skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair these are not trends per se, these are similarity patterns in Logolounge submissions. Logo design community is very large and diverse, and while there is some stylistic and conceptual copying and imitation, it tends to be a self-limiting phenomenon, simply because a good logo needs to be unique.

It is also worth noting that Logolounge is basically an annual lottery with $100 entrance fee with the prize being an inclusion in one of their books. Not every logo designer enters, nor does the stuff they receive is all high-quality original work. So the trends they are seeing while interesting are not exactly representative.
I always thought that this is exactly the way how ntpd does set the clock. Apart from fact that ntpd does it by interacting with kernel directly without any userspace hacks.
Another trend I'm seeing a lot of is the "Script" logotype reminiscent of hand painted signs from the 50's. Three pop to mind: AirBNB, Frid.ge, and Instagram, but I know I have seen many others. It's a great look the only question is how well it will hold up relative to more pure geometric forms.
In the past 15 years or so, there is an explosion of engineering schools and the number of graduates.
I've been part of the crowd that lamented the decrease in the quality of Indian engineering graduates.

When you look at it in a different way. Would you rather have more engineers than less?
I would go for more.

As an individual, having an engineering degree is better than having a degree in arts.
An engineering degree provides these guys with better employment options even if our notion of quality is shattered.

India is coming of age and the days when 'I studied roman history because I am passionate about it' are not far off.
As of now, livelihood trumps passion.
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I looked into this long and hard and even built a website and minimal implementation, as I'd had some experience running and contributing to bounties on Open Source projects, but the more I thought about it, the less like a solid business it seemed.

The biggest problem is that the amounts involved are small, and the number of projects involved is also small (this is a $400 project, and it was considered interesting enough to get front page on HN; this indicates a tiny market). At the time, SourceForge, and several other Open Source sites, were beginning to add bounty and "hire this developer" features, and I couldn't see how a third party could more effectively reach those users or those developers (because you need both sides to buy into your product in order for it to be useful). The amount a third party could charge for the intermediary service is bound to be low or developers would go elsewhere; a couple points, maybe. So, 2% of $400 is 8 bucks. It'll take 10,000 projects of that size per year to pay yourself a decent salary and cover expenses. There probably haven't been 10,000 Open Source bounties in the past decade, much less the past year.

One of the problems a product like this would solve would be the trust issue: Can the bounty contributors trust the developer to deliver quality code if paid at the start, and can the developer trust all of the bounty contributors to pay up in a timely fashion if the code is delivered first. But, there are already ways to solve that problem. ChipIn solves the latter one, and many Open Source developers are sufficiently well-known in their community that no one would doubt they would finish the job. The other problem is connecting developers with money; but SourceForge and elance and many other sites already provides mechanisms for users to give developers money, as do traditional contractor agreements.

Of course, you've specified "digital content", and I was just looking at software, which opens up the market quite a bit. There were discussions amongst the browncoats (Firefly fans) of building a system to directly fund new Firefly episodes through viewer contributions. But, I think in the end, everyone agreed that the math just didn't add up. It might for lower budget content.

Back to software, I think github and SourceForge could make a few extra bucks from this kind of idea, but I don't think there's much room for any third party to fit into that relationship, if they aren't already in the loop for some reason.
It's a compiler. There are some extension points where a well-documented plugin-API would be a boon in any case, but users might want to modify the product on a number of levels. Even with some plugin-API's it would still be nice to be able to make the source available.
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So if writing a browser extension in C++ is hard, then what about writing whole application in Objective C instead of writing in JS? I'm genuinely interested what do you consider easier platform to develop, since I've just tried out Enyo and I really like it.
Just yesterday I watched Collin's Lab make a DIY brainwave music making machine. Pretty cool -- check it out: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/05/collins-lab-brainwa...

He used this EEG headset, which includes developer tools, so you can make your own software respond to brainwaves: http://store.neurosky.com/collections/hardware/products/mind...
Everything is a commodity.

When you hire an employee, you hire a probabilistic machine that may produce stuff closer to what you want. When you contract out, then you pay a probabilistic machine that may produce what you have specified which hopefully was what you wanted.
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Google doesn't care what language you use, or in fact even if you compute it manually. All they need is a output file that confirms with their output. - You can provide, whatever the sources.

