skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, do marketing people know how to create websites?

If not, how can they even know what is possible to create using HTML, CSS, etc.?

If the answer is "they look at what the competition is doing," then how did the marketers at the competitor know what is possible?

It has to start somewhere. Who was behind the web back in 1993? Marketing departments? Are marketers the ones who know what can be done with HTML, etc., and what cannot?

If a marketing department asks a web developer to implement something that the developer knows will be an annoyance to end users, and then he decides to tell them it is not possible, does the marketing department not accept this answer? "Look, we know how to make websites, we know this can be done and we'd do it ourselves if we had the time, but we're busy doing marketing. Either you do your job and build this site as we ask, or we'll find someone else."

So, at some stage, some web developer somewhere makes a decision.

I remember reading the confession of a talented developer who wrote, using mini scheme, stealth malware to serve pop-ups. His skills were so good that he could disable all competing malware; the competition was helpless. The NY Attorney General later shut down his employer on consumer protection grounds. The developer was not typically an author of malware, and knew what he was doing was wrong, but his excuse for working with this outfit was that he needed a job.

Without that developer making a choice, the malware company would never have known it was possible to do what they were able to do with the help of this particular talented developer. The use of mini scheme, self modifying code and disabling all competing malware were not in his "job description". He showed them what was possible. And surely they loved him for it. But how about the users infected with the malware, who had to see his employer's pop-ups every day with no way to "turn it off"? What would they think of his work?

Just something to think about.
What about its randomness compared to Murmur2/3?
Can you quote the TOS on that? I don't see anything of the sort.
I think it's great that you guys are trying out new ways to work. I'm an entrepreneur myself, and while I don't have employees yet I'm open to new business models. I wish more companies, funded or not, would be more daring.
Ajax Life Cycle 1 - MS ASP.NET Ajax Server and Client Controls - Lesson 2
> 1) ones that give you what you want
> 2) ones that drive demand

A big part of Google's success is that #1 is much easier to prove than #2.

"People bought our product more because they had become familiar with it over the last month via newspaper/radio/Facebook ads" is a hard-to-prove claim.

"We got X clicks from Google ads leading directly to Y purchases" is much easier.
IPhone App "Showed" Woman She's Sober; Gets Charged With DUI
> As a father of 3, I think the question of "is it worth it" is not as cut-and-dry as you suggest.

I never meant to imply anything was so cut and dry. Apologies for making it seem so. I just wanted to point out something people should learn from this post. No one should have children because they feel as if they are expected to. They really need to understand what kind of commitment it entails.
Make it fast only when you have to! I've seen too many projects focus on performance before traffic comes, most of time traffic never comes.
"Why are you going back onto a diet that you clearly can't sustain?"

Who are you kidding? I stayed on it for a year and a half and then got bored. It wasn't a struggle, I just stopped making it a priority. It's a pretty gigantic leap from there to "clearly can't sustain."

"Crash diets work for a few people, sure"

It's not a crash diet. Re-read the pages I linked to, and the comments I made. I don't have time to continue this conversation but it's nothing personal.
Windows is a closed platform? It's obviously less open than Linux but it's hardly closed compared to iOS.

I can install anything I want on my Windows computer without approval from Microsoft. I can stop updates, limit updates, change the way my computer boots, and use (almost) any OS resources for anything I feel like. I can wipe my computer and install another OS if I feel like it. When I buy software, the company that makes it can keep updating it however they feel without any chance of the software being 'pulled' by Windows. I don't have to worry about a program I'm buying breaking Windows 'rules'. Windows doesn't control any purchases I make in any app and doesn't limit sexual content of my installs.

What iOS is doing is something entirely different from what Windows has ever done, and meaning of 'closed' is entirely different when discussing these platforms.
I use the HN or google search box.
Like this : http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=text+editor...

And tadaaa : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3717754

Anyway... I use SublimeText 2 too.
I would have liked your comment better if you hadn't given away what kinds of cars you like and made them guess.
You begin on topic by talking about the experience of a user: "avoid throwing a ton of settings to a user", then sidetrack into the experience of a developer: "the effort of understanding the code, making changes, testing, even the runtime complexity", in your justification for omitting advanced options for /users/ altogether.

The "hard" challenge for a developer is not caring less about offending people but to come up with a really clever design that accommodates both newbies and experienced users.
So true.

