skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're an aspiring iOS dev/designer and any of this sounds new, you should read Apple's human interface guidelines: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/ipad/#documentation/U...
Well they might opt for something simple and classy, or perhaps something a little more ostentatious depending on their personality. But one thing is for sure, gay people getting married have much bigger balls than all these heteroconformist "men" that would buy an expensive rock they don't even want for a woman they clearly pedestal.
We all had a story or something that motivated us to register and comment.

I've heard everything he's said before from other people in trauma medicine. (but there are also people who will stick up for the Quickclot type stuff!) It's not my field and I'm not in a position to judge. I will say that I share his view that the article reads like something written by a PR flack.
He said in fact just the opposite. Not that he was great, but (most) other game designers suck.

He also listed exactly what he considers is needed to not suck, and why it's lacking in most of industry. No "special mojo".

Did you even read the article?
I noticed that too, they are also missing a sitemap.xml
>It's really easy to come up with a game worth playing. Cloning is incredibly easy.

What a silly thing to say -- if you clone a game, you haven't "come up" with it.

Pretty much everything you say is important if you want to market a game to people, or you want people to enjoy it. But game design is something separate from that -- much like writing the script for a movie is separate from actually producing it. It just happens that scripts are protected by copyright law, while game design isn't.
The ship was at sea for three weeks. I doubt that Bezos was.
Show HN: Weekend(s) project, job board focused on non-engineering roles
Hi All. I've been learning to program in Python / Django for the past few months and finally built something made it all the way to resembling a functioning website. It's simple, but figured it would help out those looking for non-engineering startup jobs. Would really appreciate any feedback, thank you!
It depends the most on what kind of 'anything else' you avoid: ephemera or human capital. Getting better at telling them apart is one 'anything else' worth learning.
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There's a huge difference between a commercial success and a design success. The market rewards quality if and only if all other things are equal. It's extremely telling that you think of games only as computerized artifacts and thus couldn't tell me what makes, say, Cosmic Encounter or Cards Against Humanity compelling.

I've spent about a third of my life going back and forth with game designer wannabes and game designers alike, and I think you'd be surprised at how many will recognize the merits of a game where the experience was wooden but the actual mechanics were transparently high quality despite that. Math problems are quite fun, if they're actual problems, and not contrived riddles that pretend to teach math.

You want mass appeal, then yes. You do have to have a high production budget. Or you just put on Doctor Who.
getting 404 on that file.
The Science of Estimating
http://digg.com/robots.txt <-- 404 Not Found

I know a robots.txt 404 shouldn't de-list you, but I would have expected digg to have one?

Maybe they requested de-listing and removed their robots.txt? Who knows!
I don't understand the point of what he's proposing. Rewriting WordPress as completely as he wants and breaking all existing plugins and themes would surely just result in someone forking the existing code and maintaining a backwards-compatible version.

The ecosystem is the valuable thing, and they'd be insane to throw that away. All the problems he notes are basically just a result of WordPress growing and changing over the decade it's been around, and/or direct results of having originally been written in PHP 4.

Gradual refactoring, as you say, makes more sense. Otherwise you might as well just build an entirely new system from scratch.
This is really nice, but I just can't get too excited over web apps. Whether it's not having direct access to my source files, relying on the service to stay up (either from server or business issues), working when offline, not having access to OS-level services, the clunkiness and slowness compared to native, or the cognitive overhead of the app being inside another app, I think I'll always prefer desktop apps.
I always wondered if back in the days of typewriters there was a similar conversation going as there's today about keyboards.

Where there the IBM, Apple 2, Das keyboard fans?
Does anyone else see some of this as really similar to old 2600 or phracks? It's probably just the printing technology.
Barring kernel bugs, it should prevent against the mentioned resource monopolization issues. Normal virtualization is pretty resource wasteful, especially if the guests are not hypervisor aware.

Getting away from huge per-VM block devices is a step in the right direction.
The article is down, but here is the text from Google's cache:

--snip--

Something interesting has just come across one of my networks (hat tip to datadial), just a few days after Digg have announced that they are building a replacement for the much loved Google Reader, they have (coincidentally?) disappeared from the primary google index.

[image unavailable]

Is it an SEO penalty for links? That seems to be the number one reason that brands are getting booted from google’s index these days… Some conspiracy theorists will no doubt be proclaiming its something to do with their announcement to build a replica of the now defunct Google reader, but personally I really cant see that having any effect. Could there?

