skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look around professional websites, it looks professional for only reason they publish after it looks professional. Every thing iterative. Once you design some thing you just need to constantly iterate your own design. Trust me your end product will look professional. The main constituents of aesthetic is a combinations of colors, placements and font. Typical design colors should be in the range of blue to green. Which are pleasant to your eyes. Once you finish your design you can get feedback upon which you can improve your design.
Former Windows Phone 7 GM on why it's failing - consumers can be easily fooled
Steve Jobs on Failure [video]
Best book every year since I read it every year: The Tree of Knowledge. Given how grounded I am in computers, it's important to know what it is to be human. The book starts with simple micro biology and ends by explaining the biological foundation of love. it's the only book I've read that literally changed the way I see the works (and if you read the book you'll know that I mean "literally" in the most literal sense).

It's a difficult book, but some excellent reading guides exist do I highly recommend giving it a read.
And in a similar vein, I'd recommend both Practical Programming and 5/3/1. The first is great to get a more thorough understanding on what is learned on SS and help's you understand how to modify your routines for maximum gains. 5/3/1 Has in my opinion been one of the best plans for the moment you stall on SS and need something more advanced. This stuff builds not only your body, but your strength and does heaps for your confidence which I believe is as important.
Probably not too bad since labour costs in rural areas are very low. I'm not sure what they are now, but unskilled labour used to be about $3 a day. I remember when I was in India seeing guys climbing telephone poles with no safety equipment whatsoever, just raggedy street clothes and flip flop sandals.
Interesting point. If / when online poker is legal do you think off-shore companies like PokerStars will move their operations to the US? Will that be part of the deal to allow US players back to their gaming platforms?

As a side note, I hope this continues to move forward. I would gladly pay taxes on my poker winnings and receive checks from legitimate banks as opposed to the KBG Bank of Canada (or something like that) where I used to get my checks from in the past.
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This is not new. Here's someone complaining about the same message in 2009: http://www.nullamatix.com/godaddy-nightmare-express-written-...

It does show bad customer service on GoDaddy's part but it isn't some conspiracy to prevent SOPA protestors from leaving.
Why would/should one be mocked and humiliated for not being able to hold their own in a serious conversation with experts on some topic?

If I want to learn about a topic, wikipedia is great. If I need more information, I can look elsewhere but many times I don't need to. And except for maybe a handful of topics, I shouldn't expect to be able to seriously converse with an expert. Why should that be the goal? I think the goal is to find the answer to your questions, and that's it.
> These stupid things are also incredibly brave and necessary.

Suppose she had started reciting[1] the 10 commandments or jabberwocky? Would you have had the same reaction?

If you go with "the US constitution is relevant" then she's got a problem. She claims that she didn't resist a search. That can only be true if she thinks that reciting US constitution clauses on search aren't relevant to the situation, namely a search.

So, which is it? Was reciting the US constitution her way of refusing a search or was it just words?

[1] She wasn't "reading" anything - she was reciting various parts of the US constitution from memory.
Do you have a link to share that shows your current design, maybe others can offer advice on what to change.

Usually all sites that become popular started off as a rather basic site, and didn't look very professional, go to the wayback machine on archive.org and take a look at Twitter/Facebook when they were first started, and maybe that will encourage you going forward
I found this all pretty pointless... The TSA people were just doing their job. I will gladly be quiet or even assist them in any reasonable screening duties if it means keeping us safe. That is all they are trying to do, it's not like they have some malicious intent. In my opinion we are not giving up many rights by letting people see if we have any weapons us. If you do not want to go through the new body scanners than thats fine, ask for a pat down but dont make a big commotion about it and start preaching to people that are only trying to do their job.
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Of course. That's kind of what HN is, right? Same with Techmeme and their associated properties.

I am a huge fan of niche focused aggregators. Reddit is cool, but there are so many subs and it's easy to get distracted by jumping around. Any specific niche you are thinking about?
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I recommend reading The Lean Startup. I found it full of good ideas. One example: cohort analysis. You might already be familiar with all the concepts and ideas in the book, but even then I think the various examples of real companies doing some of these things will be inspiring.
I'm not 100% about the intricacies of how DNS works but is there no way for them to automatically mirror your DNS settings? That would make this process much much easier.
Ask HN: How many apps you use daily on your smartphone?
Ask HN: How many apps you use daily on your smartphone, other than generic apps like todo list, weather, email, photo sharing, social networking apps?
* Thinking Fast, Slow by Daniel Kahneman

* Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson

* Slack, by Tom DeMarco (also re-read Peopleware). Both of these books are fundamental to anyone developing software within an organization.

