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For me, these class notes are the most thought-provoking stuff that has surfaced HN for a while. The first few lectures took this bird-eye view to entrepreneurship, which was very refreshing. Thiel's view about competition vs monopolies, or as he puts it, globalization vs technology, was a new point of view to me. And this more practical discussion about company culture is quite spot on in my experience: argumentative culture is better than too nice culture.
Neat, but please don't call this 'OMGPOP's Draw Something'. This title is pure link bait. It's not even close to Draw Something, nor is it intended to be.

A more appropriate title would be 'Doodle app in 3 hours with Firebase'

Edit: Thanks
>"But clicking anywhere just serves to reload the page! Maybe it's just me but it took me two full-page reloads to realize I was being conned."

Yeah, it looks like they just took a screen shot of the Google Finance chart:

https://www.google.ca/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:GRPN

Kind of weird.
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That's not all that protective when it comes down to it - all you need to do is redefine what 'unreasonable' means in law.

It's 'unreasonable' and not 'illegal' by the way - and the latter would be even easier to get around, because you just legislate 'this is legal now', no semantic tricks required.
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I know nothing, but I would think gravity smelting and related operations would be much more technically difficult and risky than gravity based operations on the moon.
You want to remap the axis. This may help.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoin...
In my opinion, it would be more accurate to say fund-raising pawn. Here is one scenario. Obama administration sics the FBI on Dotcom, Obama super-pac gets sudden infusion of Hollywood cash...a little quid-pro-quo set up by Chris Dodd.

I have no evidence for any of this, it is just my own speculation. But I suspect that this is the underlying dynamic, and the reason I suspect this is because it would fit the pattern reported on here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/t...
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Thanks for that comments! We actually meant to remove the support tag on the home page, we'll fix that!
Thanks! Great feedback, we'll chase those items down. We have the differential locked in, but its not released yet...you'll have to stay tuned, but trust me its good ;-)
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It's directly based on what we are looking for, in this case an intern/junior dev. However, you will get a nice score if you are a good python/django developer as well :-)
Nice to hear, we'd love to know more about that those features are so we can be sure we're offering a competitive solution.
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This article will leave you scratching your head!
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Agreed! Very unprofessional to take screenshots with interactive components and leave them there.

I spent a few seconds trying to drag the dang scroll bar!
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Batteries have become vastly better over the last 15 years. It's just that this stuff ends up as gradual progress, not sudden jumps, so you don't notice it unless you're looking for it.
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How? I can't make out any difference...
> Of course you could argue that some of these things are because Apple is in the unique position of creating the hardware and software, but so what? That's part of the point...

Linus uses Linux on his macbook air so that doesn't really matter.
Beginner here, I'm a mechanical engineer with very little experience with programming. I tried to follow the book this week but found it little bit difficult to follow. Question: Should I go learn the basics of Ruby first or should I power through hoping to learn everything along the way? If you think that I should learn the basics first, would you recommend learnrubythehardway or something else? Thanks in advance!
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Well, I'll be that guy and say I'm underwhelmed (no less by the link-bait headline).

and saving and sharing data without a line of backend code!

That's nice and all. However, from a glance it seems like you saved yourself about 30 lines of code in <insert-favorite-web-framework>. With heroku or appengine that's about 15 minutes from first line to first deploy.

No need to lock yourself into a proprietary platform here, if you ask me...
I think one of the reasons Hacker News has stayed this simple is that it helps filter out some of the users that don't look past design.
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Earlier today I found a website that said "Recommended Browser: Netscape Navigator 4.04 or newer", now this... Afraid to view the source, feels like I'm disturbing an archeological excavation site.

