skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer a hybrid solution. 99designs to weed out a good designer. For me that tends to mean good comprehension, a knowledge of how to use their tools and their unique style (each designer tends to certain styles).

A contest on 99d is simply a precursor to further work. Once I find the designer they will earn a lot more than the prize on offer. I find this to be more effective than big agencies because they are hit and miss - but way more expensive when missed!

I have also used 99d to simply browse successful projects and approach designers directly without a contest. Sometimes they have a style I like, so I hire them.

With regard to "design" - I ALWAYS separate functional from aesthetics. Most "web designers" that I've encountered have no clue when it comes to function and process. Safer to give them a wire frame and let them make it pretty. If you can't come up with a sensible wire frame then your website has bigger problems than how nice it looks. I always think Hollywood for design: story, storyboard then production. A designer can't provide the story - you must do that!
Do you think that's just the resolution, or also the quality of the display? I think the iPad 3 is a better quality screen as well as higher resolution. I tried a lot of latpops when I was in the market, and I found the ones with a higher resolution TN panel were worse (to my eyes) than lower resolution on a high quality IPS.
The Galaxy Nexus does not (and, to my knowledge, never has) come with Flash.
I'm wondering if there's a niche here for some sort of micro-float service which gets people to invest in a company as micro-investors, with a small percentage of the business up for grabs. I have no idea if there is already such a thing or how the legal stuff would work though.

It's also probably a bit less exciting than pledges and gifts.
I believe the consensus was that it was not a big deal for www.php.net to have the server status page up. The original link for that news item was http://php.net/server-status. However, not all sites are like php.net which is used mainly for documentation (it would appear). That said, a status page leaking IPs or sessions (PHPSESSIONID) for a private forum, government agency, etc, could be a different story.

Edited: Typo
Picade: The arcade cabinet kit for your Raspberry Pi
How can Anandtech make such a big mistake? It's 46 million GPU cores, not GPU's.
A dual mode display would be nice too. Something that could switch to e-ink mode when reading articles or when it is on standby. That way we don't have to wait for e-ink displays to have fast enough refresh rates.
What you should know before you launch your product
Not sure I could get the latter option past my wife, to be honest.

I think my best bet would be to join a big company as a spits permanent employee and get a transfer,
Are you running Windows XP under BootCamp? I could see Windows XP being okay at 27" @2560x1440.
Check out the Asus Zenbook Prime series. They are 11" or 13" laptops with 1920x1080 IPS displays. I have one and it works well with Ubuntu.
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Superior_Mobility/ASUS_ZENBOOK...
Many thanks for link. For posterity here is the list produced sorted on average:

avg std dev
php 24 41.2894351860362
javascript 26 43.0588803567294
c 27 45.4245721268946
c++ 28 45.2483939710062
c# 30 47.3345103589879
java 31 48.3674381995104
python 34 50.9682383156793
ruby 40 54.1612457522965
haskell 42 57.6626651794045
perl 45 57.7285412002331
scala 53 60.4111999775783
clojure 59 63.6228517085076
lua 60 64.9920293705815
Announcing CUBRID 9.0 with 3x performance increase and Sharding support
According to popular wisdom, "There are two major products that came from Berkeley: LSD and Unix. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." It's, of course, incorrect (http://www.lemoda.net/people/jeremy-s-anderson/index.html), but, in any case, it's a funny one.

Now, on a more serious tone, a lot of programmers these days take some kind of drug, be it to control their ADHD, Asperger and other assorted medical conditions, be it to supplement something they think their brain is burning through faster than our hunter-gatherer heritage made us budget. I have noticed, however, some friends of mine who started taking ADHD medication (Methylphenidate, the only ADHD drug approved for use in Brazil) that became, indeed, much more focused and productive (amazingly so, sometimes), but that's not a double-blind study.

It would be fun (if horrendously complicated) to design a good study for that.
I wouldn't say Clojure has a more familiar syntax than Haskell. If anything, it's the opposite.
I liken online social experience to that of looking a window.

