skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, but it can still be a good one. Dieter Rahms had a pretty good design trend going for instance. :)

All design is going to feel dated somehow, even though we can't imagine it in the moment, but I think the flat design is going to age very gracefully compared to a lot of the design memes today.
Fmr Meetup employee, for about 2.5 years, several years ago now. On the tech side, but the company is/was small enough that everyone got some voice about how things worked, which was fantastic.(note i say a voice, but not necessarily a vote)

This post reads a lot like "I violated TOS, and got shutdown for it, and now I'm going to complain because that isn't "fair"." WAAAAA.

The person who wrote this post used Meetup in the way Meetup doesn't want it's service to be used. What this person was looking for, was EventBrite, which is a fantastic site also, but geared to the idea of singular events that happen, and then go away. If the poster was trying to create a group of regularly meeting/communicating folks, to foster a true community, then Meetup would have most likely not shut them down. This is a lot different than the Vim London story, which it seems Meetup rectified after gathering better understanding ( seems like someone from community support responded to internal tooling flagging what looked like a violation and didn't understand what Vim was. Honestly, does your company's support people know what Vim is??). Meetup has a right to defend the use of their platform as they see fit, and when they do things like this its not for the one organizer who did the wrong thing, its for the X number of members who are part of groups who Meetup protects like a guard dog.

Meetup's support org is top notch, and they spend day and night watching an ever growing online community. When I was there we dealt with everything from Kiddie Porn Groups, Hate groups, illegal prescription sellers, pushy marketers, SPAMmers from around the world, and people who just generally wanted to abuse the trust that the platform tried to foster. The poster here hasn't posted the contents of what his Meetup group was defined as, nor has he posted the wording of the event. Note event in the singular sense, as opposed to events, or community, which is Meetup's purpose.

How about if you want to fling shit at a great company that serves a large user base with respect and honesty, you do the same before flinging out a "poor me/evil company" post without any basis for proof of your case. I would imagine a "12 year veteran" would get how this should work.
On writing artisanal code
It's not about intelligence IMHO, its about the immediatesuccess oriented culture that pervades modern life. A lot of intelligent people just want to resolve the issue at hand as fast as possible.
I disagree, there is a lot of design that still feels quite modern, especially within furniture (Dieter Ram’s famous shelving system holds up quite well for instance). If you go for a timeless style it’s usually the technology limitations (size for the product for instance) that gives away the design.
Looks clean, do you plan to implement any other client-side validators yourself?

Maybe you can add helpers to generate the HTML elements as well, since HTML5 adds some attributes that allow the browser to validate e.g. email or required.
Very good post. We started using VCR recently in our tests but somehow have avoided this issue. However as we clean up our old tests I'm sure we'll see this; but now I know to avoid it. Great discussion with the VCR dev too.
A clean point-of-interest icon set for web cartography
Well regarding this incident specifically, it seems pretty clear (at least to me) that a group was created specifically to host a conference, which is not allowed. A Meetup Group is supposed to be a community, not just an event. Things like this are really what services like EventBrite are for.
A good solution should also minimise movement, to conserve energy and reduce mechanical wear. And part of the orbit is in darkness - the criteria would be different there (not optimising illumination, but needing to be ready for the return to daylight).
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I suspected this might be the case. I'm in the same course, too, and I had never even heard of SML before it. I thought to myself, what are the odds of this showing up on Hacker News right now?

Many thanks, regardless! I upvoted your thread in the course general discussion, and I hope any other course takers on HN do to. It would be a shame if the non-hn course takers missed out on the thread (https://class.coursera.org/proglang-2012-001/forum/thread?th...).
The problem with Meetup is that there's nowhere to switch! Meetup is enjoying its monopoly position on the market. There's no alternative with the comparable features. I'm not even talking about userbase and discoverability.
I'd be happy to use any alternatives and I hope someone from HN can come up with a better solution.
It would be interesting to see how purportedly "design-conscious" people performed without the immediate feedback and the juxtapositions. Also, since these are logos, aimed at gut feelings, the test should be timed, e.g. you must answer within 1 sec or so.
Do you know philosophers can prove you that can't be a purpose or that just the simple act of asking for one doesn't make sense?
Gravity and cohesion-tension theory.
Or like Stradivarius in classical music. There have been blind tests when a contemporary violin was mistaken for the Strad. Yet classical musicians still covet the Strad - my theory being that it makes people listen with this subconscious effect you've been talking about. Same sound, but if we believe it comes from a Strad, it seems better.
Creativity is usually defined as an ability to apply knowledge accumulated in another fields. So, it is not about how much IQ points you have, but how you use your mind. More different fields mastered - more chances for some creative breakthrough.