"It belongs in a museum!"
What about AWS import/export? You just ship them drives and they plug it in, charged by the hour.

http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
+1 Regarding the tagline, "Pingdom killer". I would first agree with this comment that you need to focus on users, not competitors. You're trying to communicate the experience the user will receive, not your business objectives (which should be making money...if you succeeded in getting people to stop using Pingdom but some third competitor gets all of the users then you have done all of the work but captured none of the reward)

Also, you've basically given Pingdom advance notice that you intend to compete with them, so what is to stop them from copying your best ideas and capitalizing on them?
C'mon, it's Friday. Whether the math is even close or not, isn't it amusing that someone even bothered to ask this question!
I think that it looks good, but I think that you could change how you display the number of points each post has accumulated. The design of the site does not seem to fit the culture of hacker news. Look at the current website, it looks like it was hacked together by a programmer not a designer.
I think that a redesign of hacker news would include a bit of the old site's spirit.
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It's a screenshot from Google Finance. They didn't bother to crop out the UI controls.
This looks great. I've already built some iOS photo and geo apps that run on Heroku (highly recommended), but I'm sure there are a few pointers I can pick up from this tutorial.
Everybody says this, but it doesn't make any sense. They don't sell 1080p TVs at small screen sizes. A 15" or 17" 1080p panel is not getting sold to a TV manufacturer.
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The PDF specimen linked at the end is also worth a look.
+1 I'm curious too
Because if Europe had the right institutions, it would be worth saving. The cost of breakup is so high.

Unfortunately, the things they need to do to save the euro economically make it less politically likely that they'll be able to get the institutions they need.

(Yes, I'm the author).
>>nearly all of the copper mined at the time of the pharaohs is still in use.

Source?
Thanks! Yeah, might as well wait for the next release rather than debug an old version.
Awesome!

The mechanics of the paddle are a bitch, but I like the concept. Is that your doing?
I just think the same thing would have occurred regardless of who was in office. Gotta protect the old incumbent industries. Hollywood actors != Hollywood Businesses.
First off, how did the person who found this come about this? They must have been tipped off.

Second, this could be (is?) a great way to covertly transmit information. Wow!

Finally, where are the patents on this? :)
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1. On iPad, when I clicked the link to the how it works section, the animated arrows showing the flow of checks and responses were in a layer behind the cloud images that I think are supposes to stay in the back layer. I only saw this glitch once.

2. Pricing confused me. 6 checks for $14/month. My first thought was this means you only would check my server 6 times a month, so on average it would take 2.5 days for you to notice a problem and tell me. That can't be right, so I must conclude I have no idea what a "check" is. Does it mean 6 pages or things at my site are monitored? Anyway, sine the pricing is based on checks, you should make sure no one gets confused as to what a check is.
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haha sweet, i figured. was just being an ass.
Those vertical lines in the header are dizzying
Great post. Very interesting work.

My picky question is - why so thin? The 'blurred' examples show the font broadening through the 'blur', which is why thinner fonts work well here, but is there a scientific basis for this? I would assume that this is good for light text on a dark background. For the opposite, I'd assume a thicker font would do better (text would become 'thinner' as your eyes blur?). Also, if there is any damage/weathering of the sign, Id assume a thicker font would cope with this better.
Did he say that? I don't remember reading that, and he didn't mention it in the article. Maybe he's just using the Mac to access his Linux machine remotely? :)
Thanks for the feedback, we'll look into those ipad issues. "Checks" are an individual end point (Http or TCP) you want us to monitor, we will continually monitor that check as often as you like (from as often as 5 seconds to as irregular as hourly).
This is far from ideal for the government.

It seems extremely likely the government could have proved that Megaupload was built on copyright infringement. But instead they're just going to come out discredited, making it harder for such actions to succeed in the future.

All that's happened here is that they've taken down one player among many, and their ability to get the rest is lessened. That's not what they wanted here.
Sorry, but I don't like it. I do like the top header and the color scheme in general. The texture in the header looks snazzy, in a good way.

The space wasted by the listing of stories is very excessive. That's the meat and potatoes of the site, yet I see 10 stories in the first screenfold vs 24 now. Why dedicate so much space to the wide "XX points" label? Is it even clickable (why would it be?) Arguably upvoting a story is more important and is actually actionable, yet the up vote "caret" looks way less clickable. The comment count balloons are jarring in their size and contrast and their random placement on the right side is distracting. When I glance at the page, I notice this jagged curve of gray dots, yet it delivers no useful information (other than how long the headline is, which is not useful).

