skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Updating site wouldn't make a dent. You seen Cragilist recently? or even Google homepage for the last 10 years??

People go to his website for a certain product. They couldn't care less how the site looks. Does crappy look of Apache software website turns you down from getting the newest download? How about PHP site not updated since 1999. Does their crappy site means they don't know their craft?

After checking couple tabs (that are easily accessible) and being convinced he knows his business, there is nothing more to do than either pull the trigger and buy a product/try it, or leave the site. No fancy graphics or frameworks will change users' mind. And they shouldn't. In fact, if that site would be up to date designed website all nice and clear, I would immediately think its a scam or probably software with built in backdoor, etc.

His site is fine. He is selling table planning software (that looks decent), not a web design lessons.
How exactly does Graffiti look better than a clean train or wall?
Which will be phased out soon, right?
Depending on what you want to have developed, they just might need that much guidance, otherwise the end result will be a surprise for you :)

When looking for a freelancer consider people who have done things that you personally like and think would be a good fit for you too. E.g. contact the developer of a website you like or the contributor to an open source project which is well-respected.
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How did you create this?
Well, I'm from the eastern bloc and we have (had?) similar problems in Poland. Though I doubt anyone here would glorify or even excuse these guys. Really thought vandalism is rare and less tolerated west of us.
IMO design is not even the issue, it's the content/data. The more information you are trying to convey without thought and modularity, the harder and more complex it is to visualize that data.

Usual corporate sites want to tell everything about themselves. That's why they opt to display it in such fashion: long prose that don't make sense. That's why it subconsciously looks 'ugly' because you don't even know what you're looking at. The content of corporate websites aren't intended for capturing people, majority of corporate websites are intended to inform - think of it like a company brochure.

Decision makers that want this "web presence" are 1) not educated enough to realize the difference between print and digital media, and 2) not educated enough about the cost of web development. That's why corporate websites can be likened to a huge company brochure that doesn't make sense when translated into the web. To top it off with the already mentioned comments about "approvals", instead of working with designers to make sure the website looks highly presentable and understandable, designers are constantly overridden with the 'preferences' of these decision makers.

In a startup, things are different. People work closely together to bring the organization into a higher level. The key decision makers know that they only serve as a visionary to a team of people, and they know they have to work closely with highly talented people in order to bring the organization to life. This setup results into a deeper level of communication that allows the designers and decision-makers to move as one into knowing what content to write and how the website is designed around that content in order for the readers to flow through the website.

The prose on the website turns out to be cleaner, and much clearer. One goal, one message. Pages meant to inform and pages meant to capture visitors are segregated appropriately, visitors get captured and get informed. The "look better" part is just a byproduct of that kind of unity found in a start-up, it isn't even a critical goal.
As everyone who's attended internet pundit law school know, the effect of a law is dependant on the net worth of the author of it.
I would be absolutely shocked if we didn't know the whole story in two weeks. Apple loves their schedules.
I use git daily and have done so for years, but it's true that it has been a long time since I've actually tried to understand it. I gave up on the documentation, which seemed to be written in such a way that it would only make sense if you already knew what it was trying to tell you, and just memorized the handful of recipes I need to get my work done. It's not pretty; it's one of the bad tools, which I occasionally have to wrestle with, and not one of the good tools, which fit onto my brain like extensions of my body.
When done in moderation, absolutely nothing :

http://www.livestrong.com/article/459116-can-you-replace-veg...

I think there's a perception of bad taste with canola oil, but in my experience, this is due to cooks inexperienced in cooking with canola oil. There are temperature and duration changes that must be taken to account. Some recipes need adjusting and calibration and that takes a bit of experimentation. Not everyone has the patience for that or is willing to research the differences.
And he seems rather eager to expend his company.
Can you give an idea of how much lower the cost per click could be with a very high quality score (ie 5% of Googles suggested cost per click)?

"With a high Quality Score you can get clicks for a much lower cost. Some experiments put this at about 5% per unit of quality score change (Quality score is on a scale of 1 to 10)."
This is and will continue to be a challenge for the AngularJS team. While comprehensive, their documentation for complex things like directives seems more contributor-oriented than user-oriented.

Fortunately, the users on the Google group are very active and people like John Lindquist[1] are putting out insightful and approachable tutorials.

I think that one of the major issues faced by AngularJS from an adoption standpoint is that people see the simple examples on the front page and assume that, while powerful, it is best suited for toy apps. I'm not sure how to address this, but I've seen the perception repeated over and over by potential users who have done a 'surface check' and have then based their conclusion on an incomplete picture.

