skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many problems with this way of drawing charts, but here are some of them:

1) Bars need to be drawn from the axis. In this chart, the down-facing bars actually start at a positive number, which makes them look longer than they should be.

2) Comparing two sets of numbers by mirroring them across the X axis is a bad idea because it's visually difficult to compare them. Made even worse by #1.

3) Using buildings to represent bars, really? Why do that when the black bar used for the negative bars is so much more readable?

4) What are the coloured discs at the foot of each building for?
Cisco NX-OS piping options
Ask HN: Small weekend projects, making some money and planning to flip?  
I want to gain some experience in owning and running a small website service/app/product. I am planning to buy any wesite which is making some money (even if it is less its OK), reasonable traffic and has low maintenance.

I looked at flippa, but it seems there is more noise and are over priced.

From this Thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029771, I could see many hackers have done a great job and developed many webapps over time either for a learning exercise or for fun. I know some might be feeling to flip them for profit or to concentrate on other things clearing those small things.

So, is anyone out there planning to flip their weekend project which you think now is a overhead for you or from which you want to make some quick money (few hundred $$ ). Then shoot me a mail: techynirvana [at] gmail[.]com
Happy Birthday Google - Google turns 13
Facebook traffic isn't in decline.

16% of all US online time is spent on Facebook. That's up from 11% 1 year ago and 14% a quarter ago.

http://allthingsd.com/20110926/the-facebook-chart-that-freak...

I suspect the metric used in reports like http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/13/available-data-show... rely too much on page loads. Facebook's increasing use of Ajax breaks a lot of 3rd party measurement metrics.
I use CloudFlare to manage my zones for free :/
Understanding the link economy
After being one of the 800 people in the room last night, I found it exhilarating that so many locals were interested in developing start-ups. What was some type of founder "dating". I was interested in healthcare and technology and randomly found a few individuals last night in the crowd. That random start-up up luck is what PG spoke of last night and was created artificially at the YCNYC last night. It happens all the time "in the wild" in Silicon Valley, as a by product of the culture. What we needed is similar type events and culture change in NYC to make such events more accessible and common place.
I have a growing stack of machines I refuse to throw out. My wife hates me, but when we have to re-boot after the Info-Apocalypse, this stack is going to be worth its weight in homegrown rice and subsistence farmed guinea pig flesh ..
Like many others here, I switched to pinboard a while ago. And strangely enough, even though that is run by a single person, I trust it more to respond to users wishes and generally be updated. Don't care about the social aspects, so the user base really doesn't matter to me. I want my bookmarks managed, if somebody else has to share something, blogs and twitter are sufficient, I don't need to bookmark-stalk someone…

And is it just me or did their default bookmarklet add those silly stacks, but drop tag autocompletion?
Engaging Steve Jobs story/interview from 2005 [long]
Kodak is worth less than tumblr
Rewriting an old VB.NET WebForms app as an ASP.NET Web Pages app with Razor
This is incorrect:

- (void) dealloc
{
self.caption = nil;
self.photographer = nil;
[super dealloc];
}

Using the dot syntax will invoke a setter whose implementation might change if the class is subclassed, which can be the cause of subtle errors. Also, if you're using KVO (Key-Value Observing), invoking the setter might notify observers who then try to work with a (partially) deallocated object.

This is standard:

- (void) dealloc
{
[caption release];
[photographer release];
[super dealloc];
}
The 2011 Tour de France
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3034573

HN really needs a trailing-slash-insensitive equality operator.
Route53 is an excellent service, and the latest price reduction makes it even more attractive - but using the API directly as an end user is a little cumbersome, especially for cloud servers.

A while ago I thought "wouldn't it be great if when launching a cloud server some magic would happen and the server would get assigned a human/friendly name of my choice? I'm tired of remembering IP addresses, and logging into my DNS management console to setup records."

Following that thought we added Domain management and a free dynamic DNS service to the TurnKey Linux Hub.

If anyone is interested:

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/hub-domains (announcement)

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/hubdns (documentation)

https://github.com/turnkeylinux/hubdns (source code)
>TL;DR - Zynga's profits are a sign that they have doubled down on acquisitions to counter-balance a market shift from web to mobile.

That is not the right summary. Aquisitions are not expenses. They are spent from the 'capital/capital reserves'. So the act of acquiring doesn't hurt the company's profitability directly. However if all the acquired companies are making losses, those losses will now become zynga's losses. So right now the cost of running zynga is huge and that is not too good a thing as compared to its revenues
Will they post a list of all the attendees from last nights event in some type of directory?

I know the whiteboard was posted before the event, but many people I meet last night did not fill it out and did not know about it.

