skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just try managing AD users in PowerShell - sure its easy once you've written your own custom script or mapped it to a web interface or something, but there's no built in equivalent for adduser or about a billion other basic UNIX commands

It's not that bad. Adding a new AD user is a built-in command. From the docs:

New-ADUser GlenJohn -OtherAttributes @{title="director";mail="glenjohn@fabrikam.com"}

I'm not a UNIX admin; maybe the adduser command is easier. But managing AD stuff in PS is pretty easy (especially if you have to do it in bulk).
This is a killer HTML/CSS boilerplate. It's clean and simple and does just enough to get a responsive layout up-and-running.
Thank you, this has to be one of the best thread ever on HN. Good to find interesting stuff other than HN
I like him much better after this interview.

That last paragraph seems far more damning of the author than of Mason -- they're so disappointed that he doesn't have any obvious status symbols and he's riding off on a moped.

Good for him, and shame on them, for equating consumption with success.

(he should really wear a helmet, though!)
One datapoint:

Almost all power cords and extension cords in the US contain lead: the lead is added to the plastic part of the cord when the plastic is still "molten" and its purpose is to make the plastic less flammable.

Although I did not do a chemical assay on it or anything, I am pretty sure that the power cord Apple included with my 2011 Mac mini contains no lead. (The cord has a different, more rubbery feel to it that strongly suggests a completely different material, and I might have seen a claim to that effect somewhere on the web.)
That's a rather interesting idea. You should suggest it to the CSS3 dimensions WG to see what they think of it.
Twilio's getting started documentation blew me away. A focus on what you can build, and what you can get working quickly ("I just sent myself a TEXT. Sweet!"). It's also better designed than most consumer web apps.
How is that relevant? Is your contention that the code in question will never see performance problems because there's a constant factor that outweighs the runtime? That's not my read at all. It looks to me like sorting 40k items that happen to be packed in a sparse array is going to take on the order of a billion operations. No?
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Yeah, I did only check on http://npmjs.org to see if the bin script name was available.

Then I made the css only logo (See and inspect @ http://heliom.ca/en/blog/skeleton) and couldn’t look back.
I’m thinking about whether this is an atypical reaction by Apple and I think it’s not but I’m not sure.

The pattern is typical – more or less. Some criticism appears. Apple is dead silent for a few days. Apple has a comprehensive response to the criticism. (Alternative that also happens frequently: Apple doesn’t ever mention the criticism.) That’s what used to happen in the past, that’s what nearly happened here.

The difference is that they responded with a different message pretty quickly after the criticism (arguing that EPAT isn’t such a great certification) so it’s not true that they staid completely silent.

When it comes to the message itself, I don’t think it’s that atypical. Apple rarely responds to criticism, so there are few situations we can use to compare. It’s not as big a deal as Atennagate – so they picked a less involved way to respond (basically a press release instead of a press conference) – but in every other respect it’s pretty similar.

This time there is a clearer Mea Culpa but the undertone is still that EPAT is a bad certification. (During the Antennagate press conference the undertone was that it’s not really that big of a deal – and it was a much more obvious undertone.) The tradition of Apple execs writing letters is also continued.

I would only say that Steve’s letters tended to be more about presenting arguments. That has certainly something to do with the different purposes (explain why DRM/Flash are bad vs. admit that you were wrong and reverse direction) but I still would have preferred if Bob Mansfield had explained more of Apple’s reasoning.
I think 4 digit pins are so prevalent because they're easy to remember. As they get longer and harder to remember, people are more likely to write them down etc.
Symantec software update makes customers' PCs inoperable
Thank you for this, very much needed. After generating a project I am getting a 403 'Forbidden' error from express. Anyone else having this issue?
It is the way the aristocracy has made money for centuries (stealing it, since they couldn't make it themself).

