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This article is attacking a very narrow and superfluous definition of beauty, that I would instead call fashionable. The beauty of a piece of code should depend not so much on how well statements are aligned and consistency of formatting, and more on how easy it is to understand; the complexity of the task in contrast with the simplicity of the program.

That said, I still take issue with criticizing his narrow definition of code beauty. We should be allowed to dote on our code and make it pretty. Even if it doesn't provide tangible value to the customer, it lets us take pleasure in our craft.
Signs say something interesting about the herd mentality in people.

For example, psychologist Robert Cialdini did an experiment a few years ago to get people to be more respectful of public parks. He found that negative messages actually made people more likely to take items from the park (which they weren't supposed to do). [1]

Interestingly, the most effective way to change people's behavior was to leverage peer pressure, making them feel like everyone around them was already performing the desired action. E.g. "98% of hikers don't remove rocks; please don't be the 2%"

I'm not saying these two cases are identical, but to me what makes the U.K. signs so effective is that they suggest, in a subtle way, "Hey, you should have a good time because everyone else is enjoying themselves."

[1] http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/06/21/riding-the-herd-menta...
Feedly is over capacity
Newcastle city centre is fine (around 19-20Mb most days) but I'm lucky to get 4Mb once I'm a couple of miles out.
"I found myself interpreting the sign as the warning/restriction counterpart message"

Couldn't you just read the whole sign properly on the first try? Why did you glance over the rest of it? I think that's your fault - and our society these days - and not the fault of the signs, which were cute and funny.
Do all Finnish babies wear the same clothes then? Seems like a decent way to mix up who's who :-)
China Marks 24th Anniversary of Tiananmen Crackdown
Saker S-1 personal aircraft
Turkish protestors using encryption software to evade censors
You have to learn to let go. People will do what they will do with or without your consent. Do your cofounder a favor and fire him/her.
I see it as a good sign the "Other" city is the second leading location. Maybe we're starting to spread out the good jobs.

One thing I haven't been liking is it seems like most of the jobs are looking for worker bees. No one is looking for managers, directors, VP's, or even team leads. For those of us with over 15 years experience there didn't appear to be too many opportunities.
I don't think that's American at all. In all modern societies we first define an individual as which company he works for.

Picture yourself meeting new people. The first question to eventually come up will be "So, where do you work?"
Stalin hustled to make war against Japan because he knew the US had the bomb and he did not want WWII to end without any strategic gains in the Pacific.

So either way, the bomb caused Japan to surrender or Stalin caused Japan to surrender. Both precursors were directly or indirectly caused by the bomb. In summation, the bomb caused Japan to surrender.

I want my 20 minutes back for reading this garbage.
Here is the truth of this situation in one sentence: A bunch of dogmatic Kemalist opportunists and militant anti-gevernment groups are yelling with all they got; while we (greetings from Turkey!) play the silent majority :)
when you have hundreds of albums and all your DVDs ripped, it's actually preferable to have your sources separated as it makes searching easier. Furthermore, I don't think it's hard to switch between music and videos on XBMC (since you mentioned the "wife test", my non-technical wife manages XBMC fine).

In fact the very reason I switched away from Boxee and Moovida back to vanilla XBMC was because I wanted a media player that separated my music and videos and respected my file system hierarchy.

However looking at the screenshots for this project, it looks like it separates music and video in the same way XBMC does. So I'm not really sure I understand your point.
If you still think that design pattern X is fundamentally better than design pattern Y, Z, Carrot, or Potato, you're missing the point. The point is to have something consistent that works. Design patterns reduce the mental load on the maintainer. The point isn't beauty for the sake of beauty, though it does feel nice to have something that is beautiful.
I think there are two things to be considered here

* Marco experimented with Instapaper. Many people (or a few vocal people) were asking for ages for an Android client for Instapaper. When it was released, sales were disappointing (or at least not what expected).

