skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that how HTMTL5 websites are supposed to look like? With the cluttered layout, the various fonts and sizes, the flashy colours and the interactive content I find this page incredibly difficult to parse. It's hard for me to extract the important informations from the text. Is it really about the new logo? What's the deal with the "HTML5 semantics" on the middle? I know nothing of web development, so I have no idea what this means.

I could also question the need of... 2^8 variations of the same logo (the "build a logo" thingy).

EDIT: fixed typo
isn't the whole point of chrome's tab-process thingy to avoid one tab f-ing up the rest ? if it's as the author says, that's not helping that much.
I love philosophy but for me Lisp is just yet another programming language. (I don't even know what is the definition of Lisp, as there are lots of Lisps. Is it that there is no syntax but the programmer should type in the AST as it is using parentheses?)

I agree that philosophical and mathematical thinking is very helpful for a programmer. Especially mathematical thinking: those guys have found out some very mature thoughts throughout the centuries. But they can also be used in other languages than Lisp.

Also I want to point out that it is not necessarily true that functional languages are based on mathematics and imperative ones not.

Von Neumann was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century and in my opinion his 'fully imperative' invention, the Neumann Architecture is as beautiful an idea both mathematically both philosophically as the Lambda Calculus.
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It seems reasonable if they want to attract VC firms too (or already have them), so the VCs can find entrepreneurs overseas and send them to Canada.
childish
Enforceable non-competes may vary by province; I haven't had a reason to check it out, but they may be against labour law in Ontario.
HTML5 logo ~= Autobot Logo http://t.co/p8lQ9xp
91-94% of Mozilla's Revenue came from Google (2009)
It looks lot like Superman's Logo (The one that's on his shirt)
Ive seen this with Gmail as well, albeit with a poorly configured sender...
Good work!

On the side: the HN community never ceases to positively surprise me:
for every one or two grumpy comments and for every one or two unfair downvotes,

you find tens or even more of extremely detailed and constructive well-meant suggestions.
Only circumstantial and hearsay, but I do know Huh made a serious pitch to buy reddit last year. He owns some 40 sites [1], many of which are small, but quite a few of which are reasonably large and well-capitalized (failblog, ICHC, Very Demotivational, there I fixed it, etc).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Holdings_Inc.#Websites
Happens to the best of us mate. I have double-take moments like that with my work all the time.

Makes me paran^H^H^H^H^Hcautious.
I mourn the golden years of Java, when it was nice and simple, the weapon of a Java Knight, not as clumsy or as random as VB, an elegant language for a more civilized age... for over a thousand successful projects the Java Knights were the guardians of readability and sanity in the old code repository... before the dark times... before the complexifiers took over.
Wow, I was prepared to mock it after seeing that w3.org actually had to design something, but it's rather good.
India and Persia would be 2 very hard countries to monetize in the traditional ways. Their income levels vary greatly from the US. They still have lower, middle and upper class they are just on different scales. There middle class has around (and this is a general est) $7000 per year salary, which is quite good in India.

So monetizing to any great extent will only work with large scale traffic and small cost of purchase.

What sort of site do you operate?
Anyone know who made it?
Maria Bartiromo interviews Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
Make that "rock high ground" unless you want to find yourself on one end of a landslide (and then on the other).
Could you sell like this kid?
> Do you have a reason for doubting that? Steve Jobs has been an amazing leader for Apple but he's not an engineer.

And if people were flocking to Apple computers on the strength of their engineering, I'd agree with your point.

However, Apples' recent success has been because of its design sophistication which Jobs is rightly seen as the inspiration for.
Soon-to-be billionaires in 2011
So did you discover any pattens?
I'm not sure what the cricket equivalent would be but in a mouse model open space and bright space anxiety tests would be a reasonable approach to understanding whether the anxiety is general or specific to spiders.
I think maybe I should just set up a direct deposit between my bank account and rovio.
That's nonsense, lots of people do that.

Lots of people also believe in astrology.
Anyone is free to do what they deem good for their karma, you just shouldn't expect a measurable impact towards your deliverability. The big ESPs don't look at these lists.
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If that is you, please contact me for detailed product information.

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I find it looks quite ugly honestly. The logos on the bottom are much better.
Looks like a stretch to me...
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Eh. Lisp is just a self-interpreting abstract syntax tree. It's a nice party trick but not really that big of a deal.

