skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
by selling it to another company. i bet you could get 6 figures for the domain name. if you're not really making much or projected to make much from it, its worth considering.

beyond that, though, clean it up, first and foremost. it looks weird for me. for example, the thumbnails are distorted and some of the tables are just too cluttered.

then you need to figure out what it does or what you want it to do that is special. this site doesn't seem special, currently. i'd rather use google finance. build towards that.
There was both a 12inch powerbook and ibook. I owned the 12 inch PB, and it was pretty great, but no better than any of the current 13.3 inch models.
If another site runs the story first then TC can choose not to run it themselves. And they can immediately reject any stories from a company that lied to them in the past.

Of course, companies and PR firms can choose to not bother with TC, but they're the 800 pound gorilla of the tech media. But would four 200 pound gorillas be better than one 800 pound gorilla?
Personally, I dislike the new design. It has good intentions but it misses the mark. This would have been a good example of when not to listen to your users-- of course the majority of them is going to prefer gradients and flashy dropdowns.

It feels to me as if it was built like a crappy powerpoint presentation: sliding and fading just for the sake of sliding and fading. Everyone thinks "Ooh, ahh!" but there really isn't any added usability to the effects.

In some parts of the interface, you have to click multiple times to get to something you shouldn't have to click on to see at all. Once again, you click just for a dropdown. Then you have to click again to get to where you want to go. Eye candy for the sake of eye candy.

In my opinion, the 2.5 Happy Cog design was the best of the bunch. It improved drastically, usability-wise, on top of the previous release, and it did so by re-aligning, no re-designing. You may argue that Happy Cog was limited by the fact that they had to base their work on a previous structure, but I really believe this is the best way to improve UI: incremental updates, each improving upon the last, instead of one quick release that wasn't too well thought out.
I like it, a lot actually. And I don't mind the name at all.

The site is very simple to navigate, the home page explains the service well and the examples pick up the pieces.

I did browse the terms but perhaps you can elaborate quickly - how secure is the data and how long do you store it? I know an NPO (art school) that would likely love a few simple PDF registration forms on its site without having to pay a developer...
I actually find it be laziness. There different calibers of PR firms that I spoke with that say they ignore TC altogether because of the horrible type of traffic they have -- as in, mostly international, mostly incompatible with their client's need, mostly RSS readers, and mostly non-convertible. They rather go on the hunt of finding the right writers in the right fields/markets to get them to prep for a story.

If your PR firm's first, second, or even third, suggestion for you is to pitch to the biggest tech blog: fire them.
Yes, but Macbooks and iBooks are both white. Just a point.
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Also, I know it's an informal blog, but I think it's really unprofessional to call something the "DO NOT WANT" release. I'm really sick and tired of half-baked "memes" being included in writing as weak attempts at humor. It just comes across badly to me.
The point of netbooks is that they are cheap; being small is just a side effect. There are different kinds of small: reducing width/height makes it cheaper, but reducing thickness makes it more expensive. If Apple was going to make a netbook, the Air wouldn't be the place to start. It would make more sense to start with the MacBook and reduce the screen/keyboard size, remove the optical drive, replace the unibody with plastic, and keep the thickness the same (or even increase it).
This looks like it's going to be great. When can we get a hold of the code to play with it?
It's tongue in cheek. Maybe you should watch some more Monty Python to build up a measurable amount of humor?
Instead of cost-cutting, focus on increasing income. At best you can reduce your costs to zero. Then what?

There's no upside limit on income.
Yeah. Actually, a better analogy would be alcohol use, since drug use is illegal (and WoW playing isn't).

What if a company had a bad experience with an alcoholic employee, so they refused to hire anyone who drinks at all?
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Well, it's certainly better than Facebook's plan, which is to hire lots of people to do everything but.
He, and I find it difficult to find charities that don't have an agenda to give tech advice to. I mean at least an agenda I could agree with :-( Would be nice if this reddit approach would bring something up.
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I am seeking an intern to work on the open-source probabilistic
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search (MOSES) and related approaches to learning with probability
distributions over program spaces. Possible research topics to focus
on include:

* Learning procedural abstractions

* Adapting estimation-of-distribution algorithms to program evolution

* Applying plop to various interesting data sets

* Adapting plop to do natural language processing or image processing

* Better mechanisms for exploiting background knowledge in program evolution

This position is open to all students currently pursuing a BS, MS or
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Of course, I didn't think the discussion was about buy vs pirate.

