skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, changing the cursor to indicate the element can be clicked is the easiest method to communicate this and for the user to understand it.

But it is not unheard of since desktop applications most likely do not change the cursor hovering on a button. It is mostly a web browser feature.
I completely agree, it's a skill everyone should have. But it has no relation to any kind of proof that you've learned something, outside of communication courses. Despite this, it still impacts grades everywhere. That's a pretty definite disconnect.

Not that I think "standardized" tests are any better. Just that increased awareness of this kind of effect on perception might decrease its impact.
I think you're going to lose this battle :)

I like the new layout and white space, it's much easier for me to read, but I've always liked this style. In fact, I have a tendency to double space much of my code and other coders hate that I do this.

The only think I REALLY don't like is the giant red COMPOSE button. Uhg. I just want to change it to another color. I REPLY all the time but don't compose often, and having this giant red eye-sore there all the time is very uncomfortable.
Firstly, squatting is a problem that ICANN itself created (or at least contributed to creation of) through their broken reseller policies. Since squatting drives domain prices up, it might even be financiall beneficial to ICANN.

Secondly, squatting is mainly a problem because it drives the prices up, especially for small website owners. Sure, you can buy a cool domain you want, but it will be $1k, instead of eight dollars. A corporation could simply sue for their brand name. How will thse new expensive gTLDs solve this problem?

Thirdly, I would argue that the same effect you describe could be achieved simply by creating .corp domain that is more expensive and has some checks in regards to business legitimacy. That would be less disruptive for everyone.

New gTLDs could have been be a good things, but not when they are "released" like this.
The newspapers went to court asking for broad relief (unlisting from google results)

They went to court over Google News copying excerpts from their articles, such as the lead paragraphs, and displaying them in the Google News aggregator. The lawsuit didn't pertain to the general search engine.
1. Squatters are still going to squat. They will continue to squat on the existing gTLDs, and since one of the requirements of the application process is that you can prove you can run a registrar, almost all the new gTLDs will be registrars, selling domains. They won't be corporations. So the squatters will also squat there.

2. There's no proof of this, and it's quite doubtful.

3. I really hope no VC member of the board would let a startup waste their money on this. If they would, I never want to hear from that VC ever. Also remember that the 185k application fee is the tip of the iceberg in terms of what this will cost.

4. There's no proof of this. If the infrastructure ends up running in the US, good luck arguing that.
Ah crap, one second, I'll fix this...
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It goes to their "incoming" thing, which is why I never check mine... Too bad.
This is a rather unfair description.

No "srs bsns" enterprise .NET developers care about Mono. But the vast, vast majority of their stuff would, if necessary, run on Linux via Mono without much trouble--because most people just don't use the complex stuff that Mono doesn't support.

I use Mono for my current project (a cross-platform game library) because it, unlike everything else aside from C/C++, is capable of effectively targeting OS X, Linux, Android, and iOS. .NET gives me Windows, Xbox 360, and WP7.
Over the weekend I changed it so that the link information is hidden until hover. I've been leaning towards that probably wasn't as useful as originally intended, and I think this is another good example of why.

The thought behind it was to remove text from the display making it easier for people to see what they needed at first glance without deluging them information. I think this might have backfired.

Thank you for feedback, I appreciate it.
Because the software showed the assignment the cheater cribbed from. Either knowing the students, or in most cases their names would give away their ethnicity.
The sky is not falling.

Companies will not lose their trademark if they fail to register the domain in all possible TLD's and/or register and maintain a TLD. Considering the latter requires becoming a registrar, you are essentially asserting that owning a trademark effectively requires every company to enter the domain business. That assertion is absurd.
Again, the lawsuit was over Google News' display of lead paragraphs and other excerpts from articles. It didn't pertain to the general search engine.
All set. Sometimes bad character sets get in and borks that page. Should be good now. Thanks!
Nice catch. Know of an easy workaround to this?
And that's the risk. The process looks like it's based on ideology. Ideology knows no compromise.

It will be interesting to watch.
I would guess a large portion of those are devs who are running windows but deploying to linux servers. Think php or java - that is a common use case in those circles.
No one is saying that is all they do. However they get paid by selling support contracts. They don't get paid for kernel or compiler development.
Shops are pretty much advertising. They connect a consumer to several manufacturers. They stock things you might want to buy. You go in, get bombarded with branding advertising products. You filter out the ones you want, and buy them. The shop gets a cut of revenue, just like a website gets a cut of any sale after a user clicks on an advert (Either directly, or averaged out to a per click/impression price).

