skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an evolutionary standpoint, anything that manifests above 40 has little impact if it gives you better survivability younger. For most of human history you will have already had your children and raised them to independence .
I'm not really even thinking about the complexity of the template language, as much as I am about the fact that all of the template languages shred your HTML document into tens of little fragments of HTML. There's always an impedence mismatch between the devs and the designers, no matter what you use.

I agree that virtually no designers will be able to work directly with something like Markaby; but then, nobody asks them to. They hand the designer the unstyled output of Markaby.
Wild IIlusions: 5 startups experiments I like to try
in the end, visually appealing design tends to convert more users than plain-but-functional design.
I downloaded the demo application and it instantly crashed upon loading with:

"Unexpected problem detected in the program 'nuiDemo.exe'"

If your demo application crashes, you're not ready for primetime.
The many misspellings and grammatical errors in an article pushing the importance of pretty, colored, 1px borders as an indicator of "quality" just looks like the same old advocacy of flash over substance.

No thanks. We've had enough of that over the last decade.
Yep, including one of the startups I'm working on. Good luck to you. がんばって。

edit: p.s. our idea was rejected by yc, so maybe it is a terrible idea. we still think it is great which is why we are working on it.
By under-appreciated I meant by entrepreneurs. Too many focus on trying to insert first into the traditional college or K12 systems instead of niche education markets like home schooling.
What I stated in my original post: more people will be big consumers of data.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to blog / where do you host your blog ?
Hi fellow hackers,

I was going to start a new blog (personal / technical) and was wondering what platforms / tools people use here.

I tried hosting my own thing writing PHP scripts etc to control everything but that turned out to be a little more work than I thought it would be.

Suggestions / comments / good-bad experiences ?
Interesting interview, but not as good as http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10118
Well, it's not made by slicehost at all, just a customer who wanted it. They are very appreciative for it and even use it themselves (I'll imagine not for any internal infrastructure stuff.). On their podcast they thanked the guy profoundly.
That's an argument for making ISPs run by the government, which I'd be open to.

But we'd still have to pay for it. We do pay for the roads, it's just that we do it through taxes.
Aye, which seems to me not to be the point of Seedcamp, though I suppose I missed something along the line.
Rack-router (a common router for Ruby web apps/frameworks)
A much needed expansion of Ubiquity. It never made sense to have a separate menu (and was the reason I didn't miss it while in my Chrome period). Adding functionality to the awesome bar will make things much more, uh, awesome.
wordpress. there are plenty of resources and a good community.

provided, of course, this is all you're looking to do, just host yourself a blog. there are other good options out there that have different strengths and weaknesses. wordpress is just the overall, general usage leader in its field.
So? Why does that mean their business model is unsustainable? Do you have a reason to expect that bandwidth consumption will grow faster than the ISPs can keep up or are you just guessing?
13. Being forced to work in an environment where people won't even learn the basics of SCM
...considering that the web comprises mostly documents...

I found this interesting. I've been doing web stuff since 1996, and I would have agreed with you back then. But these days my perception is that the majority of stuff on the web should be considered to be applications rather than documents.
Self-hosted Wordpress. Easy as pie. Just keep it updated...

Squarespace looks a nice hosted alternative, though.
Man Builds Chair That Tweets His Farts, Single-Handedly Justifies Twitter's Existence
I agree it can help to desensitize, but Grossman was using it to explain the rise in violence during the '90s.

But I think there is a difference to being desensitized to media violence and being desensitized to real violence that happens in front of your face.
Lululemon’s Cult of Selling
I was wondering why I would want to "Design using a gird system"
(Btw - this is why i like HN. Trying to understand life, the universe and everything in practical terms.)

Hmmm... yes, I wonder how much you can train stress resistance/ resilience and how much is nature-given. I'm probably more of a sensitive type person, but through ongoing training I've got myself to be able to endure lots of pain and stress through willpower (well, it's more like I'm more numb and less receptive than I used to be): doing martial arts since I was 6, resisting groups in social situations and insisting on what I think is right (braking peer pressure), occasionally engaging in physical fights (when I was younger), and again various sports activities like long distance running, skateboarding, mountainbiking, hiking etc. - IMHO it comes down to facing fear and pain on an ongoing basis: NO FEAR. lol.

On another note, this is exactly why geeks are not in charge in most corporations. Because they are not in any way as well trained as your average jock to fight back against stress and pain. At least geeks can learn to live with this inherent weakness and be aware of it.
Beautifully composed. Makes me wish I was graphically talented...
The first rule given in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People is:

Don't criticize, condemn or complain.

He makes it clear that by "Don't" he means "Never".
It's a zero sum game.

