skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Primarily, good design should not distract the user's from the content or main objective of a page.

For example, text content should be dark, navigation and other stuff should be light or grey. Use simple icons that do not distract. Don't distract the user by large unrelated graphics or images. Don't use animated stuff if it's not related to the content (or monetizes the page). Keep everything around the main content simple and lighter than the main content.
Chromium DNS performance
Good point. I heartily agree. The hardware is the resource the software is utilizing, and the better thought through and perhaps the more uniform (thus receiving much scrutiny and work) the tools for delegating and regulating access to those resources in order to preserve reliability, the better and more efficient the utilization of said resource, I should think.
If this is an icon for Markdown, then I suppose this must be an icon for Markup: http://cl.ly/1I0N0s2a0d3x0D1k0523
It’s time to start paying for Android updates
I served as a VP & President for a small non-profit club.

Two takeaways:

1) You don't really have any power. You need to lead by example and empower other people rather than command.
2) The personality required to establish a project is often different than the personalities required to keep it going.
Getting Feedback about your startup with Twitter
How can we use the Social Media to collect feedback for my startup?
This is a simple and effective guide.
Not anymore:

"It was only with the third version, MINIX 3, and the third version of the book, published in 2006, that the emphasis changed from teaching to a serious research and production system, especially for embedded systems. A few of the many differences between MINIX 2 and MINIX 3 are given here.

Going forward, we are making a serious effort to turn MINIX 3 in an industrial-grade system with a focus on the embedded market, especially for those applications that need high reliability and availability."

http://www.minix3.org/other/read-more.html
> Something happens to companies as they get larger

They went public. My gf is a senior manager at GS (200+ drones in her department). When the company went public the partners could easily cash out. Without as much skin in the game, they could squeeze as much profit (aka bonus) from GS without worrying about the long-term viability. Also, hedge funds are now a more lucrative place to work for many people. So if GS doesn't pay, then a hedge fund will. Another thing is that prop trading made vastly more money than IBanking for the last decade, which changed who got promoted and rewarded. Finally, the company grew very rapidly in the last 10 years and much of it's culture got diluted with all the new people. It's not a bad place, it's just a normal IBank now.
Pitching Your Business vs. Planning Your Business
Pingdom Review: The best way to evaluate the performance of your website
Another way to collect feedback, the most important thing for startups.
First, paying off a house in 20 years is pretty decent, and people make those investments all the time.

Second, this is Peter Thiel throwing money at his ideals. He's probably more concerned with generating publicity for the ideas than making a perfect investment.

Third, they are also taking equity. A single or two good buy-outs or IPOs could pay for the whole thing.
I actually moved from web2py to Flask and Flask-SQLAlchemy as my framework of choice because of the limitations imposed by the web2py DAL (try modeling a school, for example, with the relationships between teachers, students, parents, and classes. It's very difficult in practice on the DAL).

The rest of the web2py framework is excellent, and support is very good. I wish Massimo had spent some of the time he spent adapting web2py to other frameworks on adapting web2py to SQLAlchemy instead. I'd be back in a second.
Goldman's response:
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/03/14/goldman-rejects-claims...

“We disagree with the views expressed, which we don’t think reflect the way we run our business,” a Goldman spokeswoman said. “In our view, we will only be successful if our clients are successful. This fundamental truth lies at the heart of how we conduct ourselves.”

Mr. Smith described himself as an executive director and head of Goldman’s U.S. equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

A person familiar with the matter said Mr. Smith’s role is actually vice president, a relatively junior position held by thousands of Goldman employees around the world. And Mr. Smith is the only employee in the derivatives business that he heads, this person said.
Wouldn't Go be a good fit for Android? That would be on my wish list.
Interactive Ruby GemSpec CheatSheet
It's also misleading because he talks about "large scale enterprise workloads," when he really should mention that their marketshare is almost entirely Linux desktop workstations. Most server workloads are entirely RHEL and CentOS.
what about video sharing? as the twitter for iphone app always had the option to upload to posterous. twitter successfully launched the photo uploading, now is the time for videos
I can't speak for the US west coast, but it seems to me a good start is to actually know how to wear a suit. It absolutely has to fit correctly and be the right size. Unbutton your jacket when you sit. Tie your tie correctly and tighten and straighten it, top button of your shirt buttoned - OR loose it completely, opening the top button - there is no middle ground.
Torn...vote up the story cause its interesting or don't so people don't see it and skew the data? ;)
Some pointless pedantry: There is no singular title "Messr", because "Messrs" as the plural of "Mr" comes from the French "Messieurs".
The French singular is "Monsieur", which is abbreviated as simply "M".
There is no 16-Clue Sudoku: Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem
Is the De-Stijl Schroder house now an office?
I just spoke to my mum who happens to be writing him a letter and is going to ask about it to get clarification - though it will be too late for this thread.

