skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a good negotiation tactic, because it's the very opposite of closing from the start. Imagine a Taco Bell with no prices posted on their menu board (if they even have a menu board), drive-through only, minimum 30 minute conversation (most of which involves silence) to place an order, and the resulting long line of cars.

If business X makes a widget that costs more, does less, takes longer to deliver, and has lower quality than business Y, I guarantee you business X will outperform business Y if business X discloses their prices ahead of time and Y doesn't. X will also waste significantly less time selling to people who aren't going to buy.
Where I'm from, most schools already have shop classes where practical arts like mechanics are taught. So the status quo here is that mechanics is on a pedestal relative to programming.
Anonymous hack has stopped Facebook access also(India)
Great points, but in the author's 2D histograms the use of 'color' to show point density is a little misleading. Color is not a scalar, it's a vector, and simply varying hue doesn't map out well to the human perception of lightness or intensity. It also doesn't allow for meaningful interpolation. If you take a look at http://vis4.net/blog/posts/avoid-equidistant-hsv-colors/ you can see a strategy for building perception-aware color palettes/gradients, which would be much more useful in this case.

(actually it looks like this wasn't the author's decision, but something built into the graphing library)
They suggest the rainbow color map is a poor choice because it hides small details. I'm advocating regularization which ensures that you have no small details.

But after reading that paper, I do agree that rainbow has some significant issues. One thing that might be worth trying: make a rainbow color map, but map values to colors in such a way that |x-y|=C x cielab_dist(color(x), color(y)).
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Yeah, I guess I was. In the US you see things like relatives of police officers not getting ticketed when they crash while driving drunk, for instance, and other sorts of selective non-enforcement of laws and sometimes selective enforcement based on the prejudices the enforcers. But I've never had to pay a bribe, and I don't know anyone else who's had to pay one either.
Do people really do this?

I kind of wish I had known this before I went to YC's Work At a Startup event.
There are more benefits:

Costs nothing to change colors. This makes it great for iterating.

No bandwidth costs as CSS is rendered on the client.

Infinitely scalable in size. No rasterization.

Availability of other CSS functionality, like shadows, animation etc
How many domains do you own?
Ask HN: Do quality web graphics, design and layout actually help businesses?
This is a question that has been plaguing me since I started web development and consulting. The more I reach out into the world, the more I see companies with absolutely horrid website designs and yet the companies are doing extremely well. Maybe I'm missing something? So: while I understand a company isn't it's website, but I believe a website helps define a companies image. So why do companies stick with, pardon my language, P.O.S. websites?
Oh boy, this is apparently the scattershot approach to data visualization.

Always explore you data first and than use the visualization that best transports your intended message. (Yes there should be one, why else are you making a graphic?)
I've never understood why coding horror gets so much attention. Every article usually fits in one or two buckets. The first type is an inflated, long winded, well marketed article about a ridiculously simple topic or idea that tries to sound more insightful than it is ("Look at how well designed my new cat food dispenser is.") The second type is when a more controversial subject is broached, like performance tuning or computer literacy, and the result is always the same: shallow analysis, often peppered with completely incorrect statements, a massive blowback from people who know what they are talking about, then a series of retort posts that dig the hole deeper until the meme finally burns off.
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I love he fact that we have so many options. I myself am writing a small event driven web framework and should be out by the end of summer.
Awesome, glad to be of help :)
Assuming you are talking about C++, there is no need for your wife to learn C in order to learn C++.

C and C++ are different languages today, while it is still possible to write C code in C++, it is not recommended.

Last year C++ was "upgraded" with a new standard C++11. If you want to learn modern C++ you will have to use a variety of websites. There is no good beginner C++11 book available for now.

A few useful blogs with C++11 material:

http://herbsutter.com/elements-of-modern-c-style/

http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/C++0xFAQ.html

http://solarianprogrammer.com/categories/C++11

http://bartoszmilewski.com/

A good book about C++ is:

http://www.amazon.com/Primer-4th-Edition-Stanley-Lippman/dp/...

but I would wait for the 5th edition for learning C++11.