But the fact that his wealth is stolen may make him more caring of his subjects, knowing that he didn't deserve his fortune, and so they may not deserve their misfortune, whereas someone who build themself up from nothing may very well look down on these people as lazy.
> One risk with technical writing is what I call the fog of knowledge. You know so much about a subject that it's hard to write for someone who isn't as knowledgeable.

Never heard it described that way, but it brilliantly summarizes the point. I think this is why you sometimes learn better from peers than from profs (or other teachers).
That's not an example of successful design. That's an example of a successful company for whom design was secondary. I think YC founding teams in a field where design is of primary importance generally have design talent in the team.
"Spending months obsessing over a pixel-perfect design before you know you've made something people want "

Kickstarter projects as only one example run contrary to that thinking. It is easier to get people to buy into an idea if it looks professional and is well executed. This is not saying to throw money out and to "Spend... months obsessing over a pixel-perfect design"

Hiring a designer instead of 99designs is not the same as "spending months obsessing..".

This is not to imply that hiring a designer is always appropriate and using 99designs is not. It depends on the particular situation and circumstances obviously.

As an example google (which PG cited and forgetting it's one data point) is a service that is free and the results are immediately apparent after using it. If google were trying to crack corporate america with a paid product that design wouldn't have gotten them anywhere.
A great product can easily overcome mediocre web design, but a fantastic website will never overcome a crappy product.
I was really interested to see this data until I saw that they use the BMI; possibly the dumbest and most loudly touted measure of health. According to these numbers I am overweight, heading towards obese, and I don't think any doctor on Earth would say I was overweight if they looked at me.
I guess designers could criticize its visual aesthetic, which is pretty austere, but design is how it works in addition to how it looks. I'd say reddit's devs have shown an interest in improving their interface and making it easier to use over time, whereas craigslist has not. You still can't browse apartment listings on a map, which is the reason why the Padmapper thing blew up so big.
I would say diggs attempts at manipulating the front page and banning people, blocking posts, and unfairly pushing some content to the front helped kill it. When I lost faith in the democracy of Digg I just stopped going and spent time with my votes elsewhere (reddit)
What an enormous chip you have on your shoulder. Oh how terrible it must be going through life with men constantly holding you down.

Or how about this....for a year, stop thinking of yourself as a victim, and see if you notice a difference in life.
Both are full of interesting ideas:

http://lesswrong.com/

http://www.overcomingbias.com/
One interesting thing to note is that this is from Bob Mansfield, and not Tim Cook. When Jobs was CEO, I don't remember a subordinate ever releasing something like this.
Because sometimes things have to be done to a price point?

If $200 is all they can afford, then so be it. They'll seek to get the best product for the price. Maybe you would have done a better job, maybe not, but in either case it doesn't matter. They budgeted an amount and moved on. So should you. not everyone is in your target market.
Cal just gave a keynote speech at the World Domination Summit this weekend on 'Why follow your passion is wrong.' His insights and depth are incredible. Highly recommended
Campaign Monitor is pretty awesome: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/api/
Around the world in 80 minutes
These are all policy statements and intuition-based speculations. I don't doubt for an instant that many people have speculated about why diversity might be good for software. What I doubt the existence of are empirical studies showing that diversity benefits open-source software in some measurable way. The original article seemed to be under the impression that such studies are common, and that their interpretation is so thoroughly beyond dispute that the point needn't be considered further.
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This is really fun, but coming up with interesting things to say is hard independent of whose brain you are using.
Stewart Brand's book How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built has a great chapter on MIT's Building 20.

> Building 20 was a temporary wooden structure hastily erected during World War II on the central campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory member said, "At one time, more than 20 percent of the physicists in the United States (including nine Nobel Prize winners) had worked in that building".

> Due to Building 20's origins as a temporary structure, researchers and other occupants felt free to modify their environment at will. As described by MIT professor Paul Penfield, "Its 'temporary nature' permitted its occupants to abuse it in ways that would not be tolerated in a permanent building. If you wanted to run a wire from one lab to another, you didn't ask anybody's permission — you just got out a screwdriver and poked a hole through the wall".

http://www.usablebuildings.co.uk/Pages/Unprotected/MITBldg20...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_20
It's not just scale, if I understand things correctly. One problem is that a lot of state and city treasurers think that it's smart to take some of their tax revenue and hand it over to banks for investment, making them as vulnerable as normal citizens.