[1]: http://egghead.io
HG seems to manage the same problem with less complexity.
According to the metadata contained in the PDF file the creation date of this file is 9 January 2013.
They should just declare the graffiti as an act of terrorism and rent few of Mr. Obama's drones for a few days. They are battle tested with good track record and nice infrastructure.

My opinion - the only proper way to deal with this is to commission some street art on the walls and cars themselves.

In a few places where the artists have been officially sanctioned it worked acceptably.
A few problems with Freelancer from a buyer perspective:

* If you post a project on something like C++, Android, iOS or web design you get about 10 generic bids in the first minute. I suspect some coders use bots to bid on certain categories. This should be strictly prohibited.

* Not sure how you can stop the coders to bid so low, when a guy bids $30 for 2 - 3 days of work the quality of his work can't be that great. Maybe enforcing some minimum bid limit ? I know this is a hard problem to solve.

* Another problem that seems to keep the prices and quality down: coders that take a project and repost it with a much lower price.

* A buyer should be forced to describe what he needs in the project description. Generic projects like Easy work, it can be done by an expert in a few hours. Details after you bid. should also be prohibited. These kind of projects keep the prices and the quality of the work down for everyone.
4.7's thread implementation is missing sleep_for, and possibly some other stuff. <regex> is still mostly not implemented in 4.8.
It is my impression that a lot of people on this site buy domains fairly often. I'm one of them, and I'm interested in this.
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You might be thinking of Meldium (YC W13) -- happy to help you set it up!
I didn't see anything in the article condoning rude and inconsiderate behavior. The last sentence makes a mention that it would be difficult to "train" a person with aspergers, but it doesn't ever say rude behavior is acceptable.
I don't understand the racist quip about mods being Chinese?
Lets see, politicians have created a system so complex they themselves cannot understand it. Then they act upset that someone else has to that others advantage and attempt to vilify them instead of acknowledging that the system is too complex.

Sounds about right. You would think that they would instead focus on making a system even they could understand.
Electric car startup Better Place liquidating after $850 million investment 
Better Place wanted to make the world a better place by replacing gas stations with battery switching stations that would remove the driving mileage limitations from electric cars and eventually rid the world of fossil-fuel burning vehicles. But after six years and burning through $850 million, the company is filing for liquidation in an Israeli court.
Oh certainly they would, though I suspect the ratios are different. Mohammad was running a theocracy within his lifetime, so all the compromises and practicalities that were needed to actually govern. There's still a large amount of tradition that has to be applied, but you can talk about the Islamic way to govern much, much more concretely than the Christian way. Which if you believe in moral progress is a bit of a problem with Islam, but not one I'm going to dwell on when talking about societies that would be better off following the Koran more closely.

And incidentally, your point is somewhat opaque but I believe you're taking that Gandhi quote to mean the opposite of what he meant. That is, it isn't that politics does influence religion but that politics ought to be influence by religion.
I was a veteran of vWorker, too. I found the site quirky and ugly, but deeply functional. Freelancer seems to be the opposite -- very pretty, professionally aggravating. I jumped ship (to my own network) pretty quickly after the transition, and if I needed to find work again through a site, it probably wouldn't be that one.
I don't think anyone who has read a bit about how Apple and especially Ive works are very concerned about that. Their primary concern isn't first and foremost how things look, but how they work.
Seriously, what's up with politicians recently, both in Europe and here in the States, hammering at successful companies for trying to minimize their tax liability? I specifically avoided saying "leftist" politicians because even the right is guilty (I'm looking particularly at that sniveling fool John McCain).

Expect the law to change, creating an even more complicated tax structure and destroying even more economic value while providing zero benefit to common citizens.

We should be looking in the opposite direction. Do away with large swaths of the tax code and ask less of the companies that support the global economy. Especially now that apparently the organizations that extract those taxes (specifically the IRS) have become political tools to harass those people whose politics our "leaders" disagree with.
Plenty of work-a-day entrepreneurs manage to be parents and founders at the same time. Why is it harder in the tech industry? Are technologists just less competent at parenting in general?
In your account, the funniest part is when the people from emailonacid explain to you that they have developed this theme with "tricks" that they have learned.

The only trick they are learning is borrowing other peoples code. In their minds they have done enough to change the content so it is not plagiarized or stolen. Seems like their definition of original is copy and paste into a blank text editor and then change the content. I think to them, they haven't copied you at all.

