skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Top 5 Fatal Blogging Mistakes and How To Avoid Them
Sorry, off topic. But the red design of the tables is awful.
Some nice examples, if a bit unfair since the JS is clearly compiled from the CoffeeScript rather than hand-coded. In fact, the last example reveals a bug in CoffeeScript—the function

(x, y) ->
for game_piece in @game_pieces
if game_piece.is_at x, y
@held_item = game_piece
@held_item.start_dragging x, y
break

compiles to

function(x, y) {
var game_piece, _i, _len, _ref, _results;
_ref = this.game_pieces;
_results = [];
for (_i = 0, _len = _ref.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
game_piece = _ref[_i];
if (game_piece.is_at(x, y)) {
this.held_item = game_piece;
this.held_item.start_dragging(x, y);
break;
}
}
return _results;
}

Notice that _results is initialized as an empty array... and is never modified, making it an utterly pointless return value. What's happening is that the CoffeeScript compiler has both implicit returns and list comprehensions, which means that it tries to return an array of all the values in the loop. All well and good, but the compiler doesn't try to do a list comprehension when there's a break... and yet it creates the frivolous _results variable anyway.

Obviously I'm a fan of CoffeeScript; this is a minor bug and I expect it to be fixed. But let's be fair in making the case for it. Well-written JavaScript will always look better than CoffeeScript output; it just takes a lot more work.
The Schools We Need
Anybody want to start a YC or HN league?

=]
Why rejecting expertise has become a campaign strategy (and why it scares me)
Plan to revive 1970s UK satellite
This analysis has very little to do with User Research. The analysis is all about a fundamental difference in the approach that Microsoft and Apple take to file management.

Microsoft's solution may not be "elegant" or changing their current paradigm, but a paradigm shift is very difficult, especially when you have to accomodate many legacy users. Microsoft's solution always looked (to me) like a decent incremental solution that would work for the Windows user base. What's wrong with that? It may not be as elegant as it can be, but it's definitely not as ugly as so many are making it out to be. And if it works, what's wrong with that?
Do you spend more time searching for new entertainment than enjoying it?
So far, I've seen every Knockout feature implemented directly or indirectly (via plugins) in Backbone.js
Don't feel bad. I'm a cool 900.
This is obviously an attempt to test the constitution. In Mexico the flag is almost considered sacred. This is pretty much the same as burning flags in the U.S. and you have to decide which value is bigger. Freedom of speech of the the flag.
Tata to sell $675 flat-pack house
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Is Al Gore asking permission to spam from your social networking account?
Yes, I use it at work (I use Office 2003 at home). I've grown up on 20 years of Microsoft Word (since Word 2.0 on DOS) so I'm very familiar with the menu system, and I know the features that I need. So Ribbon is annoying for me. I'm sure for new users it's not annoying at all, because it's all they know, and they might find the menu system hard to use.

Hence my point that for new users who tried to migrate to OpenOffice or Google Docs, they would find the menu interface unfamiliar and annoying. I think MacOS is annoying because I can only resize a Window from the bottom right-hand corner, but I'm told they changed that in Lion, which my guess is that it's to appease old farts like me that want to migrate to MacOS. So Apple is doing the reverse, which is to make their OS more palatable (but not completely change) for die-hard Windows users.
This is a pretty common position amongst competitive gamers, but I disagree with it strongly.

I think that the issue is that people feel cheated if they are in the zone/on a perfect run, and have that pulled from under them by chance. However, I would contest that having some risk makes it more exciting.

Another likely issue is the fear that your tactics and your highly drilled skills might become less relevant if some elements of the game are based on chance/randomized. It essentially negates some of your time investment in the game. For myself, I think that it's more interesting to have to adapt your tactics to new situation. I also find the skills that a game involving chances emphasizes tend away from the repetitive and towards general strategy, for example: map knowledge becomes less important compared to scouting.
These CSS buttons seem inferior to plain old sprited buttons, which give designers complete control and work perfectly in all browsers.
Finder is not all about beauty. What I like most about Finder (which makes me cry every time I have to use Windows) is QuickLook. It's SO much easier to quickly glance at a document than anything WE has to offer.

I personally hate ribbons, but I think for the average user they are great, and much easier to use. So I'm not defending Apple here, I'm just saying that It's not all about beauty or slickness; Finder is also powerful, but in its own ways (only if it had tabs...)
> In my opinion the Ribbon UI may be one of the biggest innovations in UI Microsoft did during the 00's

While I agree, I'm not sure it's really a good idea for a program as conceptually simple as the explorer. The Ribbon was designed to clarify and simplify very complex interfaces and menu hierarchy (Office's), in order to make features both more visible and more accessible.

In Explorer, it seems to become little more than a glorified toolbar with HUGE buttons.