In theory, this is a good idea because that money gets loaned out to startups and homebuyers. In practice, well... crises and stuff. This is largely what I've gathered from my brief foray into understanding why a state bank is a good idea.
If you want a challenging economics blog, I'd vote for Marginal Revolution. Tyler Cowen writes on a wide range of interesting economic topics from a unique (libertarian oriented, but minimally ideological and empirically grounded) perspective.
can't agree more, was using digg a lot in the past, sicked of seeing Kevin Rose's own news digged up to the top once a while.
Digg actually killed themselves. Reddit was just there to reap the rewards.
Correct link: http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/the-reality...

Previous Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235443
Seeking Owner of MIT Class Ring, Lost in Vietnam in 1968
They get Yuri Milner's $150k too so they are not that broke...
But does this mean their products will now be more recyclable and whatnot? Or it just means they put their EPEAT badge on the site again, although their new devices are still not as compliant as they used to be before?
Releasing early & often - 100 releases of our HTML5 game creator
~or~ how to get a bunch of people to train your neural network
Your Child’s Name Won’t Limit Their Digital Future
As opposed to IDEs, which are characterized by having tightly constrained domains and weak editing features beyond whatever language-specific functionality they bloat up their GUIs with.
Thank you very much for your comment.
The name is now 0/3. Heh.

Will let HN know when the site is launched.

on another note, I will probably need to change my HN username soon :)
IPhone tutorials under 30 sec each Funny and funky
Only Facebook connect or manual login? I choose neither.
AMA: Jennifer Pahlka of Code for America
Ever back out of a accepted Job?
For the first time in my life I accepted a position and then had to back out at the last minute because another better oportunity presented itself at the last minute. I have to say I feel like an ass but I just felt I had to do it.

How many of you has this happened to? How did you go about managing the situation.
I'm pretty sure it's Yahoo! that pulled the trigger.
nods I'm with you, brother. This quote from Radiohead kind of comforts me, because I know it's a common problem that a lot of guys see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creep_(Radiohead_song)#Composit...

> According to Yorke, "Creep" tells the tale of an inebriated man who tries to get the attention of a woman to whom he is attracted by following her around. In the end, he lacks the self-confidence to face her and feels he subconsciously is her. When asked about "Creep" in 1993, Yorke said, "I have a real problem being a man in the '90s... Any man with any sensitivity or conscience toward the opposite sex would have a problem. To actually assert yourself in a masculine way without looking like you're in a hard-rock band is a very difficult thing to do... "

And this really isn't limited to Defcon. I've gone to raves and there are guys going around the crowd asking "wanna have sex?" to every chick they see. They'll learn soon enough that... that doesn't work, and it's probably inappropriate. Even for a rave.

I don't think anyone really wants to leave their comfort zone. They want to feel safe, and approaching someone else makes them feel unsafe. Both sexes are going to do that, so, maybe it's up to us (men) to be the bigger party and bridge the gap. Take the discomfort, so that the women don't have to. It sucks, it's annoying, and by their unaction and our willingness for auction we are reenforcing gender stereotypes, but at least we can meet people that way.
Exactly. No one uses Pinterest for this exact reason.
The complaints will happen when that simplicity impedes information flow. It's not a matter of visual aesthetics, it's a matter of usefulness. CL's design impedes its usability, independent of its aesthetics.

In Craigslist case, there are clearly better ways to browse housing spots than in a list of links with non-standardized location information in the linktext. In Reddit and HN, part of the joy is serendipity...you don't need to aggregate the content behind each link at once...because of the voting system, you don't worry that clicking on the top link will be a waste of time. That's not the case with CL's chronologically ordered list.