* BBC develops for iOS first, as it seems that it takes less time.

Out of these two pieces, Marco says what he will do as an (indie) iOS developers, not as a BBC employee or consultant. He doesn't say BBC should not develop for Android.

All these issues about open/closed, do not exist if you cannot pay the bills. It seems like he couldn't had he been actively developing for Android besides iOS. I think he has a point.
Yeah, that conditioning is probable. And scary. Just think how many more signs/words/images/emotions are hardwired in your brain. Scary.
I really like it. I guess the people who've designed were aware of this problem and solved it. Perhaps there's a really obviously tounge-in-cheek sign at the beginning, so people expect all of the signs to be.
Surveying stories as diverse as the Soviet spies that infiltrated the U.S. government during the Cold War, the bankruptcy of Enron, the anthrax attacks of 2001, the run-up to the Iraq War, and the Vioxx scandal, he points out that major news organizations have repeatedly missed or inexplicably ignored newsworthy facts and events of the utmost significance.

It will always be possible to pick certain stories or facts that "the media" have missed - because the world of "facts" is so large and no organization could always be either right about everything or omniscient. The world we live in is large and many things happen in it, and most of them are not easily (or even possibly) discoverable.

This sort of critique seems like it would ignore the fact that there are some stories that "the media" would have gotten "right", whatever that means.

You will always be able to find things that were missed.
Put together a contract that if things go south you keep the source code.
There is a commercial version of this running android http://www.rikomagic.co.uk/
I vote for more business help on HN
I agree with most of this post but I think more often than not founders do not care about CxO titles. They just want to get shit done.

On the contrary people outside the company (investors, press, everybody) needs/wants to know which position you and your cofounders fulfill when you meet them.
Would you perhaps be willing to contribute to the project in order to improve its explanations?
Belgian woman blindly drove 900 miles across Europe due to broken GPS
Benchmark of node.js JSON Validation Modules
IMB to acquire Softlayer for a rumored $2-2.5 billion
I don't have a problem with this. In effect, those too disorganised or lazy to cancel are subsidising everyone else. Like gym memberships.

The alternative is that paying customers subsidise freeloaders who sign up for multiple free accounts. Requiring a valid card number makes this much harder.
You should give up on 'thought' and try and steal better cliches.
Big Data within the Mobile Ecosystem - Video
We seen opportunistic vultures use the DMCA to lawlessly enforce their censorship, but when a case it's actually designed for comes up...

Maybe he already thought of it, but it might also help to send DMCA notices to Google as well as the website's registrar and host. I'd love to see a bad guy get taken down by the good guys for once.
Only if the widget is a nice colour.
What about Tivo? Tivo does the DVR perfectly.
I suspect there where many minor changes that could have prevented any of the recent presidents from entering politics or at least running for president. Or more strangely Bush could have easily lost the an election with a minor change to the ballot design in a tiny area in a vary important state.

Overall I suspect that's for more impact than who's making sushi in NK as I don't think most presidents would have gone back to Iraq for instance. And without the Iraq war I don't think we would have the backlash that lead to healthcare reform etc.
Yeah, and I don't think the Microsofts, Googles and Amazons of the world do a whole lot of grassroots-style recruiting via HN, SO, Github, etc. Their hiring process is more traditional. They tend to use university CS programs as feeders.
Why shouldn't I take pride in my work?

>When facing an implementation choice, should a developer opt for solution A, which uses ugly code, or for solution B, which is beautiful? That's not the right question: from the end user's perspective, the alternative doesn't make any sense. The user won't look at the code, especially if the product is not good enough to be even tried.