#ycnyc Growing list of attendees: http://123.writeboard.com/wtbsn341igep2zvx - Pwd: Second full word of invitation e-mail and sender first name. lcase/nospace
IMO, the Farmvilles and Mafia Wars of the world are only problematic if they crowd out resources and attention available to produce higher quality games. I have yet to see any evidence to that effect. I'm not saying it's not out there; I'm simply saying that I haven't seen any. Farmville isn't preventing the next Chrono Trigger from getting made, as far as I can tell.

In fact, there's a reasonable, if counterintuitive, argument to be made that Zynga's success is helping the gaming industry as a whole -- by making video games more mainstream, and thereby reducing the stigma traditionally associated with them. In turn, more investment dollars flow into the gaming startup space, and this means that more games get made. So the gamer wins.

I'd love to see some analysis that counterbalances Zynga's effect on the size of the gaming industry vs. its effect on the quality of games being made. That would be an interesting study.
I just did a search for Kevin rose. Wtf? Where are all the old bookmarks??? They ruined it! There's only 3 results!
So, I can't post from my client any more, ifttt's connection to it also seems to be broken, the posting bookmarklet isn't doing autocomplete, and the forums have been washed away.

This isn't a great start, really.
>And is it just me or did their default bookmarklet add those silly stacks, but drop tag autocompletion?

no, its not just you! its done it for me too! its so frustrating!
My browser crashed when I tried to create a stack!
"Spotify is not an independent company, they are a puppet of the recording industry"

Well put.
Create an interactive street view with jQuery
A turner of phrases quite pleasin'
Had a penchant for trick'ry and teasin'
In his songs the last line
Might seem sans design
What I mean is: without why or wherefore.

--Douglas Hofstadter
Anybody who can pick up Objective-C from a single HTML page is unlikely to be such a beginner that they are flummoxed, confused or unduly influenced by this code.
Delicious drops the ball on their API
I doubt we're unique - sites around the internet with heavy Delicious integrations are screaming to a halt.

If you check out their tools page (http://delicious.com/help/tools) you'll notice the developer documentation is "coming soon". Yet basic functionality like the feeds.delicious.com URL are now returning a 404.

You can use the same API structure as previously http://delicious.com/v2/json/tbull001 and it will return a result that has the same structure as before (or at least the same elements I used in my code previously).

But what I've noticed about this is that instead of ALL of my links, the end point now only shows me the links that are new since I transitioned to Delicious.

In general Delicious seemed to do a pretty good job communicating with users - they've done a terrible job letting developers know changes are coming. Or did I miss something?

Is anyone else having issues? How are you resolving them?
How to Prevent Bed Bugs Effectvely: Treat Bed Bugs
I thought it was a reference to Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters (for some reason, it was deemed a good idea to have 9th grade students read the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test)
There are both architectural errors with this website and original content issues.

I see no brazen violation of the Webmaster Guidelines demanding a penalty. As far as I know, manual penalties (and their cause) get communicated through Google Webmaster Tools.

What I do see is architectural issues.

http://www.explore.to/usa/ks/alma/

Is an empty page, that is linked to from the homepage. For listing websites: Don't put up pages for which you have no content.

The search result pages are indexable too. Even though the post claims they have blocked these pages in robots.txt, they aren't:

hxxp://www.explore.to/listing/usa/ks/alma/see/arts-entertainment-events/arcades-amusements/

(Won't link as to not pollute your index).

These pages wreak havoc on your crawl budget.

Then on to the issue of original content:

http://www.explore.to/listing/2/the-vagabond-miami.html

This isn't content that will ever perform well in search engines. I'd even go so far as to say these results pollute the search results. They are an address and hopefully a tiny copied description. What added value does this have for a visitor? What added value does this have for a search engine to present high up in the results?

Look at how Yelp or LinkedIn got people to enter content on their listing pages. Or even Yahoo, look at all the widgets added to listings, to increase the content size and relevancy.

You even use Facebook comments (which are not crawled all that well by Googlebot, seeing they are javascript and reside on the Facebook server, not yours). Any user generated content to make pages more unique, you freely donate to Facebook, instead of adding it to your pages in plain text.

Conclusion: No (manual) penalty, but bad non-engaging duplicate content listings combined with a poor site architecture that allows zillions of page combinations with meager to no content on them. The issue is confounded by not making sure your site is canonical:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-y...

Site architecture and SEO is massively important for the success or failure of these kinds of websites, and both seem quite poorly thought out at a glance.

If the site is young, the initial boost in rankings (honeymoon period), will decay overtime and settle together with your page authority, content quality etc. If you see a decrease in visitors, you could attribute it to this initial popularity, instead of a penalty. Current visitor numbers might reflect your content / site quality a lot better.