These are of course, the standard industry choices these days. Except there is a huge bias for C++, as for most competitors, that is a standard language.
Ask HN: what do you do to stay productive?
Seems to indicate Haskell is 7 times as popular as Clojure.
>> The source code isn't in any repository because I don't work with repositories.

You really should be using version control. If you want people to contribute to this open-source project, you can't beat a public repository (like github) at which you can receive patches from other developers. Right now, it is not apparent how I can work to improve your project.
Although I have no doubts about the founders' programming chops, lal.com certainly can't be called "innovative".

Goodcrush.com had the exact same concept two years ago. Isawyou.com had the concept minus the college angle a couple years earlier.
Hang out on the topcoder message boards and decide for yourself.
Yup. Some of the TopCoders have their own templates that include substituting "for" with "F" and the like.

They'd have solved these kinds of questions for years, and have ready templates for parsing the input and output.
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You're correct. It relies on good teachers and motivated students. I am still in training; I enjoy my PBL experiences because I have a knack for engaging students; my peers who don't have the same rapport tend to hate it, which is then reflected in the success of the lessons
Here is my (succinct) solution for the Q1: https://gist.github.com/960549
One thing the new readability does that I love: when paging down with the space bar, it puts a spot (•) in the margin where the previous bottom of the page was, and then smooth scrolls. Together, these make it much easier to keep your place on the page when scrolling; a bit enhancement to easy readability.

It would be even better if you could bookmark your place in a long document and return to it later...
Well, it sure sucks to be a high-school dropout.

But the situation is much worse than the statistics show. They dont count people who are too discouraged to look for work, those who would take a job if one were realistically available. Also not counted are those who are working fewer hours than they want. Typically the unemployment statistics underestimate by a third. I surmise, but havent dug into it, that the under-counting is correlated with education: unemployment is probably double the BLS number for the dropouts. And for those under 25, it is over 50%.

Apologies for the lack ok citations.
what would you want?
The verboseness, because of the need to type more code is never a major problem.

Verboseness is indicative of the abstractions that are exposed, and that being at a lower level than necessary is the problem because you don't just have to deal with the problem at hand, but also the holes in languages.

With years of practice in a similar area, many people would have their own libraries to abstract those language shortcomings.

In general, the verbosity because of the bad abstraction levels is always a problem, because different people using it will have their own versions to patch them up.
my way: write code everyday, and write at least one test case every week, and release as needed.

release every week, problem: users are unable to learn and adjust, specially humans, and of course the others' codes.
somebody got a chance to finally implement their dark deep dreams - wolves, scientific collaboration...
It does make it nice that I can share links to the "readable" version with other people.
I believe that OP is implying that some markets sometime do not create value. e.g. Ponzi Scheme.
That's amazing - not only because of the obvious history (Sputnik, Gagarin etc.) but also because of the fantastic ongoing success of their launch vehicles - Arianespace will be starting to launch medium loads from Guiana later this year using Soyuz launchers (in addition to the Ariane 5 heavy launcher and the Vega lightweight launcher):

http://www.arianespace.com/launch-services-soyuz/soyuz-intro...
Noted. Count on finding both of those in a future release.

The first one I was actually doing before Readability -- the old version of Readable did it (and Readability wasn't), but I haven't yet reimplemented the feature in the new version.
>Finding "diamonds in the rough" may not be enough to sustain a publishing house. This may today be a valuable service but that doesn't mean that it will still be profitable in the future. When amazon launched the kindle, ebooks were mostly priced at 10$. These publishers fought to be able to raise the prices. When all the "truly great" become self-publishers they will lower the price of ebooks so now as a publisher you've lost your sure bets and have to instead spend considerable resources (paying all these mentors/editors) on riskier bets that when/if they succeed will have to be priced lower to compete with the self-publishers. I just don't see the economics favoring publishing houses. Being a freelance editor/mentor sourcing authors from first-time self-publishers may very well become a profitable venture though.

You are making the mistake of conflating "the most successful authors" with "authors who achieve major success with their first books." The publishing companies will lose out on the latter, but they will still get plenty of the former. As I mentioned before, Frank Herbert was a very late bloomer. A more modern (but less extreme) example would be Dan Brown: his first book, Digital Fortress was just barely good enough to get him a second book deal; Angels and Demons made the best-seller list, barely; he didn't achieve superstar chart-topping success until his fourth book, Da Vinci Code. He's now one of the top-selling authors in the world. As long as publishing companies continue to grow authors like that, they will do just fine. They may see their margins shrink due to competition from self-publishers, but books are not commodities and people will pay more for better books. The only thing that will dislodge traditional publishers from this role is, as I have asserted repeatedly, a competitor which provides the same service, at the same or better level of quality, for less.

