skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have a very good point.

I've found that whenever I start doing that, the reader experience suffers, and that causes ad revenue to go down. Of course, I create personalized content with my name on it, so I have a more personal relationship to my readers than an e-how would, I guess.

People keep wanting to split the income stream from the reader experience, and I just don't think that's possible. Sure, you might imagine you can do it, you might take a look at ad revenue and somehow think the reasons for it are separate from the feel of your content, but it never works that way.

This same false dichotomy is in place no matter what business you are in. There is always a conflict between watching the bottom line and simply doing things that make you or the customer feel good. Being able to balance these two things, it's the art of a good businessman, no? A good businessperson creates a multi-faceted work of art that maximizes customer value while still providing some kind of trade that allows the business to keep helping the customer.

I think if anything, the problem is that if you were running a coffee shop and physically met with your customers, you'd be a lot more sensitive to quality issues and understand where they fit in with your whole business model. But on the web, it's all sort of faceless, and that encourages thinking of people as abstractions to be manipulated. This type of thinking always loses when placed against better standards (but quite frankly it might take a decade or more for that to happen)
Posted because the "rule of thirds" section is better advice for most HNers than this front-page article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359053
That's really great. My daughter is more into art right now. I'm already working hard to dissuade her from an art degree.
This looks great - I've been putting off making changes to a couple of themes for ages because of the head-deskyness (the constant cutting and pasting is especially irritating).
It would be great if someone from Netflix could comment on what happened. Seen nothing on their blog or facebook page. When websites go down, the idea is not to point and make fun but more to learn what and why because you ll find yourself in those shoes sooner than you think.
Something to do with multiple Apple products being cut from the same sheet of aluminium to reduce waste, perhaps? From Ive's comments in the Objectified documentary:

'This is the bezel for the iMac. When we remove the aluminium from the display in the centre here, we actually take that material, and then we can make two keyboard frames from it.'

[2min30 into this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVG4LcoY4Y ]
Most people dev off of trunk when they're starting out, actually. If you're doing that, 1.3 doesn't offer anything exciting.
Almost certainly not, but digesting the release notes will let you make a more informed decision.
HTML5 Boilerplate went 1.0
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. it depends on the alcohol, how much and other external factors like my levels of motivation or tiredness.

It would be clichéd to say that some of my best work was done drunk, but i'd also like to point out that some of my worst has been done when drunk too.
The CS classes I take are the same. The only difference is what I'm taking in addition to my CS classes.
3D Printing on Regular Paper Mcor Technologies
How is it hacked?
Not to mention that thera are tons[1] of great languages that compiled down to it, including but not limited to Coffeescript.

[1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
It could have the same radius and not fit. It has the same radius and the same width.
I thought the iPhone frame was steel. Besides, even if the materials were the same there'd be a kerf.
Does your boss understand the concept of tests? Removing unit tests because they're "making things break" is like removing your smoke alarm because it's "making annoying noises."

To stretch the analogy, it's only a matter of time before the building burns down. If you can't come to a common understanding about this, you need to leave the building ASAP. Find another job.
Have been using it.. a great product. I love the label feature of marking emails with specific labels and they automatically getting synced to central repository.
MIT only enrolls geeks.
With SXSW and YC Demo Days just over, it's high season for startup marketing. For those YC companies who manage to get some financing out of their Demo Day presentation, I'd say they'll be back to work (and harder than ever) pretty soon.
I have been a hardcore Firefox user and fan but Chrome was something I was really looking for. A browser with no confusing colors, hundreds of extensions and more.

I downloaded Firefox 4 and I liked it but after a couple of minutes I didn't resist not going back to Chrome.
Read the release notes:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.3/

If there's no conflicting code changes compared to what you've already written, upgrade away!

If there are changes needed to support the new version you'll have to weigh the time needed to implement the changes to the new features/improvements in the new version; is it worth it? Only you can make that decision.
Fantastic. There are others out there :D

I've actually been planning to get a TypeMatrix one of these days, but I'm planning on remapping the enter-key in the center to ctrl.

Personally I use the stump window manager because it's lisp and I can control it from Emacs using slime. I could however almost do without. All I use stumpwm for is a placeholder for a terminal with multiple nested screens and conkeror. So switching between those two windows is all I normally use stumpwm for.
You are going to have a Ruby focus, then?
While I was unemployed, I did conversions of sites to WordPress themes. I was fast enough at it that I could devote most of my time to other endeavors. Since I didn't do content creation for my domain, SEO was out of the question, so all my traffic came through AdWords. With well targeted keywords, my CPA was ~$20, and the average client took 5-10 hours of work, since they'd often want content migrations, too. It took a week until I made my first dollar, and for the few months I did it, I brought in ~$700 a week, while never taking up more 20-25 hours a week, while also doing more committed, serious freelance jobs. I dropped it, though, when I got a full time job, though I'd probably pick it up again if I found easy to work with subcontractors.
And the history of all media (TV, Radio, Newspapers etc.) is to take money away from the people who want to turn money into sales.