Of course, higher IQ is an advantage (think about learning efficiency), everything else being equal. It is like in sports - some people are just more coordinated, less clumsy, so, they are progressing quickly in almost every discipline.
It's also useful if your app requirements trump deployment requirements. You might want a particular app to always require SSL, regardless of how it is deployed.
There is a lawsuit related to the FAST protocol origination. They are certainly aware of this. Best to be explicit.
Building Rich Domain Models in Rails. Separating Persistence.
I usually use validation as an example of why it would be worth to use the same language. It would enable, among other things, to write the validation logic once. I find libraries like this one to be a hack used to get some language to share validation code between client and server.
"[textures and ui effects like shadows and gradients] help you understand behavior from looking at a static screen"

The winner. I wish designers would stop pursuing styles & fads and instead pursue results. Stop worrying what's best for looks or minimalism and start caring about usability and predictability.
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>You're wrong

Well, they certainly weren't communist, in any case. By definition slavery cannot exist in an actual communist society, since such societies are completely classless and the only form of ownership is common.
Isn't it just an specific formulation of Murphy's Law? If something can go wrong it will. And that is not just the golden rule of programming, it's the golden rule of Life!
I used the same rational. Whichever font looked bolder, I choose and got it correct. Also, the Staples Arial version didn't have the "registered" mark so I got that one easily.
restricted or not, as long as there are still 1.5 million kids < 5 years of age dying every year, its still a failure[0]. Sure, things may be getting better, but you have to acknowledge the present for what it is.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/India-tops...
What I'd really like to see in iOS UI in the future would be uniformity in design choices.

Many of Apple's own apps adopt different design styles instead of adopting a single design language. Also, cleaning up "over-designed" skeuomorphic interfaces might help a lot.
Thanks for mentioning Emacs: You made me realize why this hadn't come up in the course notes or material for the Coursera class I'm doing[1]: they explicitly recomment using SML inside Emacs. Unfortunately, I'm a relatively long-time Vim user, and I'm just not comfortable editing in Emacs. So I came to this round-about solution.

[1]: https://class.coursera.org/proglang-2012-001/class/index
I wonder then how Google(web search) or Internet in general is affecting our creativity. It's a great combination of stories and knowledge at our disposal.

And how visiting just one type of websites, like hacker news or reddit can narrow our mental models.
I know nothing about design and typography. I went through the quiz and simply asked myself, "which logo do I like better?".

I got 17/20 correct with that method.
Review of .NET Framework cryptography and symmetric algorithms benchmark
http://byterot.blogspot.com/2013/01/net-framework-cryptography-symmetric-algorithm-performance-benchmark.html
Its ironic that HN is a discussion forum, but plenty of websites are banned by default:

From: Audrey
To: Joe
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: dead account

Hi Joe,

That post was killed because it came from prisonplanet.com, which has been the source of too many inappropriate or off-topic stories in the past.

Cheers,

Audrey

2012/12/27 Joe

my article was killed. why?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4974986
I totally agree with that, however just pulling the plug with no warning is really unprofessional. They could have given them a heads up and some time to figure out a plan. They weren't maliciously using meetup, just using it slightly incorrectly.
The problem is that things like phones and fuel (anything that requires human effort to make or extract) will face an 18% increase in salary costs because everyone expects to take home 18% more each month. So most things will be more expensive -- whether 18% more or not, I don't know.
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I've used KnightCite [1] and it has worked out quite well.

[1] http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/
Sorry, I meant the living expenses of your children, this was related to university costs.
You can use the meetup api to get the data out for the members who have set their details to public.
I do indeed live in Spain. To check I wasn't lying I just looked out of my window and sure enough, there's someone rooting through the rubbish bin looking for food. For "one of the biggest food producers in the world" a lot of people sure are hungry.
As well as Tufte, the video at the end of the post, where Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman talks, is well worth listening to.
What is the difference between the conference that got shut down and this conference: http://nescala.org/?

The difference is that the latter is organized by Meetup employees. A different set of rules if you work there I guess.
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This is such a stupid comment. He didn't just copy the source code, he was sniffing all communications to the team developing for NASA. He killed himself for a completely different hacking incident almost a decade later.

What exactly was your point?
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Should be good now. Just working on a solution for GitHub buttons not supported over SSL.
Microsoft hires designer who presented bold revamp of the company's brand
Graph of the Day: The newest tax bracket has just 500 people in it
Why use iptables instead of ufw?