My brother nearly came to blows with an emergency room doctor who didn't know the difference between a cancer grade [1] and a cancer stage [2]. Confusing the two, he started to give us the "time to let go" speech, when the appropriate medical action was immediate treatment to suppress brain swelling. Had we not known the difference, she could have died right there.

And there were a number of other less dramatic occasions when being on top of the details solved all sorts of problems when dealing with non-specialist doctors. Which is not to knock them; there are a lot of ways that bodies go wrong, and trying to extract any sense out of the phone book of printouts and scribbled notes in my mom's medical charts is not something anybody could do quickly.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grading_%28tumors%29
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_staging
Keep your hands off my tastypie
Facebook is planning to launch Facebook Smartphone in 2013
but... because pets can't drive... your argument is invalid. LOL
How the "SpyEye" botnet works (English from 00:27)
Not only is this the inappropriate time, but you're pulling answers out of the air. You have no idea what you're talking about. This whole discussion is patently absurd.

A man was just murdered in his car while driving down a public road. This is not a concern any of us should have to deal with, but devastatingly, it is a statistical anomaly that has impacted his family's life. Should we get in to the statistical probabilities as well? Should we dig in to the physics involved?

How about we honor his death by simply acknowledging that of all the crazy aspects of this event, the most important is the loss that everyone involved is suffering and leave it at that.
I don't see how git-cof is different/better than git-stash.
I'm interested to see some more posts about Einhorn. I would like to see some example use cases for it. Looks like a very interesting project.
I never said an optional GUI would hurt R. (I think optional GUI's are a smart idea.) I was referring to SAS and SPSS. They have mandatory GUI's.
I'm not sure how Schilling expected the state to do anything else. That's kind of the price you pay accepting _state funds_. As an RI taxpayer, I'm happy with the way Chafee has handled this so far.
Thanks for describing your penis.

Mine is a wimpy 5 year old Thinkpad but it's how you use it that counts :)
Follow-Up on the Removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch
I've never heard of getting out of school at 3pm. Unless you are in college and intentionally choosing that class schedule, this make no sense. When I was in high school, it was 4pm, and I went to school at 8am, except my junior and senior years, which was 7am.

Explain why 9am does not work for a 20-something. Yes, I am a family guy as well, but even when I was single, I was at work by 9am almost every day at the ripe old age of 21. If you said your reason was, "I don't like waking up before 9am," I'll buy that, but the position you state is an empty one at best without some sort of evidence.
How to choose a programming language?
Why not just use git stash?
Let's hope the benchmarks game website is still being updated when that time arrives ;)
If one player is doing something you don't like, you don't purchase their device, it's as simple as that.

Also, the iPad/iPhone was never setup as a generic computer but as a single coherent experience. Comparing it with PC history is a little absurd. The iPad has more in common with a DVD/Blu-Ray player then a PC.
Inspiring and amazing.

A few impressions:

Although the author removes much of the emotion of the story, I still sense the undercurrent.

The future is going to be strange. Way more complicated than science fiction, our guidestar for so long, led us to believe.

I hope that when the time comes, I will be able to measure up to the author as a person, as a parent, etc.
1. Notepad and Textedit since they are already installed.
2. Very old MS Developer Studio since I'm a creature of habit and I like it.
3. Other IDE editors for specific domains.
Ask HN: Rich & Dynamic or Simple & Fast landing pages.
We usually see the landing pages with al sorts or bells and whistles. Color changes backgrounds while scrolling, fancy navigation etc. So my dilemma is should the landing page just deliver the message fast(page load) & simple. Or the design/UI of a landing page makes first impression of how the product is going to be.
To be fair to (most) doctors, especially your primary physician, have to diagonose a huge range of conditions. The edge cases are rare and so they are not as well versed on them.

System specialists are an order of magnitude better. I.e. going to an Ear, Nose & Throat doctor if you have Asthma.

Disease specialists are the pinacle. Sometimes these are researchers rather than normal doctors.
Really? The UK's centre of population [0] is apparently Appleby Parva in Leicestershire [1], which is less than 25 miles from Coventry [2].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_population
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleby_Parva
[2] https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Appleby+Parva&daddr...
i'm going to fork Einhorn and call it Finkle.
I know.

But Apple already rejected alternate browsers from iOS, they already demonstrated their willingness to abuse their power over iOS market, with dropbox, amazon, the ibooks debacle, and already set up barriers for developers on Mac OS, as if I remember correctly, the Gatekeeper license is supposed to cost serious money.