I am interested in these stories because for me anytime I build a website I do it based on the design from another website or two that I like. Usually I do copy some amount of code, but it has helped me to learn a crap ton about web development and design. With that said I have come across parts of javascript that will check what site is running it. It's interesting, but looks like you need to do a little more safe guarding.
Neat! Note that using Ruby's profiler is a heck of a lot easier. For example, here's how you can profile a call to a model method in Rails: http://stufftohelpyouout.blogspot.com/2013/05/profiling-in-r...

rails c 2>&1 | tee profile.txt
require 'profile'
SomeClass.some_method
exit (or ctrl-d)
grep -E "SomeClass\#|cumulative self|seconds call" profile.txt

Example of results:

% cumulative self self total
time seconds seconds calls ms/call ms/call name
1.05 0.79 0.01 5 2.00 2.00 SomeClass#_validate_callbacks
0.00 0.95 0.00 13 0.00 0.00 SomeClass#_create_callbacks
0.00 0.95 0.00 13 0.00 0.00 SomeClass#_update_callbacks
0.00 0.95 0.00 15 0.00 0.00 SomeClass#reflections
0.00 0.95 0.00 12 0.00 0.00 SomeClass#_save_callbacks
...

Other things to look at:

* Benchmark: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/benchmark/rdoc/B...

* Rails perf testing: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/performance_testing.html

* Ruby-prof: https://github.com/rdp/ruby-prof

* Tracer: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/tracer/rdoc/inde...

* TracePoint: https://github.com/rubyunworks/tracepoint

* Autolog: https://github.com/garysweaver/autolog

* set_trace_func: http://apidock.com/ruby/Kernel/set_trace_func

See also: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16700778/178651
Could we please have a link to go straight to the parent topic? It's annoying to have to keep clicking "parent" when the page is at a child reply.
Good fun. I'm waiting for someone to put in the LOLCODE.
Take a look at Art Inconsequence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfjPlpub8MI
>how utterly incompetent the local military is no matter how much time we put into attempting to train them. Somehow in the US we're able to take (often poor) 17/18 year olds, and in 10 weeks of BCT (Basic) and then in 3 week to 2 years of Advanced Individual Training (AIT) we're able to create pretty damn disciplined soldiers

A country's military is a reflection of and limited by the society that spawns it. The USA can keep disciplined and ethical soldiers because it has never suffered civil unrest, never been invaded, enjoys prosperity, freedom, public law and justice. No such thing can be said of Afghanistan or Iraq.
Moreover - the "10 weeks of BCT" is not "just" "10 weeks of BCT". There is a logistics and supply train several tho-- million pages long that creates those "just" 10 weeks.
Consider the fact that humans are recruited. Recruiters need to be trained, fed, paid, and have offices. That costs money. Afghanistan has no money.
Consider the fact that young men need to be transported from and to BCT: this requires roads free of IEDs, requires fuel for trucks, favourable economic conditions to produce or import buses.
Consider the fact that a certain percentage of all military trainees quit before completing that training. This is accounted for and expected: there are 300 million humans in the USA and this is acceptable losses.
Consider the fact that abiding by the laws of a nation and strict adherence to authority is something these "17/18" year olds have done for two decades by the time their military training is over. It is ingrained into their psyche to follow the law from the earliest age, in the most gentle of methods: by the witnessing of safety and prosperity of Americans abiding by the law.
Consider an Afghani youth: what is ignrained into them is an invsion by Russia and now invasion by America. How confident in justice do you think they are? How inclined are they to respect authority? How confortable are they submitting to a national government?

A country's military is fundamentally a reflection of the society it spawns. Afghanistan is a failed state in every respect, for the last several decades, and as such it cannot muster a professional military despite the efforts of the US-led coalition.
> I'm absolutely certain it isn't because westerners are smarter, better, etc (we aren't)... but there is something seriously weird over there at the same time (malnutrition, lack of basic formal education system, cultural differences, too many generations of instability (maybe one generation works ok, but 3 breaks things seriously))

I'm amused at how you can disclaim completely that Westerners might be smarter - perish the thought! - and then in the next breath suggest a major cause of that (lack of malnutrition) as the explanation.
> Complexity isn't better design.