"Let us do our work as well,
Both the unseen and the seen;" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Builders

You can write ugly code that works or you can write beautiful code that works. You can't write beautiful code that doesn't work.
$200+ for 50 square feet tin. Pricey as well. How often does your company repaint?
How to manage images in a fashion website
You're breaking the internet.
This blog post describes the challenges that modern fashion sites and mobile apps face while managing their photos. The post shows how Cloudinary can be used by fashion sites for managing their images in the cloud: easy to use & powerful uploading, manipulation and fast CDN delivery to their users.
Ahem, emails are not broken yet, from last I tried
Sound-Triggered Malware Could Rickroll Rooms Full of Infected Androids
Advice for young developers
I _love_ to use the Python parallel map function.
its called a shareholders agreement.
The Security Risks of Unregulated Google Search
*Go
Will give it a shot over the weekend! Thanks for sharing!
Startup founders vs entrepreneurs
You think the problem with society is our pattern recognition, and exclusion behaviour? A result of being inundated with perpetual signage which is irrelevant, or inane?

Since this is a result of society, why are you getting all blamey?
Music is another beast; I'm focusing on video in my rant. Right now on (e.g.) a Roku, the process of finding a specific show to watch consists of opening several apps: check Netflix... Not there? Check Hulu... Not there? check YouTube. Not there? check NBC.com. Not there? check other stations' content sites. Not there? Check local storage. Not there? Check NAS. All I want is something to organize this into one DVR-like list. It can start the various necessary apps for viewing (not ideal, but I understand their commercial interest to keep their properties siloed). I am just sick of having to dig through every individual source to watch what I want. Furthermore, a good application would keep tabs on release date and watched status for me, like you'd expect from a DVR.
Yes, yes, and yes. Owner, Founder, maybe President, but CxO just looks ridiculous. Way too many one-person company CEOs out there. I believe this title grab began when CEOs started getting skewered in the media for being overpaid. End result, lots of free titles self-dubbed. I suppose that had the positive effect of lowering -average- CEO pay everywhere :)
"Complexity will happen on its own, so don't go looking for more."

Best aphorism of the week.
When I was a kid I remember the older kids used to drop litter on purpose, not because it was too much effort to put it in the bin but to show how rebellious they were.

If you put up something that looks like an authority that will try and punish you if you disobey then you look brave and smart by disobeying it and getting away with it.
Why exactly is this worth noting?

Nobody jumps to point out that there's still somebody paying for the "free" tiers of Dropbox or GitHub or whatever. Yet the moment somebody mentions a "free" social program, people suddenly have to hammer on the point that somebody pays for it.

We're not a bunch of imbeciles who think that social programs just rain from the sky....
If you need to tell people to relax and have fun ("Mandatory fun day"), it's an indication that you have a more fundamental problem. It's probably better to address that instead of making playful signs.
My experience with TiVo (quite recently) has been sub-optimal at best. Slow, incomplete, and 15$ a month. Bad codec support. Crashy.
If they're not a rockstar, I'd make the case that they're your "development head / lead".

How do you even know if your lead developer is a "rockstar" or not--especially if you're the non-technical co-founder? Are you supposed to give him/her coding tests?

The term "rockstar" needs to die, now. It's a meaningless mumbo-jumbo term invented by someone who didn't understand what developers do.
contemplated
The graphics design is lovely. Has anyone an idea what typeface is it?
Your guess is wrong :)
Thank you for using a specific blacklist on HTTP_REFERER.

Worst I've seen done is when sites will throw the stupid "No Hotlinking" message image when they don't see a matching referrer from the same domain. In other words, a "fuck you" to anyone who decides to configure their browser to not send referrers.
My first Go mistakes & experiences
Tiananmen Square online searches censored by Chinese authorities
With an interpreter there, why would he need to?
It was discussed here 6 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5817984
No one does, that's why we write unit tests. You'll eventually not remember you own code, and you can basically ensure the next guy to come along won't fully understand your code either. If you have good coverage, its like having a safety net to fall on allowing you to take large leaps.
Zynga may have lost all it's glamour and has a bad reputation now but the same goes for Facebook. I don't think employees should be blamed for the decisions of their heads.

