skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, let's see a simple example.

I have a navigation list which I want to display horizontally as a menu bar. In plus I want to highlight the current element with jQuery.

How to mark up this list? My immediate answer would be this:

<ul id="navigation" class="inline-list">
<li><a href="">...</a></li>
</ul>

where .inline-list will transform this list to be displayed horizontally and #navigation will help to add jQuery on it.

The rule for marking up in this case would be:

* use #ID whenever you want to locate an element
* use .class whenever you want to alter the display of an element from the standard

Is that simple rule could be extended or made universal?
That would be my question.
metabating

what do you call this thread?
The big difference is that on Swoopo you lose your investment if you don't win. But on 99designs you can still keep the design and get the feedback that it wasn't the right thing, and what was. Even if you don't get the job, you still get the practise and feedback. So I think there is at least some benefit.
LawPivot seeks to slash startup legal costs
This needs to be at the top of Hacker News.

Thank you for providing me with this internet-essential service. You are a true hero, tpope.
I didn't learn anything after reading all of this, somewhat disappointing.
He never really explains why the first 2 long-form emails didn't result in such a backlash, but the third one did.

Was it, indeed, because the deal price was a lot lower than the first two, as implied by his later "solution" of using long-form emails for larger priced deals?

All in all, it seems that this piece was written for an audience that already knows what's going on, rather than for us. That certainly isn't a knock or a problem, though.
The governing body (CRTC) is corrupt. It's obvious to everyone, and I'm basing my vote on whether something is done to clean up that organization or not.
I'm happy for kreci that he is able to make enough money online to support himself but the apps are just dismal. That combined with the made-for-Adsense site he showed us a few days ago (which he claimed to have paid for 100 backlinks to!) shows that he's adding very little value to the Android ecosystem and the web.

His income reports are valuable because they can be an inspiration to others but the way he is making his money is, at the very least, distasteful.
Gosling would provide the credibility necessary if Google wanted to usurp Oracle as the provider of an "official" version of Java and/or the JVM. Big Corps are terrified of Oracle. I worked for a Fortune 100 which was all about using Weblogic vs. open source offerings like JBoss. Then, after the Oracle acquisition, the directive was to "explore competing options". Oracle's history of shakedowns is so well established that Google or someone similar might have a shot. I was surprise that IBM didn't make a better attempt to steal Sun's place.

One thing to note is that I don't entirely understand the IP issues surrounding Java.
I see he uses the "Hotdog Acquisition is Satisfaction" idiom.
Right, but the title might lead people to believe you're trying to hire for full-time positions now.
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Thanks for the comment! Re: Assistly, it's a kickass customer support CRM. Have your customer support emails forwarded to Assitly, and you can manage all of your customer support through their interface. It tracks all of your email threads with customers, monitors progress towards closing customer support issues, and--my favorite--you can create customer support macros that will auto-populate responses to common support issues. The Assistly team is great to work with--very responsive--and the product is perfect. Highly recommend.
I've used SO a lot for technical matters. I would be worried about taking legal advice from them if there's no "responsibility" for bad advice. IANAL but I think that if you take payment for advice you give, then there is a little bit more accountability.
Would you, really? I think that Google has to do something to get into the ring on this one. Facebook bought Beluga. Google's just gonna stand by and do nothing?
That was exceptionally well done, from the clothes to "like, the actual language and stuff", the slides, the name, everything! My favorite part was that she needed the money to bless the air with crystals. :-D
Yikes. I suspect I'd be one of the people to consider unsubscribing after receiving an email like that.
(Yeah, totally not worth it.)
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I posted this last week. Maybe it can help you.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2353962

- Join the jsmentor mailing list.

- Secret of a javascript ninja

- 10 things I learned from the jquery soruce [1]

- 11 More Things I Learned from the jQuery Source [2]

- Read the annotated version of underscore [3]

- write your own plugin. Follow this tutorial from Dailyjs[4]

- Launch emacs and write some code.

[1] http://paulirish.com/2010/10-things-i-learned-from-the-jquer...

[2] http://paulirish.com/2011/11-more-things-i-learned-from-the-...

[3] http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/docs/underscore.h...

[4] http://dailyjs.com/tags.html#lmaf
Show HN: QR codes - my mini project
Hello HN! Check out and comment on one of my mini projects:

http://coderqr.com

It's a website for the QR-uninitiated crowd to quickly make QR bar codes and move on with their lives, with plenty of options to satisfy most everyone.