Look at how SEOmoz helped Yelp produce a solid strategy: http://www.quora.com/How-do-StackOverflow-and-Yelp-achieve-s...
Mobile safari login fails silently. Arggh.
Must look for alternatives.
How long before we can expect new results/analysis from Fermilab?

p.s Healthy discussion going on at ResearchGate.

http://www.researchgate.net/topic/Physics/post/What_do_you_t...
Do you need cloud providers (IaaS, PaaS) catalogue/community site?
Have you experienced any pain comparing and choosing the right cloud providers (compare budget, reading about possible problems and so on? How did you overcome that, if any?
>I guess the pundit class needs to justify their existence somehow.

You're blindly defending the one you like by refusing to see the larger picture.

You're conflicting two very different issues. The changes in location of control don't necessarily tie to the changes in price or upgradeability.

I use web "apps" that I pay for, some of them even require a large purchase for major-version upgrades. I use free, automatically self-updating desktop software. Free user-initiated update desktop software and everything in between.
My favourite:

A: Knock, knock!
B: Who's there?
A: The Interrupting Cow.
B: The Interrupt--
A: MOOOOOOOO!!
Maybe it's time to institute outside audits on these apps. That would be a useful direction for something like the BBB to move into if they want to get out of the extortion business.
php -r "print_r(json_decode(file_get_contents('http://random-inc5000.herokuapp.com)));"
BAE Systems confirms 3,000 job cuts in the UK
"HTML" fails at delivering hot new stuff, but native apps on the other hand give too much control to the developer and a lot of developers abuse it. Having browser limitations can sometimes be a good thing.
I'd start out with Investopedia (http://www.investopedia.com/university). That will give you a good overview and teach you the key terms which often make other investing books confusing.
I agree with this. The really old and crusty ones are a bit sentimental, but if you get rid of them before they get old and crusty there's no nostalgia.

For instance, I got rid of my Dell laptop that I used for 4 years in college, but it was pretty difficult getting rid of my old Tandy that I had when I was growing up. I'll kindly get off your lawn now :)
Don't confuse awkward with clever. The code that illustrates the IF conditional is far more readable than the self-returning YES or NO, where you don't even know that YES and NO are the return values.

Arguably, an ObjC programmer should know that booleans are YES and NO and not true or false, but so what? Code that can't be maintained isn't good code. Code that is developed within a team should be readable before it should be clever. if it is clever, or if it needs to be clever, then it should be commented to the degree that it is more easily understood.

I personally would rather write readable code than more comments.
IncrediMail to Mozilla Thunderbird
IncrediMail to Mozilla Thunderbird Converter is the latest IncrediMail to Thunderbird conversion program to convert IncrediMail to Thunderbird files.
Remove Unwanted Hair For Summer
Ah, I missed this. Nobody likes a repost.
Agree 100%. Look at ways to get each page indexed with original quality content.
Er. Why didn't you just format it at your end?
Just did a search for exactly this, can't believe it's less than a day old! Excellence.
No, the F&F beta started a few weeks ago (two or three) and is still happening. The general beta has started, in theory, but they've given access to so few people it's almost as if it hasn't.
Government doesn't rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world
I wonder how templates stock sites like Themeforest affects the designers business. Now to start your web app, you don't really need a designer, but just $20 or less and you get something very good for the little money you put.
i hope that existing users will not be forced to link their Facebook accounts to continue using Spotify
Zeus Trojan gang busted for money smuggling
I've at least partially answered my question - it looks like all my old links were brought in as "private". That's why the public API won't return them.
This is the author here. I have fixed those issues. I had just written the code and post in TextMate using markdown. I should have checked the code before I put it up there. My bad. As for putting create. I wanted to illustrate that they are creating a new object and don't stress on using create as naming convention.
The Deleted City: visualization of 650GB of Geocities
(native) Mobile apps in the same price range as websites? That's really not my experience; it's most of the time double or triple what a website with similar functionality would cost.
Site Owners Ignore Requests to ‘Fix The Web’
As a designer myself, I think templates are great. The reality is that most business don't need a completely custom template, especially if they're still in that MVP stage.

So when you're starting out and don't have a big budget, by all means use a template. I would much rather work with your company when it's more mature and money is less of a concern.

To put in another way, template are in competition with cheap cookie-cutter design (e.g. crowdsourcing sites), not higher quality design.
I can't tell if this is serious or not. My joke filter appears to be broken. :S
It's true, everyone was worried about international governments, they forgot to worry about international people.
The post links http://www.explore.to/listing/usa/me/see/restaurants-food/br... as an example of a page that he is not sure should be classified as a "doorway page". I would be annoyed if Google returned that if I searched for "Brazilian Restaurants in Maine", because it has no content.

Google's users are looking to find information, not looking for a place to contribute it.
Data on Beijing Cabs Reveals the Cause of Traffic Jams
I suppose because proper JSON is not formatted.
WPT Malta and Borgata end
Bank of Scotland online banking problems continue
This should really just be a graph with two lines:
A very small one that says 'As much as I quoted', and a far larger line that says 'Much more than I quoted'.
I was surprised by the results myself, I expected the average price for a mobile app to be much higher than for a website.