Doing a site: search for Digg certainly demonstrates that they are no longer in the index:

[image unavailable]

Its likely (only if it is link based however) that it would be down to what individuals who submit content do after the fact – ie. sending spammy links at their posts to try and build the pagerank, and create “authority” which they then pass back to their own sites. Digg has long been listed in every “linkwheel” sellers handbook, and if that is the reason then what does it mean for every community site on the internet?

Will we have to manually aprove all new links soon at this rate? Come on Google – WTF – let the internet know what you’re doing please.

--end snip--

Without the images, maybe I am missing some context. But it seems hyperbolic, considering digg is not serving a robots.txt anymore [1]. It is probably just a blunder on Digg's part.

[1]: At the time of my comment, digg was serving an xhtml document with status 404 at /robots.txt. Now it appears to be a valid robots file.

PS: I am enjoying the irony of having a copy of the article, even though the site is down, because of Google's cache. Need to pontificate about how Google is potentially evil but can't keep your server running? Don't worry, people can read it via Google's cache.
MIT announces release of Aaron Swartz prosecution documents
Well, they learned their lesson. Microsoft is now a prolific spender on DC lobbying. In the tech world, they are matched only by Google.

Bill Gates used to be a Congressional page, and his father was a lawyer. So I'm surprised he had such a naive viewpoint of the justice system. He ought to have known that it was more political than that.

The irony is that Bill Gates, a staunch Democrat, was hounded by the Clinton DOJ. It ended up being the Bush administration that rescued his company by terminating the lawsuit and signing that consent decree.
Same for google.com
The basic criteria for getting a job at the NSA is public knowledge (https://www.nsa.gov/careers/jobs_search_apply/hirerequire.sh...):

The background investigation helps determine the applicant's honesty, trustworthiness, reliability, discretion, and unquestioned loyalty to the United States.
It's possible (though not necessarily likely) that they finally got banned for their toolbar, which is basically designed to scam Google.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity?
Google has rules concerning SEO. A warning for the rest of us not to try to cheat our way to a better ranking.
Well done, sir. Even so, I think once a user is shown a cert warning it becomes their problem, not the site owner's(in the sense of who's responsible that is). When it comes to security, everyone has their part to play.
We create a lot of digital goods so we should convince other countries that they are extremely valuable and must be made exclusive?

If I was a country who provided mostly goods and services I don't think I would be so easily convinced.
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"I’m not going to list all the things that make WP at odds with best practises, but here are the brass tacks"

There is a strange paradox that an infatuation with best practices seldom yields a successful product...because it seldom yields a product at all. And those products that do scratch itches and grow and evolve tend to have widely criticized code bases.

Wikipedia, Wordpress, Firefox, mySQL, Linux...there isn't a successful major open source product that doesn't have legions of code purists telling everyone why they're in dire condition and if only....

Not trying to be cynical, but it is odd how often these sorts of posts appear, always under the pretense that something must be done now or everything is going to fail.
I would love to have an open-source, Python based, CMS. Even better, one I could install on a GoDaddy domain, as easy as I can install Wordpress.

To me, that is the biggest reason Wordpress is the best, except for all others.
thanks. life is not so bad here - i have ms and it turns out that it's probably manageable (as is most, these days, awesomely, thanks to drugs developed in the 90s, with a whole pile more going through fda approval now). and i am in the somewhat incongruous position of complaining about symptoms that mean my nerves are actually healing themselves :o)
Here's a suggestion,

If we can't get WordPress to change, why not fork it and build a "developer" friendly version while maintaining compatibility with subsequent iterations of WordPress?

Frankly, I find the people who run the WP development community to be insufferable (Matt included). If you've ever read their discussions for code changes, it just makes you want to pull your hair out. Their pedantic in fighting rivals Wikipedia.
Do you mind telling us about the stack? It's a pretty impressive UI. Feels very native.
I don't think trek called anyone ungrateful. He's just tired. Also he already is working on a new getting started page. A few days ago he posted to the forum outlining his plan and asking for feedback. http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/todomvc-based-getting-started-g...
Content is not just culture, it is also entertainment. Indeed, the kind of content that is protected by DRM is mostly entertainment, and not very much culture. There is no reason entertainment should be free nor is there really a positive social value in making it free. What is the positive externality to society from some kid being able to listen to the latest Nickelback album or play the latest Gears of War game for free? Because handwaving about "culture" aside, that's what we're really talking about here.
EU still unhappy with Apple over silence on two-year warranty
SpaceX’s Merlin 1D engine achieves flight qualification
The Expectation of 100 Percent
It is. http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/todomvc-based-getting-started-g...
It's too soon to jump to conclusions here, but if there is anything to the speculation that this happened because they are going to replace Google Reader, then the Empire has clearly begun its move to Evil.

