skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you should focus on learning the many facets of SEO while trying to deliver a product but there are some quick, actionable pieces of advice which are undisputed enough that you can pretty much blindly implement them.

A great place to learn about seo (especially as it pertains to software products and marketing them) is patio11's blog. A particularly relevant, however short, article is http://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/10/02/object-lesson-on-bloggin... which speaks specifically to this point.

Also, I would recommend getting as many support tickets as possible. Not only are they feedback from users about what the product needs (you're probably aware of how important this is considering it's the mantra of every notable writer in the startup/saas domain) but they represent people who a.) are interested enough in your product to complain that they can't use it yet and b.) have implicitly given you permission to contact them. A simple, "This will be implemented soon. I'll email you when it's ready." makes the immediate problem disappear while creating a list of users primed and ready to start breaking your software for you when it hit beta and beyond.
I found the part in the video about cyclists being in the blind spot of a turning bus very worrying. That's not the way to cycle!

I cycle around London all the time and the one thing you have to do is be aware of the situation as a driver sees it. I've seen too many accidents or close shaves where I think to myself "You could have anticipated that situation". e.g. cyclist racing up the inside of a stationary line of traffic slams into the side of a car turning right through the line of traffic. Easy to anticipate that as you approach the junction there might be danger.

Equally, I drive through London as well and am very aware that cyclists are hard to see. But I have noticed that cyclists wearing fluorescent jackets are way more visible (day and night) than others. I can't see this particular invention being a big help to me. If I'm turning left I'm looking in the mirror and then doing the last check over the shoulder for anything. A cyclist in a fluorescent jacket is going to be visible to me in the mirror or through the window on the final check because of their height. And if I'm pulling out a fluorescent jacket also helps because I am looking at around body height (at cars and pedestrians).
This is an interesting list to look through, but things are not as bad as they look.

Many of these are warned about on modern compilers, if you use '-Wextra -Wall'. Some of them are even on by default. I think compilers should warn more eagerly. I would put -Wextra -Wall on by default -- it is easier to turn off things you don't want, than to discover things you do not know exist. But I know this is not a popular opinion!
The product you linked looks much more functional than the one in this kickstarter. Do you own this?
Confronting our Future of Automated Law Enforcement
The Micro-USB connector is not square.

With normal USB, true, it can be annoying to find the right orientation, but they still seem to be zillions of times more sturdy than the cables before them. Remember PS2 with those tiny pins inside?
Nice. I used to use Balsamiq, but this looks like nice (flash-free!) alternative. Grats on shipping, it's the hardest part. Can to share some details? What framework did you use? What's the backend look like, etc..
Proto.io introduces Windows 8 (metro) device gallery for mobile prototyping
Finally, I might have to change my mind...

There is a big difference with PyDev/Aptana that is not apparent in the screencast: its lightweightness!

* it is a 1.3Mb download (vs 126Mb).

* startup time is ~2s (vs 30+ seconds)

* memory footprint is ~28Mb after startup (vs 400Mb)

Now I'll definitely try it.

Update: the memory quickly jumped to ~120Mb usage, hope it's not a memory leak.
Would you mind sharing more? I've never heard a bad thing about Rackspace.
Thanks for taking the time to play with Mocktails. You are correct in that it's difficult to compete in this space. As of now, we are thinking of having our marketing emphasize our strengths such as publishing and built in version control.

To be quite fair though, the day where we have to worry about marketing is quite far away. For now, we just have to buckle down and keep building the product.
I am also bringing the Force. It is also irrelevant.
There's a limited amount of polishing you can apply to any USB turd.
Applying the Unix Philosophy to Object-Oriented Design
This old saw explains it pretty well:

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

A: Top-posting.

Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

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As ever, there are exceptions, with one-on-one, serial email being the most prevalent. But if there's more than one recipient, top-posting is godawfully confusing.
Maybe dna based life IS the self replicating probe.
Isn't the glass back fluff anyway, because there is still plastic underneath? I hate superfluous ornaments on utility devices...
I find it odd that this article from two years ago is now No. 3 on Hacker News. :P
Thanks for checking out Mocktails. Competing with Balsamiq is going to be hard and we'll use every strength we have (of which no-flash is primary :D).

EDIT: Sorry, forgot to reply to the second part of your comment.

The entire app is at this point solely HTML+JS+CSS. The only framework used is Bootstrap. There exists no backend except for nginx serving out the static files. This will ofcourse change in future and we will probably write a blog post explaining our stack some day.
Glass windows are also easy to "troll" with rocks, but that hasn't stopped people putting them into buildings and vehicles.
I bought knowing the hissing noise problem and plan to watch how that (and now this) develop in the 4 weeks waiting period an cancel if it gets too absurd...
seems a leap to treat life on Mars as totally independent of life on Earth.
> I'm not suggesting that truly democratic internet communities even exist, but 4chan is much farther from that ideal than Reddit.

