skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his point is that it's a communication system that facilitates communication amongst everyone. And everyone can communicate in words, typed out[0]. And not everyone can produce or effectively communicate using beautiful video, high quality graphics and, I guess, responsive design. [1]

It's interesting to wonder what the next-common "wide area" communication mode is -- photos are widely shared, but is there a lot truly communicated with them? I guess it depends on whether you think those picture's typically say more than a thousand words. Videos, too. They serve as a topic of discussion amongst peers, not as a mode of discussion themselves.

In fact the deeper point remains even if I conceded your argument: there are always those who excel in the creation of art and in presentation, regardless of medium. What makes the Internet different is that it facilitates peer to peer communication, that quality powered for the most part by the universality of written text. I guess that's why it if often compared to the invention of the printing press, another time such a fundamental shift in human communication took place (facilitating many to everyone, but not everyone to everyone).

Those who excel in arts and communication -- and, to an unusual degree! engineering -- are still the magic wizards/grey eminences of the medium, prominently shaping something that wouldn't exist without them.

[0] Words, typed out: A manner that's arguably truly more efficient and useful than what it's originated to represent, speech. Imagine consuming all the text content you read everyday on the web (such as this!) delivered by speech.

[1] Leaving out the fact, that of course, not everyone has the ability to participate in words, typed out. While I do think it has served to interconnect everyone in terms of exchanging thoughts, it also serves as a means of separation between those who can and those who can't: lacking access or straight up capability to use this mode.

Edit: added some more thoughts.
> "I suspect that the money earned from selling "another man's treasure" will rapidly decline."

That was my first thought: "people can fill boxes with crap worth less than ten dollars longer than you can cut checks for $10."
https://community.rackspace.com/general/f/34/p/791/1347

Rackspace has locations in US and London so that qualifies them as international i guess; their basically saying, your data is off limits to them (rackspace) and as such, is off limits to the NSA or other government agencies. If those agencies want the day, they need to contact you, not rackspace.

(i think; i'm no lawyer, just a loyal fan of rackspace)
Right. The majority of images on webpages are the design elements, not the photos. His point would still stand if he included a relevant image inline. Focus goes to the content, not the chrome.
seems like echo of http://mnmlist.com/w
The world could use another Elon Musk. A female Elon Musk would be even better. Congratulations on Lightsail and keep thinking even bigger.
This is enterprise. What test suite?
Ah, you need to understand SEO (to optimize your site), metrics/analytics (to understand your visitors and measure improvement), and most importantly, interesting content that is connected to people who would be interested in it.

There are hundreds of Great American Novels lying around in drawers as unpublished manuscripts. Many of them are truly great. Don't be one of them! You need to find your audience, get product/market fit. That's about marketing.
Right. I think the way to think of it is that in the context of survival, gait speed is a convenient and easily measured sufficient statistic for all this other stuff.
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I agree, but...

...the author made the choice to display the text at 600px wide with a font size of 18px. There's plenty of markup (design) to point out key ideas on the page.

Would this writing have the same impact if the font was at 12px, with smaller spacing between paragraphs, or maybe with a page width of 1280px? I don't think so.
We're not talking about forging ssl certs and never have been. NSA doesn't do that and never will, for reasons which are totally obvious if actually think about what would happen if they did.
It's interesting that you bring up the openness of the web and the walled garden of apps. Our goal is to break down those barriers by enabling people to link into the middle of apps to stitch together native and web experiences.

We see the "HTML5 vs Native App" debate as a separate issue, though, and are instead focused on created the best possible end user experiences for our customers.
Actually I probably am going to read the book, because at this point I'm curious enough to find out what's really up in there, and because I have eclectic reading habits in general. Why would I avoid reading a book I think I might disagree with, after all? If that's how it turns out I'd still rather know an opposing viewpoint well.

Nor have you pegged my attitude towards genders correctly, by the way. I'm not closed to the idea of sexual dimorphism - but I think the significant variance between specimen of either gender possibly makes a strong argument for designing systems not to necessarily differentiate based on gender, so that they not ill-serve the individual.

I do think it's silly to say that being educated and career-oriented is in conflict with central "womanly qualities" or that such women automatically exhibit masculine traits, though. So I find that character's take on it pretty darn silly, aye.

But as far as being alarmist goes, I think you're blowing the horn a lot harder than I did.
I imagine a lot of users would love to have a web browser alternative or software extension that gave users complete creative control in an accessible way- including advertisements, colors, typography and margins.

I think such a software would have to be free, but I also believe it would change the way web design and advertising works if it caught on.
>Peanuts are banned from most schools.

Well, that's a far cry from you can't buy in any restaurant or store no matter how much you're willing to pay.