Also, last I heard chroot is not secure for sandboxing, so why bother with it at all? I'd use cgroups or even lxc containers (those are pretty well supported in the latest ubuntu).
can you tell a green field..
If you know what you're looking for, the test is fairly easy. It get's tricky in case of ALL CAPPS that don't include the letter 'R'. I got MATTEL wrong.
> But a simple 2-strike rule is worthless.

If paid service unrestorably deletes data without first getting in touch with client, it is worthless, as you should have moved away first time it happened.
Certainly. Just by looking at his website you wouldn't even tell that he had a mental illness.
Although, annoyingly, data: URIs are your only option in Safari (including the latest version), and they also happen to crash the PDF viewer. Safari does have createObjectURL, but then doesn't understand the URL it creates!

Just as annoyingly, IE10 has createObjectURL too, but only allows the created URLs to be used for <img>, <audio> and <video>. To save a blob, you have to use something ms-prefixed instead, and this doesn't allow inline PDF viewing.
And why a chroot instead of just a dedicated user? If they can get root, it's game over anyway, isn't it?
People can't reach out to you unless you are part of a group or via a direct "friend" relationship. Sounds like you joined a group that has someone spamming the rest of the members. Meetup themselves won't spam you like that unless you ask to be told when new groups are formed around certain topics (at least it used to be this way )
The "leather" on iCal, FMF is distracting and should be eliminated.

An user-selectable UI stylesheet similar Pixate and Teacup for RubyMotion would allow the user to select a view most comfortable for them: be it plain or fancy, retro or modern, or even accessibility-enabled.
There is an export feature, which I just did as a backup for my groups:

Add: 'members/?op=csv' to your group root, and you should get a CSV dump of your members (most of what's worth backing up):

meetup.com/YourCoolMeetup/members/?op=csv
I'd also recommend using http://www.modsecurity.org/ with nginx/apache.
Given what I know of the site, it's absolutely appropriate for it to be autokilled. (It's a pretty well-known right-wing conspiracy-theory site.) If the subject of the article is significant, there will be better articles about it on other sites which you can submit instead.
>"I can confirm the mac address is sent in the clear"

Forgive me if I'm missing something about TCP/IP, but why does that matter? Couldn't a man in the middle get your mac address anyway?

If not, I don't see this as such a flaw. I think they must have meant that they store it as a hash in the database. That way your data in their db is not linked to your true self/computer.
This is why I use Node/Express now; I use the same validation code client/server and where the client code, if required, uses socket.io for things which would normally only work on the server (validations using the db for instance).
You could easily bring the space requirements down by storing hash chains instead of a lookup table, while still only taking minutes to reverse a given hash.
I think Jamie Smyth should get over himself. I understand his point about it not being particularly fair to the developers, but guess what? It's a free market and if developers choose to spend their time working for free for Campbells then that is their business. All of his self-righteous posturing about developers "having the most sought-after skills in America" comes off as very oddly paternal. We're all adults and we can all make our own decisions about how we choose to spend our time. Nobody tricked or forced those developers to work for free.
I believe this is less biological than you think it is. You're attracted to slim women because there are a truckload of cultural artifacts celebrating slim women. If you were born 500 years ago, or in a different part of the world today, you may very well be attracted to curvy women.

And this is even more true for race - there may very well be people who are biologically wired to dislike certain skin colors, but IMO they are well into the minority. Race in dating has much more to do with cultural perceptions of race than any evolutionarily hard-wired perception.

In any case though:

> " it's just that I find the skinny ones more attractive, without any rational reason for it."

Which makes you, I guess the word would be... weightist?

The whole point of my post isn't to point at people and go "you monster! you won't date black people!", it's to point out that even subconsciously influenced racism is racism, and the net effect for the target individual is the same, regardless of if you're "simply like that without rational reason" or if you actively and consciously dislike them.

The fact that we've been programmed by culture and circumstance to discriminate against a certain group doesn't make it our fault, but it is still discrimination at the end of the day.
Your points about creativity aren't incompatible with the blog's points. In fact, I'd say your points elaborate the framework defined by the author. The blog defined creativity as applying mental models and combining one's past experiences randomly to discover new connections. Your points about playfulness and curiosity fall right into this framework. One who is more inquisitive will have more experiences, and spent more time analyzing these experiences. Playfulness comes with being more prone to making random connections between disparate experiences and trying to find some underlying patterns. I think this does a good job at getting to the the essence of creativity.
Of course that was an exaggeration, a tool to simply drive the point home. It would be impossible to actually do what I suggested.

The point, which for some reason you are not willing to concede, is that if you are going to claim that you solved a problem with x lines of programming language z the line count needs to be real. You can't use something like a library with 10,000 lines of C++ code to then claim that you solved a problem with two lines of Python (or whatever):

import huge_code_base
print huge_code_base.solve()

It really is that simple. If you don't see it this way, well, that's fine. Let's leave it be.
Fun short game. Enjoyed it!

