skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually use extra classes instead of IDs to differentiate specific chunks in cases where the may or may not be multiples in the future (e.g. you want nav at the top AND bottom of a page).

<ul class="main-nav inline-list">
<li><a href="">...</a></li>
</ul>

To style/highlight my example the above:
//This will not have to be modified if we want to add more nav instances
.main-nav.inline-list li{float:left;}

$('.main-nav.inline-list a.selected').highlight();

To style/highlight your example the above (at top and bottom of page):

//Each time you add another instance, you have to add its new id/selector (not very DRY)
#navigation.inline-list li,
#navigation_b.inline-list li{float:left;}

$('#navigation.inline-list a.selected, #navigation_b.inline-list a.selected').highlight();

Again, it's personal style, but I've never found myself saying "boy I wish I used an ID instead of an adding another class" where many times you regret the use of ID because when you ultimately need to duplicate that element, you are effecting the dryness of your CSS and Javascript. Plus, with modern selector engines the performance of ID vs class based selectors is not really going to have that big of an impact.

The times I use ID in my markup is more for sub-navigation through the page rather that styling-specific reasons.

<h2 id="chapter_two">Two</h2>
<a href="#chapter_two">Got to Ch. 2</a>
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Q: How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?

A: They had $40 million (+) available.

Money abhors a wallet.
Done this way, it could easily come off feeling like a bait and switch. As a potential employee it would harm my opinion of the company unless it was clear enough in the requirements that you do Java dev but want a more rounded individual.
Ah, my fault - I have a remix of Shout at the Doner[1] that seems to have re-re-purposed the Motley Crue cover[2], which I was previously unfamiliar with.

Unfortunately I am just a former North Carolinian living in Houston.

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[1] http://www.pandora.com/music/album/kid606/shout+at+doner

[2] http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/52458175/thm_motley_crue_...
They are indeed charging the Paypal standard 2.9% plus 30 cents. See section 10 "fees" here http://www.serve.com/legal.aspx#Serve_User_Agreement

I don't quite get what they have over PayPal, let alone any less expensive services.
Ask HN: Is there a market for user scripts?
I have developed several Greasemonkey user scripts for the company I work for, and they have measurably increased efficiency.

My guess is that Javascript-based user scripts could similarly improve efficiency for a number of businesses.

But is there a market for them? Basically all of the user scripts I've encountered have been freely shared.

And if there is a market for them ... how does one go about explaining a user scripts (and its benefits) to someone who thinks a greasemonkey is an auto mechanic?
Desirability amounts to only instant gratification at best. Once you commit to even getting on a path of development;

If your base is to only attract at first glance, you'll probably going to damage the clarity and depth of your user-experience.
I have a hard time respecting these kinds of "opinion as fact" posts. It would have probably been better to say he wouldn't or couldn't pay that much for a domain name and just leave it at that.

To mention thefacebook.com and twitr.com as examples completely undermined his entire point. Both of those networks changed their domain name prior to their user base exploding. Coincidence? Strategy? I don't know but there must have been some reasoning behind it and it seems to be paying off for them.
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Good to see we got more notice than the 40 days last year, which made it a royal pain for anyone coming from the Worldwide part of this developer conference.

Whilst an expensive trip if it is anywhere near as useful as it was in 2009, its well worth it.

If it sells out, you have to wonder whether the developer part of the conference should be ticketed separately from the keynote, as I would happily miss the keynote for access to the information.
Maybe you're asking the candidates boring questions?. Try asking them moderately probing, but non-boring questions like:

"What made you want to go into software development?"
"If you weren't a developer, what other job would you want to do?"
"What features do you especially like about Java?"
"What was an interesting problem that you've solved?"
"What was the most challenging bug that you've fixed?"
"Why do you want to work here, as opposed to some other place?"
"If you could change the Java language, what would you change about it?"
Awesome. These boilerplates are very useful. Good work, Paul and team (as always)

Just a friendly heads-up that there are typos I noticed on the "Intro to MBP" slides: (4) we leave e ass 4 u to kick (6) makrup
It must be noted that according to the article they are not throttling WoW specifically but are slowing down all P2P traffic.
Honestly, considering the amount of startups that make clever use of TLDs for their sites, I'm sure they could've figured something a little more economical out. This does feel like a waste of money to me as well.

It reminds me of the 90s, where people would spend all this time thinking about a good name/domain name for their websites, and put only secondary thought into the quality of their site or its content.

Focus on making the product really good first, then buy the domain if you really have to, and if it's clear that your product is successful and lasting.

