skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- "Bringing wedding vendors together with bridal guests" thats too dark on the heading image

- I really don't like the stock background image on this page - http://is.gd/7bID

- Is the business type page a joke? There at least needs to be an "other" option

- The tour should be a video, rather than a manual slide show

- Your privacy policy doesn't exists, that removes all credibility of your site.

- can you make the fonts of your menus a bit larger by default?

- I'd put your "contact us" option at the top, ideally top right.

- can you make your title tag show me where I am? thats nice usability.

- alt tags on links

I like this site, its nice and clear, with obviously quite a lot of 37 signals ala design. Not a bad thing.

The pages feel a little too noisy, try removing the stock image background. Also be wary of lighter than black colours on darker than white backgrounds.

I love the "Access New Revenue Today" - lovely and clear and really grabs me.
Single-page link: http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfoli...

(I posted this in the other item first, but as this one is getting a lot of reads as well and the article is split up into 9 pages, I thought it was worth a repost.)
5) cool! Didn't know about that.

4) fair enough

"Lots of people (51 upvotes) didn't see the first one, so maybe it doesn't do any harm?"

- It harms the people who already read the story, and now have decreased signal:noise on their front page.

- It helps the people who missed it the first time around who find it interesting.

- It helps the people who already read the story, and who were interested in the HN discussion of the story (at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=360412). These people now get an influx of new comments to think about.

The last point only works because the user community pointed out the duplicate, and collectively decided that on-topic discussion (as opposed to this meta-ish discussion) best belonged under the original posting.

Possible conclusion: dupes are okay (even net good) on a site with a principled user community. Probably net bad on a site with a more chaotic community.

Feature idea for social news sites: let (high karma?) users fuse dupes' discussion pages into one.
The mouth is not right. Is there really a point in fixing the mouth? I.e, what is the gain in spending time making robots look like human beings when we could make them look like something new?

It's like a cat - you want your cat to look like a cat, and not have the face of a human being.

If you make a robot look like a human being, things change. You will then suddenly develop an instinct against over-working it, you'll be considerate of its feelings, even though it's just a machine.

I think that for robots to become an effective part of our everyday life, they have to look like something that is not human.
Depends on where you want to work next. Generally having a wide range of interesting things you've done that you can discuss during an interview for every position on your resume is far more important than the companies you worked for.
I found a nice workaround for this. I saw this post via icombinator.net and easily saved it to my instapaper, then read it easily using the instapaper iphone app.
I've heard the same principle as it relates to physical wellbeing I think it's 100% true.

Diets fail because they're all about food. Better to lose unhealthy weight by exploring other passions... even things that aren't physical such as playing an instrument (or coding). Then over the long term you can start to consume less and less as you have food on the brain less and less.
You've never made a mistake?

Of course we all have auston. But you're making it worse by being defensive, as unalone says.
I don't understand your disconnect between the licensing for the OSS projects in question and what you're saying, since I have yet to see Apple and others flagrantly ignore licensing terms. If this was such a big problem, change the license.

Besides, I can think of lots of projects where employees at corporations and "commercial companies" are being paid to work on OSS projects. I frankly doubt that OSS would have gone this far without such people.
Here's an English language article on the case:
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1226501227.34
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There's a standard interface, but there's no standard implementation - which is how standards generally work.

Also, I can't edit my post, but that should say "it's not tested as heavily."
When somebody applies for a job and you post his application publicly, you're assuming that you're in a position important enough to be able to treat his resume flippantly and get away with it. You're not. The assumption that you are is elitist in that you've decided you can get away with public disrespect for somebody else.

Subjective salaries I understand. However, you're not making a ridiculous amount of money. To mock somebody for inquiring primarily about money, when you're an unknown company with no reputation whatsoever, and when you're not, in fact, making a particularly grand amount of money, is wrong on a few levels.

You're a code monkey with no equity. You might be happy working where you are, but your original post implied that you were somebody with power and that you were being a jerk about it. Now it seems that you don't have any power, and that you were being a jerk without any qualification.

There is no average web dev, as I've come to realize here. There are some people here who are huge into open source, who run completely open software and write for it and modify it. There are others who run Windows or OS X and pay excesses of money for things which they might not exactly need. Your "I am like most people reading this post" remark set me off, partly because I'm not like you whatsoever. My interests? Aestheticism, high-quality writing, and typography. Furthermore, I'm younger than you and have less professional experience. The fact that your original post seemed immature even to me is a bad sign. I wouldn't call it atrocious, because - as you say - everybody makes mistakes. I didn't comment on the original thread bashing you. However, it irritates me that your follow-up wasn't "Sorry, guys, I've done something terribly stupid, we've removed the original post and we'll maintain radio silence until we at least start talking about our idea," but rather an attempt to justify yourselves, followed by another appeal for job applications.