If your wife knows nothing about programming I suggest to learn a language like Python or Ruby first ... C++ is not suitable for a beginners.
A few years ago, I scanned some of the lab and TA notes from that class (~1991 vintage) for a guy that wanted to DIY some semiconductors in his garage. Neat project; I should try to locate him and see if he made any progress.
Can you site these studies, please. And do any of these studies take into account the offsetting massive loss of wetlands world-wide (which now no longer release methane into the atmosphere) over the last couple centuries from destruction of swamps. (e.g. when Saddam Hussein drained the Tigris–Euphrates marshlands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_...)
Until they shut it down.
Well, it's for higher echelons, and in that level it's not even called a "bribe". You know, like having your company get huge commissions from the very business your war policies created, or having your friends in DC bail you out because you're "too big to fail", etc. E.g (Wikipedia):

Halliburton has become the object of several controversies involving the 2003 Iraq War and the company's ties to former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney retired from the company during the 2000 U.S. presidential election campaign with a severance package worth $36 million.[40] As of 2004, he had received $398,548 in deferred compensation from Halliburton while Vice President. Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000 and has received stock options from Halliburton. In the run-up to the Iraq war, Halliburton was awarded a $7 billion contract for which 'unusually' only Halliburton was allowed to bid.
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Bottle is older than Flask still the latter is far more popular, has more features, is better documented and has a bigger community. It is really not a question of who will win but who has won.
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HP will be a sell for a while. If they're already setting themselves up for negligible or negative growth through 2014, it won't make much sense to buy HP, either in stock or in their products.
Not necessarily. You could write nice libraries utilizing the object notation and method chaining, just look at jQuery.
Modern C++ does not have much in common with C. Today C and C++ are very different languages. You don't need to learn C in order to understand C++, quite the opposite ... If you start from C you will write C in C++ which is not recommended at all.
I also enjoyed the early history of the transistor (pre Bell Labs) linked to from that site: http://www.porticus.org/bell/belllabs_transistor1.html

It really does emphasise how most inventions are collective efforts building on many incremental steps and seldom moments of sheer eureka type brilliance.
First, no one is owed a job any more than they are owed a date with a beautiful person, or a steak dinner. Employees are (should be) legally free to leave a job, and employers should be legally free to fire at will, for the same reason that romantic partners should be free.

Second, those workers are paid for their efforts as long as they're employees. The word "toil" brings images of slave labor to mind, which is utterly inappropriate in this context. If a person is making less than the objective value of his labor is worth (that is, the market rate), he's free to stop "toiling" and get a better job, if he can find it.

When the market changes, the company doesn't need some of its employees. The converse is also true: those employees don't need the company. What they need is to find another arrangement that can put them to the best use available, so that they are working toward a profitable goal (basic overlooked fact: employees are paid today on the expectation that what they do results in profits tomorrow).
I think it could be for one color pieces, but anything beyond that and it makes a lot more sense to use an svg or div based solution.
Choosing the right tool for data visualization is important and scatterplots aren't good for everything, but they have their place and can be really useful. For instance this scatterplot from carsabi.com shows a lot of very useful information: http://cl.ly/GvnM

Scatterplots can be a lot more useful when you do things like display the points in different colors or highlight a specific point of interest as in the Carsabi scatterplots.

Do you really think scatterplots should never be used? I think a headline like that takes away from your credibility. The problem isn't with scatterplots, it's choosing the right tool for the job.
I can't remember where I saw the quote, but I am constantly reminded of it in my too-busy life:

Time is the ultimate luxury
"If they're a Republican, they'll be offended and go away"

Or possibly they just don't like rabid partisans who are incapable of discussing any subject outside their personal political beliefs.

"not to waste time getting to know someone you'll hate"

Yep. Automatically hating anyone with a different point of view before even getting to know them is definitely the way to go. It's called "diversity", right?
Another site that takes IP address to force the language, even after chaning it back to .com. Sigh.
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They have a higher order of symmetry than rectangles, but how are they isotropic?
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That document is allegedly from 2001, as discussed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4027209
I want things to be better for other people than it was for me.
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>So you're saying people should give up on the idea of living to a millions years old and just suck it in by spending more time with the families/friends in the few years they have?

People in general (as in "humanity") no. But individual people, as you and me, yes, we should definitely "just suck it in by spending more time with the families/friends in the few years we have". As in, don't waste your life for pie in the sky ideas...

>Death is a solvable problem. There are species and cell types that are essentially immortal. It exists in nature.

Lot of things exist in nature. It doesn't mean they also apply to us, or that we can achieve them in a timespan of 100 years or less. Speed of light also exists in nature. But I doubt we'd see a spaceship approaching 80% of it in the next couple of centuries...

Also, that "solvable" part. As it pertains to humans, citation needed.

>We have the capability to manipulate things at the cell/molecule level.

>I'm not sure what you mean by "colonized by industrialization". If you think things are too industrialized, maybe you should give up the laptop you're writing from and go live in the jungle without any plastics r metal.

Right, because thinking that something has gone too far implies you have to go to the limits of the exact opposite direction, eh?

Actually, I would love to. I've actually lived long stretches of time without internet, or even a laptop.

I like programming, but with a beautiful landscape or a nice beach, friends, women, food, good books, and something to keep me warm, I could care less if I never saw another line of code or another tweet or another phone call.