* Delivering Happiness, by Tony Hsieh. It's not fantastic but it's helpful if you are trying to build a business.

* Tribal Leadership - recommended by the above. Not great but interesting.

* Rework - short read, worth the time.

* Managing Humans by Rands - very entertaining, useful if you manage people.

Other stuff I read is not worth mentioning in a "best books" list.
Ask HN: How do you make sure you reply to every email?
I identified a problem that I have and want to solve it.

I have a hard time making sure I reply to every single email where a reply is needed. I tend not to reply emails when I'm programming and "in the zone", therefore I often have to wait before replying.

I'm using gmail. Does anyone have a technique/software/methodology to make sure I reply every single email on time ?
Maybe...except people in congress have private lines which they use to communicate to the people they need/want to talk to. The public lines are only used for constituent and other public calls. So really what you'd be doing is blocking their constituents from calling them.

So the congressperson isn't losing any calls they needed to take and the only person being punished is their secretary. In the worse case scenario that congressperson could have a bunch of constituents who object to SOPA and you'd be blocking those calls with your own (which the congressman couldn't care less about if you aren't in their district)
I worked on a mortgage search engine start up for a couple years. Mortgages are a wonderful example of how well intentional pricing complexity can succeed. Mortgage companies supply money - the most perfect commodity around. In order to avoid a pricing race to the bottom, the mortgage shopping process has become one of the most confusing possible. Obtaining an accurate price quote involves filling out a several page application which most people can't do accurately without the help of a broker. Pricing is a combination of interest rate and fees which can range into the tens of thousands of dollars. Fees are calculated in multiple steps and include certain closing costs which are only known weeks into the process - often when it's too late to switch mortgage brokers and still make your contractually-agreed close date. In the small surveys I've done, more than half of mortgage applicants only learned the total amount they'd be charged the day they close the mortgage. And many were surprised to learn of unanticipated charges amounting to >$1,000 above what they expected.

This strategy was very successful in extracting differential payments from consumers. Prior to some recent regulatory reforms, the most successful 5% of mortgage shoppers negotiated fees of $6,000 on a $200k mortgage. The least successful 5% were charged fees of $18,000. These are borrowers with equivalent financial circumstances and credit rating.

Much of this is due to the complexity of mortgages. So I'm dubious that this sort of apocalypse will prove true for all types of products. But I do expect to see it increasingly in categories where there is high product complexity, the product isn't easily compared based on technical specifications, brand reputation isn't important, and/or there is little value in cultivating customer loyalty (for example, I may purchase a couch once every 15 years).
A Primer: How Money Influences Politics
I don't mean to be a jackass, but... duh? If you're using GoDaddy's nameservers, it stands to reason that you'd need to configure the new ones when namecheap isn't going to be able to point to a defunct GoDaddy account.

Gandi will even offer to mirror the DNS on import.
Creating A New Perception
Starting Strength was definitely my best book of 2011. I went from a reasonably out of shape cube denizen who strained at a 125 pound low bar back squat to a 300 pound low bar back squat in just seven months. Rippetoe makes it very clear how any idiot can pick up a lot of strength in a very short period of time. Great Book.
Justice Department Ruling Increases Odds for Online Gambling Legalization
I also read "To Kill a Mocking Bird" for the first time, and it is truly a work of art.
I posted this after making this "rookie" mistake myself: feel free to add www.moserware.com -> 216.239.32.21 to your hosts file for the next few hours until I'm given access to change the DNS settings :)

I was directed to this page only after the transfer started (and thus after I could change this). Hopefully this might help others before you make the switch.
There are some inside jokes you would miss out on if you didn't know the canonical universe, but overall, like others have said, it can stand on its own as a great work.
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In this video i can show you this insight has completely changed how I felt about self development and higher consciousness.
I kind of assumed that's what they did; that's what CloudFlare does. Uh oh.
This might be relevant:

In Scott Adams' The Dilbert Future (1997), he introduced the word confusopoly. The word is a portmanteau of confusion and monopoly (or rather oligopoly), defining it as "a group of companies with similar products who intentionally confuse customers instead of competing on price". Examples of industries in which confusopolies exist (according to Adams) include telephone service, insurance, mortgage loans, banking, and financial services. [from wiki]

