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Obviously he's not a NYT reader. I love the times. It's not broken. Their website is fantastic in every way. You can spend hours upon hours on it and digest more content, in whatever style you wish to navigate. It has a certain unity within the chaos. But it's not really chaos. The content is the layout. You won't find any other News organization who understands design more than NYT. They let the content design the layout, not the other way around.

Andy turned NYT into a Wordpress blog. :|

I'll give him credit for the work though, but I personally think NYT is an exception. But go ahead, every other news website, you have Cart Blanche.

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This is what the life of the entrepreneur is all about: extreme ups and downs and a ton of uncertainty.
Thanks for your input. Building a good app takes more than a weekend work. So the worst case scenario could be potential loss of 10k or more in lost opportunity. Well I would definitely learn something and can use this app as a showcase for getting more or higher value consulting gig.
From Gruber:

> There you go. This is the result of Apple putting its own interests ahead of those of its users. It’s certainly not drastic (as it would be if Amazon had pulled the app from the store entirely), but in no way can it be argued that this is an improvement for users.

I think that says it all. If Gruber isn't even going to bother to try and defend it (or even play devil's advocate), then it's probably indefensible.
They generally ask for the full academic transcript (which has grades in it). Btw do not be worried if you don't have stellar grades/GPA - USCIS doesn't care about that. Your immigration lawyers just need to make a case that your education plus work exp (if any) is relevant to the job the company is hiring for.
Just ordered it because I used coffeescript on a project with good results. But by the time I get it, read it, and write a review on Hacker news this post will no longer be on the front page. :'-( sad
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Depends on what you do. I work in data analysis and our datasets are enormous and since RAM is cheaper than time, we load as much as we can in RAM. 16GB, 6 cores + SSD are standard issue. :-)
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Having said these good things Bad Teacher is nothing special. It has some funny moments and a coating but almost anything that leans fun on the scale laughing While it is hot and bold in some areas could not be seen as pushing the envelope in this day and age
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I love the concept, but I find it's slow to use in practice. Any plans to preload pages to improve the speed? For example, you could preload upcoming posts in hidden iframes so they're cached locally by the time you visit them.
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Last Saturday I spent hours online from Shenzhen airport, there's no such requirement there. But of course some articles mentioned in HN are inaccessible since they're hosted on G+ :(
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But you will eventually become irrelevant, which makes new customer acquisition extremely difficult.

Most companies that profitably lead by following the pack do so by leveraging other products they produce as their way to the customer.

If you have a handful of "leading" products and a handful of "following" products, this can be a very good strategy as it allows you to produce "solutions" that leverage the sales of the leaders. On the other hand, it rarely works for a single product and doesn't work for long when all your products follow.

In general, following is usually a result of poor product management (doesn't understand the customer) or poor executive management (doesn't invest in product development). Rarely is it part of a well-considered strategy.
Yeah, it really is fascinating. Sorry, my previous comment didn't talk much about the Cushites. We have a large Kenyan Somali population - close to a million - and an even larger diaspora from Somalia with residency or refugee status, because of the civil war in their country. The Somali myth of origin, if I remember my high school history, goes something like this. A Yemeni man marries the daughter of a man - ethnicity not specified - called Darrod. Assuming Darrod was black in the typical sense, this story might point to a "biracial" origin of the Somali. The Ethiopians on the other hand, have a story about a creator making humans out of clay. Those who stayed too long in the kiln became black and were placed south, those who didn't stay in long enough became white and were placed to the north and the Ethiopians who stayed in for just the right amount of time were placed somewhere in the middle. I read it when I was a kid, so I don't quite remember if it placed any distinctions between the Tigre and Amhara, the most dominant tribes in Ethiopia. I assume it's the same for the Erritreans, as they were essentially a single nation at some point.

Cushites - are "Black" in a political sense, maybe less so in a cultural sense as I've been made to understand that Ethiopians generally don't see themselves as lowercase "b" black.