The site came about when I tried to make QR bar codes for the business cards at my job. There wasn't a single site out there that allows you to enter multiple phone numbers, emails, urls, etc. I did some research into the data format, found out it's a bunch of text markup code, and so I was able to get the right data into the bar codes. Then, I built coderqr.com to make everyone else's life easier. The user can also embed other types of data besides contact info. There's plain text (which, with the right markup, allows you to generate every other type of embedded data), urls, email addresses, email messages, sms messages, even map coordinates. For the unaware, when you scan a qr bar code, you can open the right app for the given data. For example, if there's an email message embedded in a bar code, when you scan it, you'll be able to launch the email app and the To, Subject, and Body fields will all be filled in with the data from the code. All you have to do is press send. I can envision Washington DC plastered with QR code ads where you just scan the code, press send on the email, and off it goes to your senators and other representatives.

There's nothing too fancy on the backend: it uses Google's Charts API to generate the image. Further down the line, I'll generate my own images. That way, I'll be able to add custom designs with curves and colors, so the codes won't looks so blocky and sterile.

I've used this project as a bit of a learning lesson in SEO and advertising revenue. Up next, I'll add affiliate links to put the codes on tshirts, mugs, and other objects.

Anyways, long story short, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
You think it's weird to have a CFO or equivalent when you have that much money to manage? I sure don't.
The question is, will iOS become more like OS X, or will OS X become still more like iOS? Or is it finally time to look forward to OS Xi?
Vertica CEO Chris Lynch talks HP acquisition
A favorable iPad review--by a woman who'd never used a computer until now.
Advising Factor (Aspect Oriented Programming, if you're nasty)
Building Loyalty on the Web
hope the other guys are not too mean to him.
I don’t know whether you have to spend a large portion of $50 million on it but market research seems like the most important part of such a project to me.

Are there pay walls that work well? What design patterns do these share? Is it possible to work together or meet those who built successful pay walls? What about SEO and advertising? (The next questions are best answered with an already existing firm knowledge of the possible alternatives:) What are current and potential New York Times readers willing to pay for online content? How do they want to pay? What online services are they currently paying for and how much?

Something that will (likely inevitably) also cost much is tying it all together. Meetings among high-level management are expensive but changing the business model is critical. My suggestion would be to have a small low-level independent team – preferably people who are working on the research or will be working on the implementation – come up with (very few) alternatives and to pitch those to management, limiting management’s involvement in the details. If possible the developers should probably also implement several alternatives and A/B test those.

It’s pretty clear to me that actual coding is only a small part of it. (Saying that it is a “tiny” part was a bit of an exaggeration.)
Maybe in ten years there's going to be a post on Hacker News about how it's a little known fact that version 1.0 of Color was a colossal and epic failure. So the team was forced to pivot to the Color we know and love today.

How were they able to successfully pivot? They had $41 milliion dollars ;<). Either that or Google, a Sequoia company, buys them in a year for $60 million to get the team.
This assumes that there's no plans for a web-based view on the platform. To twist this round, imagine having to visit 'myfacebookapp.com'.
The service of our internet is fine for the most part. If I remember correctly, we even attained higher speeds than the US when using Netflix. The problem stems from pricing, support and ridiculous rules - like insane caps and overage fees.
Startup Accelerator Betaspring Opens Physical Tech Track
Looks like the more recent ones have a TL;DR section right upfront.

http://pastie.org/1726812
The Linux Foundation Announces 2011 Linux.com Gurus
Either that, or accidentally eat his arm.
This is for HIPAA compliance and attracting that business sector. Nobody from healthcare was going to put anything personally identifiable on shared resources, as it would violate HIPAA privacy and security rules. I don't think there are very many performance advantages here.
100 Most Influential VCs, Angels & Investors
Assuming you don't delete them, why not use your webserver logs to link datestamp+IP address to referrer-url?
this is about 100 times more useful than colour.com
At watermelon express ( beta.watermelonexpress.com ) we have developed a webapp textbook which makes heavy use of this stack. It is a pretty heavy implementation of backbone ( in coffeescript, jashkenas i think we owe you a case of beer. ) I am in the process of weaving in redis pub/sub for our next iteration.
Michael Feathers: Brutal Refactoring
I've been ReactOS' 'Web Team Leader' from 2004 to 2006. I'm really happy to see them get accepted into SoC again. Maybe that will bring some much needed impulses, it did when they were accepted the last time. The project has been around for a long time and has contributed significantly to Wine, but sadly has gotten nowhere with the OS itself.
There has always been ambitious planning (Version 0.3.0 was released in 2006 and 0.4 and 0.5 were planned for not much later.) but not much getting forward (The current version is 0.3.13.). The problem is, that there are a few very talented people working on the project, doing what they love to do, but this is really not enough to get an OS anywhere.

