skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can only answer this question if you clearly know what success looks like for your site. Most folks will default to web stats like click-through rate on the carousel elements, but that is not always the right metric! Not everything on a site is intended to be high-volume navigation.

I work in the nonprofit space and we sometimes need to show that a certain topic is "important" to us, to help deliver on a fundraising or policy goal. Carousels are great for this, even though I know in advance that few people will click through. This success would be measured by directly checking with the desired stakeholders.

Another use for carousels is if you want your homepage to communicate an emotional tone--as opposed to enabling a task. A carousel of big, vibrant images can deliver an emotional message almost as well as a short video, but with a much lighter implementation. This success would have to be measured via user surveys or focus groups.
This makes sense when you have a well established business that's tweaking it's processes. Impossible when building an MVP and/or experimenting.
I had the opportunity to talk to a board member of Google about Latitude once.

This person told me that Latitude was one of the clearest examples of how age affects your perception on technology. The original pitch for Latitude was "Say you're walking down the street and you look in Google Latitude and you find that a buddy of yours is at a coffee shop a block away. This technology allows you to stop by and say hi."

Immediately, the younger part of the board said "That's really cool!" The older part of the board said "Ugh, I just want to enjoy my coffee in peace."

Maybe Google Latitude merely came at the wrong time. One day, maybe location technology will be more appropriate with evolving social conventions.
The latest offering from Patrick McKenzie and Brennan Dunn.

I find it interesting that these two product evangelists are launching a bootcamp instead of another product. Although I suppose it's product-like in that they could run the camp every year without much additional work, or even train others to run it for them.

And in any case it certainly won't hurt their street cred, which will of course help their next product launches.
Quick google: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/09/14/icloud-solar-farm-ne...

Solar or wind.
No, I didn't watch the video but read an article where she was interviewed. From what I gather she was consistent between the two.

I didn't misunderstand your comment in that you made specific claims despite saying you know little of the internals of Valve. I just didn't understand how you could do that.

I found it interesting that you were willing to believe her story during the parts with her describing her own shortcomings, which she has been honest about, but apparently completely disagree with her negative opinions on Valve. Even though she would be a source of information of the internals of Valve since she worked there. If someone else steps forward to disagree with her then that would be one thing, but no one has (that I know of) so her story is all we have. Not that I automatically believe her but I give her story some consideration because what she describes is not that unreasonable for the type of company culture that Valve has publicly admitted that they have. Maybe it's possible that her problem lay within the structure of how Valve works and not her personally nor her project, which you only seem willing to focus on?
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Also the obnoxious "whitelines" at the bottom of each page. I like filling my pages with words, thank you very much.
I'll admit there's a certain "fudge factor" but the more experience you get with requirements gathering, the less of an issue it is. Ultimately, this is the difference between a "Developer" and an "Engineer".
Scripts are copyrighted but the translated subtitles are never straight translations of scripts (as I have found out in recent years being English in a non-English country), there is a level of interpretation (using a similar phrase, or a different cultural reference, perhaps just converting imperial to metric).

Then you have to also consider the fact that many of the subtitles included on DVDs and sometimes even theatrical releases (at least in Sweden and Norway) are very often lifted from online sources the movie companies attack (rather than them hiring actual translators for all the markets they wish to conquer).

Finally... I might be wrong on this but what happened to fair use? There were cases in the 80's that cemented our standard of fair use. Humming a song on the street is fair use, providing translated derivative works when no alternative exists is fair use.
Well, unless you're hunting NPCs (which is pretty boring), bounty hunting is not a reliable source of income.

But you can run a small or even solo pirate operation, preying on lone travelers. Or run goods to dangerous markets in stealth transport ships. Or in a much much larger, much more expensive jump transport ship (just don't get ambushed!). Or start a manufacturing operation. Or for the truly hardcore (and really best done in small groups) go make a living in a wormhole for a month or two.

There are nearly countless things you can do solo or with a small group. The easiest way is to be part of a large alliance and have "safe" space to operate from - this does not, generally, mean you have to follow orders. Or you can operate in neutral space - everyone you see is a potential friend or enemy (more likely enemy). Or you can go deep into enemy space and play cat and mouse with an entire alliance for hours or days.

So... yes, I guess?
Google services down for some users
There are good reasons to use a splash page rather than a "fake UI" image. For single-purpose apps (say, Calculator, or Weather) the state of the UI post-launch is easily predictable, so you can actually make a splash image that lines up with what the user sees after.