In no way, should this be regarded like military service where your job causes fatalities. For me, as long as you're doing something you enjoy with people you like and developing a skill set, that's reason enough to work at a company. Some people work at jobs they hate all their lives because they need to live and support their families. If you have a career where you can work with smart people and do what you like, you're already pretty lucky.

If the company does something you believe in, wow. You're really lucky. How many people get to do that in the world?
Last time I was in Paris, I noticed new signs on the lawns of the Luxembourg Gardens advising people that they are now permitted to walk on the grass. They were not nearly as playful as these signs.
I've seen my share of awful (but trivially optimizable) queries taking forever to run - but can you elaborate on what PHP has to do with it?
Or The Guardian in the UK, which almost exclusively carries local government and civil service jobs.

Obviously even this won't work with a Conservative (led) government.
> Is it really not obvious?

I first thought he meant it was a horrible idea for the owner of RawGithub.com: serving arbitrary JavaScript. But that shouldn't be a problem as long as long you use a completely separate domain and never care about cookies.

As for the users of the service: it's not any less secure than running JavaScript from any other web server. You can of course never trust that it's serving the correct data, but I don't see how that's horrible security wise. If you're going to demo it yourself you can easily clone the repo yourself (or setup gh-pages). This is for users who want to quickly check out someone else's repo without cloning it.
Germany drops longest word
How Being Creative is Like Going to the Gym
President Obama to take aim at patent trolls with executive actions on Tuesday
You are misinterpreting the Nuremberg Principles: They didn't charge the rank and file of the German army for the crimes committed by the various officers and SS members.

All that was decided at Nuremberg was that if you have committed a crime, the fact that you have been ordered to by your superiors does not innocent you.

So we agree that anyone who did the spammy deeds at Zynga is "evil", whether their boss asked them to or not. But that does not make everyone else in the company (from the backend developer to the cantine lady) evil.
What about the fact that it is run by a dirty coal generator? No one cares?
I'm working on a web service (build on top of Scala and the JVM) that's handling between 1500 and 3000 reqs per second per c1.medium instance, with an average time per request of under 15ms. This is real traffic, with the web service receiving between 16,000 and 30,000 total requests per second during the day. A c1.xlarge can do 7000 reqs per second or even more, but for the moment I felt like the difference in pricing is too big and it's cheaper and safer just starting more c1.medium instances (with auto-scaling based on latency), but in case we'll need more RAM, then we'll probably switch to c1.xlarge.

If scalability matters, you should have picked a better platform. Ruby/Rails/Passenger is a terrible platform for scalability / performance. And even if AWS is slower than other solutions, the first problem you have is your own heavy-weight app and the platform you've chosen. 15 concurrent requests per second makes me chuckle.
All users are affected, as our approach
requires neither a jailbroken device nor
user interaction

According to this article a user interaction is needed. You have to attach your phone to a third party charger in order to be infected. It will be more interesting if they can upload a real virus which then can affect other phones without user interaction.
I've always believed that from a risk/reward, legal liability standpoint, being $NOBODY making $ GAZILLIONS was the ideal state. This trend is diametrically opposed to that approach.
To be fair, he's being dismissed as such by people who are not serious hackers.
E-mail is horribly broken. You practically need a white list these days.
Government employees do not get free coffee, snacks, drinks, etc. Generally each office sets up a snack counter that one of the workers is responsible for maintaining, and people pay for what they consume. If it ends up making money then that gets spent on something for the whole office.
Cambridge MA should be included with Boston, if SF Bay Area is an area by itself.
This service is all about work-in-progress and demo projects. Just to show it off for a quick demo or whatever. You're completely right, but also missed the point of this tool completely.
Introduction to Kendo UI - 30 free videos
Somehow, I doubt that a map would have helped this woman much.
Malware That Drains Your Bank Account Thriving On Facebook
How corporations hijacked the First Amendment
From a discoverability standpoint they are. There's not really any way to find like-minded people you don't already know and strike up a conversation with e-mail, because everything is private. Which is kind of the definition of "social".
I feel like functional and non-OOP languages are probably unpopular in the corporate world because when you're using one, there is not really any need to have a business analyst design the application in UML diagrams or Microsoft Visio. Java, on the other hand, is perfect for that, if that's what you're looking for. Java and enterprise software were made for each other.
Only because there haven't been that many cases based on it.