Shops are pretty much advertising by their very nature. A shop without a stock of goods for you to buy wouldn't be a very useful shop.

Ignoring that weird anology, you seem to be arguing that since you personally enjoy advertising, then everyone else in the world should just deal with advertising all the time, because, well, speckledjim on HN doesn't really mind it all that much.

It's just not a very convincing argument.
The lawsuit was over the use of lead paragraphs in the Google News aggregator, not the general search engine. Google is intentionally misinterpreting the verdict of the lawsuit in order to punish those who might challenge the company. Remember that Google also defied the court order to publish the result of the lawsuit on its Belgian sites, so it's obviously not afraid to thumb its nose at the courts.

"Nice online newspaper you've got there. Hate to see something happen to it."
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I was referring to his question: "So should it be legal?" He answered: "Of course, they can do what they want." Therefore I conclude that the author does not advocate that government employees use force to stop this new TLD business.
Being a transplant from the Midwest myself, I would love to see a tech boom there.
Great outdoor life, beautiful summers and nice people.
It's probably something similar to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's game-theory system, which is used by the CIA claims has a 90% success rate, even when the experts who input the data get it wrong...

It only needs 4 types of input:

1. Who has a stake in trying to shape the outcome.
2. What they *say* they want.
3. How focused they are on the issue compared to other issues.
4. How much persuasive influence could they exert if they chose to engage on the issue.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/bruce_bueno_de_mesquita_pr...
3. You can only get them if you are an established brand.
4. Are you sure? I think they will be still under US jurisdiction.
Hi everyone. I'm one of the founders of IActionable. We're pretty excited about our new integration with Salesforce and would love to hear what you think.
I agree with respect to mobile -- the depth of the potential customer base there hasn't even begun to be plumbed. It's going to be very interesting once smart phones (and app sales) become ubiquitous in less-developed countries. That will probably require lowering the price even further, but hey, if you can sell 100 million copies of a ten cent app...
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A big corp environment can condition you into being a passive, reactive person. IMHO, this can be one of the hardest things to "unlearn".

This might be considered to be akin to the "just a number" paradigm.
I'm getting a 404. Is it working for anybody else?
"...considering Apache.org win32 builds make up more than 50% of their downloads."

That's not very accurate. On any other platform, you use a package manager to install Apache.
Ask HN:Why Github and not Bitbucket
We use bitbucket and it has been awesome for a small startup. I am surprised that Github charges close to $12 a month for DVCS.
what do you guys think Github offers which justifies the price? I am pretty happy withn my bitbucket free plan which allow 5 collaborators and private repos.
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I have seen the video. He clearly is atheist. His "I believe in God" at the end doesn't really mean anything, since he said that God basically is the united Human specie.

What thrills me most about this video is that he quite eloquently demonstrated that we can relinquish our belief in the supernatural without losing faith.
> They have an XSS

Oh dear.

The (short) audio clips on their site are... interesting. Trust Guard's emphasis/value appears to be sales conversions, not security per se.

https://www.trust-guard.com/category-s/3.htm

First sentences from the two co-founders:

"We really really try to help our customers increase their conversion rate"

"People spend a lot of time and a lot of money getting people to their site then they don't do the things that increase conversion"
Reminds me of when my friend got flagged by a cop and him being in a rush, just slowed down enough to pass a cash bill to the cop. The cop refused and asked my bud to pull over. When my friend asked what the problem was, cop goes "you wanna show this(bribing) to entire Mumbai? crazy guy." He proceeded to give my buddy a handshake through which money was passed.
It's always been my belief that one should try to stick to the browser's native behavior when possible. Web browsers (on personal computers) have pretty consistent pointer states for links (which take you to another page) and form elements (which activate an ability on the current page [with the exception of 'submit' buttons]).

In this regard it seems like Google is doing the right thing. Only run against the user's previously acquired assumptions if there is a very good reason.
As an Iowan, born and raised, I actually quite like "Silicon Prairie". This line really stuck out:

"It's having the gumption to go do, rather than make excuses, which sets entrepreneurs apart."
That might have been the intent of the newspapers, but that wasn't the court order their lawyers got them.
No. I'm in no way basing this on my own preferences.

I'm basing it on data and numbers. If advertising didn't work, it wouldn't be a $multibillion industry.
If anyone else didn't know about Public-Key Stenography, this paper[1] showed up almost everywhere in the search results.

It is heavier on the math than I would like for my "wha?" level curiosity, but given the audience here it may be a hit.