Which is kinda like 60% of the world's population lives, with the exception that lots of them lack food and water. They could care less for the rest. Take a look at the (subjective but that's the purpose) index of world happiness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Planet_Index

Given the essentials (ie. no lack of food, water etc as in parts of Africa), it seems the less "modern" life, the better.
No, I'm just picking on the HN groupthink.
Most of the govt sites of india are in similar state. They are hardly ever updated. The main reason for this is the paperwork/legalese needed before a site can be revamped. Permissions have to be taken from various post holders.
I have an email account that is given by govt college and the allotted space is 5Mb.
When I was a kid, they used the exact same injectors to vaccinate us in school. That was in mid-80s. This thing was indeed virtually painless and left a funny air bubble under the skin that disappeared in an hour. As far as I was concerned it was awesome. But apparently it had some problems (infections?) and the program ended as quickly as it started.
Does anyone have a getting started with Spanish tutorial handy?
Why not have the info box AND a real watermark?
"Never" is a strong word, but I wanted a succinct title.

I think the default should be a density plot. It's only in special cases that a scatterplot would be appropriate. For example, that Carsabi plot actually works well, due to the fact that the reader is interested in finding a specific data point rather than understanding the global behavior.
>Horrible idea. Can anyone explain what is motivating the Indian government to require such access? We all basically know what the deal is with China and certain oppressive regimes in the middle east, but India is an actual democracy (maybe with a somewhat high level of corruption.)

Democracy in that sense is an empty word. You mean it's a democracy because people get to vote? In the US the democratic part amounts to getting to chose between the same two century old parties, which have heavy corporate backing and dead-ringer platforms. With the main issues (economic policy, foreign policy, educational policy, labour laws) are only debated superficially, reduced to slogans and yes/no decisions.

Still, the democratic US snoops on its own citizens, maintains (and demands ISP's maintain) huge backlogs of private data, has the Patriot Act, has private prisons, the list goes on and on...
You gotta love the designers, Windows Deadlocked
The designers clearly think that this meeting is deadlocked. Just follow the link and imagine one of the gears trying to turn, deadlocked by its companions. I remember Windows magazine made the same mistake when NT came out, on the cover: http://img.en25.com/eloquaimages/clients/PentonMediaInc/%7Bc100e06b-1074-4cb6-ad7f-49f1bee91792%7D_promo_con_ftr_gears_625x322.gif
If see a thing of the form <three letters>.<two letters that aren't a country I know>/<newline><huge number>, it doesn't really occur to me that it's supposed to be a URL. Doesn't help that in their big example image, the "gt" of gty.im kind of blurs into the bright bit of the image it is laid over.

Apart from the pet-peeve of the missing http://, is splitting URLs across lines a thing now?
Wait, this wasn't about a programming language?
Also of note: Your health.

Your time isn't worth so much, if poor health precludes you from doing what you want/enjoy.
> For instance this scatterplot from carsabi.com shows a lot of very useful information: http://cl.ly/GvnM

This graph by itself is arbitrarily lossy in that we don't know how many overlapping samples there are at each point. And we don't know if blue samples are overlapping orange ones or vice-versa. I'm not sure I would be as categorical as the author about never using scatter plots, but he makes a really good point.
I recommend googling "advice dog".
I just typed in the address listed on the sample image and, due to the contrast between the text and the image, mistook it as "gly.im". Did anyone else notice this?
I live in Europe, here we have more left wing fanatics and fewer right wing fanatics.

That said, some of the True believers (politics, religion, programming languages, etc) are the nicest people. As long as you can handle non-rationality.

(Also, being Swedish originally, I'd rather die than offend someone in person; the internet is different.)

Edit: How about an ASCII face for "advice dog" comments? What I commented on could have been said by lots of cool people I know (they might not know me, though :-) ).
They will still flinch when you poke them. Reactions to chronic discomfort may be hidden, but acute pain still causes a reaction (note: this is from my experience growing up in the fields around farm animals. I've not tried a controlled experiment, nor do I know of one :)
In that case, the Indian Government needs wholesale reform. And soon. If India wants to be a forerunner in the world of IT (which it's rapidly becoming) this is only going to cause massive problems.
I don't even have a non-english language listed in my browser preferences.

Apparently they expect people to use their javascript widget to select a home country, and then send you to e.g. http://www.gettyimages.com/Creative/Frontdoor/NewWatermark?L...
The state of space in 2055
I recommend less political bigotry. For everybody.
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Why keep the money at Apple? Why not set up a foundation/donate it to a charity? Could go just as well for Apple's stingy reputation toward charities.
As usual - depends.

