skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't recall the last time I saw an IGN story here, and I visit this site a few times a day.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? Pehaps you could reference these guys on your site as evidence of love for your design chops :)

Incidently - did you check whether these are individul copies or multiple clones by one person/organisation?

Anyway, if assets are being hotlinked you could have some fun...
It is apparently due to sites embedding Netseer ads: https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=netseer
wow, some of those copies were just blantant. Is there a way to embed a specific string in the website (either through html or css) so later you can somehow google search anyone is copying you?
If they are not, market theory would predict that they would be replaced by entities that are.
Ah, but was the first form username or email? You have to unfocus the input to check.
Agreed. Regexes are already confusing. Adding unnecessary escaping just makes them worse. And if you have [\.] was the intent to escape the dot or match a slash? It's confusing.
It's over 8M sessions, but some variations mentioned in the article require less. I don't see why that's unlikely given system speeds and high bandwidth connections.
SOOJS - A Simple Object Pattern for JavaScript
Maybe, but why not just start with Clang?
I don't buy into the utopian ideals. I offer plenty of work up as OSS, but when someone chooses not to, I respect that as well.
No a lot of stuff broke because people depended on implicit rather than being explicit.

#!/bin/bash
> That grammar rule is BS.

Since language isn't science, and since dictionaries are only meant to describe how people use words, not tell people how to use words, that claim could be made about any grammar rule or word definition or spelling, with some degree of justice.

The counterargument is that clear communications is helped along by adopting common conventions for word usage.

And the linked article only points out that there are ambiguous cases where less or fewer are equally appropriate, not that the rule has no merit.
...and diagnosing the right problem is really hard. Then coming up with the "right"/"better" solution is even harder. Lastly, chances are it was a combination of reasons, and you had to fix more than a few to keep the kite going.
I think the goal should be clarity, not conservation of characters. And I think the escaped dot is clearer (the author's intent is obviously to include a dot in the range).

I do think it's funny that you said "There isn't and shouldn't be any hard fast rule for this" and then one comment later said my approach is "wrong" :) (EDIT: oops, that wasn't you -- Sorry!)
I've had the pleasure of spending some time in (literally) and around a much smaller glacier. My wife and I spent about a week ice climbing on the Lower Coleman Glacier in Washington.

We also had the pleasure of hearing and witnessing a huge icefall off one of the faces of Mt. Baker. Imagine the loudest thunder you've ever heard, rolling continually for about 5 minutes.

I can only imagine what a fall of this magnitude sounded like in person. One might believe that the earth was splitting in half.
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Why is HN driving traffic to a vaccine scare site? http://www.collective-evolution.com/category/health/
uWSGI is capable of serving PHP, mind.
I don't see a reason to build a Windows-only game. That's why I don't. =) I have an OpenGL/OpenGL ES stack that deploys comfortably to Windows, OS X; eventually I'll expand it to iOS (easy), Android (somewhat tricky), and probably Linux (easy).

I said the exact same thing as you are before getting back into native development. "Why should I manage memory myself? Ew!" It was one of the biggest reasons I avoided C++, and I say that knowing C (albeit having left it unused for about six or seven years). Eventually I bit the bullet and jumped back in, and to my utter surprise found it completely easy. C++ is boilerplatey on its best day, but most of the hard problems are solved problems. Like, if you want to treat it like Java or C# (which I've spent much, much more time with), fling boost::shared_ptrs around. If you don't, spend a couple seconds thinking about what you're doing. It really is a non-factor once you get into the swing of things, and while I'm a pretty competent programmer I only started writing real C++ about three months ago and I no longer spend any significant time thinking about it.

C++ gives you sufficient advantages in terms of portability and performance that, if you're writing a game from scratch, you probably want to be using it. If you don't want to be writing C++, you probably want to be using Unity or another engine that bakes in the hard parts (with a corresponding loss of flexibility).
What country are you in? I'm talking about UK support, so you might have better luck in another country.
Make a premium WordPress theme based on this design, slap a price on it, and distribute through WordPress theme sites thereby creating an additional income stream for your company. I'm in Miami and I'd be happy to help.
You've obviously never had an amateur developer run smack-into open_basedir issues before. The application basically gets a 404 error when including dependencies, until they look for open_basedir configuration. A developer really needs to know when open_basedir has restricted an include, because the error is really vague.

And shared hosts don't generally allow files outside the webroot of a site. When they do, they might already have open_basedir set to only allow inclusion WITHIN the webroot.