About the gradient thing, black people have a huge spectrum of different skin colors, even within the same family. My Mum for instance, is light skinned. My sister and I are quite dark. The funny thing is we started out really light skinned as children, perhaps till we each turned three. I've heard some kids start out blonde and end up with dark hair? I find it all quite interesting.
Popularity has nothing to do with news

If you've been on the internet before, you'll know this is not true.
Newspapers made the mistake of devaluing their ad inventory by increasing their supply. There's a really good – business – argument to be made for cutting the number of ad slots on the page.
The criticism of the process would be more convincing had Google won the bidding because there would not be any appearance of self-interest. Given that the article concludes:

"So the hunt continues for some nuclear warheads to build towards mutual assured destruction, and eventually détente,"

It is hard to see Google's motives as meaningfully different from those who won the auction. In an arms race both sides can claim it is for defense - and I will point out that nuclear warheads may deter a powerful opponent, but they will invariably intimidate the weak.
I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure hotmail is bigger than gmail. And Office365 might be similar in size to g:docs.
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I just went through the H-1B process and moved to USA in the beginning of this year. I'm not an American citizen obviously and I also studied in a university outside America.

My answers to your questions:

1. Where to start?

All major tech companies at this point would be willing to sponsor H-1Bs for promising candidates. Very early-stage startups will be hesitant to sponsor them (it's expensive both in terms of money and time). So try interviewing with companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, LinkedIn.

2. Am I being realistic?

Well I can't speak to your CS skills but considering that you claim to have an advanced degree from a top school in USA, I don't see why you would have problems interviewing and getting a job.

3. Other advice

For the past couple of years (since the financial crisis), the no. of H-1B applicants have reduced drastically and hence there are fewer applicants than the per-year H-1B cap. This is great news - all you've to do is meet the visa requirements, get a job offer from a good company, and let the company sponsor your visa, and you're done. This wasn't the situation a few years back when there used to be a flood of applications within hours after the application process was opened (usually on Apr 1 of every year).

But you still have a small issue - applications open in April and the earliest you can travel to USA is in Oct of that year. So you've to think about the timing issues and see if your employer is willing to wait for you for that long. Generally this is not a problem with big companies since they're always hiring and they can always fit you in. It all depends on how good a candidate you are and how desperate the company is for you really.
Well, he was a mountaineer, so I suppose he's ok with the height.
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Design is always so much easier when you don't have to incorporate ad spots. Very naive.
After reading all the comments, going to have to check out IntelliJ. The thing I hate most about Android development is having to use Eclipse. Most of the time, I just end up coding in TextMate and only use Eclipse for building and debugging. I just hate how Eclipse feels and it's also slow.

Eclipse also sucks for Flash development, which is why I prefer FlashDevelop on Windows. It's just so much faster, and makes coding fun. Running FlashDevelop inside a VM is preferred over running FlashBuilder/Eclipse natively on the Mac.
I think you can build remarkable products by really understanding your customers and the people who would never buy from you. If you build relationships, you learn about their pains, and solving customer pains makes you remarkable, no epiphanies required.

Well, now that I've written this, I realized what you might have been thinking (eg "The Four Steps to the Epiphany" type of thing). To the extent an epiphany is an insight about your customers gained by understanding your customers, I completely agree with you. To the extent it is a "brain wave" out of nowhere that is going to magically save the product (which is what I think the article meant), then I agree with the article.
To me it is incredibly important that an abstract is presented up front before I click through to the article. For other news sites (like CNN) that are more about breaking news and less about well written and researched journalism - just the headline is fine (because chances are the article won't say much more than the headline).

NYT's strength is that it is a professional journalistic organization and thus taking words _off_ the page would only serve to betray the value that the NYT offers.
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The one feature gReader is missing, which may drive me to an alternative, is the ability to chose a set of items to mark as read.

I can "mark all as read", of course, but I'd like to be able to eliminate items I can tell from the title are not of immediate interest.
Recently got back from two months in Europe, stuffing my face through 15+ countries. What knocked my weight off was a 170km+ hike around Mont Blanc (Tour du Mont Blanc). Walking across and around cities also helps. I'm never sure how people can go abroad and not return leaner - the walking balances the endless restaurant visits, surely?
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I feel the same. I think the NYT's online page is fantastic - so much so that I pay $16 a month for it. I think they do an excellent job of laying out pages online yet still feeling like a newspaper. I like looking around the page for different stories, just as I would in a newspaper page. It's engaging, and I can't help but scan the whole page, read the headline, check out the picture captions.

When I look at his blog-style page, my eyes just glaze over the headlines.

