skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd not be happy with a 10% conversion rate (unless the traffic is not targeted).

Here are some suggestions I can make:

To increase traffic:
* If you have some budget, why not try the good ol' PPC route? Even a short (yet smart, tight) campaign on AdWords should get you a good number of signups mighty fast.

* Find (as many as you can of) blogs, forums etc. related to recipes, grocery, dinner planning etc. and make useful/meaningful posts with your URL in sig. - make sure you don't spam though ;-) (As you probably know, there are some excellent, inexpensive, non-spammy forum/blog posting services out there. You can shop around a bit and use any of these if you wish.)

Also, no matter how you increase traffic, increasing the conversion rate will obviously get you more signups.

To increase conversion rate:
* I'd strongly suggest adding some more text to the landing page. I think something like what you wrote here:

>>
Dinner Planner allows people to plan out their daily meals in an organized and efficient manner, share recipes with friends and even organize your grocery list. We send out daily reminders to people on what they're cooking for the night.

Tonnes of features are planned including SMS notifications, subscriptions to weekly menus, generate meal ideas based off what ingredients you currently have.
<<

placed as a blurb (not too large font size) somewhere to the left of the sign-up box can boost conversion.

* A somewhat stronger 'call to action' should also help. I think even something as simple as 'Your E-mail' displayed inside the text box should boost sign-ups.

HTH
The point is that people listening to microsoft's PR will think that IE 9 is as modern as the next browser and that is clearly not true. As a web developer I want to use the new technologies and as long as there is a major share of IE users I just can't.
http://www.webkit.org/blog/138/css-animation/

> We have another cool new CSS feature to talk about: animation specified in CSS. There is a lot of ground to cover here, so we’ll start with the basics first.

There are two technologies here, though both sometimes use the word "animation" they're separate: they implemented transitions in 2007 (using transition-* properties [0]), transitions are used to smoothly go from one state to an other and they are implicit: you only say which CSS property will transition and over which duration and the browser will handle all the decisions within that scope.

CSS animations[1] were added in 2009[2]. They are related to transitions but they're explicit and keyframe-based. Much more complex, but much more flexible as well (for instance you can have back and forth movements with animations, but not with transitions).

[0] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-transitions/

[1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-animations/

[2] http://www.webkit.org/blog/324/css-animation-2/
This is a very well written summary of how it all went down. From this, we can conclude:

* An initial entry point through SQL injection (from which we can infer that the federal site was probably never security tested)

* The use and re-use of weak administrative passwords

* The adoption of poor practices (such as sending passwords in cleartext via email) at rootkit.com

Of all of these, the attack would've probably been limited to the federal site had Aaron used decent strength administrative passwords (or just not reused them). The issue regarding the website comes down to risk ownership. If Aaron Barr was the risk owner for the website, it falls down to him. If in his contracting the company, Aaron had a plan to test the website then whomever tested it missed the SQL injection (which could've been implemented after a test by the CMS firm without him knowing, or any number of things). If Aaron didn't have a plan to get the site checked out, then that's both strikes falling on his shoulders. The third strike is quite clearly stirring the hornets nest.

Moral of the story: Don't antagonise groups that will strike back without a plan to deal with it.

Moral #2: Don't reuse passwords.

Moral #3: Retest your app on every significant change (including initial deployment).
Apple Keelhauls Music Streaming Services
> Keeping their systems patched and up-to-date.

Which systems were these? I didn't see anything that implied they were compromised through a missing patch.

If you're referring to the CMS, then that could just be a bit of custom code. We don't know.
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You know you're on Hacker News when a discussion about Tolkien turns into a discussion of Emacs forks =)
Optimizing egitd
NVIDIA's Project Kal-El: Quad-Core A9s Coming to Smartphones/Tablets This Year
>It stands to reason that Apple is the second biggest stock in the world, and the largest tech company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_global_tech...

To what reasoning does your statement stand up to (namely the largest tech company part)?
Pick up a can of Coca Cola and you can already see the recipe is incomplete. In the EU it clearly lists E338 (Phosphoric Acid) as an ingredient, which is not shown in the recipe at Time.com.
IE6 is still used in a significant number of large organisations because those large organisations have chosen to use implementations of fat expensive enterprise applications that have been customised sufficently to screw any chances of following the upgrade path for said fat expensive enterprise applications, meaning they'll only ever work properly in IE6.
At least that's the case where I work. Sigh.
Given that they mostly appear to grow up in racially homogeneous surroundings, can you really tell which attributes are genetic and which are environmental?
An interesting linked article, though not really a comparison (unless I missed something, and they're the same games on different platforms?)