She also thought she remembered him saying 3 years old, so 4-6yo memories are perfectly feasible, and I think most people have them. I have loads.
اخر اخبار الاهلى والزمالك اليوم وتفاصيل جديدة
Nanotechnology could lead to self-powered battery
>Facebook has made blogging more pervasive and closed.

I've got to disagree with you there. Blogging in general refers to longer-form posts than the average status update field on Facebook is comfortable for.

If you're going the angle I think you are, you could make the same argument of Twitter.
The Khan Academy group spent 50% of their time on basic mathematical skills while the control group spend all their time on algebra. That might be a reason as to why we don't see better improvement in their score.
Hey Ankur,
maybe we could be a good fit, can´t access your email though. We are a pretty early stage start up, creating a mobile plattform. We are based in Berlin, but it could anyways be nice to chat. so drop me a line at zehnfischer at gmail dot com happy to hear from you. Torsten
No, it’s a museum. It just happens to be a favourite building of mine and an excellent example of making a complete break from convention, just like many start-ups :-)
i suspect that the real Goldman response was to make sure this guy is on every financial black list there is.
A pine tree very specifically only grows its vegetative part a few meters from the very top of the tree line. That's a very well defined niche.

A cave is mostly only inhabited by fungus. There you go, a niche only inhabited by a single kind of organism, and that's not even difficult to find.

Anyways, basing your behavior on how "things are in nature" is as insane as eating bark because you see a bear do it. It's stupid because analogies do not translate at all between things so distant as human and animal feeding patterns, or - in your case - yellowstone forest and business markets. Unless your CEO is Yogi Bear.
The Moderator Problem
Serious question - do a lot of apps still use markdown? Haven't encountered it in a while.
Kensington, London

Large publishing title in the UK. We're expanding our development teams across our two titles following relaunching both sites, we'd like individuals with a passion to work on a high traffic site and be able to think on their feet in a high paced environment.

Seeking - Web Developer x2

* Advanced JS - Developing products/widgets/microsites within the escenic content management system

* HTML 4/5 - Working on commercial solutions with premium brands across both titles

* XML - We consume and send out a number of feeds, an excellent understanding of XML is needed

Others - CSS / XHTML / Ajax / RSS

Feel free to email me - jameskmcdowall@gmail.com
This looks great. I like that it implements authentication and authorization out of the box. I look forward to trying it out.
Pointless pedantry continued: "Messr is now a derogatory term for people who resonate arrogance or give the impression that they are conceited."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=messr
What kind of work will you be doing? I'm in a similar situation (M&A side though), and I'm not sure what kind of value I could bring to a tech firm without the coding skills that are needed in a early stage startup.
Using Promises in Node with Q
Put the ship in movement, in a different country in every 3 months, and definitely it is a good idea.
AppEngine quotas killed the page.

http://hnpickup.appspot.com/dm.json?ndata_elements=1 :

OverQuotaError: The API call datastore_v3.RunQuery() required more quota than is available.
I would love to read more about Sealand. Any sources you would recommend? Most articles I've stumbled upon weren't very informative.
Never forget you write software, not tests. Tests are here to increase quality, they have no raison d'être by themselves.
I think PG's idea of replacing email is important from a functional UI perspective. On the backend, replacing STMP with some other format is irrelevant. The email replacement will better address the issues inherent in human information processing.

One problem has been the focus of email improvements has been driven to a significant degree by technical issues rather than user productivity issues. Spam is the prime example.

The emphasis on spam is primarily because of the impact it has on bandwidth and storage for service providers, not because of the effect on email users. Spam is irritating but not a huge drag on personal productivity because it readily becomes self identifying and thus largely manageable - e.g. "buy viagra" and "Hi" from Tawney don't require much effort to deal with.

The real problem with email is dealing with all the extraneous crap which is presented when the user goes to process the information it contains.

When I click on the email from Kelly entitled 'latest update', what I want to know first is what the hell Kelly is talking about.

What I get first is action options: reply, reply all, etc.

Then comes a full formal presentation of the title, sender, recipients, detailed information about when it was sent - essentially a legal document designed to be read by a machine.

Finally, I get to what to Kelly has to say.

That's the point at which I have to determine it's degree of relevance and what action if any action I should take.

Compare this form of communication with the text message, "Server maintenance on Saturday -- Kelly."

Why doesn't my email client simply parse Kelly's email and let me know "Kelly says there will be server maintenance on Saturday," and add a note to my calendar?

Or rather why doesn't my communication client tell me that regardless of whether Kelly emails, texts, or leaves a voicemail?

