skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it drags in my interest I might try to rescue the article tomorrow. The lack of sources at the moment means it runs a reasonable chance of people mindlessly !voting delete.

(but to echo tptacek; if you are going to follow this link and comment on the proposed deletion ''please'' take a moment to review the notability policies and make a sensible, valid argument rather than the "this is ridiculous" sort that has already appeared. If anything, that sort of thing usually goes against the article)
Well, duh. Design is not art. Art is about beauty primarily. Design is about leading user where he wants to, be it content, product, or a graphic. Design is communication.

What this means to business-people/developers: you can have all the functionality and low prices in the world, but if no one can get what they want in time, it's all useless. There are no sales if the user can't get to the "Sell" button. There are no ad views if the content is hidden somewhere in .html files or is unreadable.
When I look at the ask page it appears two down from this one(this is #2 it is #4). It hasn't been flagged and has two responses.
This same story was posted on HN a few days ago. Since then there have been some articles crop up that claim that "solar-panel" trees are inferior.

13 year old makes cool stuff:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2902329

13 year old's stuff isn't so cool:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906538
The parallels to high end network security are again interesting here; for instance, on the more interesting network processors, memory accesses were asynchronous, and instead of a "cache" you had a manually addressed "scratch" memory with latency comparable to registers.

... because "general purpose cache" wasn't helpful, but "exploitable locality" definitely was.
Going back in history about five hundred years, I wonder if you could compare the Arabic dialects vs. classical Arabic to Romance languages vs. Latin.
Notch's 48-hour game: Prelude of the Chambered
I'm hugely passionate about SEO, but, perhaps anachronistically, I'd urge you to go with something brandable over something that's merely a keyword match.

Of course, if you can do both, and you love the name, that's awesome, but personally, I'd take an OKCupid brand name over "freeonlinedating.com" any day. It's harder to build up initially (the exact match may indeed have an easier time in many industries getting first page rankings for a single keyword phrase), but SEO and inbound marketing are a much broader field

You need people to search for you, know about you, tell their friends, bookmark your stuff, share your site on social services, email their friends/family and generally think positively about the brand. It's incredibly hard to do that with most exact match sites (hotels.com or pets.com being exceptions).

If you want to have your cake and eat it, too, you could go with something like "hipdating.com" (from the example above). Folks like Codecademy.com or even SEOmoz.org fit that profile.
Wait, what happened to the Software Crises of the past 30 years? You know, the one where somebody calculates how many programs are executing, and how many programmers need to do maintenance on these programs, and decides that current graducating rates of comp sci schools won't cut it.

Now, software is eating all the jobs? I don't get it. This is just more "Millenium Fever", similar to all the crapaganda in 1995-1999 about how the year "2000" was going to crash everything.
and they didn't bother to tell anyone about it?
They also don't account for people who have reentered the job force and are keeping unemployment up. So that criticism swings both ways. At any rate, I suspect people on this board who are interested in economics are aware of the limitations of the BLS's measuring quirks.

At any rate, all the actual data linked in this thread points to the view that unemployment is not at its peak since the great depression. Unless you post something credible to refute that, I'm going to assume that I was right about this point and that your hypothesis is unsupported.
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Yes, but launching an ICBM has the rather unfortunately consequence of telegraphing the message that you are about to nuke someone. Hence the program is a non-ballistic one that seeks an alternative means of delivering a payload as quickly. As a bonus, I gather that the HTV program promises to be more accurate.
> All PC makers are on razor thin margins...

I keep hearing this but then think I saved 30% by building my own PC so it doesn't ring true. Also I would expect HP to get parts at least 10-20% cheaper than a consumer increasing this margin. And the time assembling is not that much to warrant additional costs. Maybe because I have a high end rig there are some margins here... but in this context it feels like there are decent margins there to me.
We're CommonPlace USA, of Anytown, USA -- Massachusetts more than anything, but we're mostly distributed.

We are building a web platform that will help save civic America from the decentralization of modern communication. We are looking for one of two candidates:

1) Ruby on Rails backend developer. Must be willing to dabble in Javascript here and there, but mostly looking for the Ruby/Rails/database/architecture work.

2) Front-end guy. We have an awesome designer, and want to get his ideas into our code base as quickly as possible. Requires the obvious HTML/CSS/Javascript. HAML/SASS (with some familiarity with Rails -- not too much) is greatly appreciated, but certainly not a requisite.

This internship would be paid. Definitely. And we're looking for dedicated people who can start soon!

My e-mail address is in my profile -- we'd love to hear from you :)
Amazon Kindle's new logo (looks like a rifle sight picture?)
Take this as faddishness or not, but this sounds like README-driven development from Tom Preston-Werner: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-devel...
YUI - via http://refresh-sf.com/yui/ when I'm in a hurry.