As a final thought, why not color.me, color.it, or color.us?
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Thank you for this great reference.
It would be hard. Like you said they're usually free, which gives people the expectation they'll be free. Then they come across yours, and they'll be surprised to see a price. Unless you're really offering something different I don't see it happen.

A donate-button could work though, if your work is good people will often be willing to give a few dollars.
Why not post your reasons for disagreeing with me? You may convince someone, or at least have a fruitful discussion.
I haven't been able to find the answer to this: why are Ev and Biz AWOL? What are they doing now?
I've heard Kik (http://www.kik.com/ works great.
I think your argument is essentially an argument against speculation. All of the fears you cite apply equally to any form of speculation.

The problem is, many things count as speculation -- a farmer who produces a commodity buying insurance against a poor crop is ultimately a futures contract.

The way I think of HFT is that it's like increasing the fidelity of a recording from 11 kilohertz to 44.1 kilohertz. There are a lot more intermediate data points, but the underlying rationality (or irrationality) of pricing trends will be the same.

Before HFT, it was more likely that a bid/ask spread would be higher ... reflecting the risk aversion of the market making firm... With HFT, that spread decreases b/c the liquidity is offered as part of a small timeframe strategy which may or may not pay off.

If you weren't concerned with that short timeframe, then it makes no difference to you whether your order was filled by one party (a traditional market maker) or 100 parties (each a different HFT algorithm).

I think to assuage your fear I'd probably just say that it's very difficult to move large numbers of shares at a price that's all that different from the previous price... So any HFT algorithm will necessarily be dealing either with largely uncontroversial prices or very small share volumes.

Considering that, I think the overall risk of rogue algorithms leading to a harmful feedback loop is not significantly increased by HFT, and HFT was mostly a scapegoat in the recent crash.
Let me begin by saying that I likely do not understand even half of what HFT is.

For me, they key part that I fail to understand is exactly what value HFT adds to non speculative market participants. The only explanation I've heard so far is that HFT adds "liquidity" to the market, but I don't get how. Let V be the value HFT adds to non speculative players.

If V is above zero, then allow HFT to continue. If V is zero or negative, my proposal would be not to ban HFT, but to restrict it to transactions made between HFT players. Then let them play in their casino all they want until one player is left. If this suggestion cannot be implemented because HFT needs the rest of the market to make profits, then I highly suspect that V is less or below zero and that HFT is really one of the Casino owners.
That's a wrong way to look at it. Cheap customers? Think again. Million and billion dollar companies are not going to post their projects on 99designs. I would say it's mostly for mom n pop type small startup businesses. Even if the big guys do use that service, I still don't see any issue with it.

I have used 99designs and I didn't like it. My personal opinion, based on my little experience, is it is costly for the services offered. For the record, I have used ODesk, Elance and Freelancer too. When I use these outsourcing sites (including 99designs), I look at both cost and service. Quality, trust, dedication, promptness and professionalism are all part of service. Yes cost is a very important factor. When you have your own business and you need service, like me, you would be looking at these factors carefully too. You look at the service, compare and then you decide on price. It's a capitalistic free economy where no one can dictate a price. Price is dictated by the demands and what the consumers are willing to pay.

I will give you a real life example, my example. I needed some graphic designs for my iphone app. I posted the requirements on all 4 sites I mentioned. I received over 200 bids. Bid ranged from $1,800 to $5 (Yes $5!). I carefully verified all of their work/portfolios, exchanged emails and reviewed their responses (learned a lot from this experience, template responses or try to oversell with superlative words, etc.). Out of all, one designer from Argentina caught my attention. She kept telling how much she wanted to design my graphics. She didn't want anything upfront, in fact, she even said she didn't even want any money if I am not satisfied with her work. She gave me a framework on when and how she would submit her work to me for review and if I didn't like the work she would totally redo it. 6 screens with over 40 icons in 3 different resolutions and she was very happy with $238.

Cheap or bargain shoppers, yes, these sites are mostly for them but there isn't any site where shoppers will say something like... "yea, I am willing to pay $10,000 for 6 screens with over 40 icons in 3 different resolutions for my iPhone app." That doesn't make sense. We have always been creative in this country and we need to be even more creative now. Find ways to deliver quick and more with more options to consumers. If we complain about the labor or other costs, we fail to understand the free market and global economy. It also means we lost the race.
I sometimes I feel like a rare case when I say I really dislike working remotely. I find it a pain having to call people, and I feel it's tough to have meaningful discussions using text-based forms of chat.