Although I must admit I can't condemn pirating completely. When people don't have much money, I can see why they don't feel too bad about pirating.
Easy. Outsourcings general return is something along the line of:

Cost Saving = .5X-R

Where:
.4 is the factor that given programmers are cheaper. (So I'm assuming that your third world Programmer is half the price of your first world one)
X is the total number of hours / days for the project *Note the implicit assumption here that all programmers are created equal)
R is the risk factor. Harder communication, Cultural barriers, etc.

So for smaller values of X (say when you're using django not php) - then your expected return goes down. (And the overall influence of the Risk factor goes up - namely it could be cheaper keeping it first world)
Linus Torvald's rant against C++
Venture Capitalists Want to Skip 2009
I don't get what's so hard about this. Why are they having so much trouble coming up with ones? There one or two that certainly almost work.
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I write iPhone native apps. Does that count?
TC, our heroes - oh wait, they just want to be the first ones to break a story. For a second I thought they are doing it for the readers...
Why bzr is better than X
Language improvements in C# 4
Is Scala too hard or are you just stupid?
they interacted with other dialog boxes in the past
But they've lost everyone but the photographers to facebook.

The combination of the news feed and tagging people in photos (and having them show up in the news feed!) is facebooks secret sauce
Everything he lists is already available in Scala:

* Properties, via Scala's Uniform Access Principle
* A form of null handling, via the Option type (like Haskell's Maybe monad)
* Indexers, via apply/update methods
* Extension methods, via implicits (Scala's implicits are actually much more powerful/dangerous than C#'s extension methods)
* LINQ[1], via for-comprehensions
* Lambda syntax
* Multi-line strings
* Type inference

As for C#'s future features:

* Scala already has co/contravariant typing
* Scala will have optional and named parameters soon (maybe 2.8.0?)

In addition, Scala has:

* Pattern matching and extractors
* Lazy evaluation and call-by-name parameters
* Mixin composition
* Curried methods
* Higher-kinded types
* Equal footing for immutable data
* An Actor library for concurrency

Scala's also adding virtual classes soon.

F# is also great language, I don't want to say anything bad about it as a language, but unfortunately you're trapped into the Microsoft platform and subject to Microsoft's rules. I'd much rather develop in open-source land.

[1] C#'s LINQ is actually more powerful than Scala's for-comprehensions, because Scala lacks C#'s Expression Trees. Hopefully this will be remedied soon.
Thanks for your comments zacharye. BTW, you wouldn't believe how long I spent coming up with that name ;)

All the forms can use SSL, so the submission of data is secure. On form completion, the data is stored in our database for creating the PDF and to save multi-page forms. If the template owner has not opted to store the entry, this data is deleted after 2 days. If they opt to store the entry, it will stay in the system until deleted by them. If they delete it, the data is removed completely, leaving only stats on when it was downloaded, IP address of downloader etc

Access to stored entries is only available to the template owners account through an entries search facility. All this is behind SSL too.

I should elaborate on this more in the TOS, but is that what you wanted to know?
Oops sorry, I think alaskamiller's comment was in response to mine, which I deleted because it was a duplicate of ph0rque's, then re-added because ph0rque edited his to reference mine.

What a mess. My bad.
compared to TC? Yes.
Eliezer has repeatedly expressed his strong view that "emergence" is crap. You may not agree with it, but at least do a cursory search to see if he's already answered your question before you ask him.

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=emergent+site%3Aovercomi...
After 7 years of exp I found that

1. Zend Framework - best framework, CodeIgniter is next.
2. Zend Studio - best IDE
3. Smarty - don't reinvent the wheel
"Search for the woman": You know which packages they're sending, where to, and with what providers. Is there a way to help your users save money? And is there a way to make money off that, for example by reselling the shipping services via an affiliate deal like the previous poster suggested?

d.
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That big blog you worked for was Valleywag...and you're complaining that TC lacks integrity.
so long as you can still make money, you need to be careful with this... it is easy to spend an hour saving $10, but if you bill out at $80/hr, that doesn't make sense, unless you can't find any work at all.