The NYT App on the iPhone is basically his mobile mockup. And I've found that even on my iPhone, I'd rather look at the proper front page.
Isn't the difference that Google is the one being sued and the others are doing the suing? Defensive patent holdings seem different from offensive ones to me.
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Honestly, that is the saddest thing I've ever heard. That's some disable-TSRs-and-fiddle-with-highmem level sad.
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I'm sure that if you look at computers before and after the PC you'll see that most companies followed the leader. Probably same with various generations of cars, planes, televisions, toasters, whatever.

Where's the line between copying and being inspired by a better way to do things? I don't know, but I think we have to be careful where we put that line.
>The Times politics page. I think the object of the game must be to fit as much “content” onto the page as possible in an effort to overwhelm the reader, tricking them into believing that the NY Times is just bursting with a mindbogglingly-bottomless array of important information. If only the reader could learn to ignore 60% of what’s here, she might have a chance at a pleasant experience. Please stop helping. What you’ve got here is not content, but noise.

You can't get a good coverage of world events in the number of items that Rutledge wants. The world is noisy, and what Rutledge is suggesting vastly oversimplifies. I'm sure it would convert wonderfully, raise ad revenue, all that. It wouldn't be good journalism. Even if the NYT is full of pointless noise, it's still better than a handful of painstakingly crafted articles. A handful of pretty, well-formed articles cannot accurately reflect a disordered world. If the NYT isn't noisy it's not doing its job.
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What's really interesting here is that companies are reporting awesome earnings[1], yet they're still resting on their laurels when it comes to hiring.

And, I think everyone is outraged when it comes to what's going on in Washington right now.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/18038403/
I just don't understand why people are so against Google over this, when Facebook has always been doing it.

Because we wouldn't be interested in Google+ if we thought it would just be another Facebook?

I mean, if the fresh launch of a beta product to an audience of mainly tech-savvy users is not the time to complain loudly about what you don't you like, what is?
Great look at what it's like to be a startup. Getting locked out in the middle of a storm is hilarious.
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This market is too new for the FTC to get involved. They like to let new markets grow unencumbered for a while.
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I have been an everyday RSS user for a few years now. Jumped around trying Bloglines, a few desktop clients, Google Reader, some unknown smaller sites, etc over that time. Finally I found my perfect aggregator and have been using it daily for about 8 months now. I even took it upon myself to donate a few bucks to developer.

Simple, free and open source: http://rsslounge.aditu.de/
Only catch is it requires your own host/webserver with PHP/SQL and a quick installation. But well worth it for me as I just dropped it onto one of my websites.
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A review of a product from a website with the same name as the product by the person who created the product.

Wow. This is a new low.

For readers: Brian G. Johnson is an "top internet marketeer" specialising in online seo and affiliate strategies. If you do a google of his repetoire you'll find most of them are blackhat strategies designed to mislead searchers to unrelated destinations.
As of Firefox 5, I think, Mobile Firefox is released from the same revision of the same source tree as Desktop Firefox, and should have all the same web-facing features available. Of course, they might not run at the same speed - that's just hardware - but I would expect SVG for example to display identically on the desktop and on a mobile device.
I dream of a future of sophisticated mobile web apps and no vendor lock-in to a particular mobile OS.
Many thanks for the insight. This is why I love HN.
I don't like the final result, and Rutledge dismisses many of the realities of site design.

I think the existing NYTimes site is among the examplars of good Web news site design. My principle gripe is that there's too much whitespace around the primary content. That's probably a consequence of both a 1920x1080 display (laptop), and highly aggressive ad blocking. (Yeah, yeah. I'll stop blocking ads when advertisers stop being complete fckwits about making annoying ads, and/or when hell freezes over, whichever comes first.)

There are a few valid points Rutlege makes. Many of the navigation elements are little (or never) used by me, including the left and top sidebars.

I want my microcontent.* That means a brief story summary. I have an RSS reader and subscribe to the NY Time site on it. I rarely read it. Why? Because there's no microcontent. For most news stories, the first paragraph is all I need (actually, in all absolute truth, the headline itself is far too much). If I want to read more, that paragraph really helps make the decision to do so. Jacob Nielson's covered this topic very well.

Presenting the content on the homepage, while making for dense page, does make a good jump point. My eye can scan far more quickly than I can click back and forth through pages.

The classic wastes of time for me on the Times are:

- Video content. Really, text tells the story far more quickly most of the time. A video feature can be a benefit (and for some rare stories it's hugely useful), but I _don't_ think it belongs on the homepage.