1 = http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/pubkeystego.pdf
They sued because Google News was using lead paragraphs from their articles. Google is most definitely block them, because the court's decision didn't pertain to the general search engine. In effect, Google is punishing these content-owners for challenging Google's use of their content in its service.
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It's amazing how much we expect from teachers.
I think it's a great idea, but at the same time, I'm wary to start jumping on eTextbook renting simply because of my tech ADD - and because it's easier to use a regular textbook. Sure, your textbook might be heavy, but you don't need to be connected to a power source/be dependent upon an electronic device for your materials.
It's not even ideology, it's fear, hatred and tribal identity.

Ideological conservatives would have leaped at that deal Obama and Boehner hammered out.
Ask HN: Is it better to auction in Bitcoin or US Dollars?
When auctioning something techy, for example a one month premium subscription code to Spotify, it seems almost more reasonable to auction it in Bitcoin. I feel like by requiring bitcoin, you select the actual users that are most likely to truly want the item you are auctioning. Then you can turn around and get more money by cashing out for US Dollars due to the exchange rate. Does this math sound right to people?
obvious headline is obvious.
> Google is intentionally misinterpreting the verdict of the lawsuit in order to punish those who might challenge the company.

Even if we stipulate this, how is that bad? Should Google be forced to deal with companies that screw with it? How far do you want to take that idea?
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Great example of how "numbers" can be twisted to support any absurd supposition
And therefore we shouldn't control ourselves better?
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The lawsuit was pertaining to Google News, not the general search engine. Google removed the links as punishment for challenging them in court, to show the content-owners that Google controls their revenue streams.
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And yet it is trivial to teach every one of them to identify 128kbit (at least) from uncompressed in just a few short minutes. And it's the kind of thing you pretty much can't un-hear. Those who want better quality have a legitimate gripe, though for business purposes related to your statement it's best to make a higher bitrate stream as a configuration option and not the default.

I think the author is on the wrong track discussing endoing times for 320kbit - it's much more likely that spotify is interested in keeping down their bandwidth costs.

A major streaming provider that I'm familiar with actually delivered streams that were 15%-20% under the quoted bitrate on many popular tracks for a few years, but only during periods of peak bandwidth consumption. It saved a significant amount of money and afaik was never detected (they no longer do so).
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Cloud9's Web-Based Real-Time Collaborative Programming
By David Strom / July 18, 2011 5:00 AM

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance.

Cloud9 today announced a cloud-based commercial Integrated Development Environment that enables web and mobile developers to work together in remote teams anywhere.

In the past, developers have resorted to using screen-sharing and IM tools to work on their programming projects. These could be frustrating, since you can't really jointly write code very easily. The new Cloud9 IDE facility lets multiple developers concurrently edit code, since the entire runtime environment is available to everyone simultaneously, similar to how multiple authors can edit a Google Doc together.

Developers on Cloud9 can now give others real-time collaborative access simply by handing them their project links. For an open source project, any person opening a link will gain access without delay. For private projects, the viewer gains access immediately after acquiring the project owner's permission.

Cloud9 IDE incorporates HTML5, and supports Python, Ruby and PHP. There are both free and $15 monthly plans available, the latter for private projects and runtime environments. It will be available October 1.
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Although the article says ISP, what they mean is any intermediate hop between the requester and the destination. So any network outside of the control of the censoring government could provide this service.
Wow. Do you expect further updates too? Is it worth buying or waiting for a newer model?
I've been trying to do good photographs of startup entrepreneurs in their environments (office, walking in the Bay Area, etc.) The purpose is to have a story that's more focused on the person rather than strictly the business. I kind of thought about this after meeting the guys at Bump many many months ago and thinking how cool they were but no one who ever used the application would ever really know.

Candid photos like this one I took: http://www.flickr.com/photos/love_in_a_trashcan/5236986603/i...

The only thing that's stopping me is the fact I don't personally know that many devs doing startups in SV because I'm usually holed up designing and developing.
You can use multiple backgrounds in CSS3: http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/multiple-bg-css-gradie...

Lots of details here and some catches to look out for (mostly browser support).
The lawsuit was over the use of lead paragraphs and other article excerpts, specifically in the Google News aggregator, not plain links in the general search engine.
It is my cursory understanding that 1. the government will not be able to identify "secret" transmissions from normal ones and 2. it only requires the participation of one hop along the route to succeed. Given that my path from Paris to wikipedia.org is 18 hops [excluding my immediate upstream hop], that is a pretty big swatch for hiding "compliant" ISPs.
First of all, HN isn't a place to find a co-founder for your start-up. You can't seamlisly find a co-founder. Co-founders are people you may have known for a while, such as colleagues, roomates, friends, etc.