Considering you've got three people, you ought to easily be able to at least launch a beta of your product. Other people have criticized you for hiring too soon; I'm not qualified enough to talk about that without sounding like a hypocrite. It seems to me, though, that if you're going to hire you ought to hold off until you've announced yourselves, so that you get applicants that might actually be interested in whatever Dashboard is.
Don't you think they've deserved it? They've sacrificed a lot of credibility for a ton of exposure.
Then it's completely fine of you not to link to them. I link to one of my sites in my profile, and not to cirqueti.com or omegaseye.com because they're essentially splash pages. When I get the one off the ground, I'll link to it; until then, there's nothing wrong in maintaining radio silence about it.
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I am using Pivotal Tracker for all my personal projects including those without coding.

HashRocket also uses Pivotal Tracker for all software projects.
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I was trying to say that a significant portion of the OS is open-source - not just GPL'd. It's hardly "milking the community" if a good portion is returned back in a similar manner.

I wouldn't say that WebKit is worthless; its the primary rendering engine behind several browsers - which are gaining in popularity due to the success of OSS in general.

If the web was so worthless, MS wouldnt have bothered with IE and Netscape wouldn't have open sourced the code for Mozilla. Nor would a majority of the HN startups exist for that matter.
> Keep in mind that all schools have a foreign student quota - i.e. slots that will either be filled by foreign students or not filled at all. Foreigners do not compete with domestic students for college enrollment at all.

Well, I know that is false for grad school. (In my department, the percentage of Americans goes up during recessions, as the US applicant pool is stronger at those times. Yet enough Americans apply every year to fill all slots many times over.) I don't know about undergrad, but I would be very surprised if it were true for all schools! Where did you get this information?
Because back when C first was designed and implemented, the alternative was to do string manipulation in assembly.

C has evolved over time, but it has not left its niche: a systems programming language which is a thin abstraction of hardware. If you want a higher abstraction of the hardware, then C is not your best choice.
Unfortunately hunger is a biological urge, and it's not exactly something you can choose not to fixate on.

Anything else makes sense, but I really don't think it applies to dieting all that much on an extended basis (for a short period of time, though, maybe).
Couldn't they just put that same sauce on the edible parts of the chicken?
beta registration can be made littl more friendly. when I give my phone number as +9198800345, it clears everything I typed and leaves me with an error message tht occured due to '+' sign in the number. Naturally i will be less motivated to type out the form again for this small error even if it has 4 text boxes.

psst: thats not my number
Sure, but the fact that it ever happens is fascinating.
Nobody deserves exposure. It's not a right. You can't exchange things for it.

We choose to give it to people. And while I like a good bashing as much as anybody, I'd rather we stop focusing on these people and start focusing on lengthy, well-written blog posts. We haven't had many of those recently.

Though I honestly don't think they're doing this for gluttonous publicity. I think that their first one was, and that these successive ones have just been attempts to undo their drop in credibility before. I don't think it's helping, but I doubt there's some clever exposure scheme going on at this point.
Can anybody point to a good guide for agile terminology? I'd like to try this out, but I'm not exactly certain what's meant by "stories", "icebox", "velocity", etc.
Sure, but what are the chances of finding a Native American settlement at any one of those locations in 320 AD?
To some extent, you can ignore it. I mean, most people eat far more than they have to. As a result, they become accustomed to it, and get hungry faster than they biologically have to.
> rape by unlicensed taxi drivers is a real risk.

Well, I'd say it's as bad as rape by licensed taxi drivers.
+1 for SQLitePersistentObjects (http://code.google.com/p/sqlitepersistentobjects/).

I'm using it in all of my applications that need SQLite access, and it rocks.
The reason equity grants are so popular at startups is because they work. When employees own a physical piece of the work they are creating, and when they have a definite vested interest in making things to the best of their ability, you (as the founder) get a good culture and hardworking people. That ends up increasing the value your own equity in the company.

Without equity grants, you have to give employees monetary incentives. Those are usually capped and generally don't have much upside. They're also almost impossible to calculate on a single-person basis. Equity has essentially an unlimited upside and its worth is easily measured.