Now it just depends on whether you want to be a media website or a product website.
Apple Loses Mac Software Engineering SVP Bertrand Serlet After 22 Years
Last time it was 0.90 USD something. The exchange rate changes with the market.
Agreed. My dad didn't have a high school degree- or even a GED- and he got a full scholarship to UMass Amherst. It wasn't that unusual.
The above question is very valid - with open-sourcing your code you will have to get into the 'community management' game, especially if you think you'll be taking contributions in the form of code sometime soon.

If you customers are already asking for it to be open-sourced, or if you have partners in mind who will support this endeavor, this is a good start. If, on the other hand, you open-source without a good PR push to partners/customers/developers it's like a tree falling in the forest; will anyone be around to listen?

We open-sourced from the beginning and then found clients; it was a long haul. We eventually found a toehold in developing countries, and were able to build up client credibility from there. If you already have a plan for using the OSS to sell right away, then maybe this plan is for you.
Hmm, "New window" (or option N) doesn't work if the current focus is on a window on my second monitor. Very annoying since that's my browsing screen.
Making a sandwitch is hard for a computer, I think you should ask for a glass of water.
You're right in that there are more learning resources - ebooks and lectures galore! However, the complexity of software systems has increased quite a bit too. This complexity, and the ensuing layers of abstraction are enemies to learning IMHO.

Here's a personal anecdote ... I remember having a vague understanding of MFC for a number of years, until one day I came across a manual of MFC 1.0. For whatever reason, I went through the old book and came out with a strong understanding of main class structure and motivation behind the framework. I was a bit surprised that the tomes on the subject (and I had many of the latest at that time) were thick but lack some of the essential ideas.
Chrome is a thin client for using Google search (their UI has even removed he distinction between typing in URLs and searching Google).

Microsoft is too encumbered by regulation to tie IE in closely with their core product; instead they're compelled to offer "browser choice", compelled to offer a startup wizard to help you set your search engine to Google, and incapable of effectively integrating the browser into products people actually pay money for.

Even if they were capable of developing the sort of product that might be good enough to win market share back from competitors, I'm really not sure what sort of return they'd be getting in their investment in developing and promoting IE, over and above what they'd get bundling some rapidly-developed webkit-based browser with Windows 7 and leaving it at that.
Wordpress initially gave their latest release the code name Django (they always use jazz musicians as a theme), but quickly changed it to Reinhardt after a few polite complaints.
I'm pretty sure there are thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people in the world that still think Niggers are an inferior race or that Jews are the rats that will bring this world to annihilation or that believe Xenu, the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy", really exists and he's going to be back one day.

Any treatment / cure that is advertised as such (without BIG BOLD letters of warning) should be approved or banned by relevant organizations -- there's precedent for it, like Scientology's E-meters being required to be marked as a "religious device".

By my definition "offensive" is a notion or device that's used to spread hate or shame versus other people's condition, people which are really harmless for society as a whole -- since gayness is not really a disease.
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Thanks for the info and the link!
Aw, isn't that sweet. You know what would be sweeter? A little note attached saying "P.S., we give up, we are switching to Webkit."
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It could of course just be a coincidence... however I am reminded of the story about how the (new) Mini Cooper exhaust tip was modeled on the bottom of an aluminum beverage can, because the designer happened to find one lying around when building a mockup, and afterwards no one saw any reason to change it. Maybe a designer traced their iPhone while working on an early sketch of the laptop, and then the detail just stuck?
I think it is directly tied to this process; but it's definitely something deliberate (and I assume thought out for a while) as well.
It's stripping for blind people.
I did not realize that! I was just reading some of his old blog posts this morning. He's pretty impressive.

http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.html
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/octopus.html
Netflix Outage observations: database issue, not bandwidth/streaming related
Free Angry Birds for Android in Amazon App store [Today only]
Android platform has just reached a new and significant phase since the day Amazon officially launched their Android App Store few days ago. From now onwards, you can directly test almost Android application on there via browsers and one more interesting thing is that you can get one free application each day, at least in the debut’s time.

That is why you can download free Angry Birds Rio, the popular game for your Android device today, as you see what that title mention.
Guy Steele: Growing a Language (video 53:30)
Guy Steele's keynote at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference on "Growing a Language" discusses the importance of and issues associated with designing a programming language that can be grown by its users.

