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You need a designer. One that can code, but that's still called a designer. I'm not sure if you can find that designer by advertising for a "frontend engineer with strong design sense".

Also, any good designer will balk at your request to "make it pretty". Design is not lipstick you can put on after the fact.

My suggestion: tell people that you're looking for a designer, and instead of "make it pretty", tell them you want to improve the user experience. Have them be involved early on. Making things pretty might be part of this job, but is not the only thing.
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Clear deprecation policies are great, but I also think that every public API needs to be explicitly versioned. This is commonly achieved by including the version in the URL (api.example.com/v3/whatever), but a suitable header (API-Version: 20120420) would also work.

Once published, a specific version of an API should never change in a backward-incompatible way, only become superseded by newer versions. Likewise, you don't change or deprecate individual methods, you merely stop supporting older versions. That would make it much easier for developers to keep track of API changes.
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This is the whole point of the Stanford Prison Experiment.

"I merely played my part"
I don't get what is wrong with current HN really. The site is not meant to attract customers or be beautiful - it is a news submission aggregator. The focus needs to be on maximizing information density while maintaining clarity. Titles, upvote icons, and comment numbers are sufficient to get that across, so adding "flair" will only detract from that appearance.

Also, I hate sites with huge title bars like that example. It pushes the actual content further down the page. Sure, this isn't 2002 where having 90% of your content in the initial view of page the isn't as important anymore, especially on a site like HN, but still maximizing for information density makes a users life easier.
Here's a friendly critique: using the monetary cost of your education to establish your credibility is not a good idea.
This is one of the best arguments for scraping data, if you can manage it. Generally businesses invest much more time and resources into maintaining an up-to-date, usable website than they would on an API, especially if they don't use a service-oriented architecture internally (ie, consume their own API)
I saw "Indie Game The Movie" last night (http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/). They followed the ups and downs of developing fez and super meat boy (and some braid).

If you're racing to develop something before you run out of money, take a break and go see this movie. You'll love it.
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> The government's reaction to server host Carpathia refusing to destroy all the evidence that Dotcom claims exonerates him is to announce that they are considering filing criminal indictments against Carpathia.

That is absolutely disgusting.

Let me get this straight - their logic is 'These guys did something illegal, and you have evidence that they didn't commit the crime in your possession. You need to destroy the evidence, because we're planning on charging you as an accomplice to that same crime.'

...I just don't even know where to begin.
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Its a fair comment, but this is one of the main reasons why we state this is because pingdom does the check "soon" after the error. The issue with this is, if your problem is intermittent, or changing over time...the actual issue may not be the issue you observed in the check on the "follow up".
Your nose doesn't lie. MU was supposed to have one of the biggest IPOs before it was raided. And given that the minds that conspire to 'make the Market' are fixated on this new tech bubble its quite likely that this isn't over.

http://tinyurl.com/7ojbvdh

SOPA has turned into CISPA. So its not like they stopped trying to coerce their way into legislation.
Yeah.
During several years i visited HN from time to time, frowning at the old-school layout. And promptly left.
Until one day, i matured enough, and realized that simplicity is elegant.

Though, i dislike the low-contrast browngray background. It's annoying for reading.

Make the layout user-customizable to each login. Let users choose. Is that too hard?
Thanks for the feedback. I think helping migrating being painless is something we do need to look into.

I would encourage you to check back when we add our next feature set, there are some big game changers coming.
#1 change I want for HN layout: infinite scroll.
#2 change--drop the numbers for the articles. Unecessary.
#3 change--make the comments click area larger.

Everything else is pretty much perfect.
As a designer I must say that I would NEVER apply for this position. Your ad doesn't illicit the sentiments of a company that truly cares for or understands design.
My friend Tom and I did a talk about this at various conferences, wow, 2 years ago. The interesting thing is that we're following the same evolution as the old snail-mail network and the SMS network. Eventually we'll realize that "cloud peering" is the best solution. But there will be lots of sturm und drang before we get there.

http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/31/The%20Cloud_s%20Hidd...

http://www.slideshare.net/sh1mmer/the-clouds-hidden-lockin-n...

There were four separate things needed to bring about what we think of as the modern international mail system. First you needed better infrastructure inside and between countries. You needed literally more portable objects, envelopes with stamps on them, instead of loose sheets, scrolls, wax seals, etc. You also needed standardization of the rates and address formats so one letter can travel anywhere. Last was a uniform rate, no-questions-asked promise to deliver via optimized routes, what we would now call a "peering agreement". Two ends of the agreement would treat each other as peers, and honor each others' comminucations as they would their own.