Why don't you give your employees equity?
Is the tag cloud really necessary? I agree with the people who've said that you make good designs, but tag clouds are inherently ugly. And I genuinely don't know: do they get many hits?
Tracker's 'Help' section is a good place to start. In particular, the "Getting Started" section of "Help". http://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/gettingstarted
You do realize that usually its the hitchhiker that gets murdered by the person with the car.
The Coming "Ad Network Shakeout"
Hmmm, not so fast... This is not cool:

In particular, at startup TCMalloc allocates approximately 6 MB of memory.
Are you sure about that? Maybe I should try it. The article certainly contradicts you.
Bush can't "handle" it. If he says no, nothing stops the company from just asking again in January, if they can make it that long.
Flash and Silverlight break default browser functionality, they're very hard to make flexible past a certain point, they are slow, they require separate plugins, and they don't add anything in terms of usability. In fact, they very often detract from usability.

That's not a good shift.
This is almost certainly a "css sprite"...a compression method for web graphics.
I was thinking more along the lines of automatic memory in my original grandparent post.

[yeah, I guessed you meant that from the sentence structure]
"A great big codesplosion spraying you with a several hundred lines of stack trace and a "Your program has encountered an error an needs to close" is not "sensible behaviour"."

Yes it is, if it's a program in development where I haven't yet decided what behavior an error condition should produce.

You guys don't seem to understand I don't necessarily want to decide how to handle all errors now, not that I never want to have to think about how to handle them.
I fall on the side of nurture with regard to curiosity. _Everybody_ has "the curiosity trait", but in some environments it's discouraged: "Stop asking so many questions.", or "I don't know and why do you care?", or simply giving wrong answers.
Yes, I believe that is his point, and the reason I used the word "converse". :P
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More info here
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-P4P-Tests-Boost-P...
I think dcurtis was joking.
Gawker's Consumerist is for sale
This seems weird to me because it's a hugely popular blog without a lot of overhead (I think they have two full-time writers). I'm surprised they need sponsorship at all, and if they don't, I'm surprised that Gawker would want to offload them.
There's at least one reason why it shouldn't be outlawed (well, apart from mundane things like justice, freedom and this kind of crap which is not very relevant anymore): if it's outlawed, we will never know if the model they offer is indeed better or not than the current one. If the taxi drivers believe what they say (more safety, etc.) they don't need to ban their competitors because truth will eventually emerge.
I just got married and my wife and I thought one day: "wouldn't it be awesome if we could register for products from our own vendors?". That way our guests at our wedding could buy us extra flowers or a photograph book instead of just a blender.

This got us thinking, and now we have decided to go into business together starting a site that lets people do just that.

Vendors will pay a flat fee per couple or an unlimited quarterly use fee in order to sign up their bridal couples and allow them to do online registry.
Remember the study where people gave away their passwords for a candy bar? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/20/password_surveys/

That would clearly not work with the HN community. Instead, we need a geeky screen with a disclaimer and the promise of learning how we rank compared to others.

What's next? gmailrank?
Google shares below $300 for first time since 2005
Not with Coda, but I've used a lot of commercial implementations (ILog, Fair Isaac, Experian) and been pretty impressed.

One of the biggest problems I encountered was testing and change control. With the rules engine you could suddenly change and manipulate things (sometimes on the fly) - that didn't mean that you should....
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Sorry I didn't know there were rules for your HN profile. I changed it.
iirc, they actually just recently fired like 3 part-timers.

i think they just don't get much in the way of revenue.
No, but with their huge font, I feel like I'm being yelled at. "GET REAL OR I AM GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU, YOU BASTARD." is how I read it. It was kind of like being punched in the face... and I think a tear may have formed in my eye.

Anyway, this company is pretty amazing. Before today, I had never heard of them. Now I think they are arrogant, out-of touch, egotistical losers. Any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
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So Adwords can't sustain a hugely popular two person blog?
- "Bringing wedding vendors together with bridal guests" I didn't want it to distract attention... did I go too far?

- I really don't like the stock background image on this page - What if I made it more white and blended so that it was in the background more?

- Is the business type page a joke? There at least needs to be an "other" option -- I have done a lot of research in the market and I can't think of any other business types that would benefit from this product... but maybe I shouldn't be so quick to judge

- Your privacy policy doesn't exists, that removes all credibility of your site. -- Going to add that promptly, thanks

Thank you for the feedback! I really appreciate it!
They aren't rules so much as guidelines.

It's more a matter of "what about you do you want to make public?" If you link to a bunch of dead sites as your only info, it gives off a bad vibe.
Is Amazon/AWS and Google down for anyone else?
Seems like they are down across the board + all the sites that use Amazon Web Services
Sounds of hard drives needing data recovery
dunno. it might not help that their blog is designed for consumer-savvy people who are probably not going to click on ads very easily.
Wow, this looks really really good. I've been missing the simple power of darcsum (a mode for controlling darcs from emacs) when using Git but this seems to do a lot more without any greater hassle.
Funny, I was thinking how weird my original post got back to the main page at the top and started to think there was something else in the main page algorithm...