For more complex apps, especially apps that maintain state, this becomes impossible. You can make your splash image your "home" view controller, but if the app is launched from a URL (a large use case for many apps) the user will see an "empty UI" that is not what they're looking for, suddenly replaced by UI they are looking for.

Making matters a bit worse is that, at least up until iOS6, switching between apps (not just a cold launch) can also show the splash image briefly - but your app snapshot remains in memory, so you cannot guarantee the "empty UI" is what your user actually ends up looking at.

Splash images suck, but for a lot of apps they are the least of several evils.
Here's the problem; you keep on assuming that good tools will magically appear, that help with debugging. But good tools take a lot of time and work to perfect. In reality, you usually wind up with just barely good enough tools.

With a text based protocol, you can inspect it visually with no special tools, and munge it with general purpose tools that you already know how to use (shell script, sed, awk, perl, python, ruby, what have you) with no special support libraries or anything of the sort. Support libraries can help you with the more complex aspects of the protocols, but for basic debugging purposes, you can do it all with general purpose tools.

With a binary protocol, you need those libraries to even have a chance of being able to work with it. Now you can't use a general purpose shell pipeline to munge it; no more nc | grep or what have you. You have to have a wireshark dissector; and good luck figuring out how to grep through the results of what a wireshark dissector generates.

The main point is that the overhead of the ASCII encoding isn't the main problem with HTTP. Reading ASCII encoded CRLF delimited headers is a solved problem (and heck, you could probably switch that to just LF delimiters, since I'm sure that most processors already handle that case just fine).

The problems are things like having to repeat headers over and over again for each request in a session, enormous cookies that need to get sent with every request, and the like. But you can solve those without throwing away the easily debuggable ASCII-encoded headers; and compression really does solve most of the problem with the inefficiency of ASCII encoding (and you're going to want to use anyhow, since the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that you're delivering is all a fairly inefficient ASCII representation too).
So are you essentially telling the client that you are billing them for the week - which means you are dedicated to their project for the week?
Oh yes it is, panic on twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=google%20is%20down&src=typd

EDIT: seems to be mostly southeast US, still major outage. http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/10/tech/web/google-down/index.htm...
The Million Pound Startup
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Apple (Jobs) were bullying publishers into contracts and abandon Amazon.

The best part is how Apple decided that the Publisher sets the price, and Apple gets 30% regardless of profit margin. Apple also stated that they were able to price match anyone who undersold them, and they STILL get 30%, pushing losses onto the Publisher. At least with Amazon, they ate the loss due to their price fixing.

Edit: Fixed last paragraph
Recommended reading if your considering co-locating instead of AWS: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/building-servers-fo... -- It compares prices (now somewhat out of date) vs performance.
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I will never use this.
I disagree. Every job can be measured in terms of value. Especially mutually agreeable value. These though, are business skills and not tech skills.
I loved this game. Great read thank you.
Thank you for some nice words.

Crash: we will take a look into that today, thank's for the tip.

Website: it's launchrock and yes it's slow. We've just removed one script, should be better (but not perfect). We will have to final

In any case I'm pasting direct appstore link: https://itunes.apple.com/app/teleportme/id663199958
How 1% of your traffic can bring in 90% of your business
Of course - been at it for 8 years and have learned a lot. It also depends on what the market can handle.
My personal rule on carousels is that they're okay to use if you don't care if your user only sees one of the slides. But if that's the case then you might as well just not have a carousel in the first place.
Many thanks. Can I bother you with one last question:

Around 1:20 into the replay a little cat picture comes up that says "Get Dunked." Is that the Eve equivalent of a tea bagging? Can someone explain the significance of what proceeded the Eve Bagging?
That was absolutely crazy. He decoded a 48K assembly program on paper, while working as a security guard? Just amazing.
Since I have trouble with the value extraction thing, something I also put in perspective is how fast can I finish this against the normal standards? If I can work much faster, have a well established codebase will all sorts of shortcuts to the solution, fixed price will allow me to get paid 10, 20 times more with it actually being cheaper than a normal hourly rate would cost.

Hourly makes you always take your time, I prefer to be able to compress 10 normal development hours into one as much as possible and have more free time.

For too long I have been punished for working fast with hourly rates, I avoid it like the plague. The next step after this are products.
Ah good catch. From the definitions:

“authorized entity” means a nonprofit organization or a governmental agency that has a primary mission to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities;
I have made something a little more advanced with Web Audio: http://mixbolt.com
Cant wait to have support on all the browsers (especially mobile) :)
Except they make you attend high school whether you fit in or not.
That shows how long I've been out... I played off and on as Goonfleet combat pilot until the culmination of the B.O.B. war.
This will have a good looking application that is easy enough for people in general to actually use.