I also firmly reject the notion that "truly great" authors will necessarily lower their prices of ebooks when they transition to self-publishing: they will charge whatever price the market will bear. I think that a far more likely change is that book prices will become much more a function of book quality, with the very best charging a premium for their books compared to other authors, as compared to the current system where dead-tree books are priced mostly as a function of form factor.
Just like how McDonalds always does more business than FreshGreens(Or whatever that is).
Cool. Now I want a fluffy, twitchy tail.
> why release that which isn't good or useful?

Because we're not the best judge of what is good or useful. The person who chooses whether or not to use our code is the best judge.
runit's a wonderful tool. Those interested in using it with ruby might want to take a look at the bunch of configurable runit services I use to reliably run several busy Rails sites: https://github.com/purcell/rails-runit

I also wrote an introduction to runit's process supervision scheme here: http://www.sanityinc.com/articles/init-scripts-considered-ha...
I believe that it is actually illegal under federal law to require education/skill levels that exceed those necessary for the job. This is civil rights era legislation, because excessively high requirement were routinely used to exclude blacks from jobs.
You are correct, sir. But I haven't really gotten in to the open-source game just yet -- maybe I should; I don't know.

I am using version control; just not public version control.

If you want to help, get in touch (http://readable.tastefulwords.com/about-and-contact/). I'm happy to hear any ideas; and, if you want to do some actual work, that would be quite awesome too.
I enjoy seeing a positive number in the column for number of contest entries written in brainfuck.
This is a planned feature for Readable, too.

Count on seeing it in a future release.
The service industry standards in India are quite bad, as I have had first hand experience of the sorry state of our development environment. I have thought about this for quite some time, and as others have pointed out there is a definite dearth of passion as the industry is filled with people who worry nothing more than their paychecks at the end of the month. It's quite hard to find motivation amongst such peers(Just to clarify, I'm not badmouth-ing anyone, just stating the fact)
At times it has often make me wonder at our consistent mediocre attitude. The top programming languages right now(Java, C++ etc) has had it's origins in the US and elsewhere, where the language authors have had put in painstaking efforts in creating libraries so as to make adoption of the language as easy as possible. The irony being since most of the hard work has already been done, the mediocre work gets outsourced for cheap labour.
Just my 2 paisa...
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Because the new market looks like a blind gold rush. Everybody is going to the same place but the maths says that most won't have any ROI.

Maybe you could help with this more-focused question : How to promote a team of (quite) expert python coders ? I've seen some freelancing sites but 1/ indians/chinese/whatever can undercut everybody there and 2/they focus mainly on task that doesn't need good coders.

Thanks
A draggable tiled map doesn't require XHR or iframes. It's a bunch of img tags next to each other, and some JavaScript that sets their src and position.
Why do you think goldman sachs is involved with facebook, same reason but larger scale than the investments in ycombinator recently.
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This article is devoid of insight. The author didn't even do basic research on the topic, because, as already mentioned, the easiest route--creating a temporary linode--isn't covered. Linode's own documentation covers back-ups much better.

The referral code at the bottom was the icing on the cake--and then I noticed the self-submission.
If you follow the hacking over the last few years in relation to China, a clear pattern emerges: China wants United States IP. It's about time someone started taking that threat seriously in the US.
Why would you want justification in something that's supposed to make something more readable? Justification might make text look nice, but it's terrible for readability, and people with dyslexia often struggle at reading it, and the same usually goes for hyphenation.
Hi Thank you for this explanation. My first thought was how is it different than Redis and then when I read no client-server support, I thought, this is worse than Redis. But then your comparison with sqlite makes it a little bit better. I can see a few use cases for it now. Thanks!
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I will also be adding an option that will disable even this anonymous tracking, for those who really want/need it.

