skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am absolutely not a graphic designer. Usually I start with a dominant colour that I like (for example the default orange header here) and I'll plug it into a colour-match system like http://colorblender.com/

Another resource I've used to good success is http://kuler.adobe.com (requires flash) which lets people (some of whom are quite a lot more competent than I at this) create and share colour themes.

Finally, a neat tool that I saw make the rounds recently is http://www.gpeters.com/color/color-schemes.php which lets you search on a word and uses Yahoo!'s image search to come up with some colour suggestions. That is not a theme place, but it's a fun way to perhaps stumble across a colour you like to use with tools like those above.
Or executives may have an incentive to go to the UK or Australia.

American companies compete with international companies for executives.
Limit your internet usage. Limit your sugar and caffeine intake. Get at least half an hour of vigorous exercise, an hour is better. You may have to retrain your brain to read books. I.e. say "I'm spending 45 minutes reading this book" and actually do that for 45 minutes.

If the above doesn't work you might have a "medical" ADD problem. This can be fixed with drugs. However I've seen people have more success picking a career that works with their ADD, rather than trying to drug themselves into doing something they aren't chemically suited for.
Please, world, like subscription music, won't you?
There is an interesting difference how the pages scanned in this video. The eye movement on the one with mostly images were more random than on a text based.
So if I get married I'll run $1000 over my budget every month? And never update my budget?
How about no? I don't say "maybe", I say it is impossible to prove or disprove. Frankly reducing it to a "yes or no" question is really reductive, and pretty much a christian way to put things, if you will. Q: "Do you believe in god?" A: "I cannot know whether a god exists or not."
The phrase "disappeared in poof of logic" seems oddly relevant.
While it might be an irony, there is no reason why it is not possible.

If you follow evolution, that's how we came into being in the first place. Though there was no specific entity working with that explicit goal in the case of evolution.
OK, I understand using it when it easier. But there are many things that tables can do that CSS can not do - at all (especially in a cross browser compatible way, but also just regular).
Did you all forget that content rules the Internet just like any other form of media?

I'm sure that ESPN, Fox as well as WSJ and New York Times will do just fine. They have content, something that will never become a commodity, while pipes and delivering software will be for sure (if not already). Google understands it, Yahoo understands it, this is why they're beefing up on their own content because I don't think anyone doubts that eventually the gatekeepers of information ("traditional" media) will wake up and grab the rest of middlemen by the balls. There is absolutely no reason for ESPN or anywhere else to allow all kinds of reddits to make money on their content, so they're naturally making it available for customers who pays.

What it means for us is now we have yet another vehicle for monetization: can you come up with a way to make TimeWarner a more appealing ISP compared to others? They don't want to be just another no-name pipe provider, they are desperate for value-adding ideas. They are, just look at all that shit they're putting on "Internet CDs" they advertise, like it makes "their internet" safe or faster than someone else's. So if you happen to come up with something better than customized browsers and magical malware blockers, then sell it to them.
I employ a similar method. Rather than thievery I think it is just influence. I will use bits from several designs I think work well (layout ideas from one, colurs from another etc etc.).
Quick response to 2nd place comment: if you're older and your skills profile is burdened with assembly language, we're always interested in talking to you. =)
i also resort to abject thievery.

my feed reader is full of design blogs that i use to siphon ideas into my head. i'm not good with creative design. i design like an engineer would -- i look at a lot of things, take the pieces i like, and reassemble them together to the best of my abilities.

most of the things i create are just compilations of things i've seen in the past that i thought were neat.
Good thought process here, thanks.

I do think the central question will be how much value my app is providing vs. what the main app is doing. The main app could also start duplicating what I'm doing (and I expect that) so I have to continue adding new things they don't do.
A related quote:

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
Part of the problem here has nothing to do with discrimination and everything to do with the market. If you can be replaced by two cheap, less-experienced developers, the market correctly determines that you should be replaced. Like comment #1 says, you need to not only keep your skills up to date, but also continually upgrade your value proposition by being selective about your roles.
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For this American, the unique thing wasn't so much kindness but contact. I may be a nice guy, but from day to day I just don't run into anyone under 22 or over 30.
RAII, AC/DC, and the "with" statement
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$0.002 = 0.002 cents
Python actually feels like a "younger" crowd to me than Ruby, which got a big influx of Java and "agile" people.
I don't understand your point here. Holding the quality and priority of the work constant, the employee who is cheaper and easier to "browbeat" is in fact lower drag. The market is very rationally going to select for the lowest drag fit for any role.
Protein folding is NP-complete (Berger et al 1998). This implies that we can get fast heuristics for certain subclasses of proteins, but there is no general linear time protein folding solution.
Or CEOs could be the philanthropists themselves. If you contract out your building cleaning, for example, start there -- start with the people on the bottom who show up to clean your bathrooms or vacuum your carpets. Find them, ask them if they could use a raise. Then find your next lowest-paid employees, maybe the interns or "temp" people or the part-time workers, give them a raise.