So, we have established there are foods that are dangerous and can be had at a restaurant (raw fish, raw meat, peanuts, fugu), and there could be some foods that are dangerous and cannot be had at a restaurant (chicken-of-the-woods).

That's much less dramatic now, is it not?
> just because someone using it doesn't make it _good_

Actually, it does. When you give people a large array of choices and they consistently choose the same thing, over and over again, that makes that thing good. Now, it may not be good for exclusively engineering reasons, but it is still nevertheless good.
I think we should be incentivizing open source software and infrastructure that promotes peer-based architectures and descentralization of the control over data, for a start. How is open source going to displace Google as the search leader? That would be a good start, and things like PRISM would be less the powerful for it.
When a word is overused in this manner, it is hard to have a conversation about it because the definition has been degraded to include pretty much anything.

When you can picture someone using the word against itself, I'd say that's when the bell tolls.

E.g., "Our greatest innovation for this product has been not worrying about innovation, and focusing on incremental improvement"
And I suppose they will use their awesome estimation powers that have led them into this mess, to time it right...
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Slightly off topic, but if we're talking about simplicity...

why are people still using this doctype:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

instead of the beautifully simple HTML5 doctype:

<!DOCTYPE html>

I get that people might use the old doctype out of habit, but it's such an ugly, unnecessary habit, and it would probably be smart to work on discarding it. At the very least, we should be making sure that new developers learn the new doctype.
"Any man who must say, 'I am the king' is no true king."
I really liked his quote:

(TODAY anchor Matt) Lauer asked him if being on TODAY
helped bring him out of his shell.

“I didn’t have much choice. I couldn’t find the cave I was
looking for,” Karason said with his characteristic
self-deprecating humor.

That will resonate with any introverts who have found themselves in a role that requires speaking in public.
Nowhere did the author actually say that.

I would argue the evidence for focus on "words" is overwhelming, and that you're attempting to change the meaning of the piece.

The author did say this however:

"At it's heart, web design should be about words. Words don't come after the design is done. Words are the beginning, the core, the focus."

The title is "Words"

The author uses "writing" and "reading" and "words" over and over again.

The word "content" isn't used once, nor anything like it (except as a negative, against content management systems).

And the author says:

"If you're a web designer, or a client who is working with one, I'd like to challenge you to think about words first. Instead of starting with a style guide or a Photoshop mockup, start with words on a page."

Again, the author is intentionally guiding toward a very precise thing: words. There is no confusion on the focus, it's blatant.
What will pypy do for your website?
"Hey guys check out this thing I built: links to it dont work" <facepalm>. Ok now they do.
> I'm not sure you have a strong understanding of the purpose of our system to be honest.

I've been here for 7 years, I think I have a pretty good understanding. I'm just not expressing to you well enough what I mean.

I know Canada has health care for all, and I know you can optionally buy more with your own money. Great.

All I'm saying is I wish employers were not involved in buying it for me. Healthcare should be divorced from employment for a whole range of reasons. Go and live in a country where healthcare and employment have nothing to do with each other and you'll see what I mean. I'm not just talking about me either, I'm talking about my friends, neighbors, workmates. Their options are all limited because they don't want to change employer because of the health benefits.
I really wanted to read the article but the light grey text on white background made it impossible. Now I'm not too interested in this design article any more.
I think (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ and ヽ(´ー｀)ノ need to be declared as constants in all logging libraries and used accordingly.
Kevin Systrom: "Cinema will change video forever"
Dokku, the smallest PaaS on your own server
Without having visited your URL, or read your TOS, or evaluated your service for ease of use / viability, I will tell you right now that I would gladly pay a cost equivalent to what I pay monthly for broadband for a VPN service that's reliable and can protect 100% of my Internet traffic in transit. (Exit point, destination points are a whole 'nother animal.)
This guy has a ridiculous beard. I want to see him make it just to see an athlete look like that.
We use Google+ for loads of internal communication. It's easy to restrict posts to our organization via Google Apps.

While I've not seen any use to adopt G+ in a public way, it's been a phenomenal internal comms tool for async sharing, discussion and debate that isn't critical enough to go on an everyone@ email list.
> Am I the only one thinking PHP needs more stuff removed rather than added ?

You can remove things yourself? The PHP codebase is extremely modular. Just compile your own PHP and leave anything you don't want out. Has a wonderful --disable-all flag and then you just add the stuff you need.
Lawns in general are goddamn stupid idea. The most common irrigated crop in the United States? Turf grass. They're a huge waste of water and a huge waste of fertilizer and both of those have very negative impacts on our immediate environment.
Zoomooz.js, Make any web page zoom
I dont think you are getting the point of his post. He specifically mentions "Will that additional styling, image, or hyperlink give my audience more understanding? ".