Why, did you find errors, or room for improvement?
Yeah, that could work actually - I've purposefully left everything to do with symbols (apart from the standard dollar sign) up to the developer, to avoid bloat, but I can see a use case for the most common ones (along with default formatting for said symbols)
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> I never really understood the effort to purge Wikipedia of vanity pages and the like.

Well, think about it this way. I go to Wikipedia, create a page about myself and bits are cheap so nobody cares. There's nothing published about me, so none of the information there is reliable, but nobody's going to read it anyway, so nobody cares. Then I click over to Michael Jackson's page, scroll down to the "cultural influence" section and chime in that...

* [[C Dwyer]] is a big fan of and has been heavily influenced in his daily life by Jackson. He was really sad when Jackson died. [http://caseysite.com/blog/i-love-mj]

Bits are cheap right? All the world's information is important. Why should anybody reading about Michael Jackson be deprived of my opinion about him?

Clearly, there's a point where this becomes ridiculous. Notability has to be resolved sooner or later, so why not resolve it from the start? What makes Wikipedia intriguing is that articles can be interlinked to expand on and enhance each other. If an article cannot benefit other articles, much less does more harm than good, why include it?

I'm not a Wikipedia editor nor much of a Wikipedia user and I don't personally care how they conduct their business. If I were in charge of maintaining the integrity of something like Wikipedia, however, let's just say it would focus a whole lot more on quality than quantity than it currently does.

Would I include an article about Randal L. Schwartz in a general purpose encyclopedia? No. Would I include it in an encyclopedia about computer history and computer science? No. An encyclopedia about the history of Perl? Maybe a footnote.
We probably don't disagree.

I am making a tactical point, and you are making a strategic point.

Strategically: of course you should structure your interactions with clients so that you are paid for your time, ideas, and strategy.

Tactically: avoid being that firm that wants money just to provide a proposal.

We are literally just talking about different ways to word things.

And while I totally believe your firm "turned around" once you started asking people to pay to get proposals, in my universe, the first purchase order you get from a client comes with multiple weeks of legal negotiation over an MSA. Nobody is going to do that casually.
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This is a very odd perspective. Why is it a web design portfolio's job to convince you to care about good copywriting?

If your primary objective in hiring a website designer is something like SEO, improving conversions, or otherwise directly generating more revenue, obviously language like "ROI" and "Generate more business" can be a sign that a firm is focused on those aspects of design for the web. If I was looking for a firm that specialized in that area, I would prefer case studies that demonstrate concrete improvements to just an argument or mentioning certain buzzwords.

But lots of web design firms help their clients meet objectives besides immediately increasing business. For some companies, branding doesn't matter at all. But, for some companies, like say a fashion label, branding is extremely important. If they hired a designer who was focused on "ROI" and so forth, they would likely not only get a terrible product that doesn't match their needs, but see very little in the way of new business.

The "secret" of hiring a web designer is just being clear about what you want your new design to do, what your goals are for the design. Whatever those goals are, you should select a few designers whose work looks like it speaks to your goals, and tell them directly about what would constitute a successful design. Ask for examples of times they've successfully reached similar goals for a client in the past.
The problem here is I think that the style 'you like' may not be what you actually need. If it was that easy, there would be no need to articles telling you how to find a good designers. I agree that buzzword are not the best metric ever, it's easy to fake, but as an engineer I wouldn't trust my own taste either. By the way, I didn't like the design of site in the OP, but I guess the author is a good designer.
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There's also branding, marketing, advertising, floor space, sales staff, call center and after-sales support, as well as management time that your supplier didn't have to pay for (or not as much for).
This scramjet is not particularly large. A 747 on the other hand, while traveling 20-40x slower, could fit petabytes of data.
> Art is about beauty primarily.

Actually art is not really about beauty. Serious art is a lot like business, but with one important difference: art is about attracting a very select, discerning audience (while ignoring or even actively repelling the non-discerning audience). The way art works is that this very select, discerning audience will be willing to pay money to establish that very fact. In other words, art is about extracting money in exchange for exclusivity. Most businesses, of course, work in an entirely different mode: they extract money in exchange for service.
And from the other side, how many decades was AI approached from an ineffective direction because it was assumed that Lisp was good at it?
Project HN: Identify all non-confirming Wikipedia articles and edit them to fit the pattern.
How do you know if it's been flagged?
Nice list. The "Github repository" link for CloseTag points to Command-T.