I disagree. 4chan is if anything more democratic than most sites even if it is a sort of semi-anarchic mob rule version of democracy.

The first thing I'd like to counter is the idea that the available categories are determined by the 4chan admins and by moot in particular. It is true that he's the one who makes new boards to talk about specific subjects but that doesn't mean that if there isn't a board it doesn't get talked about, generally it'll happen in whatever board has the most users interested in that subject, and if it becomes a problem or starts taking over the board there will be a general purpose board spun off for that subject in particular. Examples of this (in the positive "lots of people are talking about this and need a space) are /tg/ which spun off from warhammer wednesday on /b/ and /lit/ and /toy/ were both spun off from recurring topics on /tg/. Less positive examples include /soc/ and /adv/ which were supposed to clean up /r9k/ and /mlp/ because pony threads were a huge problem on /co/.

I think the problem here is that Reddit's (and HN's for that matter) "democracy" function is explicitly part of the site whilst 4chan's is hidden and based on the whims of the audience.
My First Customer Is Now Dead
Cultivated men look like jerks?

I must have missed it.
The Nexus 7's connector is upside down so the bump makes it sit on an angle, but it does work.
Not sure whereabouts you're from, but in the UK AntennaGate wasn't particularly concerning and I know plenty of people that kept their iPhones case-free, myself included, without glass shattering issues. Unless they were really, really silly and dropped it onto concrete from high up.
If it's not nuclear weapons, then there must exist technologies that are sure on our path to discovery while at the same time guaranteeing our extinction--again, think in terms of things that only need one outlier to use it in a way that compromises the existence of all on Earth for good.

How about hydrocarbon fuels? They don't need one outlier. They seem to have chemistry and physics resulting in an economic trap for t heir use.
Web developers are in the process of re-inventing everything that the desktop solved in the 90s. Meanwhile, the desktop is in the process of destroying everything it solved in the 90s. Ah, progress.
Just to add - a comparison to the lowest common denominator is not what we're after :)
OpenShift now a Red Hat enterprise product
Hmmm... Again you're pretty much spot on. I guess while we should primarily focus on building the product for now, there is no real reason why we cannot make some simple changes to capture more mindshare and search engine ranking. I'll look into some basic SEO tonight and make some changes ASAP.

Once again, thanks a lot for your advice, especially since it's in an area I don't know much of.
When I'm 40, I hope I have my life structured so I can work 12+ hours a day -- enough resources to automate or outsource the tasks I don't enjoy, no need to commute, etc.
That's $600/year for me more than RW, and I'm fine with the Defy XT so far. (I'm coming from a "feature" phone, so it's a huge upgrade for me, even if it's nothing special by Android standards.) I don't mean this as a bad thing per se, just observing that's $600/year difference, which isn't trivial for me (though affordable).
Are you concerned the subject matter will be out of date ;)
The docs were recently migrated to a much cleaner and brighter look: http://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html

I don't expect the main site's redesign will impact the doc in any way, shape or form.
The Kayak commercial that's too "offensive" to air in UK
It does, on the front and back [1].

I took a set of keys, a fork and a pocket knife to the front and back glass panels of the Nexus 4 and couldn't get a scratch to show up anywhere. I also slipped and dropped the phone while pulling it out of my pocket this week, and it showed no signs of my fumble.

Until I see a video, I'm not really convinced, tbh. If he has a granite counter-top, and didn't set it down as gently as the author claims, it's completely probable that it cracked. People are incredibly clumsy with phones. Glass doesn't exactly have a high thermal conductivity (nor does granite/linoleum/plastic), I find it difficult to believe the glass would expand/contract enough from body heat/kitchen counter-tops.

[1] http://www.wired.com/reviews/2012/11/google-nexus-4/
There are a substantial amount of developers who don't like VS, NetBeans or Eclipse, even for monolithic projects. Everyone has their own development style, from point and clickers to command line users and everything in between.

I guess it depends on which group you're talking to too, I know more people who can't stand VS than who like it.
Apple’s look into the Future (from back in the 1990s)
Wow! Thanks for having so much faith in us. We'll definitely try to live upto it!
I realise that incitement is illegal in the UK, but it is America that is pushing for the extradition. I would also argue that a website is in full view of the public (especially with the amount of sharing that occurs).

But like I said in my original response, it doesn't matter whether or not it is copyright infringement or theft, as in the analogy we are discussing the actions of TV Shack not the actual hosting of the material.