So I think it's all about the spacing. When I look at that page, is the headline list easily perusable end parsable? I don't think it is. It is more spaced out than the current design, but it is surrounded and squeezed by these loud new elements. Think about the negative space created by the three new columns before the headline--I think clutters up the headline list.

Compared to the current design, this is a worse design. While the current HN design could use improvement (IMO text is too tiny), it does have a striking simplicity and focus on headlines that I love.

I apologize if I come off sounding harsh, and I certainly don't have design chops myself to pull off something like that (though I'd like to at some point in the future...)
Could. Too bad the alternative is Romney....
Are you specifically trying to learn Ruby on Rails? Or just programming/just web development?
Not mine -- friends/nice talented people [ http://heliom.ca/en ] at the local coworking place.

They left another very nice easter egg on a site they just launched: http://bivouacurbain.com/en/ See if you can spot it...
I find the end result pretty attractive, and it's definitely distinctive - perhaps it could have wider applications than just signage: http://fonts.info/pub/pdf/wayfinding-sans-pro.pdf
I don't think that means what you think it means. You want a designer.
I get some strong easter egg vibes from the links on the 4 dots, but they don't seem to actually accomplish anything....

Update:

Eureka! That's pure awesome.
I started using ack from http://betterthangrep.com recently and like it a lot. There are even more tools listed at http://betterthangrep.com/more-tools/
My point is that for big established names Kickstarter doesn't add value, it merely provides a service. One which can (and undoubtedly will) be provided by others.

If they have competition as a service, then they will likely have to compete on price as well.
entertaining, nice job Mek!
Check the upper right corner of the screen.
Looks interesting.

On the feature comparison chart, the "Early Response System" seems to be something Pingdom has, but you've marked them as lacking it. Per their docs:

> If we can’t reach the target with a test, a second location in our monitoring network will be asked to perform another test right away. If both these locations agree that the site is down, the check is considered as down by Pingdom.
I think your post comes across differently than you meant it. I think this is how it's going:

What you meant: "It's deeply unfortunate that we're at the point of venturing to other planets but we still haven't managed to get past all our petty divisions on this one."

How it reads: "I prefer to think of humanity as a unified whole and view national boundaries as pernicious fictions, and it bothers me when other people talk about these fictional boundaries in the context of something as important as space exploration. Please phrase it differently from now on."

The latter reading comes across as kind of pedantic and bossy, not to mention unrealistic.
Thanks Jorge, I appreciate it :o)
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It looks good, although I also like the current, simpler design. One thing I really like about your mock-up is that the link to the comments page has a much bigger click target. I lost count of the times I wanted to open the comments page but missed the target by a couple of pixels because it's so darn small (only 7pt).

If I were you, I'd drop the leftmost number (1, 2, 3 ... 20) which looks totally useless to me. I'd also move the points number right below the upvote button so that everyone can immediately tell what it is. No need to repeat "Points" 20 times in every page.

Also, screenshots like this should be in PNG, not JPG.
Mentioned this in another comment:

Frontend engineers execute beautiful designs. It's a team effort.

Also, Grubwithus is looking for frontend engineers w/ strong design sense. We're a small team and wear many hats.
All fairness, this is perhaps my favorite HN redesign that I've seen. I'm a fan of the white space, and the far more readable text.

I don't know why we're numbering the posts on HN, so I won't critique it on the redesign, but I think you could safely drop that as an artifact and then, perhaps, the 'points' section wouldn't look so large.

The only thing I flat out dislike is the number of comments floating out to the right. It's a ragged-right design, and it bugs the crap out of me (though it might just be me).

On the whole, I'd much rather be using that site than this one though, and that's gotta be the benchmark for success. I don't think it's perfect, but I definitely agree that it's a big improvement.
>>I wonder about this style of thinking. In particular, the distinction between making it work and making it right.

The reason for this style of thinking applies to projects that you don't really have a clear path on how to implement them. A good example would be building a humanoid robot. Along the way you learn what works and what doesn't and you end up with a project that works, sort of. Now that you have a better understanding of the problem you re-architect the entire project, if needed, to make it easier to maintain long term.