Link to PDF
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf
The job is solitary enough already. The breaks fromt he work keep me from breaking entirely.
I reloaded your blog after disabling adblock and barely noticed the ad. I don't blame you for keeping it there.

Why don't you have any ads on your C Programming Tips site? I'd be interested in the number of hits that gets compared to your blog.
Amanda Hocking
Was it one you wrote or was it one that the interpreter inserted to "help?"
Reminds me of a story I heard from one of the package guys from Apple when I worked there:

The iPod classic package at one point, if you recall, had a recess that the iPod sat in so you'd see the iPod sitting there waiting to be popped out when you opened the package. That recess was white, but the package engineers didn't like the lack of contrast where the recess walls met the recess base, so they tooled out a small sub-millimeter section of material so it would cast a subtle drop shadow on the base.

That kind of attention to detail, on packaging no less, is one of the big reasons I'm a big Apple fan.
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The real reasons for waging war
As far as I know, the media is not able to take any money away. For some time, it was not possible to turn money into sales more effectively.

EDIT: style
In fairness, isn't Conkeror more of a fork of Firefox than an extension (though I believe it started as an extension)?
Link to PDF
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf
I agree, industry standard is around 5$ for every 1000 pageviews. The site could perhaps try out other ad platforms to better make use of its inventory
Just curious, had you previously watched the movie which you were able to play?
> Maybe it would be a good idea to build a marketplace where > developers and marketing people can get together, and share > the additional profit that the additional marketing generates.

Sounds like something someone could pick up as a side-project and maybe even earn some passive income. :)
http://www.StatusCrap.com
http://www.TodaysBigDouche.com
http://www.Whack-a-Deal.com

Status Crap took about a year to make some income (currently gets about 250,000 page views a month and growing between 10-40% each month). I've been trying to launch side projects since I was 17 though haha!
People still write "M$"?
The History of Design
No i did not. But Netflix is streaming technology anyhow, so it would not make a difference except for buffering time which isn't much.
If this was deliberate it would fit perfectly, which it doesn't - the radii on the corners are very different. Apple aren't that sloppy.
Bertrand Serlet leaves Apple after 22 years
Is this a misspelling of a common domain name? My first thought was "Wow, I didn't know Jacques ran the Weight Watchers site!"
It's not necessarily bad advice to some people, but the majority of people I know that are focused on a new project are spending way too much time on code.

"Just one more javascript function to add..." and so on keeps them from ever meeting with anyone - potential customers, local like-minded entrepreneurs who could offer support and introductions to others, etc.

If someone recognizes themselves in this piece as the person who is always networking/pitching/schmoozing and never working on the product/project/service at all (tech or customer development), then yes, heed the advice. Otherwise, simply strive for a balance. But... don't fall for the "it's gotta be perfect in my eyes before I show anyone" (or even "it's gotta be or look really nice before anyone can see it"). Just... show it around.

While it's true first impressions count, after you show someone, there's millions or billions of others to make a new first impression on later with an improved system/service/product. But you won't know how best to improve it without getting the feedback from initial showings.
I think "ignore school" is less about minimum mandatory attendance and more about where you put your heart.
You may want to have a closer look how Xen (acquired by Citrix) handled this, considering the similarities. Their kernel code and the core tools have always been open source (largely GPL, I think), with various closed-source value-add.
Isn't it better to put up some CSS asking for money than to impose all sorts of DRM to annoy your paying customers? I for one, am more willing to (continue to) pay for a NYT subscription knowing that the payfence is very lightweight.
It's not, but it's certainly outside of the "standard" sequence. The useful lesson to extract is if anyone uses one metric (say, grades) as a proxy for another (say, ability to work and flourish in a university environment), and it's possible to score points on the second metric, do so. Even if there's no official channel for it, that's what people really care about and they'll immediately recognize it as such.

The reason that this sort of thing is so rare, I think, is that we don't know what metrics matter until we're well past the point of applying to something. Even if we're told, it's hard to overcome the expectation and pressure of doing well on the proxy metrics. For example, in college, I had no concept of what mattered for grad school: research. And even if someone sat me down and told me, I'm not sure if I would really understand it. It's a rare person that realizes it's even possible to obtain points in the metric that really matters.
Ask HN: How can I know if programming is for me
I have been quite closely associated with tech for a few years now. Having co-founded two web start-ups I have come to understand and even appreciate concepts like MVC, OOD and the like. Lately, I have been feeling a serious itch to pick up a programming book and learn to code (I did pick up enough Rails to be able to make tiny changes in the code) This is probably because of my close association with the programmers around me. They talk about their craft with such passion that it is getting difficult to not want to try my hand at it. The only dilemma is I already have a hectic schedule and I wonder if I even have the aptitude for it to justify an investment in time.