I think HN is a perfect example of what he is arguing.
Heartbroken Microsoft Employee Shares Reaction to Xbox One Changes
I agree, I see this more as a way to break down the walls between the app gardens. As a user, I really just care about what experience works best. I could care less if I jump between apps, apps and the web, or between websites.
How to use SmtpClient to send email in ASP.NET
Be sure to click the "Result" tab in the JSFiddle and play around with adding blue and orange points.
Here’s what the future of video game development looks like | GamesBeat
They say the bank processes a queue and there's nothing they can do to speed it up. Every couple of days a support guy leaves a message on my support ticket stating that they're still waiting for the bank to process stuff. MtGox is very obviously in over their head.
That site is more responsive than hacker news!
But they have stated that FaceTime uses end-to-end encryption and they can't decrypt the content. PRISM can only access data that the companies actually have.

This is why Google and Facebook are so dangerous - they are deliberately creating detailed profiles of each person's behavior.
It's only available on iPhone 4S/5… they're probably just using the iOS SDK!
For the noobs, what's the difference in OpenVPN between UDP and TCP?
Ok, insert "I am " in front of "Not". That should do.
By David Simon's Own Logic, NSA Surveillance Should Alarm Him
Recently, Foursquare & Tumblr released new features on Android first then followed by iOS weeks later.
The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant
One cost engineers and product managers don't consider
Fortunately we have good recruiters. Once they've identified a candidate they play purely a support role in the technical side of the evaluation process.

I'm not sure I follow that last statement 100%, but if you "go against the grain" all we'd care about is that you're able to reasonably articulate the "why" behind your decisions.
awesome effect..
The O365 plans that include Lync aren't really that expensive, surprisingly enough. It's not a reason to switch, but for companies already used to Exchange, it's probably a viable option.
If enough people make it difficult enough to beat those implementation "issues" then you still have security in the aggregate.

The Soviet soldier was almost always outclassed on a 1:1 basis by the German soldier in WWII, but the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe combined still were unable to defeat the U.S.S.R.
What is the difference between kill and kill -15?

Well, for one, the second isn't syntactically correct.

I can't decide what's worse, brainteasers or brainless trivia questions.
Thanks. You need to download a small program which you install inside your network. It then detects when machines are on and sends the metrics to the site.
Prickly Painkiller
The antialiasing on the logo was awful, and I've uploaded a new version. I think a vector version would be great. I am already serving up an @2x version which looks great.
It's an unmaintained extension that does not support new MySQL functionality. If you don't want any more abstraction you can use the mysqli_* functions instead.
Would it not save everybody time and money if you simply drive to the thrift store every month. A recurring calender reminder will do... They do have thrift stores in the US as far as i know right?
If only it was as simple to make a business out of a cockamamie idea as it is to come up with the cockamamie idea in the first place.
But health care is linked to employment in most parts of Europe as well. Unemployment benefits allow you to pay for it but if you those run out or you don't take benefit of them for some reason (say you live on the street) you're out of luck.

Hell, even if you have a job you might have to pay for health care yourself due to certain circumstances and if you're in monetary trouble you might not be able to do so.

Not to forget that freelancing or self-employment might bring you to the point were beeing unemployed is more beneficial to you because you have to pay for everything yourself with much higher rates.
Paul's beard is legendary. Here's a link from Ke$ha's blog:

http://putyourbeardinmymouth.tumblr.com/post/14184840145/uhh...
How to Make a Vesper
Cinema stabilisation does not work on iPhone 4S.
You can write off Goodwill donations for tax deductions
Bacteria Live at 33,000 feet
So, since you sound like a somewhat higher end user:

1) What platforms do you care about? Do you mainly need service from one fixed location, or from home/office network plus mobile?

2) How close does it need to get to the endpoints? We have 4 exit nodes right now; we'd probably need ~50+ to be very close to most services. There's still a portion which is "in the clear" (although, use https...), but it becomes very impractical for NSA or especially others to passively tap all those locations (since they wouldn't be IXes necessarily, and intra-colo links don't get routed through buildings like ATT 611 Folsom St.
so will the farmers get the shit sued out of them like BP did?
I'm saying I'd like to know what sort of privacy analysis was done here, whether it's in compliance with EU and UK privacy and data laws, and whether it's a good idea at all.

Just because I know how to block analytics doesn't mean everyone else has a clue they even exist, nor that we should allow our government to export data about us in this way.
PSR-0 doesn't really apply to C code. Also, php-src has had coding standards that really haven't changed for years: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/CODING_STANDARDS
Kindle has gotten a lot better. They finally made there iphone app accessible a couple months ago which makes me happy. Now I'm no longer stuck with ibooks.
I've implemented Stripe, Stripe Connect and Balanced, and I consider them to be comparable in offerings if you are a traditional non-marketplace merchant. To say Balanced is inferior save for their Payout speed is not true. Their differences become more clear when you are operating as a marketplace.