However, you'll just have to take my word for it that I won't be reading the server logs -- which contain the same, if not more, data.
Citizens United (the decision that allowed corporations to make unlimited monetary contributions to political organizations) was justified by the first amendment. A check or promissory note is a message, transferring money, and is a form of speech. Where you spend your money is protected free speech.
we will see what a real Great Depression 2.0 looks like after the dollar collapses

Unfounded and inflammatory.
I love Linode's control panel and administration system. When I was choosing a virtual solution a few years ago they were by far the best.
Don't stop working on things.

That's it.

It's habit-forming, actually. Just get over the hump.
I don't think CouchApp is a good choice for any target market. Most people eventually need to execute more arbitrary code on the serverside. Theoretically the Wordpress crowd would be a good target, but they don't like to code. You would need to aim for zero configuration. (it's fine, just know your market)
Personally, I wouldn't feel safe to rely on CouchApp. What if my site goes viral and I need much more functionality? I'd have nothing to build up on, and I'd eventually need to rebuild on nodejs or something else.
it seems like they're also doing some sort of ad hoc distribution for those without dev tools: https://testflightapp.com/join/25bf5108ebf60dd935baa57f36856...
Direct link: http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/05/08/michael-bays-scenario/
Regarding Chinese who will "likely spout PRC government propaganda", though there are possibly Chinese students who think this way, the ones that I've met (well over 40 students, and not all from one particular group to allow for some randomness and a slightly better sample of the general population) do not think this way. They do not believe the Chinese government is the ultimate form of government, and none of them felt that the "Chinese people need to be controlled". They value the same freedoms the forefathers of America valued, and they would like to see some of America's liberties in China as well. Given that, they don't believe that America's government is significantly better either, but at least they aren't blinded by the Chinese government's propaganda. Remember, today's youth has access to many sources of information. They aren't in cocoons, shielded from outside opinions. The "Great Firewall" isn't as effective as the American media would like you to think it is.
Open Source Licenses[1] is a good place to "shop" for licenses, though you might find the "by name" view a bit overwhelming. Maybe start with from the "Licenses that are popular and widely used or with strong communities" section on the "by category"[2] page.

[1] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html

[2] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category
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Yeah, jQuery tends to break backwards compatibility a little too often. But I don't think they can keep doing that forever. Sooner or later they'll have to settle on a stable API. Maybe in jQuery 2.0.
Maybe the capitalization should be 'RunIt?' Talking about 'Runit' and Ruby makes me think that it's a unit testing framework...
"That fragmentation is driving developers to embrace frameworks such as PhoneGap, which WebOS has wholeheartedly adopted. "

Honest question: really? Is anyone actually using this stuff in a serious way? I ask because I use only iOS basically so I may genuinely be missing this revolution that is taking place, but at least on iOS I have never downloaded an app that was phonegap, nor do I think any significant charting apps use it. Is it widely used for custom built apps or something? Or used a lot in android? Or is it actually not being used a lot?
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Very nice! But am I the only person who thinks that the parameter order on (<|>) is the wrong way? :)
Thanks for the feedback. Let me explain the thinking behind the barcodes.

Right now people need to include barcodes on their faxes similar to drop.io in that they made you fax with a coversheet that had a unique barcode on it. (You can built a similar type coversheet with phaxio.) In addition to the "hosted document" option, which allows devs to generate forms with unique barcodes on them, we added another level by allowing devs to embed additional metadata in a barcode which can be returned to your system and should help with workflow. (That was our hope anyway.)

Using barcodes allows us to keep the prices of phaxio low and as PAYGO as possible. That said, one of our next steps is to offer dedicated phone lines to those that request them.
Quick & easy money. That's what my mom told me when I wanted to study medicine.
You can see some of that in the participation rates.
I still don't get how/why is this different/better than the firefox readability extension?

The commercialized readability was a step back from the bookmarklet, but this firefox extension seems to work as well if not better. Could someone more experienced please explain this to an ignoramus ...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/readability/
I've seen quite a few apps written in phone gap work really well on iOS devices. I think many people are surprised how well an apps experience can be with this tech... granted, lots of people don't know that large numbers of apps are really just a web view wired to a minimal obj-c shell so I think the approach is pretty successful if not the framework itself.
The initial version written by the authors of MapReduce and BigTable
Good luck with that. The British didn't manage to keep the Germans from getting their technology in the 19th century.
FileZilla Client 3.5.0-rc1 released
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2525549
accessing the urls in the unit tests seems like a recipe for slow build, why not put the test inputs in the repo?