I just feel like communication is much easier and more effective to communicate face to face with people as the norm. And being able to just talk over my cube to another member of the team is something I would have a hard time giving up.
Highrise by 37signals? Bit higher price, but definitely a quality product.

EDIT: It doesn't work inside gmail obviously.
Your second point might be technically accurate, but there's a very large contingent of indie developers, like myself, with 1-5 employees that shoulder all the cost ourselves.
I do hope this becomes the trend. I'd love to work mostly from home, or at least from where ever I want. I don't like offices much.
It wasn't my first language. And I should note that I wrote my last real Python program before most here probably started (1998) -- so things may be sufficiently different now so its less of an issue.

But I do find Javascript/HTML to be so pleasant and easy for beginners that I find it hard to suggest anything else. Your "hello world" program is just:
"Hello world"

In an html file. ;-)
Perhaps willingness to own up to your failures is actually good PR?
Daniel Levitin has also written a book (This is Your Brain On Music) that explains recent interesting discoveries dealing specifically with sound and music cognition. Awfully interesting stuff.
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Part of your blog is a verbatim duplicate of http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/we-dont-get-out-of-bed-for-...

For someone who values original ideas highly, this is a theft of the highest order. Wouldn't you agree?
doubly strange as Chris Sacca has equal scores in authority and audience but higher score in activity.

equally odd it seems to see Tim Ferriss and Jason Calacanis high on the list.
Amusingly, the comments on that article/benchmark are served by Disqus, which is obviously Python/Django.
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I assume this is what they did with their acquisition of revolutionCard?
When people interpret communication, I think they usually do this according to what is the usual meaning in the context of the communication--akin to the theory of originalism. In a sustained conversation it's unreasonable to expect readers to perform a context-shift every time someone says something, especially when the in-context reading (particularly the murder comment) is more natural than the out-of-context reading. Judging by other posts and the rollercoaster upvote/downvote response, I'm not the only one who read it "wrong".

Normally it's fruitless to argue about these sorts of things, but I kind of want to see if anyone disagrees with my 'heuristic of conversational originalism'. I'm pretty fond of it myself; it's been very helpful for me.
The neighborhood social networking example is not as straight forward as it sounds. The barrier to use isn't just the user experience, but the metaphor behind the application. Most regular people have a hard time learning new metaphors to interact with technology.

Do you really think that an entire group of middle-aged moms would all download an app on their smartphones to co-ordinate carpools? No! They don't want to deal with technology. Most likely they will just talk person to person (what a novel idea) or use their existing email list from the team.

Don't mean to get too personal, but this kind of thinking is one of the disadvantages from living in Silicon Valley. You become disconnected from how the majority of people live and interact with technology
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Add Josh Bloch, Google's Chief Java Architect to that list.
Ask HN: Is there any hope for Research in Motion?
Every alternate day I read someone posting a link here which roughly says "RIM is in trouble".

Blackberry is a wonderful phone and I am damn happy with it. Is there any person out here who has anything to say "Good" and "Optimistic" about RIM ?
You can answer that question by looking at what the oldest 64-bit machine was and seeing how little ram you could buy one with.
I think maybe the Oracle didn't see any future for him.
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C/C++ background. Python whitespace concerned me at first. Now I think it's the greatest thing since sliced white bread.

It's liberating. You don't have to think about it. You don't have to care. About the only thing left to argue about is how many spaces per indent, but that's solvable by agreeable people and whatever PEP (I forget) says how many spaces.
Yup! That sounds ideal.
I like Highrise, but like you said it doesn't work in Gmail. It's also an entire CRM, which I don't really need. Just want a better way to manage lists.
Technically, doesn't your employer own these scripts? Unless they were 100% written on your own equipment/time and you just happen to be using them at "work".
The 401-K(eg)
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Momentary stupidity on my part. I told it to cache the expire time instead of the actual value. Oops. Go figure, it was the one time I think "Eh, this is a small change. I don't need to go to a testing version first."
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Will be my first time at the conference. Don't know anybody, but really looking forward to meet some nice people and get some first-hand knowledge! :-D
The only significant difference I would argue for is a matter of degree. The job of an Adwords programmer is mainly delivering better ads (rather than simply moving equivalent ads to the top), while the job of an HFT programmer is mainly about being the first to trade.

Some HFT is beneficial. Too much wastes talent, but is otherwise harmless. I wouldn't advocate heavy handed regulatory solutions, such as banning all HFT - some HFT is useful, and have no faith in the ability of regulators to get the right balance. I'm just giving my perspective that the wasted talent argument isn't a crazy one.