A window has two main viewing states.

You can either look 'at' a window, or you can look 'through' a window.

huh? What the hell does this have to do with social networking?

Social networking is not the beginning of social. Experience is the beginning of social, social is just a way to share and solicit experiences.

So with this in mind, what are the different types of 'experience' going on in the window analogy.

Looking "through" the window is being in the moment, looking through the glass and seeing the world without the frame, taking experiences as they come and letting them exist inside of you as memories, allowing them to shape you and then letting that change in character effect others. Through is just living and being.

Looking "at" the window is seeing the glass, seeing the frame and putting all experience through a context. The context here is the social capital or the commodification of that experience for in order to enhance perception of self.

'At' is translating all experience into trade-able emotional commodity.

If you live in the 'at' state you live in a "what used to need to be seen, now needs to be shared to be believed."

Experiences become worthless unless A) you can prove that they happened, B) that you can show it to someone.

Just my thoughts
The Fourth Law Of HackerNews - Any submission title ending in a question mark will contain at least one link to Betteridge's Law. Please, everyone in the world has heard of it at this point and it's not even a very useful "law", please stop.
"passionate" doesn't need to be described in the context of a programmer. Any "passionate" employee, is simply someone who cares about their job and takes pride in their work. People who are just punching in/out for the sake of collecting paycheques would typically not be very passionate.
I think part of the rails philosophy is to use the correct tool for the problem you want to solve. If you want a blog, probably wordpress is the best option.
I wonder if the scores for Q2 were skewed upwards due to a recent Stack Overflow question which illustrated the principle of sequential disk reads in a similar scenario.

(SO is down right now, so I can neither find it nor tell when/whether it was poster here on HN or over on /r/programming.)
Great! Does this mean that one can use Kiskstarter to fund projects in UK only, or the whole of EU?
It's true the default text size is too small even with a low-resolution monitor, but I've been dealing with that for years just by selecting a suitable font size within each of the half-dozen or so programs in which I actually read a significant amount of text. I find that works fine.
Artificial Wombs Will Spawn New Freedoms
The Silk browser used on the Fire processes browsed pages on Amazon's servers. In a perfect world, Amazon would store your browsing activity and manipulate the content it passed along to you for it's own profit. But fortunately, they have placed a Santa clause in the user agreement which prohibits them from doing so.
We've seen many efforts similar to this over the years.

Can anyone describe why this effort is different from those that came before it?
Ha! We had that discussion last year ;) Yes, it's php. Yes, it could be better. But we chose it and it does the job. It's a blog in the end ;)
Verbosity in C# practically disappeared with 3.0, released with .Net 3.5.

There are a couple of things left that annoy me, but mostly it's gone.
I'm sorry, but I just don't get what you're saying.

> I couldn't get extra screen real-estate the way I would if the screen was 2560x1600

The resolution of the 15" is 2880x1800, not 2560x1600 (that's the 13", is that the one you're actually talking about? I'll go with that for the rest as what you say doesn't seem to make sense for the 15"). You don't get access to the native resolution of the screen with the built-in tools as far as I know, there always is some scaling applied.

> It screen shrinks back to 1280x800, and my 2010 MacBook Air runs at 1440x900.

That's just the default scaling (1:2), if you go into the display settings you can change the virtual resolution to 1680x1050, 1440x900 or 1024x640.

> Or maybe it was the Font Handling - I was hoping that it would look okay (just small) at Andale Mono 4 - but it pixelated.

Andale Mono 4? As in 4 points?

> Basically, make the Screen look 2560x1600 to Terminal.app, but have the OS treat it as 1280x800

I fear I don't get what you mean anymore than previously.
No, Mountain Lion. I am a bit disappointed since NeXT had Display Postscript back in the 80s and today we use bitmap icons far too much.
The REAL problem is the 'we don't think so' at the 'Will opening my network make me liable for others' illegal activities?'. That is the key of the problem and until it is fixed there is no way I am opening my wifi to strangers.
> You get more for your pledge than you would just purchasing the product.