Reddit has made some concessions with allowing thumbnails of image-based posts to show up. Otherwise, its minimalistic approach serves a real usability purpose and is not simply the result of stagnation.
Would Encryption Had Helped Yahoo?
Free Chrome CDs in Best Buy
I assume eligible means computers and displays but not iPads, since EPEAT doesn't rate tablets.
I would argue that the "big break" was actually a bad thing for Reddit. The massive influx of disenfranchised Digg users contributed to the decline of quality on Reddit big-time.
Why you should move your startup from San Francisco to Vegas
Introducing a Faster Hall.com
he's not talking about the powershell engine, he's talking about the frontend repl you interact with
Are you sure you aren't too far into the tea leaves here? Swap out the specifics in what you wrote and it could describe basically any corporate PR organization. Not everything has to be a what-would-the-dead-guy-have-done-differently kind of analysis. They goofed. They thought the market didn't care about EPEAT. It did. They flipped. Yawn.
Police pull over and stop Google driverless car in Washington, D.C.
Beta: IO Limits for CloudLinux 6.x (not panacea but it's a start)
Uh, Google was trying to crack corporate america with a paid product at the time that website was around. Before they launched ads in 2000, all the revenue came from selling the Google Search Appliance.
I LOL'ed throughout the article. Yet another example of corporate "Jim Jones" flavored kool-aid they are handing out to employees of a dying corporation.
That's the thing though: it's not an example of a successful company for whom design was secondary. That page was considered excellent design -- in 1998.
http://marginalrevolution.com and http://kottke.org are both longtime favorites of mine, featuring interesting content ranging from economics to food to philosophy to art...
kickstarter => selling to the masses

yc => selling to experts who understand the domain

Design will be more important at kickstarter.
"citing something from 1998"

Of course if one is going to use an example of where design didn't matter in 1998 you could always counter with an example of the imac, circa 1998, of which the design was key to the success of the product. (I won't even get into the other apple products).

http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/online/jonathan-ive-on-a...
Sure, vi-style editing is something I also find awesome. The key combinations are really smart and I love the shortcuts D and dd, or search through a file with n and N.

And yes, vi(m) is inferior to much less sophisticated editors when it comes to juggling large chunks of code. Or maybe not...

Anyways, now that I have a Macbook, I need to learn vim because it lacks all the cool keys you have on a PC keyboard :D At least I'm now using at nearly as productively as gedit or the like. (On average)

BTW: This caps-look trick is awesome, I'll set it up now!
For questions about support for your favorite spec, see IE 10 Guide for Developers[1].

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh673549(v=vs.85)...
Why are big companies still vulnerable to SQL Injection?
But with Reddit, there are thousands of others who agree with you, who have created tons of subreddits that would be relevant to whatever your interests. Obviously some communities are more active and more interesting than others, but they're around if you look. Here are some great article-based reddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/indepthstories/

http://www.reddit.com/r/literature/

http://www.reddit.com/r/longtext/

http://www.reddit.com/r/offbeat/

http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/
There are many cases of visionaries being told by everyone that they will fail, but still going ahead and making it happen. People who say this needs to compete with Xbox360 or PS3, or worse - PS4 and Xbox720 - are really missing the point and don't know how disruptive innovations work.

That being said, I still think Google turning Google TV into a "console platform" and actually pushing it as such, would be even more disruptive, and with a higher chance of success than any single $99 device running Android as a console platform. It would be very similar to how Android won the market share game through an aggregate of devices, instead of trying to get any single device to sell more than the iPhone.
I don't think their products changed much in a couple of days. Some are still EPEAT compliant, some are not, just like last week.
CRMs Are Not Sales Software
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When Apple decided to leave EPEAT, Apple Apologists/Fanboys said it's because EPEAT is outdated.