It should be open source though. We don't need another cryptocat fiasco.
I've seen things like this before. I call them KafCos.

Generally, any organization that has an arbitrary structure that is used to assign roles to individuals in a way that statistically aligns with a usual hierarchy, using some quantifiable metric that makes one group smaller than another.

There's this self-destructive modality that organizations can enter into where politics matter more than product and people worry about their own resume and ego more than functioning as a team to do something greater than the sum of the parts.

If you take any pride in your craft, that's the ultimate red flag to run like hell.
Before coming to Sweden I would have probably agreed with that, now, however, I am inclined to believe Swedish laws are only applicable to Swedish people where and when America is not involved.

Other than all those times, yeah, sure.
Of course network effects are more important than technical factors for a social network.

For what it's worth, I gave Google+ a pretty solid try when it came out, but very little of my social network actually moved over there, and then I moved to a new city and all my new friends were on Facebook instead, so I stopped using G+.
If you are ten times faster than other developers, fixed price per milestone lets you charge ten times as much. If I'm writing a custom map screen for the first time it is going to take me all day. If I'm writing it the 12th time it is more like an hour. I can charge a lot more for a custom map screen than an hour, however, even an hour at the highest hourly rate the market would bear.
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> I need to manage an entire social networking tool in order to see locations.

This is hyperbole, you do not need to 'manage' anything. You put people in circles and you are done.

It's also very likely that your friends do have a Google account, so it's not really too far fetched.

Oh and for what it's worth, if someone handed me a swiss army knife instead of scissors, I would just use the scissors on it, but I guess ymmv.
Quiet you! :-)

But seriously, that is a fascinating topic (copyright law as it applies to automated or real-time mutation & usage of existing content) that I've also thought about before..

I wonder if this will become a big enough issue in our lifetime to warrant legal intervention..
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Does it have anything to do with the weather?
"I'm pointing out that there's an upfront component ... which is likely of interest to startups."

Yes, this. When you're worried about cash flow, overpaying every month can seem safer than paying the upfront cost to reserve instances.
Are you saying that riding a bike is not logical? Minneapolis is pretty bike-safe. Bike lanes, commuter trails. Bicyclists should have helmets, lights and ride carefully at night.

I'm not sure how good Durham is, but I don't think this is the time or place to say that its just more logical to pay to get around your city.
Discipline is great, but it's finite and has to come not just from you, but from everyone else on your team as well.

The compiler remains vigilant and uncompromising forever.

It's best to automate everything you can, and ask your team for discipline only as a last resort.
A traceroute earlier showed no network issues. I should have done a pathping to have something to compare with.
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I think AWS convenience depends who you are. You can do great things with AWS, but it is indeed complex and you need to get into it first – maybe not something for the usual web dev guy. That's why there are "middleware" services like ours can be valuable: The power of AWS without the hassle at your fingertips.
I know Maps is a core Google function and excellent app, but doesn't this seem pretty competitive with Waze?
Ugg, yet another mobile device hostile website
Riding a bike is dangerous. Take special precautions. Be aware of your surroundings. Wear bright colors. Wear extra lights if possible.

I am too scared to ride a bike in Boston, but I always make sure to check twice before opening my car door after parallel parking.

Be safe, bikers of HN.
The point of marriage is to have kids and build a strong family

What are you, a Russian peasant? Did you grow up in a Kolkhoz? In a small village in Siberia? Is that a joke? "Yes, we Russians want good, strong, healthy family. We like our women with strong child-bearing hips". I hope the readers here don't get the impression that you represent Russian culture, so just to make things clear: just like in America, these views are more representative of Russian hillbilly rednecks. Russia has given us some of the most subversive, interesting, anti-bourgeois minds in all of Western culture.
I corrected myself as soon as I posted...Not enough coffee this morning
PubSubHubbub support was the first thing on my checklist[0] when I shopped for a Reader replacement.

[0]http://lee-phillips.org/newsblurred/
I guess my point, from the links provided, is that we shouldn't be bombarding ourselves with the radiation these devices produce.
The author was astute enough to see his difficulties as a microcosm of what minorities regularly experience. That seems to have been lost in the HN commentary.
The translation is correct and -- you may already know this, it's tough to tell from your comment -- is a play on the Latin phrase "horror vacui," which is usually parsed back into English as "nature abhors a vacuum."

It relates to some early (BC) physical theories which proposed that voids are impossible. Also called plenism.