I agree- a pledge is not a purchase. But you need to do the mental math for the project. e.g. I would get 20% more. But I think the project is only 80% likely to ship. And the project founder is cool so I'd give them a few bucks anyway.
Copy-on-write.
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Well, people's engagement with facebook has certainly declined from its peak years ago.

However, all your "friends" are on it. Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation.

There's plenty of room for new entrants that take slices of your friends and optimize that experience. For example, another network for just your family... offering a close, intimate experience, one you feel comfortable sharing all your baby pics on, etc. Another network for professional (sorry, LinkedIn already there). Another for your classmates. All sitting under the facebook umbrella that has your entire social graph.

But one thing that's clear about facebook is they are not at all focused on improving the user experience any longer. They are not unveiling new features that improve user experience. They are fully engaged with improving the advertiser experience. Maximizing the value of the data they have on you. Maximizing ad revenue. These aren't bad things and are obviously necessary, but when a company seems 100% focused on the revenue rather than the user, I think that signals the start of a decline.
Apple's capex spending greater than Intel
'dalke ---

1. At least on first reading, I don't disagree with anything in your analysis responding to my own; in particular, your mail-order catalog analogy seems quite apt.

2. You're correct that the risk-management precautions to which you refer have costs associated with them. Within limits worked out over decades in legislatures and courts, the law allows companies to use contracts to reduce such costs by shifting the associated risks to others.

When a company has sufficient bargaining power, its management typically attempts to do just that: Use standard-form contracts to shift risks to others, and thus reduce the company's costs.

(I spend some of my time helping to negotiate such contracts. As you might imagine, the standard-form contract of a powerful customer will usually be very different from that of a supplier.)

At the risk of belaboring the obvious, this is the same principle that's behind self-service gasoline pumps and self-service checkout lines in grocery stores: The more of a company's costs that the company can get its customers (or its suppliers) to take on, the higher the company's margins will be for the same amount of revenue. Not least, companies' managements are motivated to do this because eventually a company's aggregate costs will necessarily be reflected in the price, and thus the competitiveness, of the company's products and services.

(The costs of a company whose stock is publicly traded will also be reflected eventually in the price of the company's stock. That's generally high on the list of management concerns as well.)

3. The question you seem to pose is whether we should simply forbid contracting parties from contractually shifting risk as described in #2. Various state- and federal laws already do that to a certain extent; see, for example, consumer-protection laws, as well as article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (which in most states governs the sale of goods), not to mention employee-protection laws.

Whether a given jurisdiction should attempt go even further in that direction is a question that comes up every so often. One example is the recent controversy over the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision that companies can legally include mandatory arbitration provisions in their consumer contracts, thereby largely eliminating the possibility of class-action lawsuits and thus considerably reducing consumers' leverage [1].

Whenever the issue does come up, representatives of various affected interests converge from all directions --- including but not limited to so-called consumer lawyers eager to gain, or preserve, sources of contingent fees and/or statutory attorneys' fees awards.

Ultimately the issue boils down to a political question: What should or should not the law be? As with so many such questions these days, the deep ideological divisions among the American people often result in no change to the status quo.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_v._Concepcion
You joke, but Scala's complexity is a very real problem. Specifically, abuse of implicits can make trying to understand Other People's Code quite the nightmare. Even reading the function type specifications in the official Scala docs is a chore.
While I don't blame US at all, because I hold H1. I find it slightly ridiculous that a skilled worker needs to go thru so much hoops and long-running-processess and pay around $20k for visas and GC (if done by himself), and yet somebody can just win one of those GCs, not having to work, and bring their whole family along.
Ouch, right. Currently it doesn't do the job ;)
Error establishing a database connection.
Bad timing?
It wasn't really intended to make much sense by itself. I find if I make slides that stand alone, the audience reads the slides and ignores me. I put the slides up as a courtesy to the people in the audience.