There need to be players that hold jobs, put in regular hours, advance work at a consistent pace, draw a paycheck, sometimes hate what they do and end up on the lower side of risk.

There also need to be players that risk much to not hold jobs, develop ventures, advance things by an order of magnitude, create significant wealth that is far beyond what the player needs, and enjoy relative freedom.

The game will be hugely unbalanced and spiral out of control if one side decides in large numbers to jump to the other. You need both sides.

I think at the end of the day it comes down to whether you're able to enjoy life and find yourself in an environment that is in equilibrium with your inner.
lowers the risk for seedcamp, I guess.
1. A lot of people start out on WordPress.com.
You can get started quickly. It's relatively easy to use. It is free. There is a lot of shared knowledge and experience out there.

2. It is easy to download the WordPress software from WordPress.org and install it on your own site.

A good strategy might be to start on WordPress.com at first, and then migrate to your own server if/when you think the benefit is worth the added effort.
Not that a big button isn't always out of place. I do think that the elegant details applied to a relatively simple design can help bring the quality of the design up. Simple touches help make a simple design a pleasure to use.
how did you find it? I think you guys (Directed Edge) are really onto something.
The subtle touches that indicate actual talent went into the design, not a programmer's afterthought, does make me appreciate web sites more.

I really have no idea what you're suggesting with "We've had enough of that over the last decade". This isn't all or nothing; you can have gorgeous design with worthwhile content and functionality.
Getting manual testing right is hard. I used to do it as my main job (testing a large java app).

We had plain text test plans, which worked well enough. We didn't do as good of a job of keeping track of finished plans as we should have.

You need to very tightly specify what you are testing for. Manual testing is incredibly valuable to test the things that programs can't pick up, and also very wasteful if you are testing the simple stuff like that.

Also, look for what's scriptable around the manual test point. For instance, if you are verifying the 4 different kinds of order views, have a script which generates those orders on staging, and fires up a browser window w/ 4 tabs to those orders (already logged in, etc). Manual testing doesn't have to mean manual setup & tear down.

An xls or google spreadsheet is the best bet for tracking, at least for a one-off smaller scale testing environment. At my job, we did eventually get around to writing a "Manual Test Manager" rails app to help us track it, but I left before it got much traction.

The other suggestion here of selenium is useful, but perhaps not what you're looking for. It's very useful to record whole click-throughs of your app, but you still need to verify stuff like CSS & layout, wording of text, that labels match up with the right fields, etc. Selenium just doesn't do all that very well (too much fuzzy human intelligence).

If you plan on making this repeatable, divide the test cases into "smoke tests" and "full tests". (Smoke Test == "is it spewing smoke" ie. is anything obviously broken). That gives you the ability to run through a 20 minute manual test suite right before the weekly deploy, and do a full manual test of edited areas, etc.

Also, don't slack on your automated tests. Computers are just awesome at unit tests.
Efficient? At least that's what 7 of 9 always uses... And who's going to argue witha reclaimed borg?
You can already log into the Slice manager with Mobile Safari. You can actually access more data there too because it doesn't rely on the API.
No matter what though, you will get more money by doing for college or K12 systems, I can understand the mentality.

Besides, with the 'zealot religious', 'backwoods', 'socially inept' and other stereo types that tend to float around home schooling as a practice, you can see why most people might not consider the market very seriously.
yeah, thanks. i suppose that's why we're all taught to read closely. scary to see things like this coming from south korea as well!
As long as you show clearly what is sponsored or not, you do not lose the trust of your users. In addition, it needs not be the one paid most that gets more promoted but a mix of price and endorsement/quality - basically the same caveat as sponsored linked on Google.
Of course I'm guessing. It just seems like an obvious guess to me - specifically, that people's bandwidth usage will start to resemble other utilities. I'm surprised you find it a controversial guess.
Let's not forget the advantage of having a large number of established elder relatives - they can help raise more kids, share resources, etc.
Facebook considered harmful for adults (a letter from my aunt)
I love my Aunt, but, I fell off my bed laughing while reading this.

=====

Mike,

I am not sure why but [REDACTED] has invited me to be his Facebook friend. I do not know him and I worry about his motives. I know he is a linux user and I worry he will hack me. I do use my bank accounts here not that I feel he would steal but I worry the info is vulnerable to someone who knows what they are doing.

Ok so here is my issue. We are not friends. I have never spoken to him only a few emails.Why in the world would he even go looking for me on Facebook. I'm sure he is a nice enough guy but really, I have only recenlty even started going there at all when I have messages.

What do you think..

PS, He has no idea im your Aunt.
XOXOX.