So I'm not exactly holding my breath, even though I'm writing this from a MacBook.
a patchset for non-Intel CPU support was around for years, and you guys completely ignored its existence. As well as all the critics towards non-word-aligned data structures and in-memory presentation.

how about redesigning the whole product with all that cash?
Just so you know, shotguns are not the wildly inaccurate things as depicted in most TV shows and video games. Depending on the choke and ammo used, they can be accurate up to 50yds with Buckshot (depending on choke), and probably up to 100yds with slugs.

I would say the most damning thing about using them for the purposes you describe would be the awkwardness of carrying around a shotgun that is that accurate and hiding it.
As I wrote, it's one of the reasons I use Perl.
"... considered alive"?

So me, being a gay man, married to a gay man, with a dog, but no children - I am not really alive?

Not to mention, considering we have close (maybe more) to 7 billion on the planet, I think a little selective parenting is in order.
> I remain unconvinced. Should the amount of effort that it costs to update the interpreter really be the main consideration?

No, it shouldnt. But it's a proxy measure for the engineering and productisation effort which goes in.

It's relatively easy to get features in quickly with breakage. It's easy to have stability with no change.

It's relatively hard to continuously improve with good reliability and back-compat. Perl was a major leader for automated testing since before TDD was a buzzword.

Modern perl is a cool language with a great OO model and a shitty threading system (seriously, use multiproc if you want concurrency or just go async with one of the eventing systems).

It has some serious warts (no implicit deref of references, the scalar/list context is arguably more trouble that it's worth) and suffers from an image problem.

But it's a bulletproof, fast, widely deployed, portable, actively improving scripting language which doesn't have a lot of the warts of it's competitors (broken lexical scoping, problematic object model, poor performance etc). Oh "and CPAN" (ObMention)
What are you talking about, the title accurately describes the accruing of VC money!
Values equivalent to false in JavaScript
TCDS - an actual "thinking cap"
Open source challenge: Client-side form generator for rails
Well you know, some people tell me Haskell is readable, others say C++ is readable, I tend to argue.
US Government re-defines “Militants” to reduce civilian deaths counts
Google launches new Chromebook and Chromebox
Very nice real world example of anonymous field declaration in struct types in the code[1].

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/jra-go/source/browse/cmd/upgradable...
Because the app has been out since 2008, gone through multiple iterations, currently holds a 2-star rating on the App Store, and still hasn't managed to monetize 60% of their impressions.
I never took any university courses on programming/computer science, and I'm working full-time as a product developer at a digital agency.

In fact, when I interviewed at FreshForm, I wasn't asked any questions about my college/courses. Everything was based on the work I'd done, which came as a result of learning over about 4 years. I started slow with html, css, etc. Then moved on to PHP/MySQL, eventually started building crappy web apps. And now I'm building better web and mobile apps with Ruby, etc.

Year 5 is really when everything clicked for me, but I was going through school and not focused 110% on it.

I learned mostly from online tutorials, and building side projects that kept me interested. Books were/are helpful at times, but most of the time you will learn the most by jumping in over your head and figuring everything out the hard way. But there are fundamentals that need to be learned up front and books are a great medium for that.
That was an awesome article. I couldn't finish it as it was too long, but the technical detail in it was really awesome. Just the biology and relating it to computer nomenclature was really interesting. I think what's really amazing about blogging about the topic is you've created a brain dump of your most of your knowledge on the subject. Everyone who reads that is now much more versed than most medical staff anyone might run into, but because it exists they can educate themselves on your child's history as well. You've created a piece of fairly rare scientific information that exists in the public free for comment. That's not something we'd have done even 10 years ago.
Any language would be improved if it had Perl's testing and library culture. Two things it's absolute unsurpassed at so far.
Fair enough, but who is to say those tools wouldn't have been developed if those people were doing bioinformatics research instead.

It is frustrating seeing all of the failed startups that thought their poorly thought out plan and execution would create a product that is actually useful. We would be much better off if someone would take the time to explain to people why their idea sucks and save them the time and money that would be wasted on executing it.
Am I to understand that Einhorn doesn't require the use of Unix sockets to delegate work to workers? If so, it could work quite nicely for JRuby apps as Java doesn't support Unix sockets and it's therefore not possible to just plop nginx in front of the Web server (Tomcat or Jetty) instances and have it queue up requests to a shared Unix socket like the typical Unicorn setup does.
I've been wondering that myself. Perhaps multiple share types one of which isn't on the market so it has a fixed price?
I've been using Git for a couple years now, and I don't think I've ever lost any work.