It's that kind of system we don't have, but should, in the cloud.
We need better infrastructure in the form of optimized routes between clouds. We need to be able to move our virtual machines and configurations around without special help. We need to make sure we don't get locked-in by screwball APIs or data formats. Most of all, we need the various cloud and web services vendors to commit to honoring each other's traffic without clobbering us, their customers, with metered billing.
It's not the wrapping of the language that is the issue. Unless you're writing bytecode by hand, every programer deals with some abstraction.

The issue is wrapping a language with a higher level abstraction, but then proceeding to use your abstraction with a framework designed for the lower language. In the case of the post, the author mentions using MacRuby/mRuby to Objective-C, but then proceeding to use it with Cocoa, which is really designed specifically for Objective-C. Using it with Ruby just ends up being awkward and unwieldy.
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"As is" is still lacking. Reading these comments across almost the entire width of my monitor is not good design. You do get information density, but my belief is that in the case of reading paragraphs, information density is secondary to readability.
I am pretty sure you were commenting on the 'ethical' aspect but just to emphasize this: regarding the skills involved, cracking today's 'PC games' copy protections is a lot harder than ripping or encoding will ever be. The protections are constantly updated, coming with new ways of triggers and other advanced protection measures in every version, making existing tools and approaches break. It's a neverending war, crackers versus copy protections.

As far as ripping and encoding goes, there is definitely some 'skill' involved as well (especially in video ripping/encoding and ensuring the best or 'right' quality and resolution) but in a lot of cases, it is the same steps and combination of tools each time. If we're talking audio ripping, it is basically a one-click thing. You can't compare this to the amount of skills, time and hard work required for cracking.

And although today's protections are much harder than most of what crackers in the old days had to deal with, it has always been like that.
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Huh? That says the + prefix came from RFC2811 which came out in 2000. So after RFC 1459 which only specifies &/# as channel prefixes.
I kept reading down the page hoping to see the reasoning behind the choices made, but was disappointed to find none.

This is why I disagree with the notion that style is only skin-deep. It's an integral part of UX, but only when considered within the framework of UX. The points value is now shaded in 3D: Why? The rank is now an orange circle: How does this help the user?

The best visual design is always based on UX. Do users consult the rank often? If not, the orange should be reserved for something else more demanding of the user's attention. Are the point totals interactive? If not, the 3D shading should be saved for use as an affordance somewhere where there is interaction. It's questions like these that turn a pretty visual design into something that not only looks but works great.
as I have tried to start a business building on top of API's, this is in general a risky business. Not only can they disappear, but also work incorrectly, go down, change overnight without notification. Also your access can be shut down just because of a change of heart on their side

If you don't pay for access and have some kind of contract (Twitter firehose, Bing API), yes your business goals are not aligned and you'd better prepare for the worse.
What type of business can afford being down every time the site they're scrapping is tweaked?
I believe this is the stylesheet: https://github.com/Primigenus/Cleaner-Hacker-News.
The market for fonts is nuts. You can buy one style of Wayfinding Sans for $374.50--or all twenty for $374.50.
Regardless if you like this design or not, I think HackerNews does need some kind of redesign. I can remember when I first started reading there were a lot of things that just weren't intuitive to me. I always wondered why a site for "hackers" and "coders" seemed so basic in features and looked like something from the 90's. Particularly, the login and password reset seems kind of difficult to use. Is there no RSS feed? How do I know when someone replies to one of my comments? Looking at my profile I have no idea what that stuff is for... "Max visits" "minaway" "delay"... ?? I still don't know what that is. I get the speed and simplicity idea but I think there are some user experience issues that can be solved while still having speed and simplicity.

Maybe I'm the only that feels this way, but just my thoughts. Maybe there is a good reason to the current design?
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The main place that pixels were noticeable was in an Apple store. Next to the iPhone 4, the older iPads looked much less sharp, at least for text (particularly Computer Modern). There have been lots of attempts at resolution independence, and I'm sure Windows and various Linux GUIs have hooks for such, but they've not been tested much because the hardware was generally in the 96-120 ppi range. There's no need for HDTVs to change.
What? No mention of indexing starting at 1, not 0? :)

I just started doing some Lua coding. So far nothing really off-putting, just a need to watch for habits picked up form other languages.

Biggest complaint is the lack of metaprogramming (e.g eval).
If you've still trouble with it, I've submitted the RSS. Usually it's reviewed and appears in marketplace after few days. Still then users can just add the RSS in the podcasts section of the Zune player.
Really annoying to try to read your marketing copy because it keeps scrolling away.