=====

I should mention that she and my uncle own their own craft business and have the kind of life that most of us would kill for.
World's Best Programmer Announced
I've also found that at times when I have to both maintain my act and keep up with my internal monologue (or whatever it is), I lose the ability to retain the information being provided. For instance, until I've spoken with someone a few times, I will be unable to remember their name. I'll likely never remember what they just told me more than a few hours after it was said, either, unless it was exceptionally memorable. When trying to get me to remember someone, it usually requires a few examples of things they've said/done and a lot of context to piece them back together.

Man, this describes exactly how I feel when meeting new people and why I find it so draining.
Bad examples don't help to prove a point.
Judge a copy editor by his spelling. Judge a writer by her phrasing. Judge a designer by his colored borders.
With all the DiggBar talk I'm surprised no one mentioned Facebook, which does exactly the same when you post a link on your news feed.
I don't think "former Kennedy administration officials" were considered top US officials in 2002.

And the event didn't break any news: "Although the discovery that Soviet submarines were armed with nuclear weapons was revealed about a year ago, this was the first
time key players in the 13-day crisis had sat down to analyze the implications of the Oct. 27 incident"

A20 seems reasonable to me. Academics hold conferences in Cuba all the time. I think you may have misread the article.
While the (few) screenshots look beautiful, it's hard to find... well... anything on their site. I've been unable to find any detailed API information in their documentation section (although it appears to be a WIP).
Standard stuff in web design. A grid allows content to be constrained and opens up negative space which is essential to a relaxed and consistent flow.
Not sure how factual the story is.

From what is known about Soviet nuclear protocol, sanctioning this kind of launch required unanimous confirmation from three suitcase holders: General Secretary, Minister of Defence and Head of Strategic Missile Command. Only in case of confirmed death of all three the Perimetr system (automated full-scale response to any detected missile attack) should've kicked in.

It is very unlikely that this sort of decision would've been left to a sole officer in minor rank.
I think the idea is to write quirky iPhone looking apps for all those people on Windows without an iPhone
The Development Abstraction Layer
Is he really correct about Microsoft creating that illusion? It just doesn't fit the idea of M$ I have.
Dale Carnegie is an asshole.
The forgetting curve and its application in flashcard programs with spaced repetition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
I also got Times as part of the MH bundle but I've had no luck with getting it to actually display any feeds. I've tried adding each one individually and importing a OPML file from Google Reader. What could I be missing?
Discount coupons, coupon codes and promotional codes at deals365.us
Online discount coupons, coupon codes and free online discount coupons. We list online discount coupons, free shipping offers, promotional codes for leading stores on the web
It was a good event in general; that was really early for us -- in fact a few days before we started full-time on Directed Edge. I think most of the interesting German VCs had people there and the mentoring was quite good.

On the one hand I was a little put off that many of the startups there weren't really at the seed phase, but on the other hand that meant we got to be connected to them (most of whom were in Berlin) and that network of connections ended up being quite useful for us.

On the other hand, even at Seedcamp proper this year (I know the folks from all of the German teams that were there and several of the other teams) it was similar. At least one, and I assume more than one, of the "winning" teams had already raised an order of magnitude more money than they got out of Seedcamp. I've also heard from multiple folks that there was something of a snafu in the way that the term sheets were handled.
I completely agree. They can either have (publicly advertised!) caps OR they can do traffic shaping. Not both. Honestly ISP's need to move their entire offering to a "business-class" level of service (tiered, published data prices, some level of uptime guarantees), without the price gouging. I don't mean more data/more uptime, just more visibility. Let me pick my "tier" and then provide me that service.
You don't see the bar unless you go to digg, or click a link that some took from digg, without removing ti from the frame (not hard at all). And the person who linked it using the digg, link most likely thinks that adds value (ability to access the comments on that link).

Reddit's had this feature forever, I don't understand why people have a problem with diggs version.
My project, phpSprockets (http://code.google.com/p/phpsprockets/) does nested markup by working as a node system. After all, if you're going to generate HTML in code you might as well do it in an object oriented way.

$table = new Sprocket( 'table' );

$tr = $table->tr();

$tr->td( "OMG I'm in a sprocket" );

I've done similar things using XElement in C#, though using PHP's magic methods makes for very short readable code.