Definitely not sold on W8's explorer, especially not since I find 7's to already be a downgrade from XP's
Needs another poll answer next time - 'Never in recorded history'.

Or at least, '25+ generations'.
I don't think we need any new laws for this:

* If someone committed a crime, then they will usually be in jail (a pretty effective way to be denied employment!)
* If they've also violated an SEC statute (or settled with the SEC), they will often be barred from the securities industry for life by the SEC. Examples include Michael Milken and Henry Blodget. Or they can be barred for life from serving as an officer or director of any public company (examples include Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide Financial).

We don't need new ways to blackball people. We have a powerful system of civil and criminal statutes that do a great job of doing that. The problem is that nobody is being prosecuted for any crimes by state or federal prosecutors, or by federal agencies like the SEC. That's the real problem to solve.
The Y combinator in Javascript
Find Out The Floklore Behind Nightmares
He misses the point entirely. If one wants to do in Windows what he suggests is so integral to Finder one uses the
"recent files" link in the Start menu or any open file dialog. The purpose of the original blog post was to improve what Windows Explorer was designed to do - manage large sets of files and folders.
you know why LISP failed?

EMACS
Are you sure about this? Github uses DigiCert, which has nothing to do with DigiNotar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCert

* Server certificate:
*	subject: businessCategory=Private Organization; 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3=US; 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2=California; serialNumber=C3268102; C=US; ST=California; L=San Francisco; O=GitHub, Inc.; CN=github.com
*	start date: 2011-05-27 00:00:00 GMT
*	expire date: 2013-07-29 12:00:00 GMT
*	subjectAltName: github.com matched
*	issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; OU=www.digicert.com; CN=DigiCert High Assurance EV CA-1
*	SSL certificate verify ok.
I think you should take a look on this: https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.modelbinding
Help me understand.

In one corner, we have PKI protocol whose trust roots are configurable, so much so that every mainstream browser has point-and-click UI to change them. It so happens that this protocol is also the de facto standard with 15+ years of deployment history.

In the other corner, we have a PKI protocol that, instead of providing configurable trust, hardcodes trust into DNS names. Instead making point-and-click configuration changes, to alter the PKI roots in this scheme you'd have to "violate" the standards of one of the core Internet protocols by building and deploying a noncompliant DNS resolver.

Kragen, why on earth do you prefer the second solution to the first?
Reread the comment you responded to: It was not suggesting this is the new official Linux repo, as that was already addressed in grandparent's comment. The question under discussion was what linus would do with a pull request on github, so your smiling correction was unnecessary. For sure. :)
5+ and 0. about two years ago i traced back to a family of three who arrived in new amsterdam from france in 1621. it was an unexpected thrill to know my family tree from so far back... and then i went and moved to argentina : )
This poll may not be intended to be US centric but I think the interest in it mostly is.
QuickLook is a brilliant power user tool which I wish Explorer had - but, like many of Finder's features, it's hardly discoverable without either hearing about it first, or being willing to press random keys to see what they do (which many computer users are very unwilling to do.)
I still click around in MacVim sometimes (mostly for navigating deep NERDtree hierarchies and for selecting text within a line).

It's all about what's going to be fastest and take the least amount of mental context switching. I didn't choose vim because it's so hard to move to the mouse occasionally, I chose it because some things are much faster/easier than in TextMate, and for some things the mouse is still faster.

Sure, from a purist point of view it's terrible, but I think vim mastery has diminishing returns at some point (granted, it's a pretty far point up the learning curve).
"Why should anyone's choice of CA determine trust" is not equivalent to "why should any site's choice of top level domain determine trust". Users control CAs. They do not control TLDs.

If you dislike the CA model that HTTPS/SSL has, you should have your spear pointed at DNSSEC.

Like I said upthread, we probably agree regarding the current HTTPS/SSL PKI.
Ruby implementation benchmarks
Hmmmm, thanks for that tip! I'll try it out!
Free gifts with mobile phones
Oracle to buy HP? Stranger things have happened
That classic scenario originated in an opinion supporting jailing someone for handing out flyers opposing the WWI draft, during a period in American history when jailing people for antiwar speech or speech encouraging Socialism or Communism was frequent. It has been superceeded by law and decisions more in accordance with the First Amendment at least half a dozen times since.

The definition of free speech that that argument was used to defend was the Espionage Act of 1917 which:

o Made it a crime to convey information with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies, punishable by death or by imprisonment for not more than 30 years or both,

o Made it a crime to convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, punishable by a maximum fine of $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 20 years or both,

o Made it a crime to promote the success of its enemies when the United States is at war, punishable by a maximum fine of $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 20 years or both,

o Made it a crime to cause or attempt to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, punishable by a maximum fine of $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 20 years or both, and

o Made it a crime to willfully obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, punishable by a maximum fine of $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 20 years or both.