"Paying up" in hopes that prosperity will trickle down has proven to not work very well.
If you say: "I cannot know whether a god exists or not.", you already say that you are not cause of yourself (otherwise you would know), and, consequently, there must be another cause outside yourself:

And this is exactly the definition of "God".
I'll second http://kuler.adobe.com as a great tool to find or piece together a color scheme.
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What this tells me is that when you reach your (conventional) prime earning years, your "hard" skills focus should start tilting towards things that will help you entrepreneurially.

The reality is, once you hit 30, if there's a tangible "layoff list" anywhere you work, you have a serious career risk you should mitigate.
I used http://www.gpeters.com/color/color-schemes.php
Great site! I just registered 6 domains, and then decided to go ahead with the $14.95 subscription for access to the full list. Definitely worth it! :-)
Has anyone read Borges' story, "The Library of Babel"? This Golly thing reminds me of this part of the story:

"One [book] which my father saw in a hexagon on circuit fifteen ninety-four was made up of the letters MCV, perversely repeated from the first line to the last. Another (very much consulted in this area) is a mere labyrinth of letters, but the next-to-last page says Oh time thy pyramids."
A well-known designer trick I've used is to spend 20 minutes paging through a stock photo site (I like sxc.hu), find a picture you like with some good color contrasts, and pull it into an image editor to eyedrop colors out.

Kuler has tools that support this workflow too.

What I don't get is the "shopping for color schemes" workflow that sites like Kuler support by default. I have also never liked anything that came out of a "generate split complements" color wheel tool; the real aesthetics of things like triadic schemes depend too much on saturation/value, and not enough on hue.
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The way I understood it, the pay cap is only for companies that take government money. So companies that are already in trouble are going to be the ones that can't attract the new executive talent they need to survive. If a company that takes government money can't turn itself around and still fails, then all the bailout did was postpone the failure - and the government loses its investment - a bad deal all around.
You are probably missing the point that agnosticism is about knowledge and not beliefs (sp?)... and frankly I am tired of keep on hearing people telling me I am an atheis, shy atheis or whatever -- so I am giving up.
There's nothing shy about me, trust me.

Agnostics are mathematicians. Or at lest very close to being mathematicians.

There's the old joke of a biologist, a physicist and a mathematician on a train in Scotland.

They see a black sheep and the biologist says: Hey Scotland is full of black sheep!

The Physicist responds with we have evidence of one black sheep in Scotland.

And the mathematician concludes, there exists at least one sheep, at least one of whose sides is black, in Scotland.

So when agnostics say you can't disprove anything, we mean it.
We mean it in the literal mathematical sense of negatives not being provable.

Oh but you don't live your life according to such extreme ideological purity, if somethings darn close to a duck you call it a duck.

That's great if it works for you, but my mind is much stricter then that.
I ask myself what I want a user to "feel" when they visit my site. Then, I choose basic colors which elicit that feeling. After that, I look at different color schemes to see which complementary colors I like (this part is mostly subjective).
I don't know of anything in nature which solves the traveling sales person problem, but protein folding does progress in linear time in nature.

That may mean that proteins quickly collapse the probability space or have some other "trick" by which they are not NP-complete, or whatever, it is not magic.

There is a way and I'm hopeful we can find it.
I only explained the basic principles of logic...
Is there a way to develop commercial apps for the iPhone without buying a Mac?
I would like to use Windows if possible.

Also, is it possible to use an ipod touch for development instead of an iphone?
So what happens when they don't see a black sheep?
(My kibo alert has failed me, and it's far too late to comment here, but I will anyway)

Lots of situations can be interpreted as slavery, and a lot of the creative interpretations are likely to revolve around children.

The quoted comment shorn of conversational context wasn't all that illuminating, so I expanded on it here: http://syncretin.livejournal.com/73427.html
I tried explained you it is about epistemology, instead.
At the very least, using functional programming will raise the understanding bar for those who try to maintain those applications that use the paradigm.

However, I fail to see how this will improve the overall quality of PHP applications, nor how it is a return to "the basics," or how it will help maintain the myriad content management systems that are currently out there. Care to elaborate?
the pay cap is only for companies that take government money.

Yes, it is. Reed Hastings' proposal is, however, not just for companies that take government money.

Perhaps a starting place for "tax, not shame" would be creating a top federal marginal tax rate of 50 percent on all income above $1 million per year.