Most packages like Wordpress are developed to run on the maximum number of servers. It isn't built to run on the best, or smartest configured ones—but the average, out-of-the-box Apache/PHP install.
At $35, the oil change is already a loss leader. And it also fails to get people in the door, due to how car companies these days include maintenance for the first 3 years into the warranty.

I plan on pressuring shops to lower their prices (and increase their quality) by posting the best deal in every major city in the US.

Are you a mechanic yourself?
How would you set the market value of a physical copy of a digital good?

Music CDs are sold for roughly $10-$20 USD. The actual cost of making the physical CD is around $1. People seem much more agreeable to accept a $9-$19 markup on a physical CD than on a digital album, which costs $0 to copy but ostensibly has the same cost to produce otherwise.
It can be done right.

* Use label tags in the initial render, JavaScript them into placeholders.
* Do not remove the placeholder until the user has both focused and started typing.
* Try and animate the placeholder to a safe location rather than removing it.
* Restore the placeholder if the user pauses after removing their input.

Personally, I favour example input in my inputs (as the author suggests) rather than embedded placeholders. Still, I can understand the assault on clutter from many designers, and I don't think the technique is so much bad as open to crappy implementations.
>> If you think Sheldon is autistic, then you have never met an autistic person.

>> When you argue that Sheldon is a “totally accurate portrayal of someone on the autistic spectrum,” then you have broadened the definition of autism to the point where you have rendered the word meaningless.

No true Scotsman much? The arrogance to accuse people of mis-labeling while seeming to have such ignorance of the realities of the autistic spectrum left me slightly gobsmacked.
>You just don't like the implications of the facts.

I am not sure you are willing to be acquainted with the facts, regardless of how they are presented or who presents them.

I don't think you are close enough to the facts of the situation to speak with such resounding authority about them.
Not to mention the conspiracy theorist positing that it might have been a woman posting the fake porn pictures. The mental gymnastics some people will perform to avoid facing the obvious truth are amazing. How can we solve a problem we don't all admit exists?
The Jews figure God does not exists because of the Holocaust. The other answer would be that God punished them and they don't like that, so all Jews are atheists.

The atheist think this ends like Christ.

I'll tell you how this ends -- Elijah, mother fuckers!!! be afraid!!

God says...
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It's not. You can transition to DirectX in a couple of weekends. You can transition to OpenGL (which I would call a better move) in a week or two.

The principles are all the same, everywhere you go. The names change and the exact implementation details differ, but it's the same stuff with a different hat.
If designing new crypto stuff, use a mode like GCM (Galois Counter Mode) or EAX. Avoid the old non-authenticated modes.
Totally. It made me think this was "fake" and a trailer for "monsters in the ice" or something movie, until, there was just more ice.
>superficial, narcissistic plebeians

Humans avoiding discomfort! In their entertainment?! How dare they? Who do they think they are?!

HN contrarianism at its finest, people.
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Based on what data can you "directly say that the risk of getting sexually assaulted is minimum 20x larger at the 5% conference than the 50%"?
It's reveal.js and yes, confusing.

Don't think too much, just hit 'Space' and it will guide you correctly through the slides.

Altough even the guided tour feels spatially incorrect...
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The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It
Would also note that if php for some reason is turned off the server will send the actual config file wp-config.php as well as well as all those other files that are mentioned by the OP.
They took the exact opposite course during the financial crisis and experts from the IMF and other Nobel laureates have credited that for their remarkable recovery. As our economy continues to flounder, I don't buy that this is something everyone should not at least be aware of.
You provided the links to those websites, and added that you're not sure how to proceed.

From your post, I get the impression that you have not yet spoken to those companies about it.

That would be a good start.
The MacOSX war of text editors
Trouble is - web site design is very fashion oriented. You can tell a 2011 site from a 2012 site. I find a lot of sites are very similar and put it down to a common fashion more often than copying. Font selection, icon colours and general layout is bound to "cluster" around a limited range of values at the leading edge. Look at the "please review our start-up" requests here on HN - most of those web sites pretty near interchangeable.

Having said all of that - copying is a no-no - taking inspiration from others - well that would be normal.
Good point about the screen reader. I've never considered it before. Thanks.