There was less than zero marketing involved - I gave this talk months ago and only just noticed this thread.
Mozilla Mozaic: visualizing the future of bookmarks
the closing comments are much like Dylan Moran's rant about cameras (warning, typical foul language):

Would you please - stop - taking - pictures - on your
tiny - annoying (whispering) fucking camera. This is
happening to you in real time, you are having the
experience. It's not much point to verify that you
were at the event when you're actually here.

(quote taken from http://funnycomedianquotes.com/funny-dylan-moran-jokes-and-q... but I can't seem to link directly to it.)

The quote as I remember it live was slightly different, something about not living your life because you were too busy filming it for youtube.
Show HN: Hush, an "incognito mode for Facebook"
And more details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Face_illusion
apparently ;) working on it!
Coding a Vimeo API Instant Search App with jQuery
Thanks! We're working on it ;)
pretty cool idea :D !
It's just easy, stress-free way to earn some points (I guess). Hard to argue that comment wasn't insightful. Though it's pointless.
The goal of the diversity visa is explicitly diversity and nothing is more diverse than randomness. This is not the path you're expected to take if you have a pressing reason to come to the US.
Have you considered that maybe the reason the designers you encounter have no clue about function is precisely because you find them on 99Designs?
As the owner of my broadband line in the UK, I am legally responsible for everything downloaded with my connection.

As long as this is still the case, this will never happen.

Also, I have to pay if I go over my bandwidth limit. I appreciate there are plans with no limit, but this is a limiting factor for almost everybody.
I'm pretty sure the web is already full of anonymous forums where you don't have to give up your identity by signing in with Facebook.
I've simply stopped logging in to Facebook - since around last Christmas.
I don't miss it at all.
It was neat to catch up with childhood friends and old Army buddies however, there are other ways to keep in touch without feeding the data-dredge.
I do know about "mess" and problems with reaching fans of the page (wich arouse from the fact that people "like" too many pages in fact) but still Facebook remains more than a site - it's rather a social phenomena.
And that's why I don't see the way any competitor come on its place. Although competiton is always for good, of course.
Skitch, le célèbre outil de capture Mac débarque sur Windows
I think people in general focus too much on the superficial components of their application. Pg has debunked many people's theories about what was good/bad about their presentation. Ultimately, it seems like you can do equally well with a conventional or hacker approach, provided you actually have positive qualities they're looking for. Its all in the execution, not in whether you think you're clever
Apparently it is called Microsoft Design Language by those presenting at the Build conference.

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-design-language-the-newest-of...
I'm really looking forward to track my meditation properly.

I looked into the available devices and so far no decent hardware for a decent price is available without hacking.

All the best to you guys to bring this to the mainstream. The neurosky apps and headset are not my cup of tea.
A lot of context is lost in a slideshow. I am very much a fan of the experience of developing in Haskell. My problem was tangential stuff like Cabal & the difficulty of operationalising Haskell. It's the reason I spent a few fruitless weekends trying to get a heroku haskell buildpack: if it was trivial to deploy prototypes, it would be a much more appealing target for time-poor startups.
After sleuthing I located the provider: http://www.cybersource.com/ which people here will know as authorize.net!
Diffusion Curves: A Vector Representation for Smooth-Shaded Images
Martin Kupp - Innovation And Learning: Love or Hate?
Microsoft sells four million Windows 8 upgrades in first few days
Apparently the traffic killed us. GOOD PROBLEM :) Fixing it!
Have there been any prosecuted 'piracy' cases, anywhere in the world, where an open network is involved? Until there is, I believe running an open network is an excellent idea where you can afford to do so (afford being: no data caps, you have a fully separate secure private network for your own use, and you can limit bandwidth).
I though it should be the default philosophy of everyone.
And there goes my respect for fogCreek.