Edit: Good overview at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_vacui_(physics)
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K, so this may be important. There are power outages around Charleston, SC, the location of a large Google data center. That could be the source of the downtime for Southeastern users.
Just a thought but your icon... I was expecting a icon or visual along the lines of StarTrek. Would be cool. EDIT: Quick sketch for icon concept: http://i.imgur.com/kJyDm5G.jpg Edit #2: the reaction below is not about the sketch, just the possibility of StarTrek like visuals.
Strangely enough, trying to click through to heml.is complains about security certificates in Firefox. Not Chrome though. Anyone else seeing this?
Chocolate.js: Chocodown demo - Write a basic calculator with enhanced Markdown
Agree wholeheartedly, I wrote something similar in a comment above, but the title of OP made me cringe really hard. If you are in an ocean of samesies it might be worth to fight in hour prices, but if your fixed price / competitor hour is cheaper, with you making 10 times more, DO NOT LIMIT YOURSELF.
They wrote a small announcement in their forum. For anyone that can't read it:

This is an important change for Gazelle coders. You may have noticed that gazelle/ is now redirecting to http://whatcd.github.io/Gazelle/.
This is due to the fact that we are now hosting our public Gazelle repository on GitHub.
The old gazelle site had become severely outdated and a nuisance to maintain.
Luckily for us, GitHub is the perfect solution.
You can view our Gazelle repository here—it is accompanied by a GitHub page providing a brief overview of the project as well as a wiki with important information such as installation instructions, coding standards, and API documentation.
Who specifically suffered because of this - not even the hollywood studios should be thinking this is bad - I'd like to know. To make arrests/raid homes for these sort of 'crimes' people should need to prove harm (rather than assumed harm) which funnily enough is nigh on impossible when there isn't any.

There is far far more harm in the raids than in the original crimes - that's how far gone the law is at this point.
Needs to be an open protocol. Not just a pretty app.
The truth about Obama's views has always been right there in his Senate voting record. When he bothered to attend, he consistently voted to do things like extend the Patriot Act.
>I think they're overreacting, their fears are unlikely to come to pass

Again, I find it odd that you think it's more likely that the crazy billionaires will unleash an army of killer robots on the population. I think more of the public is concerned about what's actually happening right now with NSA-spying, etc. than you assert, and certainly it's a more pressing concern for many more reasonable people than your killer robot army.

It just boggles the mind that a person who is concerned about the potential for a wild, sci-fi future of killer robot armies is at the same time so nonchalant about his government's recently confirmed, actually occurring, secret mass-spying campaign on innocent citizens.
So rather than fix the obvious problems in the language they resort to a standard library work around?

I'm an experienced programmer and in my time I've only ever worked two big Java projects. Those two projects left me feeling like an idiot!

Not long after I started work on my first C# project and while it felt a lot like Java, it was clear the designers of that language had created a Java like language that was so much better than Java. It just felt right!

So is C# better than Java?

Based on my experience with both languages I would say yes.

Does my opinion matter. No!

But to me Java had the lead and it let it go.

With the lead gone it is now trying desperately to play catch up to C# which is progressing leaps and bounds.
Also, if you wanted to be purely logical about it you would have to balance the health benefits of cycling regularly against the risk of accidents.
I saw a G+ blog on it briefly as i got a search result to work. Here's the link. good luck reading it.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...
And you should not, unless your GPA tells something outstanding about you.

I do put it, because I can say that with that score (not GPA, but 94/100 score) I was the best of my class/generation.

The Resume is an advertisement, you don't see Coca-Cola advertising that their sugary drinks can make people fat.
They had an economist - Yanis Varoufakis describes himself as "former economist-in-residence at Valve Software" now. Not sure when he left.
Won't that require the person you're sharing with to be on G+? Currently I share with family who has no interest in that by embedding.

https://latitude.google.com/latitude/b/0/apps
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I would imagine no one outside of Valve knows for sure but I've seen it mentioned in several places, including in one of her interviews, that the bonuses can be quite substantial.

Personally, I see the length of time that Valve takes to make their games as a sign of problems. If she were fired for being impatient enough to actually wanting to do something NOW, then that further proves the point in my mind. I would hope that wasn't the issue because it seems silly to fire someone over the fact that they like to produce things in a timely manner. But, I suppose it's possible because it more or less fits the story we're hearing from her.

I'm also guessing the reason some of their games take so long is because they have serious watershed moments where everybody wants a say in the game so they can get in on the bonuses.

I don't see her as being bitter towards Valve, but towards the small group within Valve that she feels is behind her and her team being fired. Which is totally understandable. From what I read, granted her words, I'm assuming that Gabe handed over the project to her because she got a raw deal.