CTR will have as much (or a lot more) to do with the quality of the game and how ads are presented, than it will the platform or the platform's real-or-perceived demographic differences.
And yet the new stuff is ready only when at least two implementations ship it. This currently means at least two out of Gecko, WebKit and Opera. Does Microsoft really never want to be one of the two?
We use Google Apps for our e-mail and we're a security company not entirely dissimilar to HBGary (the main company, not federal, and in terms of services, not practices).

We moved to Google Apps as they bought Postini. We had an adult discussion of the benefits and drawbacks, and as everyone had PGP made it a straightforward job of encrypting things according to policy. Google Apps (for business, at least) offers SSL encryption on everything and offers relatively little by way of additional risk compared to using someone like messagelabs for your AV. Obviously they're storing the data for you, but you'd get that with any hosted provider.
Skype Founders Want to Invest in Chinese Startups
On 'average' nobody in the history of humanity has ever said a thing worth opening their mouths for.

places like 4chan are full of banality, sure, but the extremes are far higher (and lower) than you find on somewhere like HN.

Ive read stuff on 4chan/b that has made me piss myself with laughter, and cry (well, nearly, Im not a crying man, but the spirit was there).
Ive read stuff on 4chan that provided amazing insight into the human soul....and stuff that made me realise what a bunch of animals we really are.

HN certainly does away with the banal posts (and the illegal ones) but the cost is obvious, and real.

I choose the times I go to 4chan (very rarely, these days) and I choose the times I go to HN, but they do both have a place.
The history of "Nokia Test"
"I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's a software experience. The truth is, though, if it makes money, it will be built into the gross margin on the hardware. We'll figure out how to make money on the community perhaps later though advertising or other means."

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Balmer-Talks-About-Zune-And-T...

I guess they decided that figuring out the "making money" part was second to getting squirting exactly right.
In response to fanatastic: I stream a lot of soccer games, and whenever something big happens, my first instinct is to see what people are saying about it.

Google+twitter give live updates, but it's not very conversational.

Reddit is conversational, but the format isn't quite right: it's hard to follow where new conversations are happening. This is currently my go-to.

Justin.tv has chat during a stream (almost ideal!), but only until it gets shut down for copyright infringement.

I don't know exactly what I want, but there's certainly some opportunity here.
You need an automated mouse wheel to scroll till bottom passing all those ads .
Oh, if I had a dime for every time an MBA has interrupted and ruined a productive hackathon...

s/MBA/Hacker
s/hackathon/sales_meeting
> This really makes the case for much more public-key cryptography everywhere

This is what we do. We use Google Apps so we used a combination of existing policy, crypto and user awareness. It's not the use of email that's an issue, it's the how the data is stored. If it's encrypted with good crypto it's not a problem. If it's encrypted with bad crypto or no crypto then the extent of the problem is down to the data.

As an aside, while you would want to encrypt anything sensitive, that doesn't mean you need to encrypt everything - it certainly makes conversations over smartphones more difficult, and google chats wouldn't be encrypted.

Still, a little common sense goes a long way.
Enlightenment Libraries Reach 1.0
I sensed even from your initial post's careful wording that suspicions of a deeper relationship between your partner and the designer were present. And if he's separated, and she's available, and they are 'extremely close', it's plausible – if not previously, or currently, then maybe eventually.

And given the work dimension, people tend to deny such things, and rationalize denial as being an entirely private and separate matter (even when it isn't). So while I regret feeding such suspicions, they're evident in your own word choices, and could explain the otherwise perplexing loyalty you report.
Ha, good luck with that.
I think "predicting" is a too much of a compliment. How does "fantasizing about" fit?
In Monopoly Live, a Computer Runs the Game
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/quora-to-oddly-named-users-... is, what happens if you use your real name on quora...
He's going by market cap presumably
The app I needed to convert needed several JS hacks to get IE9 working. For example Number("") evaluates to NaN in IE9 while it evaluates to 0 in every other browser. It's small things like that which cause hard to find bugs.
Welcome to India, experience teaches you more than what the documents tell you. Given the downvotes, I need to explain.

Vehicles why do you even need to pay across multiple states, pay once, get it to run across India. I don't see a justification for state by state rules on how you use your vehicle. Instead you get cop-stopped, you get questioned, and let off by the usual methods, you know which.