EDIT: at this time, the news isn't on Digg http://digg.com/

17:33 UTC
I'm pretty sure getting 404 from robots.txt will not get you nuked from Google :)
what reason would they have for this?
> For some reason, testing graduates a lot of designers.

I have been wondering for a while how transparently bad game designers must be to produce well... a lot of what we see. This actually explains a lot.

Testers are not designers. :( Testers can be wonderful user advocates, if they make that effort, but... designers they are not. If anything, they're antithetical to design at their best.
These errors (and this frustrating process) are not at all unusual for Javascript libraries. Though I'm sure they could do some things better, I am afraid ember is taking a little bit of flak for the state of front end development, here.
WebRTC Video Chat Demo between Nexus Tablet and MacBook Air
A crowdsourced android app to map every power socket in every airport worldwide
I don't understand how this comment is relevant to this post, and I'm a little sad it's currently the top comment in this thread.
The New Firebase iOS SDK
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408087
Ontario to Provide $50 Million for New Venture Capital Fund
Not trying to troll, but how many times has Voyager left the solar system now? Do we even have a clear boundary of where the solar system ends?

edited for clarity.
What he's done lately is launch a kickstarter for a new game, this is just marketing.

Or in less polite terms, bullshit hype from a man who needed to come back to Earth long long before he went into fucking space.
I'm not entirely sure that I understand what this does. Is it some sort of hybrid between provisioning automation and deployment automation?
CM has an option now to encrypt your whole storage?

Does that not help?
> I went to print the document and it didn't work

Some things never change.
I submitted this yesterday, but linked to the home page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5396626
At the AAA game studios I have been an engineer at, the core/systems/lead designers have all been very familiar with game history, are avid gamers across genres, and always have, for any idea, examples of how that idea has been done in other games or that it has been promised in upcoming game X, etc.. The junior designers I've worked with have lacked that skill, which is probably why they are mostly just a cog in the content pipeline. Much as there's a difference between a real engineer who can build up systems and an enterprise UI programmer, there's a difference between content "designers" and systems designers.

Hands down, though, the best systems designers I've worked with have had programming backgrounds.
Why are the backbone.js controllers called 'views' and the views called 'templates'?
A UAV idea and hours of planning become reality
Defense Contractor Compromised Nuclear Secrets to Chinese in 'Honey Trap'
How Much Money Does It Take to Like Windows Phone?
Have a look at django-cms.org

The "automagical installation" is something that can be done, but it's up to the provider to do it. A Python website (as well as for Ruby) ain't a bunch of files served by Apache, but something more... smart.
Erm, backbone is not exactly trivial for fresh newbies to learn...
Fair enough -- loads of enterprise IT and IT software experience on my back...

captive IT orgs creating internal systems & utilities.

Again, so what? These are _costs_ centers and therefore treated as such. As long as the accounting team can add to the general ledger and the trucks ship the goods, the company doesn't go broke and people get paid. If you need innovation for your company to survive, then you do the innovator's solution - create an organisation outside the rules and realms of your existing structure to innovate.

This is all too wishful and pie in the sky type thinking.
You do not need a robots.txt or a sitemap XML to be listed.
It's very relevant for some types of programs. For web development, unless you're building the next Twitter, not so important...

...now if you're building a chess engine, that's a different story.

(I just take chess as an example as it's my latest hobby. It's the first and only project where I found it necessary to switch to C because of performance considerations (switched from C#).)
I know the Crafty engine uses this technique; I was surprised by how well it works in practice.
curl -I http://digg.com/robots.txt
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-length: 1443
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:27:13 GMT
Server: nginx/1.1.19
Connection: keep-alive

an HTTP 404 robots.txt should not be an issue - but maybe there was a robots.txt with something else in there instead, and now it's gone.

but even so, if there was an all blocking robots.txt site:digg.com would still show the URLs of digg.com, as crawling is optional for indexing. (maybe they used the non-documented Noindex: / directive, but i doubt it)

if you want to achieve such a clean removal, in most cases you must request a complete removal via google webmaster tools.

so yeah, somewhere, someone might have screwed up, most likely on diggs side, maybe on googles side, maybe a combination.