//slaps self

Sorry, forgot where I was for a minute. Lisp is the best language ever!!! Anyone that doesn't agree obviously doesn't understand it!!! Only 1% of all projects are in Lisp because only the top 1% of programmers are worthy of it!

Relevant::

http://www.dilbert.com/2011-01-09/
In our usage, Sendgrid never complained. No particular knowledge about specific usages.
From cosmism to deism: AI makes deities plausible
Hello!

My name is Jonathan Morse and I am the inventor of the patent pending Caffeinated Frozen Confection (http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20100129522).

I am currently seeking to license the manufacturing rights to my product and are accepting bids from interested parties.

If that is you, please contact me for detailed product information.

regards,

Jonathan Morse
http://twitter.com/#!/FatCatFAC
585.568.7409
On Xerox, Apple and Progress [1996]
What I really like is when I'm showing my friends a YouTube video and suddenly there's a pop-up with my health information.
Seriously? Do you even read the websites of your clients?

I quote: Discover the secrets over 5,537 visitors who stumbled on this website use to draw that "oh, wow" open-mouthed stare from females while their friends turn green with envy as they remove their shirt and uncover a clearly-defined set of jaw-dropping six pack abs.

Magical exercise techniques that will make you have a six pack. It's the equivalent of selling sugar pills.
Product managers are very useful when you are not your own customer. Good product managers are a proxy for your customers, providing you information on the customer wants and needs. Good product managers work with the engineers to prioritize projects; it is not a dictator position, but does help ensure that the less sexy projects get done as well as the uber-cool sexy projects.
Interesting app.

Thoughts:

- Reduce perceived effort to complete reservation. For example, why can't I just view a calendar with open days and times? I could click on the time I want, then get a quick prompt for my name, one contact method, and the services I'd like.

- Allow integration with online/offline Calendar apps (Google Calendar, Outlook, etc). Users should be free to use the calendar they have now, if they'd like.

Edge case: what will you do to prevent a conflict between services offered and time available? For example, nail trimmings are only on Mondays from 10-2pm, ear cleanings are everyday from 4-5pm, and I'd like to schedule both.
Using Git for web app deployment
yeah, but it makes sense to focus on the bottlenecks.
Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons!
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No, they don't have anything to compare it with. They'd never figure out that it's because stuff is pirated.
That's awesome and vastly superior to other w3c logos.
thanks for sharing your feedback!
Warren Buffet's cash flows are from blue chip insurance companies. If the allegations in the article are true, the cash flows mentioned are far more ephemeral and far less reputable.
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Are you serious? Got an example?
The class semantics section appears to be related to the other logos that the w3 has created for them.

Personally, I think its extraneous information. If you came away with knowledge of what the logo looks like (and you should since it took up fully 2/3rds of the first page), then you're set.

As for the rest of your criticism:

> I know nothing of web development, so I have no idea what this means.

Although HTML originally was created to be human readable, and better yet--writable by ordinary people---that isn't how history played out. Hardly anyone writes their websites in bare HTML anymore.

For a time, it seemed that HTML instead would be automatically generated by machines--either a CMS or Dreamweaver/Frontpage and its ilk. This 'dream weaver' age brought us XHTML and its XML inspired draconian parsing requirements.

But slowly, a cadre of individuals was growing who did write HTML by hand and documented the fine differences between browsers, and put pressure upon their makers to change them. These folks were a sect that didn't exist before (and perhaps couldn't have existed in the 90s low-bandwidth websites)...they are web designers.

HTML5, logo and all, looks like the w3's way of trying to capture the attention of web designers because at the moment they have little to no credibility with that group.
I like getsatisfaction. It makes it really easy to aggregate user voices about your product. I also use Mailchimp for a couple of clients - highly recommended.
It should be noted that whilst the link takes you to a page whose URL suggests it's actually dated October 2007, the page is only intended to be seen as an iframe and the original page with the 2010 update statement is located here:
http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
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Many older traditional businesses (like the one I work for) barely, if ever, look at the analytics. It's just not an important part of their marketing strategy. That may be a mistake but it is far more common than you might think. If you provide a great service or product that genuinely fills a need then people will seek you out.
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was there an html4 logo? why do we need an html5 logo?
While I guess I can get behind "Don't do time sucking ineffective SEO when you could be implementing marketing which scales", the rest of the post strikes me as misguided. You can end up with traffic dominated by SEO over referrals for many reasons. One is being good at SEO. One is having a strong brand on the Internet. (I'd put money on over 90% of first time visits to, eg, 37Signals coming from Google. That isn't because they're particularly focused on SEO, but because Google is so many orders of magnitude more popular than the sum of every page which mentions them.)