Intelligent communication clients are the email killer.
> Your comment is a case in point. Anyone familiar with your story (at Google and, as you know, there are many of us who are) knows how totally skewed your perception is.

Speak for yourself, would you? I'm myself a victim, unfortunately. I never even knew my Perf when I was with the company, only discovered it accidentally after I left. The process is very broken for me. Thanks @michaelochurch, I now know better about what had happened.
So where in the world does this kind of thing happen? To me it sounds like a made up scenario and then an argument against the made up scenario. Could just be that it doesn't happen in the parts of the world that I have lived and worked though.

UPDATE: Thanks for the clarification everyone. I guess I'm way too literal early in the morning.
If you can’t make something better, don’t do it
Wasteland is of course best known as a precursor to Fallout, but it's extremely obscure compared to Fallout. I really can't figure out where the 10,000+ backers are coming from.

Kickstarter really could revolutionize the industry. This is incredible. We've seen small indie games on the order of $10k being funded all the time, but not $1M budgets. That's not enough for a AAA game, but it is enough to run a small studio rather than a couple guys in a basement.

Oh, and most importantly, the type of game promised (an old-school hardcore turn-based CRPG) is radically different from what's fashionable today, even among indies. They're not just making a sequel, they're reviving a genre. This is truly exciting.
> And that is relevant because?

The goal of C-like languages isn't to duplicate Java features. Go (and others) have their own set of goals. In this case generics doesn't advance the goals.
What you're complaining about is just the data access which happens to be used in this sample (particularly some convenience methods which aren't even necessary), which you can freely change out with any technology that you please, because it's completely orthogonal to the rest of the framework. The framework has no abstractions over or requirements for the data access framework.

Or without even changing the data access calls you could just put them behind a DAO object, which would have been injected and therefore easily replaced for testing. But that wouldn't have made the sample any clearer.
Visual Studio 11: Setting WINVER for MFC Applications
Good points. Something else I kept in mind when reading was that Goldman has a responsibility to its employees and clients to be able to weather the future, and regardless of current market volatility, there is a large amount of uncertainty; that uncertainty is prime motivation for focusing on making money by any practical means.

That said, these are not excuses for bad behavior, and even though Greg Smith has a good bit of motivation to spin all of this in a way that benefits him, he puts himself at risk by saying this.
Ummm, correlation does not imply causation?
An interesting satire on what's happening in the tech world, however, I'd be hesitant to be quite as critical. In the end, the service is free, it's not something that has to be provided. You should enjoy it while it's there and appreciate it, not feel entitled to it. Is it a little bit of a dick move? Yeah, but then again, what would you do if you were in their position?
I first heard this website from business week a while ago - guess that was when most of the world began to notice it. I would not have been impressed from a tech-crunch article....hmmm...another photo sharing site targeted at a niche market/audience (craft community)

How smart they are! Same photo sharing plus "like", "follow", but they definitely focused on the right community and audience - a group of people who really love they are doing and are passionate of their work, and willing to share with people alike.

And even better, it appears most of the images are actually "pinned" from other web sites (which store and serve the images?), so they are building their pin-board business on top of the whole internet. (how are they spending those millions of dollars?)
It's more often Mr, even in French these days...
It's an analogy for "the super latest greatest startup web site" and how it's risky using it (aka moving in).

You don't pay for it, so you don't have any claim as a tenant when they decide to cash out.
He's talking about startups getting acquired and then shutting down (see the last link of his post referencing Posterous).
Whether a behaviour is perfect can only be judged by analyzing its outcome; that is, after the behaviour has been acted out. You cannot categorize a certain planned behaviour as perfect a priori. Anyone doing so is being stupid. Therefore you are stating a self-fulfilling prophecy in your quote that believing that perfect, well directed effort always breeds "success" is dangerous.
The most amusing thing I find about Goldman Sachs, is their refusal to put their name on their building. They built a brand new 43 floor office building right across the street from Ground Zero to serve as their new headquarters, and their name is no where on the building.

It makes one think that they are hiding -- perhaps they're ashamed of themselves?
> CSS to change colours and relative proportions is, I suppose, a concession that had to be made
> to 'designers', but when you, as the page author, are having to concern yourself with
> typography, then something has gone horribly wrong.

Have you stopped to consider that some page authors want to concern themselves with typography? Not everyone is aiming to just dump content at a user-agent, and not every message is best delivered that way.

Also: nobody has to concern themselves with design. I'm sure you know that you can put up some semantic markup and expect UAs to figure it out, and they will. If you want to let browsers dictate the layout of your content, that's a doable thing. If you want to put some directives on top and tell the browser what fonts/colors/positioning etc you want, that's doable too. Where's the issue?

> Did these designers ever stop to think about blind people relying on text-to-speech? It's obvious
> how that should render <em> - with emphasis - but what does it do with "letter-
> spacing:110%;"?