Yes, universities are recognized, but I know from experience that some state universities do not recognize courses from the University of Delhi. Been there and lost 2 years fighting the system, the bitterness doesn't go away.
OP probably meant by market capitalization:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporations_by_market_...
Your last paragraph actually has a very good point - why do companies insist on changing the employee passwords every month? Chances are, if somebody got hold of your password, he/she is not going to wait a month before using that knowledge, right? So, really, I'm curious as to why most companies have this policy.
I know those bindings (obviously not all of them), but AFAIK there is not one binding that doesn't treat the programmer like a second-class citizen. For example, is there at least one binding with a complete reference documentation? From what I have seen, bindings typically document only the difference between the C++ API and the target language. That makes the documentation hard to read, especially for people who don't know C++.
That link is almost 11 months old, and given all the furor we've heard about HTC and Apple suing the pants off each other during those last 11 months -- i.e. zilch -- I don't think this link supports that argument.
Okay - I found the following with a quick dig through our developed website portfolio:

* http://www.RecipeAvenue.com

* http://www.TheDrinkMaker.com

* http://www.USRestaurantGuide.info

* http://www.dGroceryStore.com

I don't know the traffic levels on these sites (we don't track such things individually for each site) but I guestimate a collective volume of ~ 20-25k PVs/mo.

If you wish, we can run a (site-wide) promo of your landing page on all of the above sites for a few weeks. (You don't need to pay anything - at any time - unless you must ;-)).

Let me know if you're interested.
Is that even a proper metric for this if you consider that market cap "represents the public consensus on the value of a company's equity?"
Kindle Book Sharing Service
I had always contemplated the idea of asking questions that already appear on EE on Stack Overflow, simply so that their answers can be expanded upon and eventually overtake EE's results on Google.
JSON parsers performance on Android
Like others already said, that'll be php creating session files, not Nginx.

Sure it ran out of inodes and it isn't that /tmp is a ramdisk/tmpfs and only small? - you can change the session path in your php.ini by changing/setting session.save_path.

If inodes are the problem, you could also store php sessions in memcached - a google search will give you loads of instructions on this, eg:
http://www.dotdeb.org/2008/08/25/storing-your-php-sessions-u...
I really enjoy CoffeeScript now. It is what I use for browser and node.js development. Before I tried it, I was somewhat skeptical of using it because I felt my javascript knowledge would fade or I might get confused about things, but I think it has enhanced my knowledge of JS because I don't just blindly use CS without knowing what the output is in JS.
Presenting at Macworld - Mac indie developer’s perspective
"egitd is an Erlang git-daemon implementation that provides a more flexible, scalable, and loggable way to serve public git repositories."

I was curious, others may be as well.
I think it's exactly the opposite. The FF team has come out and set the agenda: that IE is not compliant. Microsoft came back with a ham-fisted "nuh-uh, we are not!", which is playing directly into the narrative Mozilla wants.

Terrible PR management on behalf of MS, here.
There was apparently a privilege escalation from Greg Holund's ssh account on the support machine - leading to the rootkit.com data and further credentials.
From page 2:

"The only way they can have some fun is to elevate privileges through exploiting a privilege escalation vulnerability. These crop up from time to time and generally exploit flaws in the operating system kernel or its system libraries to trick it into giving the user more access to the system than should be allowed. By a stroke of luck, the HBGary system was vulnerable to just such a flaw. The error was published in October last year, conveniently with a full, working exploit. By November, most distributions had patches available, and there was no good reason to be running the exploitable code in February 2011."
if those businesses see values in "moving sideways", and in the process sabotaging your network, wouldn't they have taken your clients anyway, even without the benefit of breaking your company?

if they don't see the value in it, even if they know what you are doing, isn't it unlikely that they would waste money just to crush a would-be competitor?

Unless you are saying what your company is doing is so creative and valuable but yet no one has thought of it before. But IMO a main point of the article is that this is highly unlikely, and even if it is the case, your competitors aren't seeing the value in it, just like how google was in the plain sight of yahoo for so many years. i m not saying you should actively let them know what you are doing, but it probably wouldn't be a big deal even if they get wind of it.
The benefits to pseudonyms /far/ outwiegh the penalties.

As pyre has already said, 4chan's b channel is a force unto itself, but there are plenty of other places with no consequences where the speech is fine and isn't the devolved miasma you make it out to be.

Pseudonyms also protect people against unwarranted discrimination. I speak as a white male with a white male name that it's fucking awesome being a white male. But I have observed those who aren't white males get subtley (and sometimes not so) discriminated against online. Check out /any/ tech post where a commenter with an Indian name takes part. Unless the Indian is well known, there's bias against their comments. Same goes for women - if the discussion is outside the 'women's sphere', watch the subtleties as some of the men close ranks. Get an openly-declared woman involved in a discussion on physics in a general forum and she won't be treated as an equal.

People should be judged on what they say, not how their name slips hints about their background. To that end, a pseudonym greatly levels the playing field.

A name, pseudonym or otherwise, merely defines a body of work, and humans are complex creatures with interests in different areas. Why should we throw away the awesome things pseduonyms do for us simply because of internet trolls - which have other effective ways of dealing with them anyway (user moderation >>> unprovable 'real name' requirement)
.NET languages are compiled. The compilers build an intermediate representation (IL, similar to bytecode in languages that use a VM) and they're just-in-time compiled when they're first loaded, so they run as native code. As an aside, one advantage is your assemblies automatically compile to 32- or 64-bit based on your platform, so you get "free" access to +4GB of memory if you're deployed to a 64-bit machine.