What I mean is, this isn't a discussion about whether copyright infringement is illegal, but instead whether linking is illegal, and I think the two crimes presented are comparable enough (although definitely not the same), for the difference to be easily overlooked for the sake of getting across a message.
Works of this ilk has been done in the past. Look at the original "Hackers" book or "Soul of a New Machine". And the jokes that she finds very funny are mostly bad puns to the folks that have been in the "culture" for decades.
Yep...trackpoint on Thinkpads tends to fix this problem for me.
Laws And Regulations Governing The Cloud Computing Environment
You may be aware of HIPAA and PCI DSS but do you know what the rest stand for?
That has little to do with robustness. Linux may very well be as robust or even more robust than any OS considered for those purposes, but the question isn't robustness, it's predictability.

I even go further and say that Linux is more robust than many of these other OSes, since it is exposed to a wider range of environments and hardware combinations of varying quality and whatever bugs they trigger. If you reduce Linux to the kind of footprint that, for instance, VxWorks or QNX have, I don't believe it would be any less reliable.

But Linux isn't predictable. Many safety-critical systems only rely on the system not crashing or misbehaving, but many others rely on real-time characteristics. Those Linux doesn't have.
It's amazing how little we know--it might just be that an organic, living, genetically engineered being can sustain the pressure and vacuum of space (though how about propulsion?) and hostile planets, and consume raw resources out of soil and atmosphere to reproduce. That's a scary thought.
The sound design on that video was brilliant.
This says nothing about any auxiliary lights you choose to mount, though. Still, I guess this thing would be illegal in Germany simply due to the fact that lighting on a vehicle is very rigorously specified and I guess the green colour won't fit well with the laws here.

I guess I'll opt for a very bright (hub) dynamo-powered light instead, but my main concern currently is not visibility but that I can still see the ground when there's a car coming at me with blinding lights.

(Side note, anecdotal evidence: No cyclist I know ever had problems with the police for using battery-powered lights instead of dynamo-powered ones. Most of the time they're happy when cyclists have light at all.)
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I very much agree with your last statement; if you are undertaking a bus or other large vehicle you probably shouldn't be cycling at all. Of course there are exceptions to this.

Although lighting is a very important factor of being safe when cycling on the road, being aware of traffic and the law of the road is far more beneficial. I have cycled around London for years, usually with no lights at all and perhaps it is luck, but I have never had an accident.

You need a strong position in the road and decisive action that allows other road users to see your intentions - just act as if you were a car.
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You get up in the morning. The sun is shining. You are feeling good. You Stretch. Suddenly your stomach growls.
I find much confused logic in Nick Bostrom's argument, and huge assumptions:

"I will return to this scenario shortly, but first I shall say a few words about another theoretical possibility: that the extraterrestrials are out there, in abundance but hidden from our view. I think this is unlikely, because if extraterrestrials do exist in any numbers, it’s reasonable to think at least one species would have already expanded throughout the galaxy, or beyond. Yet we have met no one."

Sorry mate, but it's not reasonable to think that at all. The galaxy is colossal. We have exactly zilch insight into how even a two-star civilization might work, and the kind of problems it would have - and he's saying it's reasonable to assume the existence of a civilization with dozens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of millions of stars?

It's possible, maybe, but it's not reasonable, and it doesn't disprove the idea that we simply haven't looked deeply enough for ET yet. As Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute once remarked [1], it's like asking if there are any fish in the ocean, filling a cup with ocean water, and upon discovering that it has no fish in it, you conclude that all the world's oceans don't, either.

In short, we haven't done the experiment yet - we may as well refrain from making conclusions. Our galaxy could house a million times the diversity of species in Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and Mass Effect combined, but it may take a while to find evidence of any of that.

[1]: http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/sagan/JillTarterEssay/
In London we simply don't have space to put in dedicated cycle paths everywhere. IMHO, they're treating the symptom anyway, the problem is that a large number of road users in the UK (including quite a few cyclists) are aggressive, discourteous or just plain bad drivers/riders.

Cycle facilities (cycle lanes - dedicated or not, off road cycle paths, advanced stop line boxes, etc) all help encourage people to cycle; this is great as the more people on bikes on the road the safer it is for everyone (see TFL's "Safety In Numbers" campaigns). But a 2mm high strip of white paint on the road isn't going to save me from an idiot that is texting whilst driving and not looking where they're going. Ideally we wouldn't need any on-road cycling provisions at all.

I've ridden a bike quite a bit in France and have had no problem with the car drivers there, they give plenty of space when overtaking and have no problems being temporarily held up behind a cyclist until it is safe to overtake. No special facilities, just courteous drivers.

Segregation works both ways. This is anecdotal, but on one long distance ride in the UK there were sections where the riders were overtaken by the support vehicles of other riders (mainly the european riders). By far the worst (in terms of least distance given when passing) for overtaking were the cars with "NL" markings on their european number plates. My guess is that the years of segregation have put them out of practice with sharing the roads with cycles. Again, that's just my experience.