And why do you delay the page load just so you can do a fade in animation?

It seems like half the things you have on the page are there to prevent me from finding out what you guys do.
Sometimes I like to search for things to see what kind of buzz there is about them. Other than that, there's just something unsettling and vaguely frustrating about a system that doesn't work the same way for me as it does for someone else. I can't give any examples of where there's a crucial need for short term reproducibility of searches; it's more that there are lots and lots of petty cases where it is slightly annoying.
Hi, there are three categories: Zero-code (app is written from scratch in 59 days), In-Progress (app has been started before the competition), and People's Choice. My understanding is that there is a rubric, the bottom of this page has somewhat of a breakdown http://59daysofcode.com/the-contest/the-rules/ .
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How about something like a 33% grey to 75% grey gradient left to right under the zip code names which corresponds to the shading of the unselected map regions? That way I could see spatial trends on the map that would track your ordering preference. As it is I have to go dousing and try to mentally integrate over time.

The 33% still leaves room for the selected zip code to leap out.
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Automatic tagging, don't make me have to initiate interaction with the interface to make the apps primary function do its thing.
Let me recall some Professor's personal website in College.
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>I have no idea what most of the icons are supposed to do until I tap them, which is a terrible way of navigating an interface.

Is that such a terrible way for things to be though? To me, a well designed interface is one that invites you to play with it and learn its ins and outs, while making the experience memorable so that you'll find your way more easily in the future. It's best for the interface to be informative while doing this, but if you spray text all over everything, it does impede exploration.
Different definition of "player?" I don't think mruby is meant to compete with MRI. JRuby is said by many to be a fork, and I would understand it to be a competitor, but I don't think their intentional focus is forking the language. The same goes for Rubinius. I didn't think of MacRuby to be a language fork. IronRuby isn't a player.

MRI, JRuby, and Rubinius were or are running significant populations of web apps. I wasn't aware that MacRuby was widely used for other than building apps on OS X.

Contrast this with Smalltalk, which at one point simultaneously had VisualWorks, Smalltalk Agents, Digitalk VSE (merged with other vendor), Smalltalk MT, IBM VisualAge Smalltalk, ObjectStudio, Smalltalk/X, Dolphin Smalltalk, and Squeak, all of which were actively being used to build or maintain desktop apps, and all but two of which were running on Windows. On top of that, there were significant semantic and syntactic differences between all of them, which make the differences between Ruby implementations seem quite minor. (Really messy and fundamental differences like namespaces and what does one expect Dictionaries to return when you insert something?)

Back in 1999 or so, most of the Smalltalk implementations were commercial, and many of the companies had no incentive to interoperate and some incentive not to. In contrast, I think there's more incentive to interoperate and avoid language forks for the Ruby community.

Also, if one considers the population of Smalltalk devs back then compared to Ruby devs today, then no, I wouldn't say anomalously many per capita. BASIC and Forth seem to be in a different league for number of implementations. One would have to do some digging, but it might be argued that Ruby has relatively few implementations even for its relative age.
Picasa is more than just a web service, it's great for fixing images (with minimal effort) and searching local collections of photos via face recognition.
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Agreed. That 70 character width rule would be nice on HN.
This is great. Seems like it's too fancy. And some people would not like it.
And the comment bubble is distracting.
Give it a change. I might gonna use it.
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This reminds me of my career change. I am glad for him he managed to do it.
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yeah. This is the best textbook I've ever read, period. The tangents are actually quite helpful, because they keep you motivated to keep reading, and slow down the pace a bit. Also check out tryruby.org for an awesome interactive tutorial, which was originally written by the poignant author. Good luck, and chunky bacon (you'll get it when you read the book, which you absolutely should do)!
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Dropping Picasa for Linux is quite okay. Since it's a lame wined one.
I hate it.
Having a good HTML5 version would fulfill my needs to does not need a app for that.
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Yes, that's the one. I made a couple changes to mine, but it's essentially the same.
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Show HN: Bridge, a cross-language RPC messaging system
Support for all three platforms is a requirement for me (and most other developers I know) these days, it's one of the reasons why I haven't bought various standard tools including Photoshop... yet use Filezilla, Gimp, Sublime Text 2, Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, Clementine, etc.
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#2 *might spoil the market for YC applications. I'd assume the consultants would be YC Alumni, who will essentially charge money for proof-reading future applications. It boils down to paying money to increase the odds of being accepted. Sounds very college-like to me.
> illegal search and seizure

Yes, exactly. That is why so many outrageous search and seizure laws have been passed, thus making them legal.
All of these things may be true, but the biggest usability issue facing HN right now is load times. HN has undergone exponential growth even in the short time I've been here, and the site hasn't kept up with it. Given that we're all programmers, perhaps we should take it upon ourselves to dig through the source and see what we can speed up.
It depends about what you're arguing. A "python vs. nodejs" argument carried on for days isn't valuable; other arguments w.r.t. tech/engineering might be.