Of course, this is just a rule of thumb. You don't have to wait till the end to re-architect a project. You could treat each major sub-module as a project of its own and apply this same thinking.
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Yes, ruby on rails. Learning to start on a webapp project I have in mind. The reason I want to learn ruby on rails as oppose to PHP or Phython is because my friend/partner is more comfortable using ruby on rails. Therefore, in order to collaborate with him, I should learn ruby on rails. Having said all that, I would still like to hear your opinion on what language I should start on.. if you have one. Thanks.
I like the article, but the fat, fixed header is killing an otherwise great design. Making the header absolute (not stick to the top of the window) would leave more vertical screen space for the crisp graphics and typeface.
I like it, but it feels like the gmail redesign with too much space. Some people like that, I'd prefer to see a maximum number of articles on one page.
Those outcomes are likely. Although it's also possible that:

* next-quarter results are "less bad" than expected, and the large band of short sellers have to start buying to cover

* insiders feel that the stock is unfairly priced and are willing to hold on until it improves

* Facebook's IPO is a roaring success and generates a rising tide for all internet stocks

I think the first one has the most chance of happening. The stock is heavily shorted right now, any news that's not negative has the chance of sparking a rally.
I've been a Pingdom customer for several years, with no plan to leave. Here's my perspective:

1. Our primary use of Pingdom is to show prospective clients our app uptime, as validated by a 3rd party. So Pingdom's main value for us is in marketing.

2. Because Pingdom has years of our data, we are really locked in.

3. Sub-minute monitoring is not appealing, I don't want that much load on my servers from monitoring.

4. The name Verelo does not convey what your service does.

5. I think Pingdom's $10/month price point is about right for our use-case. We'd probably drop it if they raised prices very much.

Hope this helps, good luck with your venture!
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I'd settle for a hacker news hardware upgrade instead, I keep wondering if someone plugged me into an analogue modem with these 30 second page load times. I guess that's the price of popularity.
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I feel HN does need a face lift. What with it showcasing the designs of tomorrow everyday and all!

I agree with kijin, the numbers besides the posts seem of no use. We need to use the space so as to get as many posts as possible in the view without scrolling, so I wouldn't mind narrowing the distance between the posts either. Maybe a hover can magnify the post a little.
Posts that link to URL could have some distinct style or something.
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I wonder how it looks when rendered at very small sizes on computer screens? It might be surprisingly legible...
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Redesigning a popular site is a good way for up-and-coming designers to show off their skills - but it's important to consider the target audience and their priorities. Yes, HN users want speed, but mentioning page load times and moving on shows that you haven't really thought about that. We want to get into the meat of HN (which is the conversations) as fast as possible. Everything that gets in the way of that is bad.

1) Spacing - designers love adding extra space, and on first glance it looks beautiful. But too much space slows down browsing speed.

2) The numbered articles - more eye catching than the actual content. A user reading that page will have to spend concentration on not looking at the numbers.

3) The same with the bubbles around the comment counts and upvotes. Those values are important for HN readers - but not as important as the actual topic.

The design is less important than the content.
I'm sorry, but this is a perfect example of the difference between design and eye candy. Often, people wonder why I spend $50,000 a year going to design school, when I can learn how to make things that are just as shiny by reading psdtuts.com.

The difference is that style is only skin-deep. It's superficial. It's an added bonus on top of design. Design, on the other hand, is the core of the product: how it functions. It's the soul: what story it tells.

Your redesign, while prettier, does nothing to improve the user experience, or to tell a story. Sure, it's easier on the eyes, but it's a much worse design, in that it makes the user experience worse. It's now harder to read: less information is on the screen. (11 story as opposed to 25, on my screen.) The information hierarchy within stories is less clear. The eye has to jump around more to get the secondary information (poster / point count / comment count / time posted). The flag functionality is simply gone…

You did a good job making it look better, and should be commended for that. But as for the design, try again.

PS: Take this as friendly critique. Take it in, learn what you can, try again. Rise, repeat. Don't be discouraged, but realize you have a long way to go. You'll get there!

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Note: Check out this redesign, which I think is quite effective, and is installable as a extra stylesheet on the current HN code: http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/Hacker_News-20120420-180413.png
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Some users (like me) simply don't have the ability to flag stories, so the designer might not know about that functionality.