Also the SuperTab repo you linked is a mirror of an obsolete vimscript. It has a new maintainer and that maintainer's repo is at https://github.com/ervandew/supertab.
Community -> Living -> Life -> Physical body -> Physics -> Natural science -> Science -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Information -> Sequence -> Mathematics -> Quantity -> Property (philosophy) -> Modern philosophy -> Philosophy

It's kind of like zooming in on what it means means to be alive in this universe. The fact that it ends at Philosophy is profound glimpse into what it means to be a thinking entity in the universe.

If we ever meet Aliens from another part of the galaxy, they would no doubt form similar knowledge structures that would probably end up being exactly like this. Their Wikipedias would end at Philosophy as well.
Good work in coming up a unknown design approach by yourself.

This is basically test driven development, or before that the object orient analysis. That guy interviewing you was following the object orient analysis approach. OO is sort of out of favor with all the functional fads in force.

OO Analysis is actually quite elegant, despite all the complication added later on. It can simply go by this:

1. Describe in English what your system will do. Be specific about the actors involved and their actions.
e.g. Let a user projects earnings and expenses over a period of time; summarize net effect.

2. Pick out all the interesting nouns and all the verbs. The nouns become your classes and the verbs become the methods.

3. Pick out the interactions between the nouns. Added those as methods on the receiving classes. Figure out the data of the interaction, which becomes the method parameters.

From that you can do the TDD approach to build the tests to exercise the skeleton code according to your system description. And from that fill out the actual functionality of each method as you run each unit test.
Rand, thanks for chiming in... I'm actually a recent client of yours and absolutely love your service!

Not to change subjects, but why do you use the .org (even though you own the .com)? What was your reasoning behind this decision?
I do all(not counting using the textarea inside the web
browser) of my editing inside vim. Even when I need to
use a word processor, I first type my content inside vim
and then open the word processor to format it.

If he were an Emacs user, he could format his text using Emacs' Org mode rather than copying the text to a word processor. Text formatted using Org mode can be exported to numerous formats, including HTML, LaTeX, and PDF. Also, if he were an Emacs user, he could use Org mode to create and edit spreadsheets, limiting his use of an office suite to an even greater degree.
Actually, isn't the concept of a kana-only character system how early, domestically-marketed microcomputers in Japan did in fact work? The only example I can think of is a home entertainment console, but the Nintendo Family Computer generally used kana with a few highly common kanji.
Fabulous, bold idea, and a win as much for her as well as Alsop Louie and the students of the bay area.
I think it has more to do with how encyclopedia articles are formatted. The first sentence always describes the broader subject which the topic resides in. I view it more as zooming out from topics that matter, each time you do so you lose resolution and only see a fuzzier image.
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The current title of this article is "Amazon Kindle's new logo (looks like a rifle sight picture?)".

That is ridiculous editorializing. There is absolutely no evidence that this is going to be the Kindle's new logo; in fact, even suggesting that demonstrates that the submitter didn't read the article, or even skim it. The logo (and name) being trademarked is that of Lab126, the group at Amazon which developed the Kindle. Amazon is expected to be releasing a tablet soon, and this article theorizes that either Amazon is growing more serious about defending the name and logo, or possibly that the name and logo would be used in a future tablet. It does not even hint at the possibility that the logo would be used for the Kindle.

The article's original title, "Amazon seeks Lab126 trademarks in advance of expected tablet debut", is far superior.
That doesn't mean Latin is not a useful key to learning other languages for native English speakers.

English lacks many of the concepts that exist in a lot of European languages; no grammatical gender, almost no noun case, verb conjugation has little inflexion, etc, etc. Since Latin possesses these features it is a useful reference language for many European and even many non-European languages.

Now, I'm not sure where you're from exactly, but a lot of the languages in the former Soviet block also do tend to exhibit a lot of these features so Latin would probably not be as needed there.
I think this is why they are called "ballistic missiles." They fall to earth as if they were an artillery round.
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Also, can't you just use Google to view the cached version?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy&...
If installing the pyflakes fails, as in [0], do:

git clone --recursive

or

git submodule update --init --recursive

/via sethwoodworth

[0] https://github.com/kevinw/pyflakes-vim/issues/27
Printing is not the killer feature you think it is – especially for a device like a tablet (consumption oriented and in many cases a great replacement for paper).
Hint: At the beginning punch through the wall with the space bar.
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Software is eating the world
Does this mean that soon I (software developer) may be making as much as a doctor, or maybe a football player?
This is how I approach project design as well (after the POC phase): Top down (API first). Then (not covered in parent article) bottom-up, (a.k.a. what building blocks does that API need?). _Everything else is just glue._

If you exclusively do one or the other, you end up in bad territory. Top-Down: Results in excessively bloated API logic. Bottom-Up: You end up with a muddy API, that is overly complicated & hard to use (it's more of a RPC lib than an API).
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I'm with you on this one. I favor something brandable vs. just a pure keyword match.