FWIW I cycle commute almost daily in London (I took the train today as I've got a horrible cold) and have grown used to London traffic. The closest times I've come to an accident were all my own fault. I've read "Roadcraft", I've had a full driving license (both car and motorcycle) for 15+ years, I did do cycling proficiency at school, yet I'll still take the opportunity for more training if it comes up (the local London boroughs to me often provide free cycle training every so often). I don't undertake vehicles approaching left turns, or overtake vehicles approaching right turns. I avoid cycling in the 'door zone' and I'm especially careful passing stopped cabs as the doors are invariably opened by passengers without looking. I'll be assertive but not aggressive. I smile at the lemming pedestrians that walk a step or two out into the road before looking. etc.
Yes, that's precisely what I meant. I shouldn't post when I'm tired :)
Android UI Patterns: Bad, outdated UX will be rejected by users
The gulf between homage and derivative work is quite wide. Consider a few examples of famous derivative works: Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, Alice in Wonderland, Apocalypse Now, Muppet Christmas Carol. Right now there are no less than 3 different ongoing adaptations of Sherlock Holmes (the movie series, the BBC series, and CBS's Elementary series).

These are works that would be patently illegal if the source material were not in the public domain. This isn't just about "remix culture", it's about being able to adapt and interpret what's out there, fully and without restriction. Clearly there is value to allowing such artistic freedom once a work has grown sufficiently old. However, today that age has grown quite impractically long. A movie such as War of the Worlds (a 110+ year old book) can be made without seeking a licensing agreement, but movies such as The Hobbit (a 75 year old book), King Kong (79 years), The Chronicles of Narnia (62 years), Casino Royale (59 years), or The Dark Knight Rises (73 years) still require licensing.

And the sad part is that even in the next 20 years when, say, the Superman IP will be pushing 100 years old and Mickey Mouse even older it seems likely that such things will still require licensing.

The fact that the current IP laws have not utterly destroyed creativity or the productivity of creative industries is not a ringing endorsement. The fact is that they are stifling and they have been responsible for creating an industry which is too heavily controlled by a small group.
I've got a Nexus 4 (with the official bumper on it though), dropped it numerous times, bumper has scuffs and dents in it. I'm in Boston, it's cold outside and room temp indoors.

Both front and back glass are still pristine.
For me it is just Delphi with a C like syntax and lots of FP goodness. :)
Also there is the obvious risk of carrying around and taking out a relatively expensive device like a laptop or a tablet. A good location for a dead drop would probably be a good location for a mugger, since neither should be too public.
A cyclist's speed is hard to predict for a driver. I believe that mandatory bicycle headlights - day and night - would help alleviate this problem. The reason being that the cyclist then gets picked up by a driver's peripheral vision, which would help the brain process the change of position (a.k.a. velocity) continuously.
That is from yesterday, and was trying to calm down expectations after the first famous “This data is going to be one for the history books. It’s looking really good.”.
Today, the Director of the JPL (and so also Webster's) is the one saying that what they found are organic molecules. And he said it, by the way, as a way to calm down people, because what he was trying to explain was that it was not biological molecules, only organic ones. Of course, it's still a great deal, but it's not fossils or green little men.
I feel for the little metal tabs that hold the micro-USB connector in, the longer side is scrapey while the shorter side is not.
I have a 4S that slipped from my pant pocket onto a rough concrete floor from sitting height. The rough surface dented the plastic trim, causing the glass to shatter. I believe they went with the plastic trim due to the problems of joining glass and metal. But the plastic trim is the iPhone 4's Achilles' heel.
"just act as if you were a car"

This.
I love the idea that being studied is what happens only to monkeys. Too, the gratuitous sexism and totally unfounded sense of elite entitlement. Yes, ommunist, you are most certainly deserving of study.
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If you are cycling without lights, I would say you shouldn't be cycling at all.
It is a lot safer to cycle in London now than it was say 5 years ago; we don't have the same cycle infrastructure as say Holland, but we have made some good steps in that direction.
Man, I really thought that the OP was using a bit of hyperbole on the Divio proposal, but holy shit - that is the single best presented and thought out proposal I have ever seen. I'm sure they went a bit above and beyond due to the high profile of the site involved, but I'm seriously impressed. What a fantastic reference point for what a design and website proposal should be.
It's not uncommon for a Ruby or JS (i.e. specializing in Backbone) developer to charge $200+ an hour, which fulltime could bring in just north of $30k a month.
Sure, it's not a good indicator of success, but it generally is a good indicator for what kind of people you'll be dealing with and how you will be communicating with them.

Depending on what you want, of course, you should look for different things. I'm not going to make the judgment call on whether a company will be wildly successful - I don't have the background for that. I'll see if they have any chance of surviving and if they do, if it would be a pleasant environment to work in.
This argument should be laughable to anyone with a basic understanding of the time and distance context of a galaxy, let alone universe.

That said, I'd probably enjoy the novel.
Congressman proposes 2-year ban on bills about Internet