Moving to AWS because of an outage sounds very dumb to me, considering AWS itself is quite unreliable and strangely expensive (expenses that could be directed towards a better solution).

I guess they simply decided it wasn't their job, still... what a fail solution
I still can't develop for tablets
eh? haskell program can be really slow, especially when it is written by non-experts who don't understand lazy evaluation well.
I certainly agree with a lot of this. The lack of a pro machine is certainly a disgrace at the moment. I sometimes wonder if the decisions Apple made when computers were its entire business now need to be revisited now they've diversified a bit. I think they can afford to compete on price now, and not price gouge over BTO options. They've started being more reasonable with RAM prices, but they have a long way to go.

For what it's worth, your YouTube issues are down to Flash. I have an older iMac (2007) and 720p runs fine for me in HTML5.
Would someone mind posting the text in here? Google+ is blocked in many work places. :)
Could you [or anyone] quote statute or an official source for your first line assertion, please?
True, but this is for people who want to be anonymous on facebook.
Some Galaxy Nexus phones run Jelly Bean now, but most came with Ice Cream Sandwich (which had Flash).

http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-no-jelly-bean-flash-flash-pla...
The terms require:

To be eligible to start a Kickstarter project as a UK creator, you need to meet the following requirements:

• You are a permanent UK resident either creating a project in your own name or on behalf of a legal entity with a Companies House Number.

• You have a UK address, UK bank account, and government-issued ID (driver's license or passport).

• You have a major UK credit or debit card.

• You are 18 years of age or older.

How come they can exclude non-UK EU people? Isn't there a single market within the EU?
IMPORTANT: Hi everyone, I'm a french guy who applied to YC because I want to move to the Bay area to launch my start up.
Feeling concerned about what just happened in the east coast with Sandy, I would like to go to NY and help out, maybe with friends too. I contacted the american consulate in my city who might help.
This message is to ask you all for some financial support. I need to raise money to get there and help as much as possible. Depending on the amount raised, I'll either bring people along or go by myself. I have lived there in the past so I should have friends able to provide accomodation.
Any help will be appreciated, as well as any amount.
Maybe YC could handle the money management so you guys know where the money is going, or I can give my Paypal account.
If not enough money is raised, than it'll be given to local organisation (reimboursing would be a bit complicated).
Come on guys and let's start the YC SANDY PROJECT!
Thank you all for support
No, their terms state that you have to be a UK resident etc.
"If it doesn't have a keyboard, I feel that my thoughts are being forced out through a straw."

Beautiful.
Found this in a discussion on SVG 2. The automatic generation of the curves from images is the killer feature !
So you just want to stop evolution forever. That's just silly. I use a 47" TV with KDE, I set DPI to like 200, and the resulting fonts and interfaces are very nice when viewed from couch.

I have to ctrl+ every site a few times, but it works flawlessly after that.
Can we all just calm down and take a sensible look at the risk. Is for example, the risk of getting hit by a meteor, bigger than say getting legal attention for having an open wifi? Security researcher like Bruce Schneier keeps an open wifi, and he argues this exact point. (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wirel...)

There are also plenty of solutions if one want to eliminate this "risk". Hook it to Tor, or an VPN solution of your choice, and that will be that. That's it, no more risk, and you can enjoy the safety that one can normally only get from insurance against volcanoes.
Very considerate of YC to do that.
Microsoft Surface can not compete against real tablets
the reason that most search engines are opaque black boxes is that being transparent simply gives spammers the upper hand when they want to manipulate your index. it won't be a problem for this one yet, but if it gained significant market share they'd definitely have to change strategy.
I suspect it's a legal minefield and much easier said, than done.
True. Our reasons for using Facebook were twofold-

* It enables you to talk to your FB friends--a group whose opinion that you probably care about & respect--anonymously, so that they don't have to hold back or sugarcoat things.

* It enables us to ensure a reasonably decent quality on the service, by [hopefully] avoiding too many bots or trolls.
Zen and the Art of Live Programming