And, having your cake and eating it too is not that hard. Start with a root keyword and modify to make it brandable.
Thank you, it looks terrific! Just ordered it now and can't wait to dig in.
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I know of several enterprise customer asking for iPad apps but come up with WTF it can't print?
I get the point, but it starts to become annoying when people repeatedly propose deletion of pages nobody with an IQ above room temperature would consider deleting.
It seems Notch finished the game. He uploaded it here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/ld48/index.html
I don't get why this type of news fascinates people. I mean her being 20 year old and VC. Why this circumstance/context makes this event so special? Would her age attribute to being better at what she does? Why this news deserve my or anyone's attention? I do agree this event might be unusual or rare, but that can go to anything - e.g. if some VC wears gigantic green hat at board meetings, is it also amazing?
I don't see anything wrong...with a little steak sauce and a nice fresh salad, I'm sure they taste the same as a good Morton's steak.
> i guess the question is - to what extent should wikipedia cull entries for people who are no longer as famous as they one were?

This has been addressed, somewhat, but I'll say a bit more about it.

This is, sorry to say, a wrongheaded approach. Editorial decisions should be made with some prescience, or at least an attempt at it. To suggest that a contrary approach is an acceptable one has a couple of negative effects:

1. There's the obvious problem, which is that it says after a threshold has been reached, it's okay that this stuff will be lost. Not even through neglect or inaction, but as a matter of policy and very deliberate action. This is, in a word, dumb.

2. It encourages people to spend unfortunate levels of effort on ephemera that's just going to disappear. To put it another way, it squanders an already-scarce resource on stuff that doesn't matter in the long run. That's a lot of churn, and there's enough as it is.
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The way I'm most comfortable programming is a sort of head-first approach. You have a feature you need and an idea of how to design it and then you just start writing. It should compile at any time (within reason), and you'll see the bits and pieces of your feature come to life. You'll catch bugs quickly because you won't have written much at any one time.

It's usually messier, though. An hour of just cleaning the code really helps as I always end up with a method that should have been broken up into 2 or more.
I'm stating this earnestly to try and explain why I think you're receiving a negative reaction. You'll chose how to take it. I sincerely mean no offense by it.

You're being downvoted because you are arguing a point that no one is making.

No one is saying that SAP and Autonomy are in the same business.

It's almost like you're choosing not to get it, just so you can talk about the differences between SAP and Autonomy.

This is, more or less, the thesis of Gruber's post:

> The thing is, Apotheker’s relevant experience was serving as CEO of SAP. What’s SAP? SAP is an enterprise software and consulting company. Honestly, we all should have seen this coming. You don’t bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn around a PC and device maker. You bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn a PC and device maker into an enterprise consulting company.

The only portion of the post where Gruber makes even a remotely questionable comparison is this statement:

> Autonomy — a company I’d never heard of before but which more or less sounds like a rival to SAP

He off-handedly likens Autonomy to SAP. Maybe that's wrong, but it doesn't matter.

Follow us all here:

Fact: HP was a hardware products company.

Fact: Apotheker was head of SAP, an "enterprise consulting" company.

Inference: Apotheker is going to take HP in an "enterprise consulting" direction, not a "hardware products" direction.

Arguing whether Autonomy and SAP are the same business is tangential to the point.
It's been many years since, I've lived in a dorm, but the Austin nightlife is surprisingly structured into groups. I'm going to work on identifying and targeting a small/close connected group and try to get them to start using the site.
Get some more clients from your current clients
I wish I had something profound to say other than, "Thanks for posting."
Like I said downthread: this article actually was crappy. The AfD is going to improve it.
I think I might be able to do this. Its getting the first users on the site that is that hardest part. But in a few hours, I will go out and see if I can start recruiting users. (Coding is far easier than motivating people)
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I'm going to need an aggregator for my social aggregators between Huddle, GroupMe, Social Hub, Buzz, Foursquare, IM and SMS.
> The real question to ask is why does anyone take wikipedia serious as a source these days?

Who's saying you should? And what's different about "these days" versus, I don't know, 2005? Feel free to substitute there your favorite year from any point on the timeline of Wikipedia nostalgia.

Edit: Goddamn. I really hate to do it, but challenges, please?

The notion that you can/should/could ever trust Wikipedia is some weird inference that has been tacked on by uninvolved bystanders following Wikipedia's success, and does not originate from within Wikipedia. Wikipedia's stance on the reputability of itself and other tertiary sources is as well documented as the limitations of liability in GNU software.