Another plausible reason is being in a non-techy market, because you run headlong into the 1/10/89 activity pyramid except it is closer to 1/10/989: people who can't tell the difference between the green Googles and the blue Googles don't often start blogs to talk about their abiding love for invoicing software, and they don't come to websites directly because they have learned a way which works to access your Googles and that other way with the typing a website email address never really worked that well. (They still can make great customers, though.)
Just like facebook, twitter, zynga, and groupon... The fact that this news pisses off HN commenters leads me to believe that they will be fairly successful.
Right now we have vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. There are still people who confuse the two. Chris Gates (author of the article) is talking about another tier emerging in the field: attacker emulation.

Right now penetration test can mean many things. It can mean a standard CEH/CISSP/other cert trained monkey running tools and generating a report from within your DMZ for two weeks. Or it can mean a dedicated team spending their days like a stalker in a dark basement putting LinkedIn profiles and IP addresses on a cork board until they see the opportunity to strike.

They're different tests needed for different situations. I do not know how big the market will be for these advanced tests, but some organizations need and will pay for them. It's fun work if you can get it.

So the article is drawing this line and saying: "hey talented guys, there's real work for us… we just need to be aware of what it is and not get discouraged". Penetration testing isn't dead, it's just becoming automated and the lower tier of it is becoming more well defined. The cool stuff still exists, we just need to call it something else.

How's that? As for making a career out of it? I'm not. I pen test now, but only because it's fun. Once the fun wears off, I'll go do something else.
I am almost certain Ableton Live for the mac does something like this. It is a piece of music production/performance software. It will appear to function normally, but the audio engine will gradually begin to fail in increasingly ugly ways, especially when you use plugins.

It usually starts doing this after a few weeks or months of regular uninterrupted use. Considering this app is used by professional musicians to perform in front of audiences of thousands of fans, having the possibility of the app crashing hard at a random time hanging over you is a pretty powerful disincentive against piracy.

Over the years, many cracking groups have tried and failed to overcome this. The guys at ableton are extraordinary programmers and they've obviously done a number on this one.

There were even rumours that one of the top audio software cracking group members was actually an ableton developer, and that they leaked these devilishly broken builds to the warez scene themselves.
Qt apps on Ubuntu
Beautiful men, women have higher IQs
Dear internet: Any other notable i.e. good board game adaptations of video games?
Without considering the context, the logo itself is pretty good. I like the badge/custom badge and related components. Overall though, I don't like it. I don't think it's a fitting logo (the superman/superhero comparisons are what come to mind to me as well).

The logo treatments and website seem like a contrived effort design a logo to whatever the designers believe is the "HTML5 Design Aesthetic." Sure, rich content and all, but HTML5 (and related technologies, like this logo is supposed to imply) shouldn't be represented by over contemporary design.

Interestingly, the logo is not the "official" logo. On paper, it's just the community logo - and it will only officially be adopted if it gets enough grassroots support.

Is this W3C's "official" logo for HTML5?

Not yet. W3C introduced this logo in January 2011 with the goal of building community support. W3C has not yet taken it up in any official capacity. If, as W3C hopes, the community embraces the logo, W3C will adopt it as its own official logo for HTML5 in the first quarter of 2011.
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Because it's cool, and we can. Haters gonna hate.
Be better than metasploit? Run metasploit and turn in the results? You don't know what metasploit is.
"IS THIS W3C'S "OFFICIAL" LOGO FOR HTML5?

Not yet. W3C introduced this logo in January 2011 with the goal of building community support. W3C has not yet taken it up in any official capacity. If, as W3C hopes, the community embraces the logo, W3C will adopt it as its own official logo for HTML5 in the first quarter of 2011."
A "rockstar" programmer, simply put, is a manager's wet dream. There isn't a competent programmer, experienced with those that use this term, that want to be seen anywhere near it.

The term started as a marketing tool to get people in the door, and is now overused and loaded with unhappy feelings.

Before the BS, a rock star programmer is what every front end dev aspired to be (or thought they were): the best.
Yes, this for sure.