Personally, looking over my personal expenses, I see I can save a lot of money eating in more. However, I think the returns diminish quite a lot when choosing cheaper raw materials over more expensive raw materials. Either way, groceries are still so cheap that it's not worth the time to optimize. (but then, I'm not really an organic/premium guy.. I guess for some people looking at that might make sense)

same thing in the business... optimizing the co-lo costs makes a lot of sense... but saving a hundred bucks per server by not using hot-swap drives is a false economy. It only takes one bad drive (and the resulting downtime) to pay for a whole bunch of hot-swap bays.

I think usually the easiest way to save money is to look for 'premium' services. If you are buying $15/Lb 'premium organic' beef, eh, you might want to think about switching to the normal steak at $5/lb. If you are going with rackspace.com, you might want to look at a less expensive hosting provider. (generally speaking, if you have to ask how much it costs, you are getting overcharged. If you have to talk to a sales guy to buy the product, remember that his salary is being added to the cost of your product.)

Another thing to point out here is the premium for renting servers. At what I pay (that is, small business prices) I can usually build servers for what it costs to rent them for two to three months. Sure, ec2 is great if the servers are only on a few hours a day, but you can save a whole lot of money by moving your core servers to dedicated boxes you own and co-locate.

"Never buy from a rich salesman. Always use a rich lawyer"

Remember that the confidence and good looks of the salesguy have zero correlation to the reliability of the service, and usually have a inverse correlation to the value for the dollar of a service. Good salesguys are expensive. If you like that sort of thing, during good times, it's fine to spend the extra money and get the guy to take you out to lunch. But during the hard times, that's a premium you maybe should look at giving up.

Let employees work from home, if you can give up the office. If you are good at communicating over the computer, think of hiring people to work from home in the midwest or the south.

Drop your recruiting firm or body shop. Hire directly through contacts, or if worst comes to worst, craigslist. Usually headhunters add little value, and they are quite expensive. (actually, my experience has been that body shops give you the resumes of mediocre people. They do cull the worst, but they also cull the best, has been my experience.) Going through resumes isn't that hard, and really it's something you can probably do better than most headhunters. The layoffs are cutting pretty deep, even people who are moderately good are getting the axe now. And fresh graduates? good god. Times are tough for them... more and more people with degrees (and even a little experience) are moving into my price range.
Well, that didn't really tell us anything.
I think the name can be a little polarizing. I've had people laugh and say "That's terrible" and others burst out laughing and say "I love it, that's great". I like laughing, so it's all good :)
The irony of that statement is creating a vortex of it's own. ;-)
Except D&D and robot building are creative activities, which WoW doesn't seem to be.
We still love you.
What exactly is an AJAX job?
actually even with installshield you will have many unforeseen "dev to userland machine" problems... now you may have similar problems with testing on several browsers but a lot of these problems are a lot easier to mitigate...
As a level 73 priest, I agree. Nothing wrong with taking the game leisurely. There were some weeks when guildies thought I quit WoW simply because I wasn't around for such a long time, but sometimes work needs the focus. I think you're likely to take the game more leisurely if you play with real-life-friends versus 40 people you've never met.
I echo noodle, it's all over the place. You've got indices, news stories, quotes and even chicks with boobs all on the front page. I'm already overwhelmed and I haven't even click any nav elements.

Pick a subset of these, and do it really really well. If you try to be everything to everyone, you'll never be amazing to anyone.
For what it's worth -- having worked on the flipside -- Valleywag did uphold journalistic integrity to a better degree.

VW protected and respected the wishes of the sources, fact-checked as much as we could with multiple sources -- it was especially hilarious watching people blame VW on this to try to get away with their bullshit, and respect amongst the other writers in the industry.

I would suggest you try working for them for awhile but, meh, it doesn't really matter.
If the bank only lets you withdraw at certain times then yes, they could loan out your money during times you have agreed to. But no loans could be made from a savings account in its current form with a 100% reserve requirement.
Maybe even low 7 figures.
actually while WoW (or even warcraft) can be very addictive, it is very hard to make this prediction in isolation without looking at a candidate's job history or experience...

our team leader (who is very good at his job) is an avid WoW player (with about 6 characters going at a time)... at any point when i turn towards his monitor there is atleast one WoW related page on one of his monitors... while I do find that wierd, his productivity is not affected so what can you say about that??

but having said that I cant see a reason why you would put something like WoW in your resume in the first place... i mean you are trying to get a job here, not show you well you can cast a shrinking spell!
How are your sales?
I would imagine that like any business, it's hard to deal with the fact that if you settle on a particular solution, you'll no doubt have to accept that you'll lose/piss off some people.