Microsoft doesn't see the project as a threat because the code is nowhere near enough to replace any Windows installation.
This was definitely true in the PS days. Nowadays it's more like this:

1. License the Unreal engine

2. Skin it with your content

3. ???

4. Profit!

And people wonder why games are so samey today.
At the risk of being the rain cloud on your project - you could just download the free and open source Zint bar code generator from SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/zint/ this covers QR among many other options.
Ken Thompson, Guido Von Rossum, James Gosling : Good going Google.
Mac bought the domain "me.com" which is awful. I love my .mac email address and never use ".me" for anything. Especially because it used to belong to a failed social networking site and so is blocked at a bunch of the (govt) sites that I work!
To clarify, we are primarily looking for interns, but we're actively recruiting for fulltime as well for the right person. Applications for both are welcome!
I think the argument that dumb phones are a huge growth market in the developing world is flawed. It's staggaring how many people have dumbphones already. I suspect the dumber of dumbphones in use will never double again.

Smartphones still have headroom to grow 10 or 20x.
Great little book to get you up to speed quickly on MongoDB. No religion about it, just here it is, make your own mind up. Plus it has unicorns fighting vampires !
ACM is 95% original content
What is meant by Random?
Random distribution is always uniform unless otherwise mentioned. It means every event should be equally likely as well.
Quick, somebody do text-align: weft and text-align: wight!
However, see-also DNSSEC and http://benctechnicalblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/sshfp-dns.html

Though I guess DNSSEC puts you back at PKI ...
Let's put it this way.

The game of 20 questions demonstrates that there are about a million 'concepts' that are our shared human consciousness. Although a early attempts to catalog these in the 1980s are widely regarded as failures, we've had 30 years of progress in software and hardware since then so what was once impossible may soon be easy.
This Is How Long "Overnight Success" Really Takes
I hope this makes it into CSS3. Is it too late?
Absolutely. Being behind NAT at home, it is a pain having to open up ports on the router in order to run anything that requires an inbound connection. At the same time, it is rather comforting to know that making an inbound connection is so hard.

What do you think of the suggestion made by the author of the article that, even if we had IPv6 everywhere, we'd still put a lot of networks behind NAT, for reasons of security.
Green, red, blue, and with rainbows in the middle?

I think I know the test.
You're not competing for the job - you're provided with the job when you enter.

You're competing for payment. There's a big difference.

I think expecting participants to be grateful for the opportunity to practice stretches credulity a little.
What an amazing overview of the legal proceedings. Clearly a lot of effort went into this, huge thanks!
True, but techies tend not to mind people using off-the-shelf technical solutions either, even if they're sort of a poor fit compared to custom coding. There are whole piles of Wordpress blogs and MediaWiki installations where maybe a Wordpress blog or MediaWiki installation isn't the ideal backing software for what the site aims to do, but meh, if it works well enough and fits the budget, it's a legitimate choice.
Everything Was Once Impossible
RAZRs were just over $500 when they initially came out in 2004.

I went into an AT&T store for an unrelated issue and there was literally a line out the door for people willing to pay out insane amounts of money for a status statement. I had a Nokia 3620 or something that would stomp circles around the RAZR, & I paid hundreds less.
Wow. Kind of reminds me of a cross between http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk and http://www.timecube.com/
Ruby Culture Keynote Video - The way community and culture shape technology
Good points. The contrary is way more difficult i think... (me being a biz founder, finding tech partners or employees can be really tricky).

For the non-tech guys, in an early stage startup, i would definitely look at :

- product skills => can the guy understand what customers/users need ? and if he doesn't, will he ask them?

- tech skills => you guys need to speak the same language. even if he's a beginner, has he tried coding in RoR, php, python, ...? will you speak the same language?

- network => does he know investors and bloggers? or at least know people who know them?

- traction and community => can the guy move heaven and earth to get people on board?

- recklessness => is he okay with the risk, the absence of salary, the non-benefits, ...?
EBay buys GSI Commerce for $2 billion
I wonder what % of customers will be gained from this article?
So the new email has much better conversion but alienates a minute percentage of the user base ? And you choose to go back ?

Always thought its better to have less great customers than more bad ones. Guess I am more sales oriented that email-list-size oriented.
really? i always thought the opposite. don't know why, it was just a feeling.

guess i was wrong...
I'd counter that it's important to specify the time-frame you're talking about. For instance, would you say that they'll try to continue as a big Java user for the next 15 years?