Java (for example) and C# benchmarks tend to be close because Java is very mature and, even though it runs on a VM, is highly optimized. It compares favorably with C for this reason.

The MS compilers are very good and Mono is catching up. If you run on Linux, you'll probably be slower than Java in many cases. That will change over time.

Stability is a different question. The stability of C#, F#, etc. is not related to Windows and IIS as platforms. You can run C# based web stacks on Linux.
Valve is an extraordinary company. That quote does not apply to non-extraordinary companies and hence is idiotic to repeat as a general rule.

It is as meaningless as if you quoted Feynman saying "think about a problem long enough and you'll solve it".

The implicit assumption in either case is one of an underlying quality process and that is one helluva an assumption to make.
Not to be confused with EGit, a Git implementation for Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/egit/
So would you use Varnish over Nginx as a reverse proxy to Apache?

What about an Nginx+FastCGI+PHP-FPM stack? - would you run Varnish in front of that?
Tunnelr: VPS and SSH tunneling service from the folks of devio.us fame
Major int’l VC stealthily buying up South African eCommerce sites
I didn't say not to test. I said not to test only on a single browser version.

> Says who?

Do you really need a list?

> when the tests themselves aren't pinned down

Test for compliance with the standard, not compatibility with the engine. If not enough engines support a feature for which the standard is still emerging don't use it.

> We have even given direct examples, such as Google's decision to kill H.264 support in Chrome.

Your examples don't hold water. No specific codec support should be assumed at this point because it's not standardised.
The clue is given to Watson electronically the moment the clue appears on the screen.

While watching, I was actually hoping for really short questions which would cut down on Watson's time to process and possibly put Watson on more even footing with Jennings and Rutter.
Distribution of Mechanical Turkers in the US
I have a bad experience in this regard. At my last startup, I was regularly asked to hack HTML and CSS because the site constantly got ugly.

Not that I couldn't do it, but there was a designer who was hired every month or two to do bigger chunks of fixing. It meant she added 42 divs for each bug so it looked "ok".

Good designers are extremely hard to come by.
Good stuff! Apparently even MS responds to inconvinient stuff entering HN front page. (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2011/02/15/a-modern-bro...)

Now lets see how Oracle responds.
Hi Peter

Good to speak again. Many points well made.

1. Springboard is funded by 9 angel investors and NESTA, all of whom have invested equal sums. All are very active investors and are seeking to find more deals to invest in. We believe through the mentors involved we cover all the key areas that a startup would need to consider. Where gaps exist we will active seek to plug these gaps.

2. Red Gate ran Springboard historically in a different format. Correct me if I am wrong - since you worked alongside the teams - but of the four teams involved - one received funding and two have gone on to YC. Under Difference Engine, 5 of the 9 teams have been funded, including a team who received angel funding and has gone to SV and one who has received £750k in funding.

3. All of the investors can be found within the mentor group, but they have for personal reasons not disclose their identity. Cumulatively, the investors have had exits in excess of several billion dollars.

4. I would not be so bold as to suggest we are superior to YC - the grand-daddy of accelerator programmes. The major issue in Europe is the lack of these resources. We are seeking to address a deficiency in the market and we have a proven track record.

5. Interestingly most of my mentors are massively busy and for them to take at least a full day out of their diary is a significant commitment for them. None of my mentors get paid and give freely of their time.

6. I personally don't think that 6% is a significant %. Do we believe that we can add at least 6% value to your business by taking part. Absolutely, many times over.

It would be good for you to clarify what you mean by dumb money - working alongside the programme mentors for the 13 weeks is quite the opposite - their insight, guidance, contacts and introductions is invaluable.

Happy to discuss this further offline, if you need further information. As you know - you can get me on jon at springboard dot com.
Let's talk about the list of software companies that are probably going to IPO in the next couple of years: Facebook, Groupon, Yelp, Pandora, LinkedIn, Zynga, Twitter

One of the big differences of today's IPO market, is that many of these company's founders have been able to take some money off the table. The founders are rich and early employees are able to have some liquidity via secondary markets. At the same time, there's a lot more capital available to large companies at this stage than there ever was. (See DST's recent investments, Andreesen Horowitz's recent investments). So, the typical reasons that have pushed companies to IPO aren't there any more. That lets technology companies run for a lot longer before they have to IPO or get huge acquisitions.

So, while there haven't been as many software company IPO's as there have been in the past, my gut is that the ones that we do have are going to be larger and more successful.
I think the phrase you were looking for is "Apple-centric" since you yourself listed several ways in which this move hurts the customer.