So, you're saying that because some user-agents ignore visual styles, nobody should use visual styles? I mean, a screen-reader is going to ignore things like letter-spacing, font choices, etc, anyway.

> Fixed-width web pages are _evil_, where by evil I actually mean _stupid_.

Those are some pretty loose/insulting definitions of both "evil" and "stupid."
I think it's a little .----- and more than a little hyperbolic to suggest that Posterous wasn't a business, but rather just an exhibit for the team's portfolio.

The fact is, Posterous tried and lost. By all accounts, valiantly.

I find myself nodding when Maciej writes "Don't Be A Free User", because he is competing with free (and also because I want him to give me a tour of his vault of golden coins). Pointing out that your pricing scheme makes you a sustainable competitive alternative is fair.

But to the best of my knowledge, you aren't competing with Posterous. Why do you feel the need to rub this in?

I sincerely apologize if I'm just missing some parodic element of this post.
Mine says I have to offer my employer first call on any potential work that comes my way, if they turn it down I'm free to take it on as long as it doesn't affect my day job.

Additionally if I quit, I can't hire any of my co-workers at a new venture for a period of one year. They've been stung in the past on that last one.
Basics of Centrifugal Pump Operation (3 PDHs)
And as often as your wallet can afford the trip --- travel by boat isn't cheap. I noticed that they didn't mention the cost of the boat taxi; either it is a free shuttle, partially subsidized, or in worst case you'll cover the actual cost of the boat trip (a ferry in Seattle cost me $20 one way when I was there years ago; gas prices have gone up since, boats get horrible mileage, and they depreciate quickly and need lots of upkeep in salt water).
It was analogy, not to be taken literaly. Ragenwald wanted to say that free services (webpages, applications, etc) provided by startups often ends up after a while, and people depending on them are left hanging.
It sounds like you want a complete separation of content from presentation.

While that may be an appealing ideal, particularly if you personally prefer to concentrate only on the content, I don't think complete separation can ever be possible.

Content should always be paramount, but the reality is that presentation does affect how that content is perceived. Presentation of text content can affect reading speed and retention. Presentation of graphical data can highlight useful patterns or it can obscure and mislead. In some cases, a minor adjustment to the content itself will give better results than changing the whole presentation: consider the editor who recommends slightly rewording an article rather than accepting a semantically awkward line break.

You can choose not to specify anything about your presentation, but that doesn't mean it's not there, only that you're going to get some default behaviour, which may or may not be any good for your content.

This does pose a genuine issue for those with disabilities, who may use assistive technologies to access the same content but not necessarily with the same visual styling. This is one good reason for marking up Web content using semantic HTML, and then applying visual styling as an extra layer of presentation on top: alternative tools, such as screen readers, can present the same information in different ways for audiences with differing needs.

As far as fixed-width pages being evil/stupid, I think as an industry we've grown beyond treating page layout as a dichotomy where it's either "fixed width" or "fluid layout". With the myriad devices used to access Web content today, neither a completely fixed-width layout nor a classical fluid layout with widths given using relative units or percentages is likely to be much good for all likely screen types. Thus we see the emerging field of responsive design, where content-rich sites specify multiple layouts (any of which might contain fixed and/or fluid elements) and choose between them based on screen resolution, device orientation, physical screen size/pixel density, and so on. We've even been seeing interesting research into responsive content recently, where more than just the layout adapts to give a better experience particularly to users of mobile devices with small screens and different browsing habits, though personally I think the jury is still out on that one. In any case, hopefully we are well past the days of either specifying a wide fixed width that doesn't work very well for smaller devices (or those who just prefer to browse in a relatively narrow window) or specifying no width at all and allowing text content to get far too wide to read comfortably on large screens.
You are trying to hard and you are doing it wrong.
Instead of doing this why don't you contact your congress people or whatever you guys have in the US and try to change the immigration laws ?

I'd rather cut my wrists than to spent my time on a boat full of prima-donas that want to "change the world".

I would love to move to SF one day, but I want to have living quality as much that country as to offer ,which isn't that good if you come from Europe, let's be honest, but it's probably one of the best places to live in the US, and not some artificial thingy floating in sea,

Again, if the US doesn't want us there because of our potential/skills, well then, I suggest we stop putting it in this big pedestal and start creating our own startups on our own countries or countries that want us there.

Question: Does YC fund foreign startups, if not, why ?
3D View: Neat, but I'll never use it

Live CSS editing: You're now as good as Firebug, great.

Save CSS changes: This is awesome, we just need a plugin that takes it a step further, automatically updating the local/remote files when I click "Save", instead of having to save each file one at a time, and browse the folder structure to find them each time