When you stretch out the time-frame, your assertion sounds substantially less credible. At least to me.
Jim Dalrymple: ‘No iPhone, iPad, or Mac Hardware Coming at WWDC’
If your karma is under 100, you should be unable to post links. This is just further evidence.
Art-minded developers, developers that like art? or design-minded developers, developers with a sense of aesthetics and design?
I've had good experiences with WhatsApp. Plus, it has become popular enough over here that most of the regular BBM users I know have WhatsApp installed as well.
And actually, the most important thing: he crashed a startup already, and one of the reasons, he reckons, was the lack of a tech cofounder. You got yourself a jewel in that case :)
Just an idea: since the utility of this is so dependent on the number/quality of the people using it in a certain location, you might want to start with hyper-focused groups (e.g. conference-goers, college cohorts, permaculturalists, church members) and then grow from there.

Otherwise, if random person A visits the site and sees posts from other random people with whom s/he feels no connection, they probably aren't coming back.

Good luck!
Mmmmm thanks! That makes Balsamiq a lot more useful!!!
Backbone examples as mentioned here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2378190
What exactly was the rationale for changing the title of this article from the one on Groklaw?
Seems pretty clear by his initial post that he doesn't have that option available.
True for the first part. The second could be true too but it would be remarkable if he decided to take a break for almost exactly 365 days.
All of this has very little to do with the actual suit. This is all over the question of jurisdiction.
You nailed it. Who is more mockable: the start-up with a 1.0 product that accepts a ton of VC money, or the VCs who threw the ton of money at them? How many hackers with a 1.0 product wouldn't take the VC money in the same circumstances? I'm sure some might refuse to take more than they thought they deserved, but that has got to be a tiny percentage. The real question is what the VCs saw to cause them to believe that this was worth what they paid. Given that others are not seeing it in the 1.0 product, it either has to be something else that's coming, or it has to be a pretty stupid investment. Either way, if someone is to be mocked, it's not the entrepreneurs who accepted the money.
This is awesome! I recently moved my blog from wordpress to jekyll and had to figure most of this stuff out on my own. The hacker in me enjoyed it - but it sure would have been nice to have such a good reference at the time!
I couldn't help but laugh at how ridiculous SCEA is.
It seems easy for a two-time experienced entrepreneur like
Bill Nguyen to know where to spend $25M

With what we know about Color... what would you do with $25M if you were in Bill's position?

I have real trouble getting my head around these sorts of numbers and it would really help me to have someone break down the likely way he'd use that money.
Arguably, they already did create a competing language (ie: Android)
A few observations:

I dread each time my inbox lights up but recognized that 60%+ of our business is driven through our email list. Our AppSumo.com emails for the most part were always short and sweet, just the way I liked them.

Then why the change?

I wanted to hire a real copywriter so I can focus on other things in the business. My friend Neville is a funny writer and had been extensively studying / practicing copywriting best practices.

Doesn't being a writer imply having studied and practiced writing? And what are "copywriting best practices"? Something tells me Neville is a factitious fall guy.

Usually we see < 0.5% unsubscribe rate

A 2x increase isn't that big of a deal and doesn't warrant the urgency eluded to in the title.

* The funniest thing about it?

This email was our highest conversion to buy ever. Ah, so this post isn't about losing customers, it's about justifying and excusing the new long form sales emails.
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So essentially what we have is a 1% unsubscribe rate for an e-mail, which is above his .5% average but it's still within the range of error and many things could effect the unsubs except the email content.

Maybe his e-mail list is growing and after getting a few e-mails people realize that this isn't what they expected. Or the expectations they had for the content weren't set properly. Saying that funny/longform e-mail is that what caused the sudden unsub spike is jumping to conclusions.
I think he was telling an allegorical, fictional story for humor value.
when I started reading this, first reaction was, what do you mean there isn't a site that lets you put all sorts of data in a QR Code - Google Charts API what. Then I see that's what you figured out.
You can never be a 100% safe from luck :)
From the page style:

textarea {
font-family: monaco, courier, monospace;
width: 500px;
...
}

Web designing mistake, wrong choice of units. Depending on user's choice of font width, text will wrap inside the text area and not produce the expected result. 'width: 40em' would be a lot more sensible and produce the expected results.
also, QR Codes with full vCard style contact infos have been in use/easy/available in popular places like Japan, for years.
For every techno geek like us, there are many more people with 0 devices that require an IP. OP was comparing number of IPs in IPv4 with number of people on earth. Since we are only just now starting to run out of IPv4 addresses (the last big blocks were assigned recently, but there are still gaps and sparsely filled blocks), it seems safe to say that on average the number of IP enabled devices is lower than the number of people. That won't last long though.

As technology filters down to the third world, and (assuming there isn't some massive device convergence that reduces demand for IPs in the first world) the ratio of devices to people will rapidly become skewed. It's a lot easier to pump out cell-phones than babies after all :D
Time Between Thing Being Amusing, Extremely Irritating Down To 4 Minutes

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