Second of all, if you end up hiring a UI designer, they won't work for free, given the reason 80% of startups fail, just because you had 2 successful start-ups from the past, doesn't mean you will have a third start-up that will succeed. So in this case, you will have to pay them enough so they can work with you, and I'm sure they'll ask for the same amount they currently get paid for.

Finally, if you know your start-up will be a clone, in this case it obviously is, you know theirs going to be an issue. You're gonna have to come up with better ways to make money as a start-up, and market your users, which is strategically challenging, because these two start-ups (I've interviewed both founders) are launching worldwide in less than two months. Zaarly will hit the grounds first, soon TaskRabbit will follow, so my best advice would be that if you could tell us one good reason why your start-up will succeed, I'll give you props, other than that, it's undoubtful that your start-up will succeed.
How to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD)
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@blhack

Why not just carry on using the old version? Bob Staake apparently keeps an old Mac running OS 9 so he can use Photoshop 3.

General point: open source can't be taken from you in the way (say) Final Cut Pro was.
This is absolutely terrible for accessibility. Screen readers will not handle these buttons properly leading to a significantly more difficult experience. James Edwards actually talked about this at The Highland Fling conference a few weeks back.
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Ruxum obviously took that message to heart.
Well, the old technical limitations of the web have muddied the affordances somewhat, but my rules is generally "add cursor:pointer if the button behaves like a link, leave it unchanged if the button behaves like a button".

Most of the G+ buttons actually behave like buttons, i.e. you click on them and something happens on the current page. They don't have cursor:pointer, but they have other standard button hover effects. Pre-AJAX, the web had a history of tarting links up to look like buttons so they would seem more "clickable". Those kinds of "buttons" should get cursor:pointer, but not any other hover effects.
FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD. Come now, has MS acted against Mono in any way, ever? They've helped them at every step, directly. I know you like to troll MS-related threads, but really man.
Ever since I first heard of CoffeeScript, I'd been hoping that features like this would make it into the language. It's not realistic to wait for javascript interpreters in the browser to catch up, but this would be a perfect addition for a compiler like CoffeeScript.
As a leach, I don't like it. This could be the beginning of the end of cheap obsolete used textbooks. For years I've enjoyed going through bookstores, especially in college towns, just to pick up interesting looking textbooks dirt cheap.
If you act on the internet like you would in real life, it doesn't seem like such a big deal. How is getting relevant ads a bad thing?
Sure. What I mean is, they'll whine to you anyway, trying to get around the system. And, practically, refusing to talk to them is difficult-to-impossible.
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"Default" is typicially defined to be "Interest is not paid on time."
That's funny, and even more brilliant since Miguel himself made that.
If you like Mercurial better and Bitbucket does the job, I'd stick with it. I was right there and decided the Git hype is just that. I'm not sure if I like one DVCS better than the other, but Bitbucket offered me (basically) unlimited service for my personal school repositories, and hg happens to be what my research group uses anyway. I'll stick to what I know and like already.
Slightly Unrelated: There was a site recently on hn that was a listing of various js libraries, like this one, on one page. What was it?
It is difficult to say right now. As a private company, much information is hidden from plain view. In debt, Facebook has received approx 15B in commitments that have some sort of debt terms behind them that would require servicing. Clarity is not known there. Facebook's infrastructure and human capital needs are growing on a daily basis as well. In 2008 (a long time ago in internet years), it was widely reported that FB broke even with roughly around $300MM in revenues. In today's numbers, expect this to be nearly double ($500MM) given the increased expeditures in infrastructure and people as the site has grown exponentially.

Assuming this VERY rough imaginary cost, a 750MM membership base, Facebook would need to convert 1% (7.5MM) of the user base into premium users at a cost of $5.56 per month to break even.
https://secure.trust-guard.com/certificates/secure.trust-gua...

Apparently they don't run their security scanner against their own website ;-)
I was reading some of his other comments. He came across as a particularly "interesting" guy. He also claims that NSA has had access to quantum computers since the 90s. My observation is just to qualify your statement.
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The second face of photography is describing the pic ... the is where you can do it
The woman who fell to earth
Yes! As an 'old' programmer with a family, I thought long and hard before leaving a stable job and joining a startup. In the end I decided that it was worth it even if I had to find a new job in two years and ended up somewhere that just 'paid the bills'.

In my limited experience, it seems like finding a good startup job in LA depends a lot on your network - e.g. you worked with so-and-so here and they're doing something new and think of you, where my perception of SF/SV is that awesome startup jobs are so plentiful you can't help but have one.
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Unmet consumer need?