Personally i dont like using labels and instead use placeholders with tooltips in my forms. But now i might have to reconsider that approach.
Major citation needed. 40 isn't some magical number, it's completely arbitrary. I've never seen a study that found a global optimal number for programming hours per week but if it somehow came out to be 40... that would be a coincidence of galactic proportions.
Agreed - this is not HP's responsibility.
I let candidate ask me questions. If can't remember it either, I'll just allow the assumption that a method exists, as long as I know what it's doing (and it's not abstracting away anything core to the question I'm asking). In the same vein, I also explicitly allow pseudocode.
For a coupon service the site is not structure correctly. Its too busy and has too many options. Ideally, you only have what people need to search for coupons on the landing page and then add in content on the results pages.

How do you plan to make money with this?
1. You can use Lua with MOAI.
2. You can use HTML5 and JavaScript ...
3. Monogame.

...
> Jailbreaking is still legal.

Not any more:

http://investorplace.com/2013/01/jailbreaking-your-phone-wil...

Quote: "‘Jailbreaking’ Your Phone Will Be Illegal After Jan. 26 ... Wireless carriers will now have to give permission"
The problem here wasn't the premise really. I mean from a premise standpoint (when it launched) Twitter seemed pretty silly. They got over it by simply adapting from status updates to brain dumps and then it really took off.

The problem here was planning.

No one seems to have sat down there and thought it through with: What are we doing? How do we do it? Do we have the means? Do we have the capability? Are we going about this the right way?

"The landing page didn’t work in IE. It was buggy." Did no one open up the page in IE before launch? See what I mean about planning. It's unfortunate because these guys seemed to have cared about their product.

...chef Anthony Bourdain, who wrote our epitaph in Kitchen Confidential: "The most dangerous species of owner ... is the one who gets into the business for love."

I lifted that from the end of this page:
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/a_fine_whine/2005/12/bitt...

In a way, that too is an example of poor planning.
Why are the keywords written with a quote?

> (keywords '(useless microframework academic swag))

Shouldn't it be a list with strings or something? What if the keywords were complex structures not just strings?
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I added collision detection to the models that google earth lets you add to 3d environment. To do this I pull in the collada.dae file and then parse it with a GLGE javascript library and get the 8 bounding box points for both objects and then I track these in 3d space and use these bounding box to detect collision detection. There is even an animated explosion. Check it out and let me know what you think!
You could use several alternatives.

http://help.blekko.com/index.php/does-blekko-have-an-api/

http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/

https://duckduckgo.com/api (basically bing api but free)
+1 on this. I came here to say that this seems like an awesome opportunity to sell what seems to be quite the hit.

That people are taking the risk of illegally copying it and being publicly shamed speaks volumes for the desirability of your design.
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Meh. Still sounds like an absolute bargain for a government project which always entails tons of overhead starting with a complex and time consuming procurement process, project management, auditing, vacations, management changes, political spin doctoring, competing priorities, etc etc.

And then it's military on top of that, which means ruggedized equipment, security and lots of field testing.
I saw this over-engineering coming in the transition from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, and as such I held my company on Drupal 6. Drupal 6 is a significantly slimmed down environment, which can be used like a scaffold to build custom apps. There is not a hell of a lot there, so the complexity is minimized. But it's still not testable, and still pretty opaque for debugging purposes. I'm moving off Drupal, to the "Doh" framework that hosts other frameworks, and you define the interface you want to the "other" frameworks, forcing the logic pattern you want to use upon frameworks that may not support it.
I always feel like its a flash website at first :P

But yeah, I didn't realize either so many just flat out copy website designs. I guess this is a pretty common thing now :(
While it is generally a good idea to write readable code, it is also true that long flags are not universally supported, and the short flags don't always have the same meanings (or even exist!) across different systems.

This is an interesting conundrum. As has been pointed out, POSIX specifies standard options (which are all short):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5165058

But these are not universally supported:

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ps

What to do? My proposal: do what we do in the C/C++ world when presented with portability problems: abstract it away. POSIX sh supports functions, which can be named appropriately for readability, while calling the proper arguments and commands for different platforms. To avoid unnecessary duplication of platform/argument detection, setup could be done in a function called before anything else to create variables with the appropriate command names and arguments.

This may all seem too involved, but realize that we are talking about creating robust software that is to be maintained, so applying proper software engineering principles seems appropriate.
For glob's sake, I wish people would stop saying "I'm not sexist BUT..." or "I'm not racist BUT..." or "I'm not a homophobe BUT..."

Because:

A) You're setting yourself up for failure.

B) Show, don't tell.

but most importantly C) it's hardly ever useful to denote any one person as racist or sexist or whatever. It's thoughts and ideas and biases which are much more usefully labeled so.