Now, seriously, my original title:

The End of Wall Street (Liar's Poker author) (portfolio.com)

This post title:

The End of Wall Street's Boom (portfolio.com)

Obviously the poster didn't check it wasn't a dupe. I've been flagging several dupes in the last few days and they've been deleted quite fast. It is ironic one of my few posts got the worst front page dupe :(

[Edit: Both are on the front page!]
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

--Abraham Lincoln

Edit:

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

--Oogway, Kung Fu Panda
This is a great resource, and straight from the Horse's mouth...
American buying binge grinds to a halt
I'd love to hear what some developers think. Applications that would benefit, etc.
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Does this refute what pg says here:
http://www.paulgraham.com/resay.html ?

"We have some evidence here: the famous parody that physicist Alan Sokal got published in Social Text. How long did it take him to master the art of writing deep-sounding nonsense well enough to fool the editors? A couple weeks?

What do you suppose would be the odds of a literary theorist getting a parody of a physics paper published in a physics journal?"
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fuzzy definition. But get to the point where it gets little or no support from most developers.
1. In no way shape or form is this Hacker news.
2. This story was on reddit today.

Come on folks, let's keep this site focused... I don't want to see the same stories fifteen times a day.
And not 24 hours later they fixed it .. even though the issue was first reported to them few weeks (if not months) ago. Interesting ..

Their original cert is still available here - http://codefromthe70s.org/sslblacklist-badcerts.asp
"The Art of Agile Development" by James Shore & Shane Warden

As for individuals it works, but you'll have to pick out the parts that you really could make use of and leave other parts to the wayside.

I'd say it helps organize your project but it all comes down to you being disciplined. For that Agile isn't going to help much.
pass only the required 5-10 characters of data from the visitor to the server each time

It'll still (generally) need to be HTTP, so there will be a lot of other cruft around it. If you were to use Java or Flash you might be able to get around this.
So after considering all of the above information, please feel free to apply! We really do need good people.

Are you serious? Good luck with that, buddy.
I beg to differ, we are programmers. If there is a problem with the system we fix it, we don't justify it.

If dupes are allowed the karma whores will start reposting top stories all the time and many quality posters will just move on (again.) You have to reward quality and punish sloppiness. That's why I admire this site, flagged dupes or inappropriate submissions get deleted very quickly.
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Nothing to see here, just a complaint from a bus charter company trying to protect their turf. It's obviously not fair for us peons to vanpool in private vehicles because some looter isn't getting his cut.
I think the real problem with AP courses is that they tend to be "at the top of a high school curriculum" but at the mean time "entry level college courses".

E.g. calculus - it's the "hardest" high school math class, but it's the most basic and foundational college mathematics course.

I took Calculus both at one of the top California non-magnet schools (AP Calculus) and a California community college (as well as took vector calculus and differential equations after transferring to a university). AP Calculus AB in high school in a way is "designed to be hard", people dropping the course, plenty of failing grades. It's the course for the "top of the class", the people "good in math". In college it's the course freshmen in any science major takes (at a community college it's the first course to be taken once the students complete remedial/"catch-up" math courses; at a university it's _the_ first math course in a math department other than finite math/statistics for humanities/social science majors).
He'd only be rich if he had unlimited hours to work.
You somehow managed to miss the entire point. I'm not sure if I should be impressed or horribly depressed.
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Looks like he took the links down. I'm in the opposite position...I've been procrastinating on a much-needed update for my portfolio and my past six months' work (which is by and large better than my first three years) needs to get up there.

What's stopping me is that I'm simultaneously rebuilding my company (freelance) site, and I keep going...Drupal! No, now it's Cake! No, Chay says I should do it from scratch! No, Drupal really works! And on and on...

I need to take a weekend and just finish the damn thing.
You rarely see these sorta posts on HN, which makes me :(

Post your favorite compilations: http://www.scottklarr.com/topic/115/linux-unix-cheat-sheets-...
Apparently you believe age should have an impact on how much you get paid. Can you elaborate?

Well the reality is that it often does. Anyway, it's indicative of experience.
It is almost certainly efficient at rewarding engineers enough, but perhaps not enough to make engineers happy.
I see the furries are voting in force today. :-) Is this really Hacker News material?
Anyway, it's indicative of experience.

Occasionally. Less so for developers than for other careers.