That isn't to imply that there are not healthier alternatives. Andrew W. Mellon advocated a flat income-tax rate of 10%: http://www.archive.org/stream/taxationthepeopl033026mbp/taxa...

the Government received substantially the same revenue from
high incomes with a 13% surtax as it received with a 65% surtax. It is not too much to hope that some day we may get back on a tax basis of 10%, the old Hebrew tithe, which
was always considered a fairly heavy tax.
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Yes bro, they seem to be legit, but their downside is, you could only use the (live)service as an enduser, u cant practically resale it as with other providers, it sux. I have 50 customers that want me to provide live event streaming, but it costs $75 per account with simpleCDN, too much for me, and they dont offer a re-saler kind of account. If any one know a way around this or know a program cpanle etc that can allow a single account to host other sub accounts or something then LET ME KNOW NOW...
Upmodded for superb title, no Beating Around the Bush.
You make a very good point, sir. :) It's definitely something we need/want to learn more about (Hi, I would be the other co-founder). I've set up a few servers in the past for small, personal things, so I feel like I have a good basic understanding of how it all works and I'm eager to leanr more. Hosever, since I've had no actual training or instruction on how to efficently set up and secure a server, I just want someone to oversee it and make sure it's done right. If they're willing to teach me, all the better.

That said, if anyone has any suggestions or recommendations on the best way to go about learning this particular set of skills, I'm all ears.
My Anecdotal experience:

I need a new iPod cable and as I was at my local shopping center, I decided to check at Circuit City. I expected the price to be ~$10.00 but the prices was $24.99

I checked with amazon when I got home. I was able to buy a 3 pack, regular cable, car charger cable and 110v outlet cable for $8.00 including shipping.

It's not a mystery why retailers are suffering when you see price gouging like that.
Pretty sure you failed.
PayPal's basic business account has subscription functionality. It does exactly what you described: you send a customer to PayPal, indicating what their billing cycle is and how much they should be charged. Once they payment goes through, paypal notifies you (via IPN callback) that the subscription should now be active. Once it expires (due to limits you have put in, or because the customer cancels, or if their payments fail), paypal pings you and you can update stuff on your side.

It's actually very easy to integrate, and provides a very good functionality set. It even has trial periods and such.

I imagine Amazon's payments system can do similar things.
As Dawkins puts it, if there were a teapot orbiting the sun, we'd have no way of detecting it.

It is too small for our telescopes, so we have absolutely no evidence for a teapot orbiting the sun.

You don't believe in that teapot, do you? That's silly.

But Dawkins is a biologist, and I'm a computer scientist, I don't believe in the teapot, but I also don't KNOW it's not there.

And that has nothing to do with shyness.
Click the tour link on the top right.

I suppose we should make that more obvious.

Thanks
Well it's kind of fitting if you think about it. Instead of choosing "none of the above", just don't choose any of the options ;).
If you didn't create yourself [...] and (consequently) some other one did, how do you call it?

Natural selection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection
One approach would be to insist that it's you sitting at the keyboard when your expert goes through the system. He'll have to tell you what to do, and explain it if you're not getting it. That works way better than watching over a shoulder. It'll be slower/more expensive, but you get both the actual help as well as some training.
No. (You could run OS X in VMware on Windows, but it's still OS X.)

You can test your app on iPod Touch as long as you don't care about the minor differences from the iPhone.
This reminds me of a beloved tool from my youth, Maxis' (of SimCity fame) Klik n' Play.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klik_&_Play

There was something very empowering about being handed a tool for instructing the computer to do what I was most interested in it doing: creating new games. My friends and I created dozens of half-baked ideas, and I even went so far as prototyping a real time strategy game.

There's something about the immediate reward for completing a task -- "hey, I made this character move!" -- that kept me coming back, and led eventually to programming games in C, C++, and the continuation of my lifelong infatuation with computer programming.

Now that I have children of my own, I seriously consider setting up an emulator so they can learn from the systems that I used, like the C64, DOS, and others -- back when computers were hard, but not insurmountable, and we cut our eyeteeth on the command line. In the modern world of immersive 3D simulations and slick GUIs, I wonder what children are learning about computers, and what will draw aspiring programmers to further explore.
Sorry to correct you, but you're actually kind of shy (that is, not really determined):

You simply confirm that if 3 persons of human species are exposed to the same reality (yes, reality, because the impressions may be different, but the reality is well defined and precisely one):

So, if 3 persons of the same species are all concluding more or less different things, then you have the definite answer that none of them is seeing absolutely everything, that is: the whole reality:

So: you can't be God, because:

If you were God, you would know it (together with the exact reality of all things...)
"another cause outside yourself" is not exactly the definition of "God." To believe that you did not bring yourself into being does not mean you believe in God, it means you're not a solipsist.