The central idea is that if companies made it easy to compare their products, then those companies would be forced in to a detrimental competition on price. So instead, if each company offers a slightly different package, with different feautres and prices, then simple comparison doesn't exist.
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Apparently it's finished. It will require numerous rewrites and edits, but the book is essentially finished. Sanderson said to look for the final book in the fall.
I'm actually thinking about a celebrity/gossip niche. It would be fun to just read articles and watch pictures/videos of a certain celebrity, without visiting multiple websites. I just don't have a clue how an aggregator is build. Do I have to build a crawler or can I just use the RSS feeds of certain websites?
I agree that buyer have power too but there is disparity in resources on the buying side where the buyers are at the retail level. The "easily overcome" tricks require that consumers join the intermediate groups that a buying and otherwise participate in more complex transactions in order to defeat them. This can establish a different equilibrium that is better for consumers but it still involves an extra cost in one form or another. The intermediary takes their cut too (even a co-op would have overhead to address).
The "politely ask it to stop" paradigm is not a solution. For it to work, your thread cannot perform any blocking calls, nor can it call out to any long running functions that are not specifically designed to check a stop flag frequently.
Agreed, it was a dumb mistake. I just wanted to let others know so they don't have to suffer the consequences as well of multiple hours of downtime waiting for things to finalize before you can change it.
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Is kickstarter the new process for product?
Why are people still doing this kind of stuff instead of using a PaaS?
I often got back to Playing to Win by David Sirlin - http://www.sirlin.net/ptw/

Though it's certainly aimed at competitive gaming, I also use it at times as an inspiration for my business. It helps whenever I need to take a second look and play the devil's advocate about my own decisions. Reading it also earned me an extremely effective weapon against procrastination.
I initially thought Good Calories/Bad Calories, and "Why we get Fat" were revelations - until I read http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/carbohydrate-h....

Turns out Taubes just masquerades as a scientist - he's more like gladwell in his approach to writing - it _appears_ to be correct, but if you dig a little deep at all, you discover there isn't really much substance.

So - in that sense, "Good Calories, Bad Calories" was a great book for me in 2011. It showed me how easy it was for you to to be taken in by fraudulent writing. Lesson learned.
What do you know already? With only HTML, it is hard to create something that looks professional in comparison to someone who is designing dynamic pages using HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc...

Its hard to answer your question without a bit more information. Are you just interested in learning more about graphic design?
> When you decide to yell out the words to the 4th amendment at the same exact moment you are being processed through the security checkpoint at an airport, you are intentionally trying to cause a scene.

I can also easily see this kind of behavior causing a panic in the screening line. Maybe this isn't fair, but this is how I would imagine a right-wing domestic terrorist to act right before they blew themselves up.

I'm all for civil disobedience, but this is just oblivious and antisocial to the extreme.
I don't think you can import an image into Amazon.

You will need to start with an EC2 image (AMI) of which there are many both from Amazon and 3rd parties. Some of those AMI's may have close to all you need. I personally started with a bitmami image (http://bitnami.org/stacks). Once you have all your configuration done on that you can create your own personal AMI from it and use it to create additional instances (dev, staging, different customers, etc). That AMI will work for creating different instance sizes (memory/CPU). But I don't think there is a way to export an AMI and use it outside of Amazon.
Yeah, a simple check to see what nameservers the domain is currently using and then warning about the possible downtime and offering to switch ahead of the transfer would have been a huge win.
I see it as a reminder that one still needs to worry about deployment because of OS version limitations, lack of upgrades, etc.
I got this on one of my domains too, and it was because of the private whois information (Domains By Proxy). After I removed that, it worked just fine.
Namecheap is really taking advantage of Godaddy's misstep. I say good for them! Godaddy deserves whatever is coming at them right now.
> "you are intentionally trying to cause a scene"

Yes, because we're British and GodForbidWeShouldCreateAScene(tm).

lolololol
Amazon sucks for discovery of things imo.

I have always been a library lover, and even took a library science course (cataloging and classification) as an undergraduate elective. But from the beginning on Amazon I have liked the "customers who bought this also bought . . . " recommendations built from Amazon's database, and I have learned of many interesting books by Amazon's recommendations that I later bought. In library science, "browsing function" is discovery of books by scanning the shelves where books of similar classification are put, which groups books differently in each library (each library has a different collection, and some libraries are classified by the Dewey system, and some by the Library of Congress system, in English-speaking countries). Amazon does very well as a place to apply the browsing function, because its collection size is huge, and similarities of books can be scanned by author, by subject (Amazon has subject classifications for most of its books), by what readers have written reviews of them, and by what buyers have bought them. I now wish that my friendly local public library, which I use VERY heavily and where my second son volunteers, would implement browsing paths as varied and as powerful as Amazon's, and my local public library is already famous in many parts of the United States for having some of the most detailed cataloging and one of the most powerful and convenient online catalogs in the country.