So, great, you are not sexist: you do not willfully do women ill. But do your ideas and unconscious actions support that intention? I would start by reflecting on the need to say "key word: equal", as though there are some politically significant number of people wishing for something beyond that.
Exactly. It's a really nice layout, but honestly -- should the essence here (full page photo, small menu at top right, logo at top left, Title/quote in middle with "more info" button) really be "protectable" IP? I just don't see it, sorry.

That doesn't make those designers (or probably just one) honorable or talented or honest. But they have the right to clone layouts too.
This is very bad advice. I won't thank you for making me check GNU grep's --ignore-case is precisely the same as the very well-known, POSIX'd, -i. And ditto for all the other verbiage that clutter and obfuscate the script's intent.

Short options should be used where they're the more typically known and standardised. Long options are for the unusual.

grep -iv
sed -n
tr -dc
awk -f
ls -tr
comm -23
tail -n
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Even if it were true that the bully didn't care about the sex of the victim per se, and only attacked her because of her popularity, the nature of what was done is still sexist.

If I were to bash a competitor in public by reference to his homosexuality, it won't make anything better to know that I actually don't have any problem with gay people myself. It's unacceptable and downright evil.
Finally! A .co site that isn't abusing the Colombian TLD for some stupid naming gimmick.
Totally agree here. Give them a legal way to 'copy' it and you'll make some money on it. Maybe even make the copyable version easier to install and look slightly different.
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Just noticed - based on the IP lookups 3 of these websites are located in Houston. Coincidence?
Go deeper into both the original site and the competitors; they didn't just steal the front page.
The propeller site I'd consider flattering imitation, at least they are in a totally different lob :)

For the other guys, talk to a lawyer or just someone who knows "legalese" well enough to formulate a serious sounding email complaining about copyright infringement and threatening with a lawsuit. And have someone with a title of "copyright lawyer" or "IP legal consultant"or anything along the lines co-sign that email. They will shit their pants and change their design (they probably hired a freelancer that copied your work...). Unless they're based in a place forsaken by the IP gods, like China or Russia, then it might get too complicated to be worth the effort on your side...
+1 for having some fun.
So we should tax away Thiel's money so instead of Space X we get... more ethanol subsidies? Or we should tax away Cameron's money so instead of asteroid mining we get higher pensions for government union workers?

What kind of world do you live in that allows you this kind of democratic idealism?

As our population gets older, the priorities of our democracies will reflect that. More and more government spending will go towards risk-averse projects - mostly medical subsidy. The only truly radical innovation will come from eccentric billionaires.
Except TBBT is not funny.
I wish I could just figure out what content is actually on this thing and skip to the parts that are interesting. Just because people can reveal.js doesn't mean they should. ugh
Haha, the smacontech guys even include a javascript file with your site's name on it:

line 173:
<script src="./smacontech_files/ideaware.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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He's not 18 years old. He's a college student in his early 20s. Although, he has been pulling off some pretty impressive work since he was a teenager.
Brooks laid out a method as close to assembly line programming as he could, so yes, number of hours you mindlessly follow a formula would affect output. But no one programs like that now and I doubt they ever did. What we do now is closer to writing stories. How many writers do you know who spend a constant 40 hours per week writing for weeks on end?
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I don't see as much in the way of docs/tutorials/samples for monogame as much as I do for XNA.

Are the two interchangeable enough that you can just straight up use XNA things?
Reading other people's code [webcomic]
HN told me it's been already submitted a year ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3527339) but under the original title. I thought to give it a second try :)
> Not exactly citation.

True, but I wasn't making a quantitative claim about behavior, only saying that it existed as a factor. And I have a self-referential problem with the source:

"With the purchase of a Premium Account figures, numbers, and downloads may be accessed."

Somewhat funny, actually. :)
> The same is not the case with something like XNA which is so tied into the OS that when they drop it, you're up shit creek.

While you can't fork XNA and support it, it's not even remotely tied to the OS. It's a content pipeline and a thin wrapper around DirectX's various components. There's really nothing magical there, and certainly no low-level pieces.
That's what I was thinking.

1) What if someone took their design, created a template of it, and sold it on a number of website template sites - and these companies were none-the-wiser.

2) Was the design created in-house, or did they hire a designer? Some designers claim the design was all of their own doing, but it was quite obvious they "borrowed" from a template site first.
Except that that's not at all true. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/pro-gun-myths-fa...