Also, would you please stop telling people what they believe? I don't think I'm the only person here who finds it to be rude. You can civilly argue a point without telling people that they're not really agnostics or whatever.
if you're going down that route, you can also dual-boot OS X.
I think people just re-brand old ideas as new ones every so often. A couple years ago people would have just said it's a "Niche Market", but now it's long tail.
It was so bad that I read all 8 parts!
I have a (simple) question to all THEISTS:

If you believe god created you, what name do call that god by? Jesus? Allah? Yahweh? Buddha? Zeus?

Theists, talk amongst yourself. If you ever settle on one name for god, then maybe we atheists will start taking you more seriously.

Logically, if you didn't create yourself:

1) Maybe a god created you.
2) Maybe something else created you.
3) Maybe you weren't created at all. (Ex: Maybe the matter and energy in the universe have existed forever.)

As an atheist, I'm humble enough to admit I can't pick #1, #2, or #3 conclusively.
Either you're WAAAAAAAAAY smarter then me, or you're babbling.
And you know what "logic" means?

You can't act against "logic" without hurting yourself. If you are a hacker (like me), you never ever can act against logic, otherwise your program won't work (and exactly the same happens with life itself).
Off-topic, but seriously, what the fuck is digg doing with all their people and money? They've got a huge team and every time I venture over there, everything looks pretty much the same. Do they realize that digg is a sinking ship and they're all building lifeboats?
Hmm ok, thanks for the info. I'll have to look into that.
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"But it's funny how some things are acceptable on Windows and not acceptable on macs. It's like you expect people to pickpocket you in a bad neighborhood but not a good one."

But it's not acceptable on Windows, and that behavior is most notable from RealMedia and Apple. Maybe Apple doesn't try that shit on Macs; I don't know.

It's obnoxious, and Apple is a real standout for weaseling in stuff I don't want.
Also, would you please stop telling people what they believe?

Also known as negation: http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/profile.html#tendency_t...

Profile of a rapist [...]

3) Negating behavior or comments - [...] Does he try to tell you what you are feeling or thinking? Or worse, tell you what you are not? Comments like "you don’t really mean that" are serious indicators of someone trying to negate you. A person who negates others is trying to take away the other person’s thoughts, feelings and needs and attempting to project his wants onto that person.
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I believe lots of theists believe in God without believing in the possibility of an empirical truth. I've certainly met Christian scientists (not to be confused with Christian Scientists) who fall into this category. It would be silly to call them agnostics.

As another poster wrote, often times agnostics approach the question as one of knowledge, whereas most theists as well as "weak" atheists see it as a question of belief. We all (well, almost all) believe all sorts of things that we do not truly know.
Reminds me of those turn-of-the-century articles about the future, replete with cozy bomb-shelters and flying cars.
To me it looks almost like that. I would say that the first "catchy" post (or maybe first catchy reply) tends (TENDS) to set the tone. No, I doubt that the effect is intended, but it seems inevitable: a snowballing effect can occur only around a sufficiently potent idea that gets injected.

Of course, this phenomenon can have the the effect of derailing the central idea (perhaps your initial concern?), but may we conclude, "There are no perfect discussion, only great ones?"

Related thought: I've often wondered whether a pop-up summary of the essence of the originally posted article that is linked would help focus discussion + (for new news) help visitors know whether the linked material is worth their visiting. [ For me, often the discussion on YHN is worth 10x what the linked article was. ]
Second that. I am fairly closely involved with a company that does just that and the amount of rules and regulations borders on the draconian. The only thing missing is armed marines in front of the server room access doors.

This is one of those instances where if your volume is < $1,000,000 per annum you probably shouldn't even be thinking about doing your own acceptance of CC data.

Just hand it off, pay a couple of % and get on with doing what you're good at.
That diagonal pointing hand from Pinball Construction Set is permanently burned into my memory (as is its aggravating inconsistent clicking behavior).
"When you start something new go over the list of things you took note of and use your own judgment to decide what will and will not work for you. But don't copy anything verbatim."

Is this something that people really need be told? I suppose that's rhetorical, given the number of folks who swear by alleged methods of success that just happened to work (or be recollected as working) for one person or another.
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We almost never eat out (we like to cook). I have two kids. Our monthly isn't $1000, but it will easily shoot well over $500 if we don't keep meal-plan-discipline. I totally believe a typical middle class family comes close to $1000/mo on food and food-related expenses.
To put a finer point on it, I DO believe in absolute truth, I just believe that the existence of God cannot be proven scientifically.