cool and self-assured, and I'm hiding here thinking "you guys want us too?". Believe me, for every startup that needs a designer, there's about six designers who need somebody technical to develop the designs.
Red Hat Acquires Makara
I've been in probably half a dozen cycling accidents since I started "seriously" biking (city-street commuting) which have ranged from clumsy falling (my fault) to getting door-ed and hit by cars. I've been there with the vowing-never-to-ride-again, but with the incidents involving cars, the outrage sometimes helps to motivate returning to the saddle, fueling cyclist-driver antagonism, as in "cars can't keep me off the road." It has also helped to remind me to treat every car door as a potential trap, and every car as a pseudo-malicious beast out to get me, and thus ride with more vigilance and care.
any links to a running demo or something? maybe some screenshots would suffice.
As I said, I'm sure that it's legitimate, but it's definitely not good code, and I'd rather not have it lurking in my codebase for years on end. If you don't know the original motivation behind writing something like that, you can't really remove it for fear of the original bug cropping up again without you noticing.

(I guess, then this is also what test cases are for...)
Why I'm Rooting for Microsoft
To be fair, design usually does involve making a company a quick buck.

On one level, design is applied art -> involving artistic principles to achieve a specific purpose. Because we live in a highly commercial world, that purpose usually involves making money.

What's the difference between art and design? In my opinion; design is prstitution, art is msturbation. Why bother thinking about definitions? Because doing so provides a framework for examining related ideas and concepts.

EDIT: removed some letters from two (possibly?) inflammatory words, and reposted - as the post was listed as [dead]. Would this have been the reason?

EDIT2: Re. my comparison of art and design, I was being flippant - but I was also trying to highlight motivation without putting either on a pedestal. A designer has to do create work for someone else, for money. An artist creates work for more selfish reasons - to please themselves.
modafinil = sleep hax.
someone get ben chestnut from mailchimp there. they're based in ATL, have a startup integration (w/ mailchimp) fund currently going[1], and ben is one smart cookie[2].

[1]http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/mailchimp-launches-1-million-i...

[2]http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/going-freemium-one-year-later/
In the email from the Oracle VP, he pretty much invites the developer community to fork the project under a different name:

Because it is open source, we can't stop anybody from forking it. We
do however own the trademark to the name so you cannot use the name
outside of the core community. We acquired that as part of Sun.

The issue though is of course not that cut and dry. The community would want to think over and debate any such move as it would have a long-term impact on the overall working relationship with Oracle, Sonatype, other Hudson contributors/sponsors, etc...
People on HN are always complaining about the NYT paywall but I never see it, are you talking about the "sign up for an account"-wall? The site is still free right, the paywall is going up next year? As I recall, clearing your NYT cookies sometimes lets you through the account signup.

But, I agree, a good crash is definitely one of the scarier things I've experienced, and it sounds like you've had more than your share of "good" ones.
You should explain what the product does (or will do) so I have an incentive to be on your mailing list.
Paywall of Doom? Registering is free.
Red Hat Acquires Makara to Help Manage Apps in the Cloud
EU Opens Antitrust Investigation into Google Search
It's absurdity.

No, it's not. There are always counterexamples, but in your argument you completely ignore margins in the PC and laptop market. The vast majority of laptop and PCs are sold at low margins. Since most manufacturers cannot compete one software, they compete on price. One of the few vendors that makes large margins has its own operating system. Of course, Macs are nice hardware-wise, but most people will switch 'because it is not Windows'.

This doesn't mean that every company differentiating on software-succeeds.

ignore that the top selling devices are high-end devices like the Droid X, Galaxy S, Desire Z, etc

The smartphone market is relatively small and new, as is Android. The race to the bottom has just started.
I definitely do, but just for record, it's the browser not rendering the white space. It is there if you look in the page source.
Blinkx - from desktop search to video search to London IPO
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