The Sedition Act of 1918 extended this to:

o Make it a crime to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt, and

o Give the Postmaster General the right to go through mail and refuse to deliver any that did any of these things while the United States was at war.

This resulted in about 1500 prosecutions and 1000 convictions for speech, and the sentences were generally between 5 and 20 years.

Not a good precedent.
On my phone so I can't accurately find it, but there was an ad for a Nintendo game (Wario: Shake It) that added gravity to Youtube. It was done fantastically. Someone should link that.
Or you can specify the register name. Don't limit yourself to the unnamed register.
I love this article and having worked with Apple on the outside (from the music business) it rings true. It was really interesting to see where the two businesses collided because at heart, Steve Jobs operates a lot like a music executive: decisive, intuitive and driven by taste, not market.

However he was able to shape the company around that vision holistically where because of the mergers and such in the music business, that mentality only pervaded labels, not corporate.

As a label exec once said to me in a moment of frustration: "he treats technology like I treat music, and we depend on each other in certain aspects of our business. But he has a lot more business outside of mine and I hate him for it."
The major difference between disrespecting the flag in Mexico and burning the flag in the US is that burning the flag in the US is legal.
On the upside you have the amazing breadcrumbs... I do prefer Windows 7's explorer to any other version before.
I found neither the original article nor any comment here rude. Some are blunter than others, but I didn't find anything that I felt like anyone should be offended by. He didn't call anyone an idiot, he just said they're wrong. I think calling people wrong is reasonable in the space of web discussion/debate.
ok...So I did find these button "awesome", but then I do not claim to have a great eye for design. Can you point me to some buttons which you can classify as "awesome"
A minor note: "konnen" is not a German word. I assume the author meant "konnten" (past form) vs "könnten" (2nd Konjunktiv/imperfect subjunctive).
I'm happy to modify it if you can suggest improvements. I don't have the greatest eye for design.
No. It's at technical term that crops up naturally in the discussion of e.g. continuations and closures.
Depends on your definition of worst-case behaviour.
Cuts are not a bad thing though. They are a part of the rhythm of the narrative and when a movie is edited properly they are a device that binds and moves things.

Dissecting a movies cuts is always fascinating though. One of the Film Studies 101 exercises is to story-board the gas station explosion in The Birds. I like doing cut analysis on animated films, because they have to be so deliberate. Films are edited in a winnowing approach, but animation (because of the cost per frame) is edited first, then filled in second.

When I was doing a lot of editing in school my approach was to use markers first to set a beat for the mood of the piece (sometimes relating to music, a presence track or even just a bpm/heartbeat), and edit to that.

If you want to read about editing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_Effect

The original experiment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gLBXikghE0

A case study in editing:
The Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potempkin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-v-kZzfec

The Birds gas station scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-HYj5cLfEI
Electric motor made of a single molecule.
At the risk of sounding like a *chan user:

>implying that LISP failed
Facebook deletes hacked Pages, ruins years of hard work
During my undergrad time (circa 2002), I spent around 6 months using nothing but Vim. I really wanted to "grok" it.

Even after learning a lot of the commands and the different modes, it never grew on me.

I think it is a shame as I touch-type and try to minimize the use of the mouse via shortcuts.
I'm not sacrificing my objectivity. I wouldn't post a link to something merely for the money. But since I'm posting a link to something I feel is worthwhile, I might as well put some money in the stash for more Kindle books.
I really enjoyed watching that, though not really from the standpoint of an entrepreneur. What I really took from that video was how important a support structure is. It sounds like he wouldn't have gone as far as he did without his brother and mother being behind him 100% for years. Every time he had a failure, there were people there to help him get past it and learn from it instead of getting discouraged. He gained this support structure by being so passionate about his game that he made his mother believe in him.
Send email using ASP.Net
Chef on steroids
I didn't take that as an anti-intellectualism slight. People who write tech pieces on the web, be it on blogs or tech publications, are more computer savvy than the the majority of computer users. If you don't believe this, go watch the Google on-the-street video asking people what a browser is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ).

I was one of those power users who hated the ribbon when it was introduced in Office 2007. But my wife and kids - they loved it.

[Edit - since I can't reply to thread below (why is that?)]

I sell an Excel add-in, so I have a different perspective than most power users. The ribbon is a pain to program compared to the old command bars, making me dislike it at first. I've learned to appreciate it, though, because it's a lot easier to convey the add-in's features via the ribbon than it is using 16x16 icons on a command bar.
Poze cercei. Modele şi idei pentru a fi inspirat(a).
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Finder is also powerful, but in its own ways (only if it had tabs...)