Also, my apprehension is because I am so glaringly different from my programmer friends. I have never played Super Mario or Quake. I have never really built anything or fixed things around the house during my growing up years. And yes, I haven't subscribed to xkcd. I wonder if all this is because I am a female or because I don't have the aptitude.

It would be nice to know what you think indicates an aptitude for programming. Also, I would like to know from the female programmers here what they did in their growing up years.

Thanks!
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"Grades are a proxy to see whether you are smart and can do useful things. Accomplishments are a direct measure."

We've always used this type of thinking in terms of hiring but you've got it nailed in a sentence. Fantastic.
Valve did that, the FBI was just the tool that was used for the job.

I'm struck by the similarity in some respects of the two cases. I would guess that the same people that got really upset about Valve doing that would be a bit saddened by this, too.
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That's true. Apple is one of a few companies who care about design too. The Mac OS X, iMac, MacBook/Pro and all devices are designed to fit us the best way.
It's in the bloody article. (Unless the author just added it.)

(Two paragraphs!)
that situation was taken way out of proportion
SmartFlix is great. We subscribe and I'm happy to run into one of the creators here. Congrats.
This explains that coincidence.
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It's tongue-in-cheek. I like it that way.
How's this app any different from apps "curing" judaism or blackness? It isn't.

It's pretty clear that nazism, racism, gaycism and other hateful applications shouldn't be allowed on the Apple App Store.
Stop Using Mocks
Well, a 'normal' CPM for these kinds of display ads is whatever an advertiser is willing to pay, irrespective of the niche. I think he should experiment by bumping up the pricing and find the optimum point where his revenue is maximized.
I hadn't heard about AppHarbor, that's one project I might use.

The one I'm definitely going to try out is Sendoid, as I mentioned in another comment, it hits a pain point, and a friend had been bugging me to make something like it for 2 years already...
I'd been working on a bug tracker as a side project for almost a year (strictly as an off-hours hobby type thing) but as I got closer to an (awesome :)) working product we decided to turn it into the real thing. Thus my 'day job' employer (now co-founders of the new company) were the first customer. In fact, we've been quietly sitting on it for a while, maybe it's time to post an Ask HN...
Time changes everything. That certainly goes for the way you feel about the books you've read. It also changes the way you feel about books that you've always wanted to read and are just now getting around to reading.

I like and agree with your review. Remember when the book was written it was a much more naive time, not just for us, but for the world as well. We were still practicing for the Russian invasion.

How can you not love a character named Kilgore Trout? Mr. Vonnegut was nothing if not "trip-y".
There was an Eastern European dude that used to submit his monthly sales reports to HN. He made quite a bit of money from stock photography. The catch ? Most of his stock photos were not still life, but people in different life settings - this must be the kind that sells the best. I'm sure it helped that his young blond girlfriend was a frequent subject :)
"Pay how you drive" car insurance scheme launched
Thanks to ioerror for conducting this important investigation! Without people like him keeping watch we'd all be much worse off.

It was noted in the blog post that there has been some speculation of state actors being involved. Could anyone point me towards any discussions along those lines?
Why doesn't every college charge students $400 for textbooks and then just give them all DRM-free epub files? You can't steal if you're forced to pay, and who's going to notice an extra $400 on tuition?
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Or perhaps there's a relationship between a border length and its radius* - some sort of eye-pleasing ratio?

In which case, only the width would have to be the same.

*Someone more interested than me could perhaps see if any relationship exists.
Most likely without decent health insurance, because who in their right mind would insure those guys? Talk about occupational hazards.
On a more historical note: http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/design/design2.html describes a design system for early Apple products that specified corner radii for various situations.
It's a Internet-themed cake and they put the Internet-icon on it? That seems perfectly reasonable.
Isn't the permit/city licence insanely expensive? Is it still profitable after that?

On a similar note, I was looking at the difference in fruit prices between 'whole' fruits and sliced portions in super markets the other day and started daydreaming about selling portions of pineapple on warm summer days, much like an ice cream stand but with pineapple. I think the markup is similar to hotdogs - can you share how many customers you serve in a typical hour?
Decreasing supply of a good with a constant or increasing demand, ensures its increasing value. The govt is able to control the supply of money.
The photo leading this article is really gratuitous. Do we really need to look at a cute librarianish book stamper to get us interested in serious issues?
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MECARD - QR-code for address sharing.