Issues isn't perfect. I dislike the way that the AJAX-y elements work, there's no "read all" button, sometimes I have problems setting colors and such, there's no way to attach a pull request to an existing Issue... but seriously, if I have to use something as complicated as Mantis or Rally to manage tickets, I just won't do it.
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This captures the field quite well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzcLTPy8yDQ
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Why does it have to mention Steve as a key part to the process in such a way that his leave of absence determines the success or failure of Apple ? The last few quarters have been pretty good for them right ?

Jobs was absent for a good bit in 2009 (the same year 3GS was released). I think that if Jobs is the visionary and leader everyone talks about then a few months without him cannot dent the Apple market and development. The company will still run, it is still running. It did it in 2009 and it can do it again in my opinion.
> The question is whether Apple can come up with the next ipod or iphone without him. That, I sincerely doubt.

Apple has now a very strong and experienced executive team and great engineers, who perfomed very well during Job's last leave. Most of all they have a clear product strategy and incredibly streamlined processes in R&D, retail and logistics which enables them to stay very focused. So I believe they will continue to innovate. Apple today is nothing like Apple in the 90's when they were near bankruptcy and without a vision until Jobs came back.
but what does it mean? No user will know/care.

I guess it's just like putting a badge on your website that says your site passes some html verification test.
I had the same reaction. Pre-click: Hate dialing up to DEFCON 1, Post-click: huh, not too bad -- back to the morning coffee.
It's super strange that this page itself is HTML5. Doesn't W3C have a policy of only publishing documents using standards already in the "Recommendation" stage?
I'm not certain I like it.

Think about its purpose; it needs to work with a huge range of styles, each of which will have specific and varied audiences.

The choices made (collegiate typeface / bright orange) are quite bold; I don't think it lends itself to sympathetically supporting a broad range of differing styles of design.

Also, when this is used, it's likely to be quite small - the gap between the tail of the '5' and its upper curve is slight. I think it will have a tendency to resemble a '6' at smaller resolutions.

Maybe I'm being too negative, but on top of all this I don't think it looks visually appealing or balanced. I don't think the proportions (forced perspective / surrounding gap vs. typeface weight) are pleasing to look at.

But then again, maybe once we see it everywhere, it's ubiquity will create new associations and familiarity will win out.
I see, when I read the page I thought the intent was to market HTML5 "to the masses". It reminded me of the "use firefox" campains. I guess I'm just not the target audience. Thank you for your insight.

EDIT: I stand by my point regarding the layout though. I think a website promoting HTML5 should try to keep it clear. Trying to mix an informative content with an HTML5 demo page might not be the best idea.
Entry-level using stock tools? That was the nineties.
Hacking scene came apart due to ethical hacking certs after 9/11? No.
The hacking scene was all about hacking in the beginning.
Then some people turned white-hat and got security jobs.
Then most people in the scene got security day-jobs by releasing tools and 0days to market themselves.
Then organized crime started hiring hackers for projects.
Now hacking is all about money, be it a security job or working for the Russians.
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Thanks for this! I loved the writing for this movie.
It's really just to peer pressure other developers (and maybe the Internet Explorer team) into adopting the standards.
Alas for me (in IE8) this isn't working. It doesn't seem to actually "execute".
Ocupop: http://ocupop.com/
ocupop http://ocupop.com/html5
Opening doors is one trick I definitely wouldn't teach pets!

Many years ago my parents' cat started trying to open doors without any training from us. She clearly understood the process from her efforts, but couldn't grip the round handles. Given a house with cranked handles though and any door that opened out rather than in would have been insecure to her.
>How much is your time worth?

I hate this argument. It's so narrowly focused (and for some reason, often regurgitated). Money adds up a lot quicker than that one hour of your time. If you save yourself 10 hours of work per month because of a couple services you pay for, but end up spending an extra $300/month while your startup isn't making any money -- is that actually smart time/money management?

There are more factors involved than simply how you value your time. The stage your business is in, how much money you're pulling in, how many other things you need to get done per day, is your startup bootstrapped, do you still have a day job, etc.
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Some good strategies for dealing with information overload
I didn't see anything in there about a new design, just different software capabilities. A new design, to me, would be a slightly larger screen so that my Kindle-App technical books would be more readable.
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That's not an entirely unfair criticism. ;-)

Would you like to try to improve on my comment?
Sounds like they've bought too much of the hype without having any tangible to show for it.

It's very likely that we won't see a Home button on any future iOS devices; that's pretty impressive, but the new gestures seem to perform the same function really well. It should put Apple way ahead of other mobile platforms who still struggle with which order to place all their buttons.