TotalFinder to the rescue!

http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/
Back around 2004 I was a heavy Opera user. One of the things I loved was the Z and A shortcuts to go to the Back and Forward.

I have tried to setup the same shortcuts in Firefox without success (actually, trying to personalize key bindings in Fx is a mess).
Do absolutely nothing. Move on. It's like an auto accident. Plenty of reasons to feel anger. No reasons to act on those feelings.
Go->Computer will get you to the "root directory", as the Finder understands it.
I'm an 'immigrant', but I guess I don't feel like one for whatever reason, because it'd be pretty easy to pick up and move back to the US.

On the US side, let's see... probably 4?
It's actually fun to use Kuler to do the palettes for the Matrix. They did the whole complimentary triad thing in spades with both looks.
Bill Gates on Github
French Hugenot (prodestant refugees from France) is the closest I've gotten.
0.5? Born outside the US but I'm a naturalized citizen since my mother is a citizen. My father is an immigrant (and yes he has his own startup).
I think Batman.js(by the Shopify guys) would be a good competitor in the space too.
they tried to pass reform, but the office in charge of it keeps getting its funding blocked by congress.
I am not a design expert either. But red tables on dark background feel uncomfortable for eyes when you are in a dark room. I'd suggest to make them darker (which will also add some contrast to the white text) and to use a more neutral color.
I've used Office/OO.o/LibreOffice/WordPerfect for most of my life and had no problem with the ribbon. I've used thousands of interfaces across several OS families, so maybe neither of us has a clue. Bias and anecdata are hard to see past.

Are you sure you're not extrapolating your use case into the audience MS is targeting?

And I'm not sure this is a problem. From my perspective, the ribbon is a huge improvement. Should Microsoft focus on cross-OS metaphors? I want them to focus on improving their product.
Foursquaropoly
AND your input with 0xAAAAAAAA (ie 101010...10 binary) to turn all the "11" values into "10".
Go back far enough and countries pop in and out of existance.

Were there several countries in Ireland back then? Kings of Lenister/Munster/Meath, etc.? We'll get our cow back, etc.
The problem with this poll is that it has a strong bias built into it. Those with recent ancestors who immigrated (such as parents or grandparents) will be able to answer this question fairly easily. Those who do not will find this question difficult to answer unless they have good records of their family tree.

I'm not aware of any immigrants in my family tree, but I'm only aware of my ancestry two generations back, so I can't answer the poll accurately without additional research. It isn't really worth my time to do that, so I'm not going to answer the poll.

Assuming I'm not a rare exception, the way your poll is worded will therefore be biased toward recent immigrants and people who know a lot about their family tree. Without knowing how much this bias is, there's not a whole lot you can conclude from the results.

You may want to setup an additional poll, such as:

* I am an immigrant

* At least one of my parents was an immigrant

* At least one of my grandparents was an immigrant

My guess is that more people could answer that poll than your current one, and you'd therefore get less bias.
Some developers who were previously making ~$90-$110,000 would take positions to $70 - $90,000 for a large financial conglomerate with "bonus" potential as a carrot. Those bonuses trended towards $20,000 (so, a loss, and working 70 hours a week (on the Operations side of the Dev time, see below)).

For a Jr at a hedge fund, you should be aiming for $70,000 minimum, then, provide enough value for a $40,000 bonus (hedge fund'esque).

You don't go Around your third-party recruiter, because he is representing you. Could cause problems (am I wrong in this? I've negotiated (upwards typically) salaries at financial / ecomm firms, the companies Expect part of the fee is not dealing with the headache of "back and forth" between a candidate). On the other hand, I've had candidates I don't represent ask advice on negotiations (when they have gone on their own to a firm).

Anyway, most of your comp will be in the form of bonus, but, you shouldn't be taking a horrendous (what, $40, $50k) base salary just because you were previously making such. The fact that you are in offer stage means they are Interested.

It also depends on the "side" of the business you are on (support (or Operations) vs revenue). If you are building tools for the traders, you are higher value.

Cheers!
Nonsense! They launched here without any interesting title, only old movins and TV Series that suck more than the stories of my grandfather! Jesus what´s the problem of big international companys with our contry!? Dont we deserve something even barely watchable?
Under Linux I always run vim in a terminal. Part of this is habit because I (in the past) often edit files on remote computers and I like the consistency.

On my mac I end up using MacVim mostly so that my Vim and Terminal apps can be considered separate apps for the purpose of things like spaces, and it just seemed to integrate a little better with the Mac infrastructure.

But in general I haven't found a reason to prefer a GUI version over a terminal version when a sufficiently capable terminal is available.
First Nations (Native American) on my father's side (so, 1,000?) — and 4 generations on my mother's.