Always interested in meeting new people, will send you an email.
OSX's open source programs are either made and heavily tested in house, or the versions of the community open source projects that are heavily tested at the time of inclusion. So this would be the release that is already a few months old at the time of inclusion, which is probably a long time before release. So yes, you will get old versions. I'm pretty sure that only Apple-written source code will get updated between now and Lion's release.

Also, OSX is barely hardened for server use.

Tbh I wish there was a lighttpd/sqlite/php6/pear/gd/etc package, with binaries focused on each hardware revision of everything intel based. It wouldn't be too hard, and it'd save the bother of everyone less capable compiling the same thing.
Science takes time ;)
The guys that charge a lot aren't the ones being hurt by 99designs. Business is fine for me.

It's the younger designers in school or fresh grads that are building their first portfolio that are being commoditized even more than they already are, which is why I tell them to do pro bono work for non-profits. Designing for non-profits is like programming on open source projects - you can simultaneously gain experience on real work, build your portfolio and give back to a worthy cause.

They'll get more respect and true client interaction than with the minimum wage grunt work on crowdsourced competition sites, even if they pay rent by being a barista until they get their foot in the door somewhere in the industry, like as a low-level production artist at an ad agency.
FWIW, of all claims, the diapers example is somewhat bogus. Diapers.com is a very successful retailer of you guessed what (and, recently acquired by Amazon, I believe).

While I obviously have no data, I would vouch that mydiapersstore.com would have way less credibility in customer eyes.
I'm also unclear what the problem is with slide to unlock. Some kind of unlock has always been necessary on any kind of non-flip phone. It's certainly less awkward than the button press combo's that were necessary on the old feature phones.
Add my vote please!
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I've heard the term 'gardening timeout'.
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I usually include comments where necessary before a section, so in a file named global.css, I may have:

/* header /
.header {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
width: 800px;
}

/ body /
.body {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 10px;
width: 800px;
background-color: #fff;
}

/ footer */
.footer {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 10px;
background-color: #EEE;
border-top: 1px solid #BBB;
}

(this is just an example, assume the classes are for div's)

If I have multiple CSS files, I may just call one (style.css) in the <head> of HTML document. Then within the style.css, I can just make a list of the documents using @import.

((by the way, this didn't come out the way I expected on here))
Nice Post. I agree.
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I'd also like such a plugin / browser extension. For the time being I use contact groups. When I type the name of a group gmail expands the email addresses.
It looks like from your profile that your domains were for a purchasable consumer good, I still think $500k is expensive for that, but given how much juice Google gives to owning the domain, probably a pretty wise investment. You didn't have a choice about what people would search for, if I want a necktie, I'm going to search for "necktie".

No one is going to search for Color and find a photo app, they are going to search for the name of whatever the cool app people are talking about is, so for quick, cheap SEO they would have been better off calling it MonkeySponge or something.
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I'm simply saying that retribution by Gaddafi on western companies or end users is not out of the question. As a user, I would rather avoid going through any Libyan servers during peacetime, and that obviously becomes increasingly risky as the thuggish regime becomes desperate.

It's not the fact that Libya is at war, it's the fact that it's a completely corrupt and brutal regime in "normal" times, and I especially don't trust them with my packet requests in these desperate times.
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I'm sorry, what's a Color?
Besides coding what are your interests? Do you like to play Tic-Tac-Toe? Then try replicating it in code with four dimensions instead of two. Do you like finance? Make a video game where you play young Warren Buffet.

Creativity is the collision of two distant ideas. By combining your other interests with your ability to program you will arrive at something original.

Good luck!
slow to start on ie9, gets slow about half way through on firefox 4. looks like this game is the type of scenario that really utilizes chrome's crankshaft

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/new-crankshaft-for-v8.html
sounds like you worked at Sun :)

Google is like MS 20 years ago - nothing can make it noticeably worse or better.
I'm not sure the latter's true for anyone other than hardcore geeks.
I unsubscribed when I received the email in question. Some problems with this particular email:

1. Stalking people does not resonate with me. Bad lead.

2. What are you selling? Tell me what before why. Seriously.

3. The attempts at humor were really bad.

But the reason I was ready to unsubscribe is that I'd been noticing for a while that the AppSumo deals were more like extended free trials than actual cheap stuff. The spammy email pushed me over the edge.

I still follow the RSS, and sometimes click through to see the email-signup-wall.

By the way, I did buy one of the AppSumo deals early on.
I certainly noticed the changes in the emails and honestly thought that they are A/B testing with different formats. I actually remember giving a thought of if this format (really long and nonsensical) really works, and whether they cut back a bit in the next email. That 2nd March email was quite exciting read nevertheless.