But more and more designers are focusing on mobile design. Just a year or two ago it was still a fairly rare specialization, but if you browse Dribbble you'll see that most good designers have at least one or two mobile projects in their portfolio. So that might be one reason why prices are being driven down.
" half of brooklyn is underemployed with a band and a startup idea "

I voted this up just for that, I'm part of that crowd, people
outside of NYC don't know how true this is, awesome.
ครีมโสมสาหร่ายหน้าใส ครีมโสมหน้าใส ครีมโสมหน้าใส กลีบบัวมิราเคิล
Isn't this the basic idea behind BrowserID

https://browserid.org/

(with the extension that the 'clicking on the session link' could one day be automated behind the scenes)
Utkarsh is back with yet another extraordinary feat
Please vote for the "Search & replace across projects/directories" feature suggestion for Sublime Text 2 (http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/21604-search-replace-a...) if you miss the feature. The developer(s) seem to be implementing lots of new features from while ST2 is in beta and a global replace would be great.
15 Captivating Product Labels
Product labels are designed to grab our attention and help a product stand out from the crowded shelves full of similar offerings.
I've been quoted $20k+ for a mobile app of any complexity
We've (Epio) been using Route53 for 6 months or so now, and have had zero problems with it. The main problem is, as others have said, that the only way to interact with it is via the (somewhat cumbersome) API.

We got round this by writing our own Python command-line tool using Boto, which sadly I have yet to release...
Smarter catalogue management through automation: a primer for online retailers
Ask HN: Best way to build web browser plugin for IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome?
Is there a good framework available which makes it easy to build a web browser plugin (like the one from Delicious) with a single code base for the most popular PC/Mac web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome? Any good tutorials?
We already have a hacker's guide to weight loss: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
I can't claim credit for this, but:

Knock, knock
Who's there?
Interrupting coefficient of friction
Interrupting coeff -- MUUUUUUU
Well first you have to create the other company to spin off the tracking to ...
Joyent Raises $5 Million
Thanks I think I'm gonna buy that book. I am not looking for algorithmic trading stuff (yet). As I said, I barely know anything about the stock market, main thing is want the resources to be brief and straight to the point. Regards.
It's seems to be the price for the design only, no coding.
A Visit With Facebook's VP Of Product, And His Redesign Team
Just for the design? Was that an agency or freelancer? Seems pretty expensive for a freelancer, at least according to the survey results (and my own experience).
Are you suggesting that people within 1 or 2 standard deviations of mean IQ are unable to be entertained by Chrono Trigger?
Well, I believe you have your "money making" idea in your description here. Just make your own project for listing/selling HackerNews weekend projects. Right now Flippa has become bloated with scammers and blogs for profit... There are very little actual projects on there worth investing in. So it would be great for someone to create a market place for quality projects.

Just my two cents.
Black on grey, really?!
Sites with grey font on grey background, similar to the one posted here, should be algorithmically removed from search index, since it is malware that is trying to harm it's visitors eyes.
Google Books Ruins History
Not go public. But good luck convincing C-suite of that.
"Goldman Sachs Rules The World Not Governments"
After further study: you can't save links privately via the Delicious bookmarklet anymore. I just clicked my "save this link" bookmarklet on an article I was reading (out of some nostalgic impulse), and I expected the usual interface where I could fill out some metadata and then submit it for saving -- but instead, the link was instantly saved publicly to my account, so I had to quickly click the checkbox for "this is private", save again, and then go to Delicious and edit it again to add the metadata I wanted.

Anyway, for people interested in an example of social listmaking done in a pleasantly focused way, Bagcheck is interesting to explore: http://bagcheck.com/ (recently talent-acquired by Twitter).
It no longer made as much money to be redistributed to shareholders or invested in future growth. To be sure, it depends on why the difference between expenses and revenue rose by $999k.
Hear, hear! At $work we started using Sendgrid last month, and it's worth 10x the money we pay every month (Silver level is $80/mo for 300k emails). Our usage will be ramping up over the coming months, and I feel so much more secure knowing that the chances of getting on a blacklist are greatly reduced because of Sendgrid.
>arguing from historical trends is a weak form of argument.

Not really, since this exact argument was previously made in the 1800's by textile workers. We can learn from that for sure. Humans are very complicated, but it is reasonable to say that we are fundamentally not much more complicated then we were in 1800.
OpenID would allow you to sign in via any open-id provider. This is not OpenID.
Read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Investor
Here's the code - https://github.com/chriso/inc5000
Redesigned: Facebook Logout Button
Right. People will adapt given the right incentives, just as textile workers did when the weave was invented.
Lean startup isn't trying to outpace the customer, it's trying to catch up. It's for people who don't understand what the customer wants.