I agree that templates are handy for separation of concerns though.
if you dont want to digg and werent on digg's website then why would you see the bar in the first place.
Half a dozen clicks from his HN profile and you're there: http://twitter.com/offbytwo/friends
This is a good idea, but not the right approach. The key is to keep all the "design stuff" in HTML, so a designer can deal with it, and then express all the code as code. XSLT works that way, as does:

http://search.cpan.org/~jrockway/Template-Refine-0.02/

I like the second one better, for some reason.
How does one passively root?
It's an aesthetic argument. If you make your constraint tight enough, you're forced into concocting a new word to fix some imagined failing of the existing language. We don't need an adjective that signifies performance and we also don't need an adjective that signifies performance that starts with "perform".

Instead, you can rearrange the wording a little to convey the exact same meaning. By working within the constraints, an elegant solution emerges. By all means add words if they are clever or pleasing or convey a nuance that can't be achieved with what already exists. Performant and functionality don't meet those criteria.
Pretty quiet weekend. We (cloudkick) would be happy to grab a beer with some folks in south bay (san jose, caltrain friendly) on Saturday evening if others are interested.
Is this really not satire? "Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts."
Just use nevow and stan
As someone upthread pointed out, the CEO was free to do just that (or at least, would have become free to do it as soon as the pre-existing contract ran out).
Why not follow this to its logical conclusion?

I did. The masses were not amused.
It does look obvious; but I assure you that I receive a formal evaluation request from someone who clearly hasn't spent not even a second on the software (but has noted all claimed features) every few days. And somebody is paying for that.
exactly and it is useful. I think the only problem with the diggbar is that its on by default.
AJ Jacobs writes really cool 'project' pieces: he dedicates himself to an idea and writes articles and books about it. I loved "A year of living biblically" and am hoping to read "Know it all" sometime soon.
There was GoGaRuCo (sold out now though), but I had to cancel my ticket unfortunately...

There is a pretty sweet coffee shop near the YC office called Red Rock Coffee, it's often filled to the brim with laptop users, quite a few of them entrepreneurs. It's a two floor coffee shop that is often the location for various meetup groups (such as the iPhone & Facebook Apps).
I don't necessarily find it controversial, just that I haven't seen enough evidence to suggest that's it is correct. So when people make the statement, I like to find out if they are guessing or if they have more information than I do on the subject. Perhaps that wasn't clear from my initial response.
Why?

I used to pay for $30 per month for 20 hours of dial-up access, with an extra $1 per hour charged after that. Market forces reduced that cost significantly as new entrants with new technologies emerged to tap into a growing customer base, and that will happen again if bandwidth caps are imposed by existing service providers.

The last thing I want is for legislators to decide how much my service providers can charge and for what services they'll do so. As with any give-and-take, existing providers will ask for some protectionist advantage in exchange, and that will block new entrants and slow the adoption of new communication technologies.

Ten years from now, this argument is going to sound as stupid as if I had demanded my MP legislate a whopping 100 hours of dial-up access for my $30.
I was going to joke that it was like that playset I used to have as a kid: "Girders and Panels":

http://bit.ly/scqR6

But then I realized that it might not be a joke. Designing in a grid system does remind me of "Girders and Panels".
So I had thought about using my modified RSS feed for HN (available at: http://hacketal.com/#hnrss ) for this purpose but decided against it because I have very different use cases for RSS versus the HN homepage. The homepage, for me, is great for going back to stories and seeing which ones have jumped up because of a great conversation while Google Reader is where I can quickly jump through all of the stories and quickly read the first paragraph of every story.

Giles -- thanks for linking to me in your blog post about this new visual.
Surprisingly substantive, coming from Tim Ferriss. Usually, reading his things makes me feel a bit skeevy, but I actually liked this one.
The Gazelle Web Browser - Stanford talk Wednesday
+1 for Red Rock. Upstairs is an excellent place to work while in Mountain View. Twittered I was there this time last year and met all sorts of interesting people working on startups.
Why do we have any laws controlling immigration at all? Why can't anyone migrate and live/work anywhere they want and for any company they want, doing any kind of work they want? Why do nation states exist at all? Passports, visas, check points...

Why does any of that exist?
Here's our take on it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=561403
if you don't find anything, why not organize something yourself?
I agree and disagree with your comment. On one hand the tribalism in the article is a distraction from the argument he is making. On the other hand, it's pretty funny if you're an introvert. The following quote in particular, I think, was meant to be funny: "I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts," and not mean or serious. Looked at this way the "tribalism" in the piece is pretty harmless.
Agreed. Comment still stands.
JavaScript New Features (EcmaScript 5th Edition)
He wasn't questioning why one would want to use a grid system. He was pointing out the typo in an article about quality - gird versus grid.
> If a markup-generating DSL was simple enough for designers to pick up quickly, it would make good business sense to push them through the transition.

Designers being able to do it isn't the problem, justifying why designers should need to is the problem.
Ad Hoc Compression Methods: RLE