Compare

https://catalog.hclib.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=elibrary#f...

to

http://www.amazon.com/

starting with some of your favorite books to see what browsing turns up in each online catalog.
Yes, it has. YouHaveDownloaded performs random check of obtained IPs - to make sure they actually up/download.
I guess not because one of their steps is "Copy all your domain settings (host records, email settings etc) to our control panel." - who has time for that? :)
"Code" is an excellent book, and I'd agree, it's worth it regardless of what you do in computers.
Cell phone can be cut off at anytime so as making it easy to link its access to continuous payments. The company has little leverage against the cell panel users due to non-payment.
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Particularly memorable books I read (or re-read) this year:

- Don't Make Me Think by Krug: http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/032134...

- Apartment Therapy by Gillingham-Ryan http://www.amazon.com/Apartment-Therapy-Eight-Step-Home-Cure...

- Presentation Zen by Gar http://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Design-Deliver...

- Belisarius Saga by Flint and Drake http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalt...

- Wise Man's Fear by Rothfuss http://www.amazon.com/Wise-Mans-Fear-Kingkiller-Chronicles/d...

- Wizard of Oz by Baum http://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Oz-Puffin-Classics/dp/014132102...
The fun comes in separating the project in one-man-sized blocks (which won't be the same size).

Indeed, you can track progress by seeing how many features are coming along, but I believe you can't predict a delivery date accurately because of the variance - but you can give a ballpark estimate (days, weeks, months, years, age of the universe).

Agree with giving each developer a separate brick, but on the Kanban approach I was recently introduced to, if someone is stuck, the idea is to "swarm" him and help him/her.
I have a Google Nexus S.
I use Maps, Evernote, Lemon, Weather.com, Facebook, GMail, Dolphin Browser, SwiftKey, almost everyday.
"""I have a hard time making sure I reply to every single email where a reply is needed. I tend not to reply emails when I'm programming and "in the zone", therefore I often have to wait before replying."""

And what's the problem with setting 1-2 hours when you are off-the-zone to batch reply to the accumulated emails?
> The default choice of garbage collector in Hotspot is the throughput collector, which is ... entirely optimized for throughput

I just want to confirm this is true? Say you're doing a long running simulation. You don't care about pauses at all. You just want it to finish fast. The default GC with no particular options is the way to go?
"""to make sure I reply every single email on time ?"""

On time doesn't have to mean "immediately". Same day is fine.
In the UK the Sales of Goods Act just states the goods must work for a 'reasonable' amount of time, no exact time frames are given. And with a £1000+ computer, a reasonable amount of time in my opinion as a consumer would be at least 3 years. Though of course, you may have to go to the small claims court to fight your case with that, but I know a few people who've had repairs and replacements way outside of the manufacturer's stated 1 year warranty by mentioning this law to the retailer.
It took me 2010 as well as 2011, but I really enjoyed Godel, Escher Bach now I've finally got through it. It's hard going, but I can't think of a book that chnaged what I think about the world as much as that book has.
TSA groping your children is "antisocial". So pray tell us where you plan to take "legal" political action on this matter? Or is your "right-wing domestic terrorist" remark indicative of your actually buying into this theatre?
Yeah, they are absolutely going to town on this one. Can't say I blame them - I'm surprised not more companies have come out of the woodwork to step in as the break-up rebound target.
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You can use os.pipe or socket.socketpair. That at least allows you to use blocking select, poll, or similar.
Too bad this comment is too down, but The Art Of Game Design is a fantastic book about design and user experience, even if you're not into games, there's some interesting psychology to learn and to apply in whatever you're doing.
I could see how if this starts happening for a lot of issues and becomes a popular thing, they would make this sort of thing illegal.
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You can use the Zero Mailbox approach. Google for it. You will get loads of material.
This remnids me of a story last year about an online retailer who was deliberately rude to his customers to get bad press, because it improved his search engine ratings.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28borker.html?pag...
Let's talk about WSGI (2009)
Learned Ruby/Rails, dived deeper onto JS but still a n00b. Next year will be either Scala or Clojure.
I can see this, but when they are lounging around the house with their iPads do they think that it's a piece of crap because it can't do everything as well as a macbook pro that costs 2.5 times as much? The Kindle Fire comes much closer to delivering the experience of an iPad 2 than the iPad 2 comes to replicating the experience of using a real computer.
Pretty much stating the obvious.
I don't remember exactly, but I think they were calling for the House to be exempt from SOPA at the hearing.
Congress has a 9% approval rating, so why won't this change? Because people hate Congress, but they like their Congressman. We need an education revolution in this country and the Internet is the rail for that train, but with issues like SOPA we have the wrong people trying to play conductor.
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