Even if you do `git reset --hard HEAD~5`, "throwing away" your last few commits, they aren't actually discarded yet. You can do `git reflog` to see them and then `git checkout -b some_commit_hash` to recover one to a branch, or `git reset --hard some_commit-hash` to set this branch back to that point.

Only if those commits stay orphaned for a while (a week or two?) will Git truly discard them.
Andrzej on Software: account.transfer(..) - is it good OOP?
I'm not going to back up these claims in any other way than pointing the "interesting alternative" programs that appear in some comparisons, which tend to be faster than the chosen versions. For example here:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=fa...
Both Lisp and Java alternatives are faster than the "fastest" solution (written in Fortran). Finding any more support for the years-old opinion I voiced seems too much work to be worth it.
This is incredibly long and seems like it will probably never tell me the info that interests me. As I understand it, in most genetic disorders, all of the problems are rooted in a miscoded protein. I am wondering if it has been determined which protein is miscoded and what it does?

Edit: I have managed to read the whole thing and, no, it doesn't answer my question. The closest I get is that some enzyme is not being produced. For me, that is insufficient info. Moving on to the blog but would still be happy to get an answer here. Thanks!
I have a genetic disease that shows up in 4/100k people, so rare, but not that rare. Any sizable town has at least a few dozen people with my disease.

In my experience, "an order of magnitude better" in specialists means they've at least heard of it, but know nothing about it. Every time I move, I have to spend some time educating my new specialist on the disease. I know damn well that every time one of them excuses themselves in the middle of the exam, they're going to look it up on the internet. It's pretty disheartening.
Such a tired argument. Perl has its issues, but you can write unreadable code in any language.

Perl is my set of power tools that sit in my basement for weeks until I get them out and fix/make/do something. And what the OP said is correct. I can install new versions and run 10 year old code without issues.
You're really reading a lot more into that than was intended. Indeed, you completely miss the point, which is clear with this:

> you won't necessarily have a relationship once the kids move out in twenty years or so.

Right here is the problem. You assume a healthy child, one that is capable of living on their own. But you have a responsibility to that child if they can't.

This doesn't mean you give up your dreams. This doesn't mean an end to your life. But it means taking care of your children. It's your responsibility.

I can't just ignore my child's care and go on a long vacation with the wife. Oh, I mean, I could, but that would be tantamount to child abuse. I need to make sure he's cared for, appropriately, or adjust my vacation to accomodate his needs.

> You don't ever own your kids' lives and you won't even have much control over theirs for more than the 10-15 early years.

This is why you can't just quote a part of the comment, and take it out of context. I'm faced with the very real possibility that I'll be responsible for my son's life for much longer than that. You can't just make assumptions like you are.

So no, you are wrong. Wrong, because you make some obviously wrong assumptions that simply don't hold up to any amount of scrutiny. I think your intent is honest, but frankly, you're trying to argue a point that is, frankly, pointless.

Edit: I do want to point out though, that neglecting your marriage isn't good either. So, please dont' think I'm suggesting that by putting children first, you aren't leaving room for your spouse.
A few more stats:

- When I linked to it, it had 3,000+ visits. Now, it has 12,406.

- The question had 61 up-votes, and now has 90.

- It was fav-ed by 17 people, now it's fav-ed by 26.
In case you're wondering why the logo for Beefy Miracle is a hot dog:

http://beefymiracle.org/history.html
Dynamically modifying udcx connection files
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Would you like to post a representative snippet in your favourite lang? I'll try and rewrite in perl and we can compare. (All langs have particular sweet spots, if you do an R or APL oneliner or something it's going to be much more verbose in perl, obviously)

It's not that I think perl will be significantly (or at all) nicer, but I think the readability difference is often overstated and I'd like to test that thought.
Update on Delight: Now with metadata tagging and easy sharing with team
the day a liberal realizes the government is not comprised of sets of well meaning rational actors is the day they get a clue.

I can play this game too! You should maybe try one day a week where you don't act like a condescending prick. You might find it liberating.
I always thought Java was the COBOL of the web :-)