I had few sites from era when I had very bad design taste... But surprisingly ads do very well on these sites.

I believe, that as long as users _needs_ (vs. _might_ need) what your business offers through this site, design does not matter as long as it is readable and usable.

But for new businesses design might be crucial. Usually you have only few seconds of visitor's attention and you have to fully utilize it. Design is one of the tool to get a bit more attention nad may be convert new user. But it do nothing for existing users IMHO.
Hmm. Shouldn't HN detect dupes and just upvote the orig? Odd.
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Based on my personal experience, you're right.

I'm not a programmer, but I recently launched a Wordpress site that I wanted to modify. Mostly just CSS/HTML stuff, but I'm beginning to realize I'll probably need to learn a little bit of PHP.

I had started the CodeAcademy lessons before I launched the wordpress site, but it got a little boring and I didn't see the point.

Once I launched the site, the CodeAcademy courses became a lot more fun. The process looks something like

1. Hm, I want to change how this widget looks.

2. Hm, there is no plugin for that.

3. Hit "View Source" and try to track down what the widget looks like in HTML.

4. Find it, realize you don't really know what it means.

5. Do some googling, make some changes, doesn't work or screws it up.

6. Do CodeAcademy lesson on HTML or CSS or whatever.

7. Eventually fix it.

8. Feel really, really good.

I think for most people it'll be hard to learn to code in a vacuum (myself included). Having a project where coding may help you significantly is a much better way to learn it. It may be messier, but it's much more rewarding.

This is not just a lesson for people who think they should learn to code, it's a lesson for people who want to learn anything. The most important thing you can do to learn something is to start a project that you're passionate about that will eventually require you to learn whatever it is you need to learn.
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Yes, if the data was sparse enough that it could be plotted without overlap and the graph carried an annotation saying so, I could see a scatter plot being better.
What would the point be? I think this brilliantly satisfies the requirements of a watermark while also achieving a simple usefulness. This is where design reaches its peak, when functional requirements, practical use, and pleasing aesthetics meet. Well done Getty
In that case, does anyone know where I can get a copy?
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Also this: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/leino/puzzles....

Does anyone know of any good books with these kinds of problems?
By making it minimalist, they're attempting to make it so that it doesn't intrude on the photos.

So, that way, if someone, say, shares the photo on Pinterest, it isn't a total loss for them. I can see the theory behind not giving it so much noise.
"People should have voted with their wallet back when the walled garden xbox and iphone were released."

With very few exceptions, phones and video game consoles have always been "walled gardens".
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What do they do for almost-white images? Hopefully at some threshold they switch to black test. Even at that, a black/white tiled checkerboard image would leave the url illegible. They should have outlined the white text in black.

Also, it looks fairly easy for an "unfair use"-er to "heal" the watermark away. They should consider a watermark with higher entropy. (like a stipple-shaded box or one with subtle random variation in shade around the box edge.)
> Bitcoin is built upon decades of battle-hardened industry-standard cryptography.

Like Debian's OpenSSL PRNG?
CSS was never meant to be used for drawing complex shapes. If you are using those hacks instead of proper SVG or canvas paths then you are doing it wrong.
I've worked with companies with terrible websites in the past, either to give them a new website or to fix existing components while keeping my eyes closed... I think there are a few reasons here. However, your actual question? No idea, I would love to see some stats, but I doubt it can be quantified that well (see point 3).

1. Someone in the executives actually likes the site the way it is. These are business people, not designers. I'm surprised time and again, how if you give a business person a logo drawn in crayon, they'll chose it, because it show synergy or whatever (slight exaggeration). Maybe a family member made the existing website for them. Even if they recognize there are other websites out there that look better, they cannot imagine that website with their logo and content. One company I worked with saw our wireframe and love it. It was so much better than what they had, even unfinished, and because it had their logo in the top corner, they were able to get it.

2. Costs are unknown. How much does it cost to make a new website for me? This guy says $500, this guy says $5000, what is the difference? These people are in the top of other fields. They know if their electrical contractor pushes them for 2 months and doubles the price whether its reasonable or not. They have no idea for web stuff.

3. Success cannot be easily quantified. Was the uptick in business as a result of a new design or the full marketing campaign you launched at the same time? (and I anticipate functionality far outweighs design, I mean, look at DrudgeReport, still extremely popular with a very basic design) And certainly depends industry to industry. A good design means far more to a web design company than it does to a electrical contractor.

(edit, added a little spacing)
I dunno. I immediately saw it as a URL, because honestly, what else would it be?
Yes. Taxes. He more than likely would pay a higher percentage to live in a more developed country.
Maybe if the 360 is banned, people will finally wake up to how absurd the patent system is and demand reform.