I wonder how they are going to spin this one.
The pattern of 'direct discursive activity elsewhere rather than suppress', as exhibited by a secondary less-moderated forum like MetaTalk, is a tactic I believe is underused. It can be used to tuck away the hypercritical/nitpicky subthreads; the jokey subthreads; the meta/rule-debating subthreads; the eternal rathole subthreads; etc. And in so doing gets some value for (and from) the participants who want to go there, while avoiding the sting and signal-loss that comes with complete censure.
How 'bout that WebGL? Without that, I don't give a fuck.

EDIT:

I'll elaborate. Go here ( http://www.caniuse.com/#cats=JS_API ) to follow along if you're playing the home game.

The problem is that for games--for smooth games with low invocation overhead--we really really need to be able to use the graphics card. There are cute tricks you can do with a 2D context (including, in Three.js's case, software fallbacks for some of WebGL), but nothing that really compares to being able to write modern programmable shading pipeline code.

Without that (and the Audio API, and Orientation events), game developers don't really care about your platform.

Now, there is (in my opinion) a storm brewing for WebGL. Go here ( http://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/extensions/ ) to see the coming madness. There is nothing worse in the world than being under the stewardship of Khronos/ARB. The fact that W3C et al. haven't taken over or provided an alternative to this is bad.

Microsoft could do something like make DirectWebX or Web3D or what have you. That would be annoying, but sure--we've been writing cross-API rendering backends for a decade and a half now, and so this wouldn't be terrible. Even better, Microsoft could go ahead with a WebGL implementation that calls down into DirectX.

Best, Microsoft could leverage their experience with good API design--don't scoff, seriously; compare OpenGL and the latest DirectX versions--and work with the W3C and browser vendors to fix some of the yawning holes in WebGL.

(
For example, killing off the extensions mechanism entirely in favor of "Is this Web3D 10 compliant? If so, you get this and don't worry.", or a useful capabilities structure. getParameter() is kind of useful, but having a guaranteed caps baseline is nice.
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Nobody but designers care about a "successful design". They are supposed to be caring about a successful business, which means a good enough design.
Hilariously, at least one of the people writing a tutorial uses Chrome. =)
What a coincidence! It just so happens that EPEAT is now relevant again!
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I think the blurbs help also. Sort of like Slashdot blurbs, but done better. Imo the "headline-only" style of reddit/digg/HN has an unfortunate tendency to promote stuff that's that's easy to summarize in a soundbite, and makes it hard to get attention for anything that needs even 3 sentences to set context for. There's even a word for the extreme case (linkbait), but I think it has more subtle effects throughout as well.
> At the beginning stages, great design won't determine the success of the product.

People hear 'design' and just think it is just the prettification of a product and not the actual usability and utter simplification of it. Maybe it's because there are so many designers that focus on gradients and drop-shadows anymore instead of the what and why, but design is imperative to the success of a company. Even though PG's point was that it doesn't matter (if I understood it correctly?), Google's minimalistic homepage compared to other search companies' sites in 1998 (bold colors, links everywhere, multiple functions/offshoots of the site) is part of what made it so popular; it did what it said on the tin and it made sense doing it.
I agree. Worryingly, it could be evidence of a move away from traditional Steve values, ie don't back down (straight away), don't apologise, don't explain. Alternatively, it could be Apple realise they made a huge mistake, were about to see immense damage to the brand and/or sales, so have taken the drastic, ajobsian action they think is required.
Nao robot performs Judson Laipply's "Evolution of Dance"
RealTime and SinglePage apps are not the future, They are the present, too bad the "Giants" are dragging their feet.
Hey restaurant, You want a customer? Let me get you a customer!

Groupon: How much is a lunch meal?

Restaurant: $10

Groupon: Great, here Ill give you $2.50 for it!

Restaurant: uh.. I'm not so sure about this...

Groupon: Hey customer! Come get this lunch deal. I got a great deal for you, $10 lunch for $5!

Customer: Uh, ok.

Groupon: Sweet! I just pocketed $2.50! Isn't this a great deal!

Restaurant: WTF! I just lost 75% of my gross by doing this with Groupon!