As it becomes more routine, we will discover - as we have with other lab results - that DNA tests have often been falsified, by lazy or incompetent or corrupt lab workers, and that those test results have sent thousands of people to prison - as is true with other sorts of lab tests, often drug tests, as Googling will plainly show you.
Spring Security Authentication Provider
You should throw in a kinect sensor (or any alternative) and have a very comfortable remote control.
"Yeah, that conditioning is probable. And scary. Just think how many more signs/words/images/emotions are hardwired in your brain. Scary."
I'm using SaneBox. I've gone from 20-25 mails a day to 1 or 2, really it saves a lot of time - I just check my @SaneLater box once a day and weed it out - if it should have been in my inbox, I move it to inbox and sanebox learns. I almost never have to go to their website.
There is a startup scene here, but it's nowhere near as vibrant as the Bay Area. I'm not an expert on this, but one of my coworkers at the Seattle-based startup I previously worked at told me that most local investors were skittish. Supposedly, they tend to balk at any startup that isn't a B2B.

The technical reputation definitely comes from Microsoft and Amazon being headquartered here, along with branches for eBay, Google, and Facebook.
Well, no, because I don't know any good reasons for using Bayesian methods (except when prior probability distributions can be found objectively through some previous experiment etc).
> Edit: I was completely wrong. My apologies. I'll keep the original comment in place. The subject was a bit misleading, but still, mea culpa.

Good for you. Have an upvote.

Everyone of us has fired off a comment in haste that we wish we could get back.

It happens. It's actually good that it happens. It usually means that you'll atleast be aware that you are about to do it next time:)
> It's a tradition that dates back to the 1930s and it's designed to give all children in Finland, no matter what background they're from, an equal start in life.

What a wonderful idea. My daughter was born in Chicago last year, and the hospital (Northwestern Memorial) gave us a little starter kit with bottles, pacifiers, some swaddling blankets, etc. I remember thinking as I walked out the door of the hospital that this was the last time that these kids would an equal shot at life.
Salesforce Buys ExactTarget for $2.5 Billion
In other words they took a system targeted especially at people who needed on-demand computing and as it got popular, adapted it to the needs of the 24/7/365 web-hosting by offering an alternate pricing model, point-and-click user interfaces and additional features and services like EBS and CloudWatch.

The point is absolutely not that EC2 never evolved beyond its initial use case and isn't good at other things.

The point is that while they have 24/7/365 hosting services, there's never been any reason to expect that they would be better at it than anyone else. So why do we continue to see blog posts about not liking EC2 with vague complaints about the horrible price-to-performance ratio getting lots of upvotes?
I would see how this box would give Finland one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates. You can't lug a crib with you to different rooms. With a box, you can bring it to the same room you occupy, greatly increasing the observation time of the baby. This is a nice gesture of this country. I can't say the same for the blatant waste of taxpayer money I experience in my country.
Who's Hiring: Where are all the Candidates?

I posted for a Python developer to take over my contract in London doing interesting work for good pay and I've only had remote respondents. Surprised me a little.

So I'll say it again :) Can someone please take my job?
With so vague definitions, this article is uninteresting without a single example.
Because it's not really viable?
Why do we need to fix them? Why cling to social media? Everything has a lifecycle, that's a law of the universe.

Lets chill for awhile and allow something to organically happen.

Seriously, would you or I die if we didn't use any of those social media channels for awhile, or would it create space for something new to evolve?
Just that PHP is considered slow compared to a RDBMS, but is much much quicker when used appropriately.