Neither is simplicity. Balance is important. Taking away features makes something more simple, but not necessarily better. If it did we'd all be using Jitterbugs.
None, just meet people. You'll get better jobs and introductions through clients who like your work.
Yes it's illegal. There has never been any dispute on this matter. In practice it's a relatively unenforced matter.
How about @CopiedThisFromStackOverflowButStillNotEntirelySureHowItWorks
You have reviewed Jekyll but not Hyde(still in todo), that is literally an one sided story :-)
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App engagement is a much better metric than downloads
Ask HN: Would you move to a cheaper country to self learn programming fulltime?
Hey HN,

I'm a mid 20s engineering grad working in the corporate world. I have had experience with programming but it has been a long time since i have produced something presentable. My mind is also dull from working in the corporate world so I would like to change that by taking time off from work to get back into creating things. I'm from canada, the cost of living isn't cheap so I want to go to a cheaper country to slow the cash drain during this period of about a year.

I have a few choices of countries they are limited to the following list.
http://www.international.gc.ca/experience/destinations_out-destinations_sortant.aspx?lang=eng

I want to hear if anyone has considered this move or have done it. I have lived abroad* so i'm not just doing it without knowing how it's like being in a foreign place.

Thanks,
There is a TED talk (I don't remember the presenter's name, talk date, or anything else) where the presenter basicaly asks:

"When your children grow up and asks you why you didn't follow your dreams, do you want to answer - It was because of you?"

At the same time, yes, it's very hard.
Well it's true that I lose pathos (and ethos), and generally come across as a dick, but in my experience and congruent with this site's target audience, readers here give logos a disproportionate value anyway.

And maybe I did make the wrong choice when I compared him to myself, it's not about me - but the GP implied an argument about my lack of experience and hence reduced value of my statement. I should just stop arguing on the internet all together, really - it's a no-win situation.
But that's why I like cooking!

All the techniques you learn from simple knife cuts to measuring to cooking techniques like braising and roasting, all those are object oriented development methods that can be applied to objects, objects of food. There's a lot of object oriented analogies between programming and cooking. If you can apply the "Julienne knife cut" method to a potato object, you can do it to an apple object and probably a carrot too.

Its a big linear programming puzzle to scale recipes. Did I mention scaling? Cooking is a whole barrel of square/cube law scalability puzzles to get cooking rates of different ingredients to intersect at one completion time.

There are some pretty interesting software engineering principles WRT recipe and meal design. Do you "waterfall" your holiday dinner design, or "agile" it?
There's the sheer queueing theory joy of arranging everything just so, such that its all just-in-time ready to be cooked, when it works its awesome and when you're stuck in the weeds its panic time, just like hacking something before a demo.

Its fun to iterate thru optimization getting the "design pattern" applied to the puzzle better and better. And there's so many design patterns, and if you stay out of pastry work, those design patterns are pretty flexible.

One point where you have me is most programmers hate testing, so I can see an issue with cooking.

I am kinda bummed that most "computer geeky" books about cooking fixate solely on gadgetry like liq N2 or molecular gastronomy, cool as that might be, there's a whole nother world of describing cooking with flowcharts and object oriented methods and development models and algorithms and "real computer geeky" stuff like that.

I have noticed that at least some people cook like they program, across a sample size of about 3. Here's to hoping that cooking something never becomes a technical interview fad stunt, although I suppose worse has happened in the past.
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Hey man - awesome, thanks for the question. we clearly have a self-interest in talking about this publicly, but I don't wanna derail the ongoing conversation!! I'd track you down but maybe that'd be a bit weird! Just drop me a line at teja@gun.io and let's chat!

Although, just so it's not like I'm dodging your question for any onlookers, fixed price estimates are the way to go for a number of reasons (alignment of incentives, doesn't penalize high productivity, etc). The clients do the pricing, generally, but if something looks silly, we try to step in.
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It can work particularly well for public sector customers, because they generally are not worried about "trade secrets" or other IP being later sold to a competitor.
Entrepreneurs are rule breakers, and "no startups when you have kids" seems like yet another rule that can be broken (assuming it even is a rule).
It also builds on perhaps the greatest bass line sample ever, from Charles Wright's "Express Yourself".
That's regrettable.

One of the things that Google seems to generally understand is that a good business is built on delivering ever-higher value.

But depending for growth on getting an ever-higher percentage of the total value generated, rather than generating ever-more value, is the road to ruin. Happy customers rarely switch, even if somebody else is offering an as-good or somewhat-better deal. But having a bunch of mildly irritated customers is a massive opportunity for a competitor who isn't trying to hit an arbitrary set of revenue targets.