I got 19/20. Messed up on "STAPLES" because I got over-confident and started selecting too quickly by the end.

The easiest way to distinguish the two, in my opinion, is that Helvetica uses horizontal cuts to letter strokes. So I should have seen that the capital 'S' in STAPLES had slightly off-axis cuts in my selection. Perhaps what tricked me is that the STAPLES logo itself is off-axis.
just like Google requires a lot of informations(including source code) when applying for AdWords API
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"that's a really nice 'Star Trek' engine article, you should submit it. I'll upvote it."

A pointer to another possible reason that your submissions are killed.
Sickening and unreal... I wish there was something we could do...
Almost the entirety of this post comes from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. Good read though and good summary!
You can try Google Plus events: http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/events/

Far more customizable, better discoverability than EventBrite, but customer service as bad as Meetup's. :)
One service that I like from this site is the shorter thesaurus [0]. You enter a long word and receive shorter synonyms.

[0] http://www.ironicsans.com/thsrs/
Yes - if you watch non-techie people use tech, often the biggest obstacle is just starting to use the thing. Then when they do, their persistent fear clouds their ability to learn/use the thing well. This makes me think that approachability is one of the biggest problems to overcome in UI.
I don't think I'm a genius, I just think there's a lot of talentless and stupid folks everywhere. And I adore smart talented people, they are such a relief for me, but unfortunately there are not so many of them.

No, actually, I think I am a genius. Is it bad?
> logically unsound things about this case such as ... he didn't commit any crimes

Please consider the notion of civil protest. After all, this great country started by throwing the English tea overboard. To defend this view I would like to say that:

1. he was not personally profiting from the act

2. he was doing it for the betterment of society

Illegal things are sometimes morally right, and legal things morally wrong. We need to raise above the laws when they don't fit reality any more.
MLK's "I have a Dream" speech taken down due to copyright violation
I knew about rlwrap, but hadn't bothered to learn anything in depth. Thanks, keywords are a great feature that I wouldn't have known without this.
It seems that Meetup.com has a major UX issue, as it may not be easy for new users to figure that their service is meant to be used by groups that meet recurrently, and not by groups that may meet just once.

Having said that, I've been using Meetup.com for over four years now and I can only say but great things about the service. I used it to create the two largest meetups in Bogota: BogoTech http://www.meetup.com/bogotech/ and BogoDev http://www.bogodev.org/
I usually use both for anything public facing. Server side is for security, client side is for UX. keeping it dry is a problem, obviously, but you don't always want the same validations server- and client-side.
Fmr employee as well. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess you've never been involved in running/managing a huge online community(ies) with in person social interactions as the primary goal. I might be wrong, so apologies ahead of time if so.

Anywho -

It actually isn't unprofessional when the goal is to protect the members from some organizer who might be malicious in nature. There are a lot of rules and guidance around how organizers should do things, and Support's main goal is making sure the general members of Meetup aren't preyed upon. You're idea of giving a heads up, what are the parameters around before action is taken? 24 hours? 48 hours? A week? What if this post went "i was on vacation for a week so didn't read the email, and they deleted my group, how could they!!". It wouldn't matter. TOS are TOS.

If this person was malicious how much negative should the community accept? In that time how much spamming of a product the creator is trying to sell happening? How much misleading around the member base is there?
You need to deal with these things as quick as possible, and the TOS exists to give people the framework of usage. A violation of a TOS(on any site) is just that, and it needs to be dealt with equally across violations. Support can and will make mistakes. That's human nature. THis isn't one of those. The poster in this case was even told they could re-create the group because at this point the old one is considered poisoned, and not to be trusted. Given Meetup has been doing this for over 10 years now, I'd like to think they have these policies pretty well grounded in reality and experience.
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That's good someone is still interested in low-level tinkering! There will always be problems than cannot be solved within the limitations of a framework or SDK. And the more entrenched in this new "high level" "wire-together" paradigm people like myself are, the more daunting low-level system exploration is. IMO, this means fewer developers will be willing to try it, ensuring demand will continue for the work you are interested in.
From the official rules and regulations:
"A Competitor is not eligible for this Competition if he/she is a resident of the Quebec province of Canada, [...]"

Quebeck is apparently excluded because of legal reasons. More details: http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/08/why-many-contes...
I think your description of "literalness" relates well to "geometric" typefaces (typefaces constructed on simple geometric shapes).
Is there any straightforward guide to getting started with mod_security?

I installed it on a box with some ruleset and it seems to basically block everything. The configuration format also seems far from simple.