- The "Talking Heads" features. There's something in how these are set up that frequently makes for a compelling lede, but fails to deliver. The format just doesn't work for me.

- The formulaic three-headlines-per-section on the front page. Some days some sections deserve far more news, and some sections (sorry, but "Dining", "Fashion", and "Automobiles" hold little or no interest) deserve none. To me.

Rutledge has succeeded in vastly simplifying the Times's front page. By removing most of the informational content and utility from it. His design works for mobile (and as he notes, the Times has a good mobile site). It's not a good full-featured site design.
As one of the designers of a major news organization redesign, it's very nice to do a pretty page but to honestly think you can get away with no ads is a not only a losing battle but one that doesn't take the needs of the client seriously.

I also like how the NYT's website looks like a newspaper with a variety of content. The redesign looks like a Wordpress template.
i think ALL bhorowitz blog posts should start with rap lyrics.
Am I the only one who thinks his 'redesign' just looks like any other blog?
And what's to prevent a "misunderstanding" from resulting in an innocent guy getting strung up by a self-righteous bunch who, in turn, terrorize honest people into not telling the government about real criminals? Have you thought this through? Have you read what went down with lynching in the US south at the turn of the century? Are you aware of what happens with vigilante para-militarism like that in Colombia?

If you want true "ends justify the means" style government, you'll actually want something a bit more like Russia, possibly Tito era Yugoslavia.

Just because I think the most responsible person shouldn't be assassinated in front of his children doesn't mean I didn't get angry at the idea of an arrogant Cisco overstepping its bounds and a DOJ all too happy to play lapdog.
Ask HN: Browser Extensions and XSS
Over the last week I've developed and released an extension for Chrome/Firefox that collapses and adds a toggle bar to each Google+ stream post.

I've also just released a bookmark that takes the extension code (from code.google.com) and injects it into the G+ page for those browsers that can't use the extension.

now, my understanding is that this is basically user-control cross-site scripting (XSS).

The thing is, it's exactly what all of the extensions are doing anyway, isn't it?

Is there something I'm missing?
No worries, I like to help when I can, part of the reason I took the news position in the first place :)
Just in your apartment and car? Perfectly possible. Just put RFID tags in everything and a bunch of readers on walls and inside the car.
How do you understand the charge of attempted murder then?

A man brings a gun to a political demonstration where a VIP with whom he violently disagrees will be arriving. He reaches the front of the crowd and as the VIP draws near, the gun slips from his pocket and he is arrested. Are you meaning to tell me he shouldn't be charged with attempted murder just because he hasn't yet pulled the gun out and engaged the trigger?

Just so you know, people have already been convicted under these circumstances, so the case law is already pretty clear.
It depends on the site. It can be slow on ridiculously huge sites (ahem, TechCrunch, Gothamist, Macrumors, etc), but in that case you can just switch them to the Feed view instead of the Original view. The Feed view is instantaneous and it's how you get the speed back on those sites.

It's not ideal, but that means you can still use Original view for the 90% of sites that you still want to see. Plus you can set the Feed view as the default and just switch to the Original view on a per-site basis.
Not to be a pain, the design is good, but there's no place to actually put an ad, considering the advertisements are one of their sources of revenue
I'm sorry we didn't adopt Christian architecture, in pre-Christian Africa. I find that to be subjective, simply a matter of taste. We have wildly different cultures so I should expect the same of our aesthetics. I find it absurd that you expect Greco-Roman or Gothic architecture in places that were never at any point under the respective empires. Black Africans did not share European sensibilities, and attempting to use that single, alien yardstick to gauge all civilizations under deprives you greatly from enjoying all the beauty humanity has got to offer. But that's your loss, not mine. I'm only able to appreciate the beauty of the Sistine Chapel because MY education system exposed me to your culture. This doesn't make me view the shrines of the Mijikenda as any less beautiful, nor the temples of my Hindu countrymen and women. Aquired tastes my friend. You're only looking to enforce your world view, and pathetic as I think that is, it's not my place to deny you.

Thanks for the Sicillian clarification BTW. I'll be sure to go there next time I'm in Greece. Oh, wait...
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The Kobo app is another ebook reader, like Kindle. The number of different things they tried to satisfy Apple is breathtaking. Last I heard (via the same Kobo developer on Twitter), one-star reviews of their new app have taken them from 4.5 stars to 2.5 stars in just a few days.