As simple as it sounds to just deal with that reality and move on, C-suite people will exhaust every last ounce of effort to find a solution that lets them have their cake and eat it too. (Often on the vague hope that they will be the exception to the rule and blow everyone's socks off)

The great thing about all of that is that it'll probably cost more to try and find the perfect solution than it will just to pick a less than ideal one and move on.
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Thanks.
I'm assuming you mean "Michel" and it was at an English-speaking school?
I didn't think that JavaServer Pages would be considered a 'framework' in the MVC sense.
+1 for the link

-2 for being a dick
What does cloning some website have to do with computer science?

Two upmods. Hmm. At least two other people think your question a good one. Okay. (EDIT: Three now)

Well, websites are closely associated with many of the topics in computer science. There are, for instance, programming languages, algorithms, data structures, etc, involved in producing a website, no matter the actual content of the website. Likewise, many computer science professors have classes with names like "Software Engineering" which have large-scale projects similar to real-life projects.

Hope I cleared up the confusion.
agree..

best way is to just start writing your games and actually learn as much as you can... to do this it is best you actual team up (like any other project) to complement your skills... if you area a strong coder, find a game designer and/or a graphics guy... and so on... start small and ship often in small increments....

now to find strong people it actually helps to be in the industry (not necessarily though)... meetups and barcamps are good places to find such people...

what kind of games are you interested in writing?? i keep trying a few things every now and then... buzz me if you are interested...
I'm keeping my comments related only to the technical side of it. Obviously, flickr is a great business success for many other reasons.
Id like to add a related one to this one -

http://wpmu.thepodcastnetwork.com/siliconbeach/
do people still dig on this infantilizing thing? i'd have more respect for the startups if they told their VC "fuck you, i'm old enough to vote, procreate, and carry a loaded gun. i know when to work and when to not work. just because you gave me some money, you didn't buy the right to make me do stupid pet tricks for your little video"

i know it all seems innocuous, but i see this all the time...people with money finding ostensibly humorous ways to strip the dignity off of people they are paying. its a power thing and its not amusing.
if it weren't for google docs i wouldn't be able to communicate with .doc or .xls
this is great. its nice to see google create and supporting a real market for these so-called alternative skillsets. i say "alternative" because the market for paid code is increasingly a monoculture of blub.
I have never been a system administrator, but I still find perl productive.
But isn't that an expectation problem? It doesn't behave as expected. But visually, it could have looked like anything. As long as the second thing looks exactly like the first but behaves differently, it will be irritating. But the first thing can look like anything you want and it'll never be annoying, unless it too looks like something else. Plus, someone who gets introduced to the second interface first will have that interface become their reference point.
Quote from the article: By controlling the software that can be loaded and the hardware that can be attached, Apple's device will be simpler, easier to use and more reliable than a PC

This smells like the dreaded "Trusted Computing" with its hardware engraved DRM.

Until people are free to install whatever apps they want to install & use any operating system of their choice; Apple or any company that controls what software can be installed isn't going to derive much success from their computers.
I was being sarcastic about making the distinction.
I got exactly the same impression from my compilers class, especially for parsing - it's a bunch of techniques, which vary in their applicability. I still have that opinion, after years of research and commercial work using parsing.

Although there's some mathematical theory in the background (regular expressions, context free grammars), the techniques don't fully correspond to them, and aren't really implementations of the theory, but a convenient, useful, doable subset. The adoption of the techniques seems to be dictated by what works to solve specific practical problems. The techniques themselves are pretty ad hoc; but they have been studied, and there is a body of knowledge about where each technique is applicable. Although certain correspondences have been proven, it's not neat and beautiful like physics; but truth and beauty aren't what ye need to know here.

It's really "Compiler Engineering".
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This hasn't been true for me at all. For me, leaving my 20s has been a great motivator to try/do all kinds of new and different things.
I'm sure their lack of these skills have roots witin why they are technical people - I actually enjoyed the goofy dancing
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Employers. Because some WOW players actually get jobs.

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Thanks. Neither am I, but someone is getting some top tier logo consulting ;)
I bet that will increase future prospects of employment.