Related: An advantage of a "non-diverse" engineering culture is so the arguments can focus on meaningful topics that push the company forward, and not on topics that arise from basic, core cultural differences
People do get karma from article submissions.

Several ideas related to limiting the influence of article submissions were made here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554
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I've been wanting to do something fairly similar. Specifically, I would love to know how you got the zip code overlay data and built your map with zip code overlays. It looks like a deceptively complicated thing. Any information you can share on how you did that part?
Yes! I believe it.
We are experiencing the same here in Sri Lanka.

We had a great war of GroupOn like sites in past 6 months.
But only one is working on it greatly.

It is a FAD for me.
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>Is there no RSS feed?

Of course there is:

It's at the bottom.

More seriously though, I had no difficulty locating the various features of the site. Theres few enough of them that it's not really a problem.

EDIT: But then, I'm the sort of person who likes the text, tables and boxes 90's style web pages.
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Any physics textbook. Look up "conservation of mass".
I should join your party too.
Why should we always on our wifi and get our battery drained and get tracked by some one else. :P
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In the grand scheme of things, the differences between CPython and PyPy are minor. Stackless is a special case. Relatively Python has very little language fragmentation. It has more of what I'd call "implementation fragmentation," but not too much of that either.
you say adobe when i think you mean abode.
Groupon isn't in any major index.

Groupon doesn't pay any form of dividend.

There is no major positive event to trade it around.

Given that, I'm curious to know what pension fund you think would invest in Groupon?
There are documentation pages which explain the features you're asking about. Also, search now works. This may seem really unfriendly, but perhaps friction is sometimes a good thing? RTFM and "use search" have been the grumpy welcome of hacker communities for many years, so I guess that's something that has carried over?

The bottom of this page explains the max visits minaway stuff: (http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)

Maybe years of SLRN and Usenet have spoiled me - I love the HN layout.

I would like a Usenet style scorefile.
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What is wrong with you? Are you always suck a dick?

MacBooks from 2007 had removable batteries just like your beloved plastic brick. Your argument is based on ignorance and apparent hatred.

"Penis enthusiasts"? You must be charming to be around.

Go away.
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And... they aren't shutting down Patent Search. Your rant is baseless.
I was using most of them quite regularly. They are doing this so they all can focus on what ? Google+ , the shit that all going to do is wasting my time without helping me in anyway ? Google should change their motto to "Do not do stupid." with immediate effect.
Hi SeoxyS, if you have time do you mind critiquing my side project's design on this page? It's a website for students to find buyers and sellers of used textbooks (usually other students).

http://textbookcentral.com.au/33/university-of-sydney/list/

(Admittedly the page numbers on the bottom are more for search engine crawlers than people)
Can non-yc companies post job openings on hacker news?
Can a start-up outside the yc network post job openings? I realize one could just post a link to the job post...but is it frowned upon in the community to do so without being yc-affiliated?
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A number of nations have a tit-for-tat policy when it comes to immigration practices. For example, China matches the fee for a US tourist visa for Chinese citizens when Americans try to go to China. That's far from the only example.
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To extend your thought experiment ...

When you really are the smartest person in the world, and everyone knows it, you could seek out seek out students and teach them to be the smartest person in the world. I have heard it several times in different ways but the gist is this, 'If you really want to learn X, teach someone how to X.' I don't think the quote is exactly right but I hope the intent comes through.
Most laundries already do this. Don't they? Pick-up service, 24h, delivery.
Intentional? Distract potential WoW defectors. I'm not trying to raise a conspiracy, I'm a huge Blizzard fan, just pondering.
Good thing we have Silicon Valley lobbying to stop that.
Of course it means 6 things are monitored, I feel like you're exaggerating your confusion here. Pingdom uses the word check to refer to the same thing, they seem to be doing ok.
This is going to change the game, I think.

It'll come down to cross platform support and security. Once those two bases are covered, the rest will be a walk in the park for Flotype.
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