It’s been stated before, and I’ll reiterate, Balanced’s merchant account underwriting for marketplaces is performed via their API. This means the marketplace retains complete visibility into the account signup process. With Stripe Connect, you are redirected to their website, which means your potential user may or may not ever make it back to your system for whatever reason.

During merchant underwriting, Stripe Connect requires each merchant to create an account on their system with their own username and password. This means they are free to access their account on Stripe outside of your system. While good for the merchant, it might not be so for the marketplace trying to ensure all transactions continue to run smoothly.

Also, because each merchant account in Stripe Connect is separate, the marketplace does not gain any economies of scale when it comes to pooling together all credit card transactions for volume pricing purposes. Balanced has a single escrow account that all funds are held in and does offer volume pricing based upon that.

In my opinion, Stripe’s focus originally seemed to be on the individual merchant and have recently made changes to make them more attractive to marketplaces. However, Balanced’s approach has been to offer a more complete solution for a marketplace, while still allowing for all the same features to be used as a single merchant.
Would you rather see more sites like qz.com that focus on content and navigation

I would expect something that's focused on the content would eliminate the top/side bars, and show me the actual content. Annoyingly, NoScript (which often makes newspapers' web sites quite tolerable) doesn't appear to remove qz.com's clutter.
This opens a question on what exactly elements of web design are of course. Some would claim content isn't an element of design, others would claim the opposite.

I would just remark that photos and video have the same survival aspect to them that text does. Particularly as our present and future is clearly one stored digitally. It's all bytes.

I would also point out for fun, that duration of survival doesn't inherently equate to greater value or beauty. There are some ugly and boring things that last a very long time (rocks vs flowers; I think I can say that people tend to think certain flowers (roses) are inherently more beautiful than your average gray rock).
> Would this writing have the same impact if the font was at 12px, with smaller spacing between paragraphs, or maybe with a page width of 1280px?

Yes. Of course. Books don't need precise pixel rules to be readable.
It's unfortunate that the article doesn't try to actually make the case for the primacy of linguistic communication, and I'm not going to take the time to do it here either. I'll just say that while I agree with you that a diversity of media is better than just one medium, I spent my childhood, before the Web was built, reading books instead of watching TV on purpose, not by accident. Books without pictures. And it's not an accident that I'm answering you in text instead of using my webcam.

I have occasionally seen beautiful video on the web. I have much more frequently seen video whose author had deluded himself into thinking it was beautiful.

http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2013-June/00... talks some about the relative usefulness of different kinds of digital media.
>expanded their pool of potential programmers

Is that true? I'd think that the main requirements would be experience, intelligence, security clearance, probably familiarity with avionics.

Any good programmer worth working on such a project should be able to switch languages.

I'd hope it's not like some corporate web site that just needs the programming equivalent of warm bodies.
I think this could work if you kept a focus on hobby-type items. I think most of us with too many hobbies would be glad to send stuff if we thought it was going to an appreciative audience, and you'd get stuff worth selling.
"Automobile accidents are a less satisfactory means of assassination. If the subject is deliberately run down, very exact timing is necessary and investigation is likely to be thorough. If the subject's car is tampered with, reliability is very low. The subject may be stunned or drugged and then placed in the car, but this is only reliable when the car can be run off a high cliff or into deep water without observation."
Thank you! I spent years without any kind of visual identification, but one day this summer I was playing around in photoshop and came up with that. It works quite well with a number of letter combinations and colors. If anyone reading this has trouble with personal designs, playing in an image editor whenever you have a stray thought will produce many terrible designs not worth saving, but pays off in the end.
Ah nice, makes more sense. The same applies to iMessages doesn't it? Remember reading an article somewhere not so long ago.
> If you're counting imaginary points on the Internet you'll always be disheartened.

I'm not counting them, HN is and displaying them to me.

"I deliberately avoid calculating that number, because if you start measuring something you start optimizing it, and I know it's the wrong thing to optimize." —pg (emphasis mine)
First commenter's co-founder here:
Sure, you definitely need to screen for culture fit. There are great people who would be bad fits here. That said, we want people who have succeed in most positions they've had in the past. If there are two people who have had 4 jobs in their career, you're way more likely to pick the better if you favor the one who outperformed in 3 of those 4 jobs rather than 1 of the 4. When you combine that with looking closely at their experience as it fits with the role, and their fit with the culture, then you have a complete screening process.
I wasn't claiming that there are no potentially dangerous foods that you can buy at restaurants, only that there are many potentially dangerous foods that you can't buy at restaurants.
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