UPDATe: now it's

curl -i http://digg.com/robots.txt
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: public
Content-Type: text/plain
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:05:29 GMT
Etag: "c47ccf1a49c24cc5842430aa75c72ef491292412"
Last-Modified: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:51:48 GMT
Server: TornadoServer/2.2
Content-Length: 24
Connection: keep-alive

User-agent: *
Disallow:

which is the best practice robots.txt (allow all, or rather: hey, i have a valid robots.txt file but the second statement is not a valid robots.txt disallow directive, so this means allow all as there is no other disallow directive (note: i once coded https://npmjs.org/package/robotstxt which tried to reimplement googles spec of the robots.txt https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index... so i have some experience in reading robots.txt files ))

still, it wasn't a robots.txt issue

hmmm, just a hypothesis: maybe just maybe someone thought it was a good idea to remove www.digg.com via google webmaster tools from google (as their main domain is digg.com and not www.digg.com and they definitely tried had some www.digg.com URL indexed, as even bing some some of these URLs indexed http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Awww.digg.com&go=&... ) but google is (maybe) set to treat www.digg.com and digg.com as the same (via the settings panel in google webmaster tools), removing www.digg.com then could result into removing digg.com as well (something similar happened to a client of mine years ago), so could be the issue, could not be the issue, we would need more data (access to GWT) to verify this.
which means all sites like digg will be removed from search.

by the way digg traffic down by 23.66%
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/digg.com
The Linux namespace stuff is evolving pretty fast, and I personally wouldn't trust it as the main line of defense for anything important.

With virtualization, a buggy or malicious guest is still limited to its sandbox unless there's a flaw in the hypervisor itself. With containers/namespaces, the host and guest are just different sets of processes that see different "views" of the same kernel, so bugs are much more likely to be exploitable. Plus, if you enable user namespaces, some code paths (like on-demand filesystem module loading) that used to require root are now available to unprivileged users.

There's already been at least one local root exploit that almost made it into 3.9: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/13/361
OK, I am reminded of Steve Yegge's famous posts about Bezos (no. 7 - he really does not give a shit about your day).

The Bezos I heard in this post is a very different beast from the one I heard in Yegge's writings. Maybe time at sea really does change a man, or more likely, there are many different sides to each of us.

Either way, I love the way the new rich are making something interesting happen.
You would think so, but that's not the case. Advertising to men is more expensive than advertising to women, because more marketers are competing for those slots. I can't find any broad stats on this right now, but to use a random example, Cosmo and Maxim are both major magazines catering to otherwise similar demographics (age/income). Maxim claims 9mil readers while Cosmo claims 18mil. The cost for a four-color, full-page spread is ~230k for Maxim and ~289k for Cosmo. That's 62 readers for a dollar for Cosmo, or just 39 readers for a dollar for Maxim. [maximmediakit.com, cosmomediakit.com]

If you reread the page you posted, you can see the hints of that. People talking about how older women make up a demo that "no advertiser can afford to ignore" -- that's not something an advertiser would say unprompted about 18-35 year old males, for example, because the idea of advertisers ignoring 18-35 year old males would be absurd.
Thanks. I also think that there's a time and a place for deep-dive learning and to properly learn the technologies. The key for me is to understand when I'm 1) solving a problem so I can get back to building something and 2) learning a technology or a skill that I know I need to pay attention to.
PayPal Express Checkout Payments Are Down
They are in Yahoo

EDIT: I fucking hate HN's 'Delete' function.
Fixing WordPress's code problems don't really need to break plugin compatibility. They can rewrite the core, have new features requiring doing things the new way, and have small adapters to maintain the backward compatibility.

But yes, this refactoring is going to cost and there is unfortunately not many people for whom it is a worthwhile expense. If Automattic is able to think about 10 years in the future, it might make sense for them to start investing in such a clean up.
I'm interested by this because there is a huge amount of documentation for Angular and it's pretty good, including examples and plunker/jsfiddles to demonstrate it and allow you to play with it. What did you find lacking?
I have seen NSA's recruiting information a couple times in the past. Can you highlight the bit that says which criteria is the most selective?
"I'm a developer evangelist"

Anyone who makes up a title like this is an ego-maniac, regardless of their sex. Good thing that the start-up you work for is crap and won't get acquired any time soon. Once you hit the job market, HR departments and hiring managers will remember your name and I doubt you will get many call-backs.
Why we will no longer have to hate email (and why Mailbox has it wrong)
Don't be sad, it's only the top post because I just posted it. As for how it's relevant, I believe I'm saying in a roundabout way that I'd much prefer Webflow if it was a native app, while making a larger point about my reservations over web apps, especially the web design web apps I've been seeing a lot of lately.
You beautiful bastards!! This is what I have been waiting for! Thanks!! Looking forward to using this when Saturday hits.
Thanks! Checking out the lists!